JOE BIDEN'S CRONIES ON WALL STREET AND MEXICO WANT HIS INFRASCTRUCTURE BILL - BECAUSE THERE IS NO PROVISION TO BUILD WALL AGAINST JOE'S INVADERS

DO YOU TRULY BELIEVE JOE BIDEN IS, OR EVER HAS, SERVED ANYONE WHO DOES NOT LIVE ON WALL STREET?

Chris Hedges: The Ruthless Corporate destruction of our Nation, Culture and Ecosystem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eQV0IuYQ2U&list=WL&index=36&t=119s

Overall, businesses want to import more migrants — even very poor migrants — because they spike consumer sales, boost rental rates, cut wages, minimize workforce pushback, and so raise profits and stock values. They also serve as clients for welfare agencies, and eventually, as voters for Democrat activists.

Big Business Lobby Urges Lawmakers to Quickly Pass ‘Infrastructure’ Bill

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JOHN BINDER

2 Aug 2021157

3:37

The big business lobby is urging lawmakers to quickly pass the so-called “infrastructure” bill, crafted by a group of Senate Democrats and Republicans, that was officially unveiled on Sunday evening.

In a campaign, the Chamber of Commerce — representing corporate interests — is urging members of Congress to “enact infrastructure legislation now” ahead of the August recess.

“We are taking nothing for granted, and we’re continuing to work with every senator to guarantee growing support through this process to get to the final passage vote,” Chamber of Commerce executive Ed Mortimer told The Hill.

Likewise, executives with the Business Roundtable — which also represents corporate interests — announced their support for the bill, asking Congress to pass the bill “as soon as possible.”

“The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act presents a significant opportunity to modernize our nation’s physical infrastructure and reach the full productive potential of the U.S. economy,” the group said in a statement:

This legislation also contains important policies to unlock private capital, encourage public-private partnerships, improve the permitting process and ensure our nation’s infrastructure is sustainable and resilient. And importantly, the bill contains provisions to make certain the benefits of infrastructure modernization reach rural and traditionally underserved communities across the country.

As Breitbart News has detailed, the bill would, among other things:

• Allow federal agencies to bypass “Buy American” rules
• Define “gender identity” as a protected class of citizens
• Provide no funding for a border wall at the U.S.-Mexico border
• Impose state-mandated carbon reduction programs
• Use racial quotas to expand broadband across the U.S.
• Fund processing centers to quickly move migrants into the U.S.

The big business lobby is hoping the bill is tied to a filibuster-proof reconciliation package that would give amnesty to millions of illegal aliens — a boon for corporate interests who have long sought to inflate the U.S. labor market, drive down the price of labor, and grow the number of consumers in the country to boost profit margins.

The bill was crafted by nine Senate Republicans and a group of Senate Democrats. The Senate Republicans include Richard Burr (R-NC), Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Susan Collins (R-ME), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Rob Portman (R-OH), Mitt Romney (R-UT), Mike Rounds (R-SD), and Thom Tillis (R-NC).

Meanwhile, 18 Senate Republicans supported advancing the bill through the Senate without ever reading the legislation’s final draft, including Roy Blunt (R-MO), Richard Burr (R-NC), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Mike Crapo (R-ID), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Rob Portman (R-OH), Jim Risch (R-ID), Mitt Romney (R-UT), Thom Tillis (R-NC), Todd Young (R-IN), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), John Hoeven (R-ND), Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Susan Collins (R-ME), and Mike Rounds (R-SD).

John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here. 

Senate’s Infrastructure Bill Funds Welcome Centers for Migrants

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NEIL MUNRO

2 Aug 2021182

7:02

The $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill provides roughly $2.5 billion to help the U.S. government expand the border processing stations used by migrants from poor Central American nations and other regions around the world.

Washington elites want “to speed travel across the border rather than impede it, and they’re not too worried about whether that travel is legal or illegal,” said Mark Krikorian, director of the Center for Immigration Studies.

The 2,702-page bill, titled the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, includes $2.5 billion for facilities to accelerate the cross-border flow of goods, business travelers, and job-seeking migrants. Up to 18 GOP Senators partially back the bill.

The growing inflow of migrant workers is being cheered by U.S. employers and investors who are eager to hire cheap and compliant workers, and to sell goods, services, and housing to customers. More than 600,000 economic migrants have moved into the United States since January 2021, so damaging Americans’ opportunities, wages, rents, productivity, and political status.

The $2.5 billion in border infrastructure spending plan is in addition to the annual budget request for 2022 spending by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

The DHS plan asks for “a $655 million dollar investment toward modernizing our land Ports of Entry,” according to July 27 testimony provided by DHS secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. His statement continued:

Consistent with the President’s recently released Immigration Blueprint calling for safe, orderly, and humane policies and practices to govern immigration …

It includes a new discretionary request for $345 million for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to reduce the backlog of applications and petitions, ramp up interview capacity, and meet our goal of welcoming up to 125,000 refugees per year.  To ensure the safe and humane treatment of migrants at the Southwest Border, the request includes $163 million for medical needs for those in Customs and Border Protection custody.

Officials have not announced plans to build more detention centers for the economic migrants, even though such detention is required by federal law.

Last week, the administration described its plans to import more consumers and workers. And on July 28, officials unveiled a plan called the “Collaborative Migration Management Strategy” (CMMS), which would welcome more migrants from Central America. These planned inflows would be in addition to the existing legal inflow of roughly one million immigrants per year, plus the churning resident workforce of roughly 2.5 million visa workers.

The CMMS plan says:

The United States will enhance outreach and engagement with U.S. employers; work with Northern Triangle governments, international organizations, civil society, and the private sector to develop a more robust pipeline of Northern Triangle nationals who can meet the needs of U.S. employers when there are insufficient U.S. workers who are qualified and available to perform the work.

The infrastructure bill includes much funding to help implement Biden’s pro-migration plans, mixed in with bipartisan plans to detect drug trafficking and to speed transit by trucks and autos.

On page 2,543, the infrastructure bill says:

For an additional amount to be deposited in the ‘‘Federal Buildings Fund’’  … $2,527,808,000 shall be for projects on the U.S. Customs and Border Protection five-year plan.

On page 2,545, the bill provides funds to equip the border welcome centers:

For an additional amount for ‘‘Operations and Support’’, $330,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2026, for furniture, fixtures, and equipment for the land ports of entry …

On page 2,546, the bill offers “$100,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2026, for land port of entry construction, modernization, and sustainment.”

The bill also includes much extra spending for DHS’s Federal Emergency Management Agency, which is now used to help transfer migrants to new homes after they are released at the border. On page 2,551, the bill says:

For an additional amount for ‘‘Federal Assistance’’, $2,233,000,000, which shall be allocated as follows: (1) $500,000,000, to remain available until expended, for grants pursuant to section 205 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act …

In contrast, Congress provided just $1.5 billion in 2020 for the border wall.

“To the extent that they change the asylum system so that people who present themselves of the border … this [construction] would make it much more viable to come in, to use an asylum claim as a way of gaining access to the United States,” said Krikorian.

“That wouldn’t be just for Central Americans; it would be beneficial to all the people from around the world — South Americans, Africans, and Asians —  who are now making up a larger and larger portion of the inflow,” Krikorian added.

The infrastructure bill must survive a 60-vote procedural vote before it can get a final to pass out of the Senate. So far, 18 GOP Senators voted to start debate on the bill, but some may withdraw their support before the final vote:

1. Roy Blunt (R-MO)
2. Richard Burr (R-NC)
3. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV)
4. Bill Cassidy (R-LA)
5. Mike Crapo (R-ID)
6. Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
7. Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
8. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)
9. Rob Portman (R-OH)
10. Jim Risch (R-ID)
11. Mitt Romney (R-UT)
12. Thom Tillis (R-NC)
13. Todd Young (R-IN)
14. Chuck Grassley (R-IA)
15. John Hoeven (R-ND)
16. Kevin Cramer (R-ND)
17. Susan Collins (R-ME)

Overall, legal and illegal migration moves wealth from employees to employers, from families to investors, from young to old, from children to their parents, from homebuyers to investors, from technology to stoop labor.

Immigration also moves wealth from heartland red states to the coastal blue states. Within each state, the extraction policy also helps move wealth and status from the GOP’s rural districts to the Democrats’ cities.

DHS Mayorkas Blames Trump for Biden’s Record 2021 Migration Wave

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NEIL MUNRO

2 Aug 2021279

5:47

President Donald Trump is responsible for the record wave of economic migrants now crossing the U.S. border, according to Alejandro Mayorkas, the pro-migration Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.

“We certainly have a challenge at the border,” Mayorkas said as he fielded easy questions from MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell on August 2.

We’re following an administration that frankly dismantled our capabilities to address it, and so we are building it from the ground up. We lost four years of investing in the countries from which these individuals are migrating. Our safe and orderly systems were torn down, so we’re rebuilding them. And our plan is in place, and we’re executing it.

Mitchell did not ask Mayorkas to explain how Trump’s success at blocking migration by late-2020 “dismantled our capabilities to address it.” But the Secretary subsequently told Mitchell that “We are … rebuilding the safe and legal and orderly pathways to come to the United States.”

Mitchell did not ask how many foreign workers the Cuban-born Mayorkas plans to extract from poor countries for subsequent use by U.S. employers and investors in Americans’ national labor market.

So far, Mayorjkas has helped to bring 700,000 migrants into the United States. That post-Trump economic policy of labor inflation has given U.S. investors a renewed ability to hire profitable and compliant foreign workers instead of Americans — especially unemployed, disabled, or sidelined Americans.

That huge inflow is lowering nationwide pressure on employers to raise Americans’ wages and is helping to push housing prices upwards. Yahoo News reported July 30:

Job switchers saw their wages grow 5.8% year over year in June, while job holders experienced a 3.1% gain, according to a report by ADP derived from payroll data of 18 million workers. Overall, wage growth decelerated from the first quarter, while still growing 2.3% in June compared with a year earlier.

In contrast, wages grew much faster in Trump’s low-migration economy. In September 2020, the U.S. Census Bureau reported:

Median household income was $68,703 in 2019, an increase of 6.8 percent from the 2018 median of $64,324 … Real median household incomes increased for all regions in 2019; 6.8 percent in the Northeast, 4.8 percent in the Midwest, 6.1 percent in the South, and 7.0 percent in the West.

The Cuban-born Mayorkas is an immigration zealot and has encouraged the great migration by inviting many single men and fragmented families to get through the Title 42 anti-disease barriers set up by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Roughly half of those families — comprised usually of a mother and a child or two — are trying to join up with their illegal migrant spouse in a U.S. town or city.

Mayorkas is also admitting migrants on the grounds that they have the right to reunite with family members in the United States. He also uses the rules for Unaccompanied Alien Children to admit many young job-seeking men who claim they are 17 or younger. He has also given work permits to perhaps 100,000 migrants from Haiti under the “Temporary Protected Status” program.

The wave of migrants is growing in the hottest part of summer, despite Mayorkas’s prior claims that the migration wave is seasonal.

Mitchell did try to push back against Mayorkas one time. But Mayorkas dodged Mitchell’s tentative question, “Do you have to change the plan though if it is not working?” by exhaling a cloud of cliches:

It is a dynamic situation and we change and we modify as the needs require. We’re investing in the root causes to address the reason why people leave their homes to take the perilous journey.

That takes “years and years,” Mitchell quickly responded.

“That’s why that’s only one part of the plan,” Mayorkas said as he repeated the vague claims that he has told many audiences:

We are also rebuilding the safe and legal and orderly pathways to come to the United States under our laws, so they don’t have to take the perilous journey and arrive in between the ports of entry — [for example] the Central American Minors program that we’ve reconstituted — and other paths.

Overall, businesses want to import more migrants — even very poor migrants — because they spike consumer sales, boost rental rates, cut wages, minimize workforce pushback, and so raise profits and stock values. They also serve as clients for welfare agencies, and eventually, as voters for Democrat activists.

But migration damages ordinary Americans’ career opportunities, cuts their wages, raises their rents, curbs their productivity, shrinks their political clout, and fractures their open-minded, equality-promoting civic culture.

In general, legal and illegal migration moves wealth from employees to employers, from families to investors, from young to old, from children to their parents, from homebuyers to investors, from technology to stoop labor.

Biden’s decision to restart the economic extraction of valuable consumers, renters, and workers from poor countries also helps move wealth — and social status — from heartland red states to the coastal blue states. Within each state, the extraction policy also helps to move wealth and status from GOP rural districts to Democrat cities.

Unsurprisingly, a lopsided majority of Americans oppose labor migration.

Pinkerton: Made in the USA or Made in China? The Glaring Problem with Biden’s Infrastructure Bill

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JAMES P. PINKERTON

2 Aug 2021624

11:05

Whenever he touted his infrastructure plan during his 2020 presidential campaign, Joe Biden was emphatic about one key proviso: The infrastructure itself would be Made in the USA.  On the campaign website, some policy scribe pledged, “Biden will rely on American union labor and American-made materials and products to build this infrastructure.” 

Indeed, that Biden webpage linked to another page on the site hailing the candidate’s “Plan to Ensure the Future is Made in All of America by America’s Workers.” There, we read that the goal of the Biden plan is to “ensure the future is ‘made in all of America’ by all of America’s workers.” 

Sounds good!  In fact, public opinion was and is solidly on Biden’s side. “Buy American” has always been a big winner with voters; so one can imagine that Biden’s economic nationalism gained him some votes last year.  

After all, Biden’s pro-jobs-at-home message was not limited to his website.  Here’s Biden himself on the campaign trail last September, delivering his economic-nationalist message to an audience in the swing state of Michigan. Not only did he call for making more things here, but he also lambasted Donald Trump for not doing enough to create good jobs at good wages.

Yes, American jobs for Americans is indeed a winning message. A poll from earlier this year found that 63 percent of Americans support “Buy American,” even if American-made products “cost significantly more.”  

With that finding in mind, we might take a moment to admire the common-sense wisdom of the American people. Instinctively, folks understand that it’s better to make things here at home and not be dependent on foreigners who might not always be friendly.  

In fact, for the historically minded, it’s a demonstrable economic fact that made-in-America policies powered the nation’s rise to greatness. During the American Revolution, the patriot Alexander Hamilton had seen that George Washington’s forces were nearly overwhelmed by British superiority in the hardware of warfare. And so, mindful of the inevitability of some future conflict, Hamilton—who himself had fought in the Revolution before becoming President Washington’s first secretary of the Treasury—set to work fixing America’s industrial weakness.  

Hamilton’s first step was writing the Report on the Subject of Manufactures, published in 1791, in which Secretary Hamilton wrote: 

Every nation . . . ought to endeavour to possess within itself all the essentials of national supply.  These comprise the means of Subsistence habitation clothing and defence.

Happily, Hamilton’s Report came to dominate American economic thinking for most of the 19th and 20th centuries, tilting the nation toward industry, security, and prosperity. 

And someone on the Biden campaign knew of this glorious history. As the campaign website reminded us, “U.S. manufacturing was the Arsenal of Democracy in World War II, and must be part of the Arsenal of American Prosperity today, helping fuel an economic recovery for working families.” (In past years here at Breitbart News, this author has written much about the U.S. economy during World War Two and the lessons its success holds for us today.) 

So given Biden’s many promises about the centrality of Made In USA, surely he’s going to do everything he can to redeem that promise, right? Right?  

Well, actually maybe not.

Breitbart News’ John Binder combed through the 2,700 pages (as Breitbart News scooped) of the new infrastructure bill, and he made a key catch. As currently written, the bill includes a huge loophole that allows government officials to waive the “Buy American” provisions if they so choose. As Binder puts it:

Directly beneath the Buy American rule, though, is a massive carveout that allows the heads of federal agencies to bypass the requirement if they consider the requirement “inconsistent with the public interest,” does not meet “satisfactory quality,” or if they believe buying American will increase costs for the projects.

So we can see: According to the bill, infrastructure must be Made In USA—unless the bureaucrats decide otherwise.  

So now we can wonder: What would the federal government do if Buy American got in the way of some other objective, such as, say, importing solar panels from China as part of a crash effort to combat climate change?  

We can say that as of now, there’s no way to know for sure the answer to that question—after all, the infrastructure bill has to pass through the Senate and the House.

Yet we do know this much: Although Made In USA is popular on Main Street, it has long been unpopular among the political, economic, and academic elites.  And that’s why, in years past, plenty of Made In USA provisions have become law, and yet the elites have dismissed them, showing little enthusiasm for enforcing them.  

And why is that? Because the elites see “Buy American” as a gross violation of proper free-trade orthodoxy and/or as a regrettable expression of retrograde jingoism. And this elite hostility helps explain why the annual trade deficit has ballooned over the last half-century, from near zero to nearly $800 billion. 

To illustrate how this process of dismissal works, we can recall that back in 2009, Democrats, led by President Barack Obama, enacted an $831 billion stimulus bill. That legislation had some economic-nationalist particulars, and yet they were ignored. In fact, the Obama administration actually used the bill as an opportunity to import condoms.  

Indeed, the immediate result of Obama’s stimulus was the hiking of our trade deficit with China — because that’s where much of the stimulus went!

To put the matter another way, since we were importing so much stuff from China, American dollars spent by consumers here went over there to producers in China, thereby stimulating Chinese manufacturers. Moreover, the Chinese used that money wisely to build lots of boom-sustaining infrastructure in China. 

Thus we see the problem with borrowing or printing money when we make so little here at home: Our money ends up being used to build up some other country’s factories. 

Thus we Americans find ourselves falling back into the same trap we were in back in the 18th century: Our adversary (Britain then, China now) makes the wares we need, including the wares for military defense.   

We can add that these days, national strength comes not just from hardware such as steel (China now makes 15 times as much as steel as the U.S.), but also from middleware such as the innards of computers and other cyber tech (the U.S. is struggling to develop its own 5G internet capacity, after having ceded the industry to China). 

So we can see: It’s an urgent imperative, for the sake of both national security and a healthy economy, for the U.S. to claw back its manufacturing base in hardware, in middleware, and in everything else. After all, as this author has noted last month here at Breitbart News, “good jobs at good wages” come from making things here at home, not from installing things, such as solar panels, imported from overseas (China has 80 percent of the world market).

So the infrastructure bill is good way to start restoring American manufacturing capacity by buying American. To be sure, restarting American industries might take a while, and it might cost more than simply importing more goods, and yet it would be healthy, strategically as well as economically, for us to get off the China drip.

For inspiration and as a reminder of what’s possible, we might look back to World War Two, when the Japanese cut off our supply of Asian rubber after their sneak-attack on Pearl Harbor plunged us into war.  So what did Uncle Sam do about the loss of his rubber supply?  Actually, it’s quite a heartening tale. As chronicled by the American Chemical Society, the U.S. whomped up a whole new synthetic rubber industry, which proved to be bigger and better than its organic predecessor. And we did all this in a matter of months. That’s American ingenuity. And that’s how you win a war.  

Today, given the challenges we face abroad as well as at home, we need exactly that sort of Can Do Spirit. Most obviously, if we can no longer trust China, then it’s not a good idea that so many at the Pentagon use Chinese-made iPhones and iPads. So let’s rid ourselves of that dangerous dependence and start by using the infrastructure bill as a new kind of declaration of independence from China. Yes, let’s have Made In USA infrastructure, as a prelude to more of everything else being Made In USA. 

The Democrats’ Gender Reveal

Yet unfortunately, from the current looks of the infrastructure bill, “Middle Class Joe” isn’t keeping his make-it-here campaign promise. To be sure, it’s possible that real and enforceable Made in USA provisions will be added in the legislative process still to come—there will, after all, be plenty of twists and turns inside the Capitol Hill sausage factory. And public pressure (hint, hint) can work wonders. As they say of pols, “When they feel the heat, they see the light.”  

Yet for now at least, it seems that the Democrats who rule Washington, D.C., have other priorities. For instance, the very same infrastructure bill contains a curious provision, noted by Breitbart’s Wendell Husebø: The bill’s language declares that “gender identity” is now a legally protected category. For those wondering as to the precise definition of “gender identity,” Husebø cites an impeccable source of political correctness–namely, NPR–which informs us that “gender identity” comes from “one’s own internal sense of self and their gender, whether that is man, woman, neither or both. Unlike gender expression, gender identity is not outwardly visible to others.” Any questions?

Some critics will say, of course, that special provisions for exotic gender categories are actually more in keeping with the Democratic Party of today than is “old-fashioned” infrastructure. That is, sexual freedom and sexual expression are more important to Democrats than matters of jobs and the economy.  

Is that a bad rap? A malicious slur? Maybe, but there’s an easy way to get a definitive answer: Let’s see what happens with this bill as it progresses.  There’s no guarantee that it will pass, of course, and yet if it does, ending up on Joe Biden’s desk for his signature, we can count on the intrepid reporters at Breitbart News to tell us the fate of the various sneaky provisions they have already sleuthed, plus whatever other interesting provisions might be found hidden inside.  

So what will it be, in-charge Democrats?  Made In USA? Gender identity? The former? The latter? Both? Neither?  

Whatever the answer might be, it will reveal much about the Democrats—and Americans, including voters, should be paying close attention. 

Illegal Alien Amnesty is the Ticking Time Bomb in 'Reconciliation'

Mon Aug 2, 2021 

Daniel Greenfield

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The one thing the infrastructure bill isn't about is... infrastructure. 

Aside from all the poison green environmental pork, it's just the sideshow to a larger legislative push to ram a whole bunch of policy priorities through via a highly illegal strategy. But if Obama could use reconciliation to enslave millions of Americans to socialized medicine, his successor figures he can do the same with illegal alien amnesty.

Biden "reiterated that immigration reform should be included in the reconciliation bill. It’s a position he’s staked out before... but this is the first we’ve heard about it since there was movement on the bipartisan infrastructure framework. (Worth remembering: For this to happen, Dems would need a favorable ruling from the Senate parliamentarian, which hasn’t happened yet.)"

 Then, Biden said that Sen. KYRSTEN SINEMA (D-Ariz.) — who said Wednesday that she would not support a $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill — is “on board for passing [reconciliation] if in fact she sees all the pieces of it. That’s why she allowed the budget to go forward.”

The gimmick here is the same pseudo-DACA bid that Dems unveiled during the pandemic which slices the illegal alien onion by declaring a whole bunch of illegals to be 'essential workers'.

Americans were more willing to accept illegal alien amnesty if they were told, falsely, that it was going to apply to American teens whose parents just happened to have brought them here illegally. 

With some businesses claiming to have trouble finding workers, Dems suspect the public may be willing to legalize another raft of illegal aliens because they're "essential workers".

Padilla, a member of the Senate Budget Committee, is pushing to pass a pathway to citizenship for essential workers, "Dreamers" and other undocumented immigrants as part of the spending bill — a move he said would benefit all Americans...

This comes after bills to legalize more than 4 million farmworkers, "Dreamers" and immigrants eligible for temporary humanitarian protections were approved in the U.S. House of Representatives earlier this year. But those measures would need at least 60 votes to succeed in the Senate, where they face a wall of opposition by Republicans.

That’s why for months now, immigrant advocates have pressured Democrats to use reconciliation to adopt immigration reforms that have proven elusive for decades.

The very fact that Dems are having trouble getting enough Senate Republicans on board for their latest amnesty is a minor miracle that can largely be attributed to the effects of the Trump era.

During a briefing with the American Business Immigration Coalition, Menendez recounted roughly a dozen “significant meetings” he had with Republican colleagues, “trying to plow through what would be possible” on immigration. But he said he was never able to identify the 10 votes needed to overcome a filibuster and pass legislation through the regular process.

Menendez accused his colleagues across the aisle of being “more interested in punishing immigrants than they are in recognizing their incredible contributions to this country.”

“The Republicans of 2021 are not the same Republicans I worked with in 2013 to pass comprehensive immigration reform in the Senate,” said Menendez, a member of the so-called Gang of Eight that successfully ushered immigration overhaul legislation through the Senate in 2013, only to have the bill die in the Republican-controlled House. 

Good.

The question is whether Senate Dems will be able to successfully detonate a demographic nuclear weapon through reconciliation.