I'm a hard NO on any bill legitimizing illegal immigration.
As I read the Swamp's latest amnesty disaster, I'm already noticing many damaging and dangerous provisions.
Will add examples below... 👇
America Last, Ukraine First from the DC Swamp - literally.
Their priorities are clear, as shown in the first section of the bill summary.
How can any legislator look their constituents in the eye after voting to affirm thousands of DAILY illegal crossings?
Ah, yes. Exactly the solution the American people have been crying out for. Implementing "de-escalation techniques" in ICE dealings with illegal aliens. 🙄
In case you were wondering, the State Department section includes billions more for Ukraine.
Including...Ukrainian border security.
Keep our border open, but send tax dollars to protect other countries' borders. Funny how Swamp logic works.
Explicit approval for catch and release.
Another thought: why would commanding "the Secretary" to "activate border emergency authority" work any better than commands "to detain" and "to remove" illegals that courts have found Mayorkas continually defied?
If you're an illegal alien who makes it 100+ miles inside the US, or you last longer than 14 days, congratulations! This bill allows you to roam free.
Even under a border emergency, at LEAST 1,400 illegal aliens would be processed daily (over 500k yearly, on the low end) - in a manner developed by Mayorkas, who is currently being impeached for refusing to follow the law.
Only one year?
Common sense would say they should be inadmissible PERMANENTLY.
But that's in short supply for those afflicted with Potomac Fever.
Limitations, exceptions, and excuses. That's what you'll find in the border emergency authority section of the bill.
All challenges to the statute or any policy, guideline, or procedure Mayorkas sees fit to issue will be heard exclusively by the federal district court in the Swamp. Tough orders from federal district courts in Texas and Florida will be no more.
One might think a "border security bill" would fully close the border to illegal immigration before even THINKING about adding more visas and locking them in until 2029.
Alas - the bill, quite obviously, isn't about securing the border at all.
"Temporary family visits." I'm sure that this won't be abused at all.
Has anyone found one single provision in this legislation that would improve, not worsen, the border crisis?
I certainly haven't.
Illegal aliens not from Mexico or Canada won't be counted toward total encounters.
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@No_1Imp0rtant 1. Nope. 2. Nope. "Enforceable" 1% cap 2 yrs (of the kind Congress agreed to ignore every yr 2014-21). Yrs 3-6 just targets w/ no teeth. 3. Nope. Just expands existing work requirements for recipients aged 18-49 to ages 50-54 & creates 4 new exemption categories. Might REDUCE./1
@No_1Imp0rtant 4. Apparently true. 5. Nope. Only a $1.4B partial rescission of $80B Dems gave IRS last year. That's 1.75% of total and NO CONCEIVABLE EFFECT for 10 yrs to come. 6. Nope. Biden can waive the restriction and bill is explicit that waiver decision cannot be challenged in court./2
@No_1Imp0rtant 7. Maybe a little. For Joe Manchin's pet project. 8. Nope. Sorry, Newt, but this is just a false leadership claim. See #5 above. 1.75% cut is not "slash." Has NO IMPACT on FY2023 staffing spending by IRS. 9. Misleading. Suggests falsely a reversal of Biden forgiveness./3
@chiproytx And some descriptions are loose. "Minor 'work requirements' for SNAP & TANF" sound like at least something. But this only "gradually" broadens requirements for recipients aged 18-49 to extend up to age 54, and adds four new categories of exemptions. Might REDUCE scope.
Here are the Administrative PAYGO waiver provisions. The OMB Director can unilaterally waive the requirement that costly new administrative actions be paid for if the action “is necessary for effective program delivery.”
This program is toothless and will be waived perpetually.
Using state prosecutorial authority, especially in an unusual way, for political retaliation against a former president and/or to intimidate or manipulate his presidential candidacy violates the United States Constitution.
Everyone recognizes this is happening in New York. Some whose political spite for President Trump is boundless — and who may not appreciate the dangers of this precedent — are gleeful, but the fact that political motivations are operating no one really doubts.
For Americans who live in or frequent overwhelmingly Democrat urban areas, this is a cautionary tale. As the Left becomes more openly authoritarian, something of an Iron Curtain is descending on parts of the US in which Democrat power is unchecked. Wrong-thinkers are persecuted…
.@kielinstitute just updated its comparison of military, economic and humanitarian commitments to the Ukraine war through Jan. 15, 2023. Four charts tell the tale: This European conflict is being charged to Uncle Sam’s credit card (and Biden wants the limit increased).
The appearance that European central institutions have an edge in even one category — financial support for the Ukrainian government — is misleading. Europe makes loans; America makes grants.
Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson recently visited Congress to tell us that the United States should continue for as long as it takes. You don’t say.