THE NAFTA INVASION COULD BE STOPPED IN ONE DAY BY
IMPOSING E-VERIFY AND PUTTING EMPLOYERS OF
ILLEGALS IN PRISONS BUILT ALONG THE NARCOMEX
BORDER! BOTH PARTIES AND MEXICO OBJECT TO E-
VERIFY!
The Rasmussen Reports/NumbersUSA poll surveyed midterm election voters, finding that 69 percent support the federal government requiring U.S. employers to screen potential hires through the electronic E-Verify system to ensure illegal aliens are not hired for jobs over American citizens and legal immigrants.
Across all racial demographics, a majority said they support nationwide mandatory E-Verify — including 73 percent of Hispanic Americans, 70 percent of black Americans, and 68 percent of white Americans.
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) introduced bills this year to mandate E-Verify across the U.S. but the legislation stalled in the House and Senate Judiciary Committees with a lack of support from Democrats and Republicans.
Poll: Midterm Voters Support Nationwide Crackdown on U.S. Employers Hiring Illegal Aliens
Midterm voters, by a wide majority, support a nationwide crackdown on United States employers hiring illegal aliens over American citizens, a recent poll shows.
The Rasmussen Reports/NumbersUSA poll surveyed midterm election voters, finding that 69 percent support the federal government requiring U.S. employers to screen potential hires through the electronic E-Verify system to ensure illegal aliens are not hired for jobs over American citizens and legal immigrants.
Across all racial demographics, a majority said they support nationwide mandatory E-Verify — including 73 percent of Hispanic Americans, 70 percent of black Americans, and 68 percent of white Americans.
Likewise, 69 percent of swing voters said they support Congress passing mandatory E-Verify along with 57 percent of Democrats and 83 percent of Republicans. The labor policy also gets massive support among non-college educated voters, 71 percent, who are the most likely to compete for jobs against illegal aliens.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, a Republican from Iowa and ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, speaks during a hearing in Washington, DC, on Thursday, August 4, 2022.(Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) introduced bills this year to mandate E-Verify across the U.S. but the legislation stalled in the House and Senate Judiciary Committees with a lack of support from Democrats and Republicans.
Congressman Mo Brooks speaking with attendees at the 2021 Southern Regional Conference hosted by Turning Point USA at the Sheraton Panama City Beach Golf & Spa Resort in Panama City Beach, Florida. (Gage Skidmore/Flickr)
In states such as Florida, where Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) sought a statewide mandatory E-Verify law, elected Republicans in the legislature watered down his legislation to provide carve-outs for industries most likely to illegal aliens.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks at an annual leadership meeting of the Republican Jewish Coalition Saturday, November 19, 2022, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)
In general, 65 percent of midterm voters told pollsters that they support policies to prevent employers from hiring illegal aliens for American jobs. This includes 65 percent of Hispanic Americans, 59 percent of black Americans, and 67 percent of white Americans as well as 66 of swing voters and 87 percent of Republicans.
Again, non-college educated voters — the most likely to compete for illegal aliens in the labor market — said by a 69 percent majority that they want to see national policies implemented to crack down on businesses hiring illegal aliens.
President Joe Biden’s administration, on a broad scale, has been utilizing a work-around to funnel border crossers and illegal aliens into American jobs. The policy has allowed at least hundreds of thousands to enter the U.S. labor market in the last two years with work permits approved by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) agency.
Republicans in Congress, while vowing to back mandatory E-Verify, have yet to offer policy prescriptions to halt the massive influx of border crossers and illegal aliens into the U.S. labor market on work permits.
While at least seven million illegal aliens hold American jobs today, 11.6 million Americans remain unemployed but wanting full-time jobs and another 3.7 million are underemployed.
The Rasmussen Reports/NumbersUSA poll surveyed more than 1,700 voters and has a margin of error of +/- 2 percentage points.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
Mitt Romney, Susan Collins Dismiss the Idea of Impeaching DHS Chief Mayorkas
Impeaching DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for failing to secure the southern border does not appear to have the support of the some Republican senators.
As border patrol has encountered more than 2.3 million illegal aliens at the border, with over 230,000 migrant encounters in October, establishment Sens. Mitt Romney (R-UT) and Susan Collins (R-ME) appear averse to holding Mayorkas accountable for the southern border invasion.
“Someone has to commit a high crime or misdemeanor for that to be a valid inquiry,” Romney told Politico about impeachment standards. “I haven’t seen any accusation of that nature whatsoever.”
“There are a lot of things I disagree with … but that doesn’t rise to impeachment,” he said about Mayorkas.
Collins, a pro-Donald Trump impeachment vote and McConnell ally, brushed off the question of whether Mayorkas should be impeached.
“That’s not something I’ve heard discussed over here,” Collins replied.
WASHINGTON, DC – NOVEMBER 16: Sen, Susan Collins(R-ME) walks through the halls of the US Capitol before heading into the Senate to vote on putting the Respect for Marriage act on a glide path to victory, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Bill O’Leary/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
Sen. John Thune (R-SD), the second highest ranking GOP senator, said an investigation of Mayorkas’s open border should ensue before rushing to impeachment.
“I think there is a legitimate need for oversight … but, I mean, I think it needs to be focused on some specific areas,” Thune said.
Romney and Collins are at odds with some of their Republican colleagues. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) have been more aggressive. Penning a letter to Mayorkas in October, they accused Mayorkas of “a gross dereliction of duty and a violation of your oath of office,” and stated a failure to correct the inflow of illegal migrants is grounds for impeachment.
“This is gross dereliction of duty and, if not corrected swiftly, could provide grounds for impeachment,” they wrote.
If impeachment proceedings were launched against Mayorkas, they would be first initiated in the House and then conveyed to the Senate. It is unlikely Republicans have enough votes in the Senate to follow through on impeaching Mayorkas, even if the House successfully voted to impeach.
Some GOP House members support impeaching Mayorkas, like GOP House leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA).
“If Secretary Mayorkas does not resign, House Republicans will investigate every order, every action and every failure, and will determine whether we can begin an impeachment inquiry,” McCarthy said in November.
Mayorkas has “no plans to resign.” Instead, Mayorkas has defended his failure to secure the southern border. Speaking with the Wall Street Journal on Monday, he said the open border was a result of a “broken immigration system” and his failure to enforce the law.
“The immigration system, our laws, have not been reformed for more than 40 years,” Mayorkas said. “The problem from administration to administration, regardless of party, is the fact that we are fundamentally working within a broken immigration system, and that is the foundational challenge, with respect to the border.”
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As reported by Breitbart Texas, the arrest of migrants with existing criminal records has risen more than 350 percent since 2020. According to CBP, the number of migrants who have criminal convictions for Homicide and Manslaughter rose from 3 encounters in 2020 to more than 60 in 2022. More than 120 migrants with homicide or manslaughter convictions have been encountered since January 2021 — compared to 11 during the Trump era. The increase reflects those convicted of prior offenses committed in the United States.
Joe Biden and other Democrats have spent the last four years repeating the mantra “no one is above the law.” Yet Biden has advocated policies that would, as the San Francisco Chronicle recently noted, effectively make the United States a sanctuary country.
California Created A New Cartel Drug Market + The 10 Mile Drug Tunnel to Your Neighborhood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_HH-U7-lfE
“Joe Biden is great on immigration. I guess depends on your
perspective. If you’re a human trafficker, or drug dealer, you’d
give him an A-plus, but theAmerican people would give him an
F. The crisis at our border was not only entirely predictable,
it was predicted. I predicted that if you campaign all year long
on open borders, amnesty, and health care for illegals, you’re
going to get more migrants at the border. That’s what’s
happened since the election.”
SEN. TOM COTTON
The victim had his hands and feet tied up and appeared to have had his pants pulled down; additionally, his pink shirt had been pulled over his head. Authorities have not publicly identified the victim nor revealed which criminal organization is responsible for the crime.
No Feliz Navidad for many in Mexico
It was not easy to read this report. After all, the victims in this story are children. This is from Jessica Guerrero over at Pulse News Mexico:
The constant climate of extreme violence in which Mexico has lived since the start of the so-called drug war in 2006 has left a huge red stain in the modern history of the country.
From 2006 to 2021 alone, it is estimated that 350,000 people were killed in the country because of drug wars and power struggles between cartels and other organized crime groups, and at least 72,000 people have been missing since then, more than 30,000 of whom have disappeared during the last four years under the watch of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO).
This situation by itself has had a great impact on the quality of life of Mexicans, but it is especially the nation’s children and adolescents who have had to bear witness to the most atrocious side of the violence generated by organized crime. Just under AMLO’s administration alone, so far 4,090 minors have been murdered.
According to statistics, an average of seven children are killed under violent circumstances every day in Mexico, 70 percent of them by firearms. Such numbers even surpass those of Syria, which has been in a civil war since 2011.
The incidence of these murders is concentrated mainly in the states of Michoacán, Guanajuato, Tamaulipas, Jalisco and Zacatecas. The security conditions that these states face due to disputes between local criminal groups have favored the rise of violent crimes against Mexican children.
Why children? As in Chicago, they are often at the wrong place at the wrong time.
What is the Lopez-Obrador government doing about this? So far nothing, as most of my Mexican friends tell me. They are embracing something called "hugs not bullets," for cartels, or a dismal policy that projects weakness or a lack of interest in addressing the violence. The criminal elements in Mexico look at the weak president in Mexico and the chaos on the U.S.-Mexico border and have concluded that it's a good time to move drugs and people.
So the violence persists and more children get killed when both sides pull the trigger. It's a horrible story as many of us get ready to cheer the Christmas season with our families. For many south of the border, there won't be a "Feliz Navidad" this year and probably not one for a long time.
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Joe Biden Refuses to Visit the Border During Trip to Arizona: ‘More Important Things Going On’
President Joe Biden on Tuesday said he would not visit the southern border during his trip to Arizona, despite an ongoing migration crisis.
The president spoke briefly with reporters as he left the White House for a trip to Arizona to promote new investments in semiconductor chip manufacturing.
When asked why he was going to a border state without visiting the border, Biden replied, “Because there are more important things going on.”
The president has stubbornly resisted visiting the border as the migration crisis continues to cripple border communities faced by floods of migrants entering the country and claiming asylum.
Biden has never visited the Southern border, despite signaling last year that he would do so.
“At some point, I will,” he told reporters in March 2021 when asked if he would ever visit the Southern border.
In October 2021, Biden admitted that he “should” visit the border.
“I’ve been there before and I haven’t — I mean, I know it well. I guess I should go down,” he said during a town hall meeting with CNN, complaining that “I haven’t had a whole hell of lot of time to get down.”
Last week, however, the White House laughed off an invitation from House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy to Biden to visit the border, accusing Republicans of contributing to a “political stunt.”
On Monday, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre called for Republicans concerned about border security to negotiate with Biden on providing amnesty to illegal immigrants through his proposed immigration legislation.
“If they truly want to deal with the border, then they would stop doing political stunts and actually work with us on the plan that we have put forward, which they are not,” she said.
EXCLUSIVE: 206K Migrant Apprehensions Again Breaks November Record
Border Patrol agents apprehended nearly 206,000 migrants who crossed the border between ports of entry in November. This represents an increase of nearly 21 percent over the record-setting 167,000 migrants apprehended in November 2021.
For the third straight month, migrant apprehensions along the U.S. southwest border with Mexico increased. Agents apprehended nearly 206,000 migrants who crossed from Mexico into the U.S.
During the first two months of Fiscal Year 22, which began on October 1, Border Patrol agents apprehended nearly 410,000 migrants in these nine southwest border sectors. During the same period in FY21, agents apprehended approximately 326,000. This year’s apprehensions in October and November represent an increase of nearly 26 percent.
In addition to the nearly 410,000 migrants apprehended during the first two months of the new fiscal year, Border Patrol officials say another nearly 140,000 migrants are classified as “got-aways.” This means more than a half-million migrants crossed the southwest border during the first two months of the year.
For the second month in a row, agents in the El Paso Sector apprehended the largest number of migrants. These agents apprehended more than 53,000 of the 206.000 migrants apprehended last month. The November apprehensions represent an increase of nearly 279 percent over the 14,000 migrants apprehended in November 2021.
The Del Rio Sector remained in second place with the apprehension of nearly 48,000 migrants. The Rio Grande Valley came in third place with nearly 28,000 migrant apprehensions. The Yuma and Tucson Sectors rounded out the top five spots with approximately 25,000 and 23,000 respectively.
Bob Price serves as associate editor and senior news contributor for the Breitbart Texas-Border team. He is an original member of the Breitbart Texas team. Price is a regular panelist on Fox 26 Houston’s What’s Your Point? Sunday-morning talk show. Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX and Face
Randy Clark is a 32-year veteran of the United States Border Patrol. Prior to his retirement, he served as the Division Chief for Law Enforcement Operations, directing operations for nine Border Patrol Stations within the Del Rio, Texas, Sector. Follow him on Twitter @RandyClarkBBTX.
Editor’s Note: The statistics cited above for November 2022 migrant apprehensions are gathered from an unofficial Border Patrol report reviewed by Breitbart Texas. Historical numbers come from official U.S. Customs and Border Protection Southwest Land Border Encounters reports.
420 Migrants Apprehended in Single Texas Border Crossing Area in 4 Days
Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended more than 420 migrants who crossed the border near La Grulla, Texas, during the first four days of December. The three groups consisted of 103 family units, 56 unaccompanied children, and 261 single adults.
Rio Grande Valley Sector Chief Patrol Agent Gloria I. Chavez tweeted images of large groups of migrants who continue crossing the border between ports of entry. The three groups of migrants from Cuba and multiple Central and South American nations crossed near La Gurlla during the first four days of the month.
Rio Grande City Station agents transported the migrants for processing under CBP guidelines.
During the last couple of days of November, Rio Grande City Station agents encountered a single large group of more than 200 migrants. These migrants included 30 families, 40 unaccompanied children, and 139 single adults. This large group is part of the 12 large groups apprehended by RGV Sector agents during the first two months of the new fiscal year.
During the month of November, agents in this sector apprehended a total of nearly 28,000 migrants, according to unofficial Border Patrol reports reviewed by Breitbart Texas. Combined with the more than 28,000 migrants apprehensions in October, RGV agents apprehended approximately 56,000 migrants.
Bob Price serves as associate editor and senior news contributor for the Breitbart Texas-Border team. He is an original member of the Breitbart Texas team. Price is a regular panelist on Fox 26 Houston’s What’s Your Point? Sunday-morning talk show. Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX and Face
FAT CHANCE! THESE CLOWNS WILL VOTE FOR THOSE WHO LIVE ON WALL STREET AND THEN SEND THE TAX BILLS FOR ALL THIS 'CHEAP' LABOR TO MIDDLE AMERICA!
Hopefully, the GOP senators will not participate in this sneaky attempt by the Democrats to push their agenda and instead focus on the dreams and aspirations of citizens.
THEY HAVE TO SNEAK THEIR AMNESTIES BEHIND OUR BACKS EVEN AS MILLIONS OF JOE'S ILLEGALS HAVE JUMPED THE BORDER!
GOP Rep. Scott Fitzgerald: EAGLE Act is ‘End Run’ Around Immigration Caps
The Democrats’ pending EAGLE Act includes an end-run around the current annual caps on legal immigration, says a GOP legislator.
Section 7 of the bill “is an end-run around the annual green card limit,” Rep. Scott Fitzgerald (R-WI) told the Committee on Rules, which sets the rules for each floor debate in the House.
The bill would encourage temporary visa workers to become permanent workers by taking the jobs needed by Americans, he said during the Monday meeting:
It allows certain temporary visa holders to file an application for Adjustment for Status, despite the fact that no green card is available to them. The result is that many temporary visas will essentially become permanent because the alien visa holders will be able to live and work in the U.S. as if they had a green card. Of course, this will further strangle the ability of Americans to get good-paying jobs in tech and other sectors.
The EAGLE Act is marketed as a “country cap” reform to aid disadvantaged Indian visa workers.
But the bill enables corporations to recruit an uncapped number of foreign workers with dangled promises of renewable work permits in exchange for a few years of uncomplaining, l0w-wage work in the United States.
This work-for-work-permits exchange would expand companies’ economic incentive to lock out the hard-working Americans who must be paid wages and salaries, not work permits.
The cheap foreign labor would also encourage more corporate hiring for jobs in California and other expensive coastal worksites, Ths coastal encouragement would discourage the hiring of Americans in the cheaper inland states, such as Ohio, Tennessee, and Wisconsin.
The work-for-work-permits corporate giveaway is being hidden deep in the bill. Many polls show the public strongly opposes corporate labor migration into the jobs that Americans need for middle-class lives, homes, and families.
Congress now allows roughly 1 million people into the United States as immigrants each year. The legal immigrant total includes roughly 140,000 migrants sponsored by companies, which also employ roughly 2 million temporary visa workers in a wide variety of jobs that would otherwise be held by skilled Americans. President Joe Biden’s deputies also encouraged the inflow of roughly 2 million illegal migrants and refugees in 2022.
“If Congress wants to raise the overall annual green card limits, then that is what Congress should do,” Fitzgerald continued. “We should not instead create a special green-card-lite treatment for certain aliens [workers].”
The top Democratic sponsor of the bill. Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), dodged Fitzgerald’s criticisms about the end-run in Section 7.
She instead touted several small but useful curbs on the H-1B visa program that imports roughly 100,000 foreign white-collar graduates each year.
Lofgren represents the views of Silicon Valley investors, including the billionaire investors at FWD.us who are backing the bill. The investors expect to gain financially when the bill’s provisions incentivize many poorly paid foreign graduates to fly into the Americans’ white-collar labor market.
The Democrats’ work-for-work-permits bill would do the greatest economic damage to the coastal U.S. college graduates that were a critical part of their 2022 coalition.
The work-for-work-permits bill is numbered H.R.3648, and is titled the “EAGLE Act of 2022.” It has 83 sponsors, including eight Republicans.
GOP Rep. Michael Burgess (R-TX) also spoke out against the visa-worker incentive, saying
There were 250 Disney IT employees that were laid off and required to train their [Indian visa-worker] replacements … That is the type of story that when ordinary Americans read, they don’t understand why they cannot have the full protection of law, and furthermore, why Congress would be passing a law that would advance [foreign] people who are going to take their jobs — and then they’re forced to train them if they’re to preserve their severance package and not find themselves a subject of a [hiring] blacklist — … I don’t think language we’ve got in the bill in front of us today would prevent that from happening.
The senior GOP member of the rules committee, Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK) did not mention the end-run provisions that are hidden in Section 7 of the bill, or the likely pocketbook hit to U.S. college graduates.
But he talked about how government-linked China nationals could use the work-for-work-permits law to gain U.S. jobs, green cards, and citizenship.
I am troubled that the Majority chose to take out a critical provision of the Senate bill, such as a provision banning the admission or the adjustment of status of aliens affiliated with the military forces of Communist China or the Chinese Communist Party. If we can all agree on one thing, surely it should be that the United States should not be allowing members of the Chinese Communist Party to receive adjusted immigration status in the United States. I find it astonishing that the Majority removed this commonsense provision..
In response to Cole, Democrats argued that existing law, and a planned amendment to the bill, would exclude government-tied Chinese graduates.
For many years, GOP legislators have vocally denounced amnesty bills that would convert migrants into citizens who would likely vote to eject GOP politicians from their jobs.
But those GOP leaders have studiously avoided direct opposition to bills and regulations that allow companies to transfer Americans’ jobs to visa workers who cannot vote against politicians.
For example, Lofgren’s corporate giveaway bill is backed by eight GOP candidates, including Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN), the GOP’s incoming party whip for the 2023 Congress.
Emmer got elected by Republicans to the whip job after he ran a partly successful 2022 election campaign. Amid the donor-funded campaign, GOP leaders suppressed mentions of migration’s huge and growing pocketbook damage to American families.
Critics of the Lofgren bill say that it will dramatically increase the resident population of visa workers, far above the current population of roughly 1.5 million white-collar workers, and roughly 400,000 blue-collar workers.
In time, that population will lobby for more corporate-sponsored green cards, the critics say. Democrats will likely portray them as another population of victims, like the so-called “DACA” population of migrants brought to the United States by their illegal migrant parents.
A wholescale GOP surrender on the EAGLE Act is unlikely because roughly one in six GOP voters described immigration as their single top issue in 2022. But GOP leaders in the Senate may let the bill pass while they theatrically oppose the giveaway.
The hidden giveaway to foreign workers and their Fortune 500 employers are being ignored by the corporate-owned establishment media. For example, a Washington Post article about pending immigration bills summarized the EAGLE Act giveaway as a bill to “phase out the per-country cap on employment-based immigrant visas” for Indian visa workers.
The Work Permit Giveaway
The work-for-work-permits giveaway is hidden in Section 7
The section creates the permanent work permits — dubbed the “green card lite” — and then covertly expands eligibility to many visa-worker programs beyond the familiar H-1B program.
The bill offers permanent work permits just two years after each foreign worker is approved for a green card — regardless of how many foreign workers are waiting in the growing backlog for green cards annually given to workers sponsored by companies. The backlog is growing because companies have an economic incentive to hire and sponsor far more foreign workers than the annual supply of 140,000 new green cards.
The dangled “Employment Authorization” permits are extremely valuable because they allow foreign workers to work in many U.S. jobs until they can receive their promised green cards.
The green cards can then be traded to get the deferred mega-bonus of American citizenship for themselves, their families, grandchildren, and all of their descendants.
There are no limits on the number of foreign workers who can be hired and then paid with the bill’s renewable work permits. These eligible workers could arrive via uncapped H-2A visa for agricultural workers, the L-1 visa for corporate transfers, or the H-1B visa for white-collar workers, the E-2 for franchise operators, or the F-1/OPT rules for foreign graduates of U.S. universities.
The bill “just blows the limits [on the hiring of temporary visa-workers] out in the water and makes all of these temporary worker programs permanent, so that all of these jobs will be permanently removed from American workers,” Rosemary Jenks, the director of government relations at NumbersUSA told Breitbart News.
“Congress is using an immigration ploy to lock Americans out of a growing part of the labor market … [Democrats] are dead serious about it,” she said.
“My [Democratic] colleagues have brought us here today to move legislation which makes exceptions to the rules for [the benefit of] aliens who violated our law … that floods the labor market with foreign workers to the detriment of American workers,” GOP Rep. Fitzgerald told the committee.
“Americans can breathe a sigh of relief that the Democrats will no longer control the House legislative agenda a few short weeks from now, but on their way out the door, Democrats are trying to go and do even more damage to our immigration system,” he added.
Will Republicans betray their voters on lame-duck 'immigration reform'?
Just yesterday, the Washington Post reported that Sens. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) have reached an agreement on a "draft framework of immigration reform compromises."
It is important to know that D.C. has its own jargon that often functions as a euphemism in order that those beyond D.C. don't easily comprehend the motives.
"Immigration reform" in D.C. means amnesty and a pathway to citizenship for illegal migrants.
"Compromise" usually occurs when the GOP has surrendered its agenda before the Democrats.
The objects of the Democrats' generosity currently are the "DREAMers."
A bit of a background about these "DREAMers": DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) is an Obama administration policy implemented on June 15, 2012. DACA prevents the deportation of aliens who entered the U.S. illegally as minors and allows them to get work permits.
The illegal aliens who participate in the program are referred to as DREAMers, a reference to the DREAM Act (the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act).
Most of these DREAMers were born in Mexico (80.2%), followed by El Salvador (3.8%). Some were born in Asia, the Caribbean, Europe, and Africa.
So what are the details of this plan developed by Tillis and Sinema?
The WaPo revealed the following salient ideas of the plan:
- A path to citizenship for 2 million "DREAMers."
- A boost in resources to speed up the processing of asylum-seekers.
- More resources to expedite the removal of migrants who don't qualify for asylum.
- A continuation of the Title 42 COVID health rule restriction on migrants applying for asylum, until the new processing centers are operational, with the aim of a one-year cutoff.
- More funding for border officers.
On the surface, this is a win for both parties. The Democrats will have 2 million new voters in the form of DREAMers and new asylum-seekers, who are likely to be future Democrats voters. The Republicans will have border security, the removal of migrants, and the continuation of COVID-19-based restrictions.
The Democrats are claiming that the lame-duck session is the last opportunity to pass immigration legislation. They could also claim that 3 out of the 5 points of the deal are in favor of the GOP; hence, the GOP should sign on.
In politics, if you compromise on your agenda despite being in a position of power, you are not only duped, but also a betrayer of your voters.
The Republicans are going to take control of the House next month. From then, they have two years to author all the laws they want to ensure that the border is secure. They can work to build a coalition with moderate Democrats in the Senate after that.
If, however, the Democrats are able to squeeze in their agenda during this lame-duck session, it is a victory for the Democrats, despite their being in a position of disadvantage.
Biden can claim that he was a facilitator of this deal, which increased their voter base increases by 2 million.
The legislation will need 60 votes to pass in the Senate. Currently, there are 50 Senate Democrats, and the Democrats need the support of at least 10 Republicans.
The WaPo laments that President Donald Trump, his adviser Stephen Miller, and "right-wing media propagandists" such as Tucker Carlson "amplify that toxic message to enrage the base" — i.e., it scares GOP lawmakers from compromising on their principles and giving Democrats easy victories.
Yes, it is ironic that propagandists such as the WaPo have the audacity to attack others as propagandists, but the sanctimonious rarely have any self-awareness.
The WaPo was unknowingly highlighting the importance of the MAGA movement. Trump, Miller, and Carlson are the few standing not only against the Democrats, but also against establishment Republicans, who readily capitulate before the Democrats.
The WaPo even refers to GOP senators who could support this plan. They are retiring Sens. Roy Blunt of Missouri and Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, and anti-Trump senators such as Sens. Mitt Romney of Utah, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, etc.
Let's focus on the idea of granting the "DREAMers" a path to citizenship.
By entering the country illegally, the migrants have committed a crime. Perhaps the crime was committed unknowingly because the minor had no option but to accompany his parents and illegally enter the U.S. But it still is a crime.
A crime needs to be punished to deter others from committing similar crimes.
If the DREAMers are granted a pathway to citizenship, it sends an invitation to aspirants around the world.
It is the equivalent of saying, "Feel free to bring your children to the U.S. illegally. Someday, they will become citizens."
There are other disadvantages too.
If citizenship is given to one group, it gives hope to other groups who are in the U.S. illegally. They could stay in the hopes of qualifying eventually and receiving citizenship.
The presence of illegal aliens is a burden on the taxpayers and the facilities and infrastructure meant for citizens. If illegal migrants work for less than minimum wage and without benefits, once again, the citizen could see a drop in wage or be rendered unemployed. If the illegal migrants are of the criminal variety, once again the victims of these crimes will be citizens. Usually, it is the working class who suffers from this.
In the end, every country has laws that have to be followed, and immigration laws are not at all different.
The only way to enter or temporarily work in the U.S. is to apply for a visa and undergo a thorough background check and an interview. If the applicant clears all of these phases, he can enter or temporarily work in the U.S. The duration of stay and work also depends upon the visa permits.
The only path to citizenship is by naturalization, by marriage, through your parents, or through the military. Each route has its own set of specific requirements that must be followed.
If this proposed "immigration reform" plan is passed, lawmakers will be incentivizing the breaking of laws, which is the last thing any lawmaker should do.
Hopefully, the GOP senators will not participate in this sneaky attempt by the Democrats to push their agenda and instead focus on the dreams and aspirations of citizens.
Image: Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) in 2016. Credit: Gage Skidmore via Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Want some perspective on why so many blue sanctuary cities have so many homeless encampments hovering around?
Try the reality that illegal immigrants are routinely given free public housing by the U.S., based on the fact that they are uneducated, unskilled, and largely unemployable. Those are the criteria, and now importing poverty has never been easier. Shockingly, this comes as millions of poor Americans are out in the cold awaiting that housing that the original law was intended to help.
Thus, the tent cities, and by coincidence, the worst of these emerging shantytowns are in blue sanctuary cities loaded with illegal immigrants - Orange County, San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle, New York...Is there a connection? At a minimum, it's worth looking at. MONICA SHOWALTER
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