1. It does not end catch and release. Instead, it facilitates catch and release for certain populations. This should be a MAJOR red flag for all.
2. It exempts UAC from the new "break glass" removal authority. Which means it is worthless, as UAC remain a gaping loophole, and we have seen the largest child smuggling operation in history during the Biden Administration. For context, more than 476,000 UAC have come during the Biden Admin. None of them ever go home.
3. It does nothing to end perpetual settlement agreements like Flores, which have undermined border security for decades.
4. The bill effectively codifies the Administration's absurd "asylum officer rule" that dozens of state Attorneys General are currently challenging in court. They might as well call this the "Asylum Officer Empowerment Act," meaning more and more aliens will get asylum based on lax adjudications. And asylum = path to a green card and citizenship.
5. The new "break glass" emergency authority is a disaster. The Secretary "may" use it if there are 4,000 or more aliens encountered each day (28k per week, 121k a month, 1.46 mil a year). But he "must" use it when there are more than 5,000 a day over a week or 8,500 in a single day. Those are insane numbers and totally unacceptable to the American people.
6. And Non-Mexican UAC are NOT counted in the total that triggers the emergency authority.
7. But if that wasn't bad enough, there is a provision that allows the Biden team to essentially opt anyone out from the new supposedly expedited proceedings.
8. And if that weren't bad enough, it allows Biden to SUSPEND the new authority if he wants to, rendering it meaningless:
9. Oh, and the authority is limited in time duration, going down each subsequent year, making it even more worthless:
10. The bill wastes a ton of taxpayer money.
Billions here and billions there for more "processing." Including $1.4 BILLION for more FEMA grants that provide shelter and other services to illegal aliens.
There are even nuggets like $36 million to provide attorneys for "incompetent" adult aliens.
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/1🚨BREAKING — AFL just sent a letter to DOJ exposing how the University of Virginia is disguising its discriminatory DEI infrastructure under a new lexicon of euphemisms to evade federal law.
The law is clear — and UVA is on notice.
DOJ is watching — and so are we.
🧵THREAD:
/2 On April 28, DOJ formally directed UVA to certify — “with precision and particularity” — that it had dismantled its discriminatory DEI programs to comply with federal civil rights law and President Trump’s Executive Orders.
UVA didn’t comply.
Instead, it formed a working group to “promote open inquiry” and build a “truly inclusive and welcoming community.”
/3 UVA has rebranded its discriminatory policies under new labels, using euphemisms like “Inclusive Excellence,” “Community Engagement,” and “Viewpoint Diversity.”
The names changed — but the substance didn’t.
“Inclusive Excellence” is the framework universities now use to disguise DEI — embedding unlawful preferences based on race, sex, national origin, and other protected traits into operations under the illusion of equity and belonging.
/1🚨BREAKING — AFL just moved to intervene in a major lawsuit to overturn an unlawful, decades-old, and race-based consent decree — and restore merit-based hiring in the federal government.
/2 For 44 years, a race-based consent decree has prohibited the federal government from using a standardized, merit-based exam to hire civil servants.
This is unconstitutional — and it must be overturned.
/3 In 1981, during the final days of the Carter Administration, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) entered into the Luevano consent decree, ending the use of a standardized written aptitude test in federal hiring.
Since then, OPM has failed to identify any test that satisfies the decree’s race-based requirements.
🔥 Unelected judges with apparent political agendas are blocking President Trump’s policies with “nationwide injunctions.”
These activist judges are abusing the judicial power and usurping the will of the people to sabotage the President’s America First mandate.
Here’s how 🧵
President Trump faced over 64 injunctions in his first term — more than any president in history.
Now, it’s happening again.
This isn’t a normal judicial process — it’s a full-scale judicial power grab to thwart the results of a valid election.
Less than 4 months into the second Trump Administration, the judiciary has already issued over 200 orders to halt the President’s agenda — including nearly 40 nationwide injunctions.
/3 Judge McConnell is presiding over New York v. Trump, a lawsuit brought by 21 states and D.C. challenging President Trump’s temporary freeze on federal funding.
In February, he ordered taxpayer money to continue flowing to the states, including to Crossroads Rhode Island, where he served as a board member and board chairman over a span of nearly 20 years.