Thread: Republican DHS Funding Bill Includes Amnesty for DACA, & TPS Illegal Aliens

Republican DHS Funding Bill Includes Quasi-Amnesty for DACA Illegal Aliens

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The Republican-approved Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Appropriations bill for Fiscal Year 2019 includes a quasi-amnesty for the nearly one million illegal aliens who are currently enrolled in the President Obama-created Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.

Quasi-amnesties for DACA illegal aliens and foreign nationals who are in the United States on Temporary Protected Status (TPS) was slipped into the appropriations bill by Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-CA) and approved by Rep. Kevin Yoder (R-KS).

Essentially, the amendments to the funding bill prohibit DHS from using any funds or resources from detaining any DACA illegal aliens or foreign nationals who have TPS.

Dan Cadman, a fellow with the Center for Immigration Studies, says the Aguilar amendments approved by Yoder and the House Republicans are a “stealth amnesty” for DACA illegal aliens and the thousands of TPS foreign nationals.

Cadman writes:

Having gotten his way on the prohibition against deporting DACA veterans, which was probably a great surprise to him, Aguilar then introduced a more broad-based amendment. This one prohibits expenditure of funds to detain or deport any DACA or even Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program recipients. (Note the rapidly expanding pool of illegal alien beneficiaries of Aguilar’s amendments.) This is a stealth amnesty for both populations of aliens that would number into the hundreds of thousands, possibly over a million. [Emphasis added]

A number of the TPS programs have been terminated by the Trump administration with forward-projected end dates, as was DACA, whose recipients are for the moment protected by an injunction at the lower court level. However, the administration has appealed the district court decision and it is a reasonable expectation that it will ultimately prevail at the Supreme Court. If so, then it seems likely that the outcome of Aguilar’s second amendment would be to burden the United States with a permanent underclass of aliens who have no lawful status as theirs expires, but who cannot be removed since DHS would be prohibited from spending funds to do so.

If Congress wishes to bestow benefits on these individuals, then the appropriate mechanism is to do so via amnesty, which to date it has declined to do. It is incredible that the House Appropriations Committee would permit such an amendment to pass on a voice vote. [Emphasis added]

Immigration experts told Breitbart News that the quasi-amnesties for DACA illegal aliens and TPS foreign nationals would act as a barrier for President Trump and the Justice Department in the courts. Currently, the administration is fighting to end DACA. The amendments, though, codify the policy, making the Obama-created program that much harder to terminate.

This week, Trump threatened to shut down the federal government if he did not receive funding for his proposed border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, Breitbart News reported.

The DHS funding bill includes $5 billion for the border wall, but the House Republicans — including Rep. Martha Roby (R-AL), who said she was “proud” to vote for the bill — have tied the wall funding to a number of open borders policies that would give a global right to migrate for any foreign national claiming domestic abuse or fearing gang violence.

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New asylum rules would give the right to migrate to the U.S. to a foreign population half the size of the American Midwest.
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As Breitbart News noted, the GOP-run House appropriations committee voted to revive Obama’s Catch and Release policies — where illegal aliens and asylum seekers are caught at the border, then released into the U.S. general public — by deliberately defunding Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s return to the traditional, narrow interpretation of asylum laws.

Efforts to codify the Catch and Release policy into law would give the entire populations of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras — 32 million Central Americans — the right to migrate to the U.S., as well as any other foreign nationals who travel to the country and claim they are fleeing gangs or domestic violence.

This translates to a foreign population at least half the size of the American Midwest being given the right to migrate to the country under the GOP’s Homeland Security funding measure.

The border wall funding has also been tied to a green card giveaway for at least 200,000 Indian nationals who are in the U.S. on guest worker visas, Breitbart News reported, along with a tripling of the number of H-2B visa workers who let into the country and allowed to take U.S. blue collar jobs and an expansion of the H-2A visa program, which would deliver more cheap foreign workers to farms across the country.

Currently, the U.S. receives more than 1.5 million legal and illegal immigrants every year. In 2016, the legal and illegal immigrant population reached a record high of 44 million. By 2023, the legal and illegal immigrant population is expected to make up nearly 15 percent of the entire U.S. population, if current immigration levels continue.

https://www.breitbart.com/big-govern...llegal-aliens/

The DHS funding bill shows the skewed priorities of GOP appropriators

The following amendments to the bill were approved by the full committee:


Rep. Yoder – The amendment made technical and other noncontroversial changes and additions to the bill and report. The amendment was adopted on a voice vote.

Rep. Aguilar – The amendment prohibits funds to deport DACA recipients who also serve in the U.S. Armed Forces. The amendment was adopted on a voice vote.

Rep. Yoder/Rep. Roybal-Allard – The amendment adds report language to support the enforcement of border and immigration laws and the humane treatment of children and families. The amendment also adds funding for health services, alternatives to detention, and family case management services. The amendment was adopted on a voice vote.

Rep. Aderholt – The amendment adds bill language prohibiting use of ICE funding to pay for an abortion or require anyone to perform or facilitate an abortion. The amendment was adopted on a vote of 30-20.

Rep. Culberson – The amendment adds bill language amending the Stafford Act to increase access for rental assistance following declared national disasters. The amendment was adopted on a voice vote.

Rep. Lee/Rep. Serrano – The amendment adds bill language extending disaster unemployment assistance by one year following the declared national disasters of hurricanes Maria and Irma. The amendment was adopted on a voice vote.

Rep. Newhouse – The amendment adds bill language changing the H-2A seasonal agriculture worker program from seasonal to year-round. The amendment was adopted on a voice vote.

Rep. Harris – The amendment adds language restoring a two-year “look back” within the H-2B seasonal guest worker visa program, exempting a certain number of return workers from the overall cap. It also sets up a system to allow a proportional number of visas for businesses, instead of all or none, when there is a higher demand for visas than the total number authorized. The amendment was adopted on a voice vote.

Rep. Kilmer/Rep. Cole – The amendment prohibits funding to disallow certain Native American tribal members the right to pass the U.S/Canada border. The amendment was adopted on a voice vote.

Rep. Moolenaar – The amendment adds report language clarifying polices related to the deportation of certain asylum seekers, such as Chaldean Christians. The amendment was adopted on a voice vote.

Rep. Wasserman Schultz – The amendment adds language providing additional flexibility under the FEMA public assistance statute of limitations. The amendment was adopted on a voice vote.

Rep. Yoder – The amendment provides additional flexibility related to the country cap on high-skilled workers under the H1-B visa program. The amendment was adopted on a voice vote.

Rep. Palazzo – The amendment allows certain existing, unobligated funds to be used to purchase long-lead time materials for the 12^th National Security Cutter. The amendment was adopted on a voice vote.

Rep. Culberson – The amendment adds language preventing ICE from releasing certain criminal detainees back onto U.S. soil. The amendment was adopted on a voice vote.

Rep. Price – The amendment expands asylum status definitions to include “credible fear” as an established reason for asylum, which would include threats of gang and domestic violence. The amendment was adopted on a voice vote.

Rep. Clark – The amendment adds language prohibiting funds for ICE to use restraints on a pregnant detainee in most circumstances. The amendment was adopted on a voice vote.

Rep. Clark – The amendment prohibits funding for the destruction of documents related to sexual abuse or assault on detainees in custody. The amendment was adopted on a voice vote.

Rep. Aguilar – The amendment prohibits funding for the removal of noncitizens who are DACA recipients. The amendment was adopted on a voice vote.

https://appropriations.house.gov/new...umentID=395388
For a summary, please
visit:https://appropriations.house.gov/new...umentID=395381

For the bill report, please visit:https://docs.house.gov/meetings/AP/A...0725-SD004.pdf

For the text of the bill, please visit:https://appropriations.house.gov/upl...nd_sc_bill.pdf