Thread: Senate deal grants amnesty to future illegals

Senate deal grants amnesty to future illegals

DHS: Plan would mean ‘amnesty for over 10 million'

By Stephen Dinan -
The Washington Times -
Updated: 11:22 a.m. on Thursday, February 15, 2018


The Senate’s new immigration compromise not only grants legal status to illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. before, but creates a new future amnesty that would even protect illegal immigrants who managed to sneak into the U.S. over the next four months, experts said.

Not only would the bill enshrine Obama-era deportation rules, protecting most of the current 11 million illegal immigrants from fear of removal, but it extends those same protections to any illegal immigrants who can jump the border between now and June 30.

The Homeland Security Department said the plan “destroys” their ability to enforce immigration laws, and would amount to an “amnesty for over 10 million illegal aliens.”

The 64-page deal, struck by Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer and eight Republicans rebelling against President Trump, could see a vote as early as Thursday.

Those who want to see stricter immigration controls predicted a wave of new illegal immigrants would stream to the U.S. over the next four months to try to get in under the bill’s deadline.

“These sponsors have taken President Trump’s 1.8 million [person] amnesty and turned it into amnesty for all the illegals who are here, and however many can get here by June 30. I’ve never seen anything like it,” said Rosemary Jenks, government relations manager at NumbersUSA, which pushes for stricter immigration controls.

“It is shameful that Republicans would sign on to something that invites illegal immigration. I mean they are actually putting out an invitation. It is just amazing,” she said.

The key language is on the last page of the amendment which Mr. Schumer introduced last Wednesday.

The bill reads: “In carrying out immigration enforcement activities, the secretary shall prioritize available immigration enforcement resources to aliens who … arrived in the United States after June 30, 2018.”

Originally it said Jan. 1, 2018, but that part was struck out and the future date was penned in, suggesting the choice was deliberate.

A request to Mr. Schumer’s office for comment late Wednesday was not returned.

In addition to the future amnesty, the bill would grant citizenship rights to perhaps 1.8 million illegal immigrant Dreamers, while also allocating $25 billion for border security, including a wall, over the next decade. The bill, however, lacks any change to the Diversity Visa Lottery or to the chain of family migration — both conditions President Trump had set for any bill.

Despite violating the White House’s standards, eight Republicans have joined Mr. Schumer and other Democrats as sponsors of the future amnesty: Sens. Mike Rounds of South Dakota, Susan Collins of Maine, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Jeff Flake of Arizona, Corey Gardner of Colorado, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Lamar Alexander of Tennessee and Johnny Isakson of Georgia.

Confusingly, both Mr. Alexander and Mr. Isakson also signed onto GOP leaders’ much stiffer immigration plan, at about the same time they were signing up as sponsors of the future amnesty plan.

The two senators said their goal is to protect Dreamers and do something on border security, and they are willing to work on any plans that do that.

Homeland Security pulled no punches in blasting the plan.

“The Schumer-Rounds-Collins proposal destroys the ability of the men and women from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to remove millions of illegal aliens,” the department said. “It would be the end of immigration enforcement in America and only serve to draw millions more illegal aliens with no way to remove them.”

“By halting immigration enforcement for all aliens who arrived before June 2018, it ignores the lessons of 9/11 and significantly increases the risk of crime and terrorism,” Homeland Security officials said in a memo.

Still, the plan appears to have legs. With the eight GOP sponsors on board, and if all 49 members of the Democratic caucus backed the plan, it would be within three votes of the 60 needed to clear the Senate.

But its fate beyond the Senate is murky.

House Republican leaders have said they won’t allow a vote on any bill Mr. Trump couldn’t sign — and he’s already called a similar plan “weak.”

Beyond that, the future amnesty provision is likely to be a problem even for some GOP House lawmakers looking for a bipartisan deal.

Ms. Jenks said she suspected even some of the Senate sponsors didn’t know what they were agreeing to.

“I would hope that some of these Republicans and some of the Democrats would take their names off this when they find this out. It is just stunning,” she said.


https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/feb/15/senate-deal-grants-amnesty-future-illegals/

Wow, just when you thought you had heard it all. Now the discussion has turned into a mass amnesty. Well, guess we shouldn't be surprised that some in the Senate would use the DACA discussion as a vehicle to promote a mass amnesty. However, what is surprising is the amount of support this has among Republican Senators.

This is exactly what they have been aiming for - amnesty ALL - INCLUDING THE DRUG CARTELS THAT ARE IN EVERY CITY! How & why do they think the drug cartels are here operating freely. Do they not realize, they will amnesty them too?

Do they really think they are representing the American citizenry???? That pay their GD salaries? These politicians think they are above their vow of servitude.

ALIPAC Endorses Senate Campaign of Ted Cruz for Opposition to Amnesty
https://www.alipac.us/f8/alipac-endo...mnesty-355812/

Future and Current Illegals Get Amnesty Via Bill Backed By Schumer, 8 GOP Senators

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Illegal immigrants who fly, drive or walk into the United States before July 1 will be shielded from deportation if Congress approves an amnesty amendment now supported by eight GOP Senators.


“Every last one should be laughed out of the Senate for proposing an amnesty for illegal immigrants who have not yet arrived,” said a source.


The promised sanctuary for future illegal immigrants is buried at the end of the 64-page “Immigration Security and Opportunity Act,” which is now scheduled for a floor vote on Thursday, February 17. The amendment was supported by Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer and is the Democrats’ amnesty bill in the Senate this week. It is called the Rounds-King amendment because it is sponsored by GOP Sen. Mike Rounds and Democratic-leaning Sen. Angus King from Maine.



It says:

(2) Priorities. — In carrying out immigration enforcement activities the Secretary [of Homeland Security] shall prioritize available immigration enforcement resources to aliens who —
(A) have been convicted of —
(i) a felony,
(ii) a significant misdemeanor; or
(iii) 3 or more misdemeanor offenses;
(B) post a threat to national security or public safety; or
(C)(i) are unlawfully present in the United States and
(ii) arrived in the United States after June 30, 2018.

Schumer’s legalese would be used by business lobbyists, mid-level agency officials and by immigration courts to choke the enforcement of immigration law against the 12 million illegal immigrants who have arrived in the United States before February 15, 2018, but also against the migrants who rush into the United States by June 30 or before July 1.
The result could be the effective end of immigration enforcement, and a resulting drop in Americans’ wages as the inflow of cheap-labor migrants bids down white-collar and blue-collar wages.


A spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security slammed the bill:

Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton has criticized the legislation:

Georgia Sen. David Perdue slammed the Schumer bill and touted the rival bill by Sen. Chuck Grassleywhichhc he supports.

However, the June 30 date may have been inserted to distract attention from the bill’s other features, which include an amnesty for an unlimited number of illegals, loose identification rules which make identity fraud easier, plus provisions which would allow the illegals to get citizenship for millions of their own foreign siblings and parents.
If passed, Schumer’s promise of sanctuary until June 30 likely will be welcomed by hundreds of millions of people around the globe who may wish to get into the United States by June 30. A 2013 study by Gallup reported that:

About 13% of the world’s adults — or about 630 million people — say they would like to leave their country and move somewhere else permanently. For roughly 138 million people, that somewhere else would be the U.S. — the No. 1 desired destination for potential migrants.

The would-be migrants include 13 million Chinese and 10 million Nigerians, Gallup reported.


The invite could drain other countries’ small populations of trained workers and skilled professionals, For example, a 2009 Gallup study said:

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (Kinshasa) posts the highest negative PNMI, with a net migration index value of -60%, which means its adult population would decrease from an estimated 32 million to as low as 13 million.

The amendment is another effort by Schumer to remake the nation’s immigration law.


In 2013, he led the “Gang of Eight” amnesty push which was approved by the Senate but was eventually blocked by public opinion in the House. Schumer’s disastrous push, however, helped the GOP win nine seats in 2014 and helped real-estate developer Donald Trump win the GOP nomination and the presidency in 2016.

The Republicans who signed their name to Schumer’s sanctuary amendment include Schumer allies, Sen. Lindsey Graham and Sen. Jeff Flake.


But the amendment is also signed by Maine Sen. Susan Collins, South Dakota Sen. Mike Rounds, Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, Tennesee Sen. Lamar Alexander, Georgia Sen. Johnny Isakson, plus Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner, who is actually the chairman of the GOP Senators’ 2018 election campaign.



Aside from Graham and Flake, there is little evidence that any of these GOP Senators understand immigration law. But, said one source, “if they are dumb enough to sign something that Schumer, Durbin, and Graham are involved in, they deserve full blame.”


Sen. John McCain likely will support the bill, bringing total possible support to 58 votes, only two votes short of the 60-vote threshold.

Most of the GOP Senators who signed the invite to foreign migrants are influenced by their local Chamber of Commerce, whose members are eager to welcome imported workers and imported customers who drive down local salaries and drive up local sales. However, those new residents also impose great costs on local residents, including school expenses and police costs, plus the civic damage caused by diversity to the local society.


The three red-state Democrats on the list, Minnesota’s Sen. Amy Klobuchar, North Dakota’s Heidi Heitkamp, and West Virginia’s Sen. Joe Manchin may not know about the June 30 invite for illegals. However, their pro-amnesty signatures on the bill provide ammunition to the GOP candidates who will challenge them this November.

The amendment does authorize a $25 billion fund for a border wall but excludes the reforms sought by President Donald Trump that would close the legal loopholes now used by Central American migrants to walk through existing border fences.


Also, the amendment does not end the visa-lottery annual inflow of 50,000 migrants. It sets only minor changes to the chain-migration inflow of immigrants’ extended families and clans, many of whom lack skills needed to get a well-paying job in the United States.


The bill also says there shall be no upper limit on the number of people who get an amnesty, and it bars the deportation of illegals who appear eligible for the amnesty, or the hundreds of thousands of illegals who have violated court orders to exit the United States.



Schumer’s June 30 language is similar to the probationary “Z Visas” language which was included in the failed 2007 amnesty bill pushed by Sen. John McCain and Sen. Ted Kennedy. That language said that federal officials had to provide work-permits and residency cards to all migrants for three months after the enactment of the law — unless officials were able to legally prove the application was fraudulent within 24 hours after the application was submitted.

Many polls show that Trump’s 2016 immigration policies are very popular in the polling booth.

Immigration polls which ask people to pick a priority or to decide which options are fair show that voters in the polling booth put a high priority on helping their families and fellow nationals get decent jobs in a high-tech, high-immigration, low-wage economy.


Those results are very different from the “Nation of Immigrants” polls which are funded by CEOs and progressives, and which pressure Americans to say they welcome migrants.


http://www.breitbart.com/2018-electi...-gop-senators/

Kill the bill and shut this DACA and AMNESTY SLIME down. Americans do not want this, Congress should know that by now, yet, they proceed on with their infernally stupid evil amnesty bills. JUST SHUT IT DOWN TODAY. No more DACA talk. No more DACA walk. SHUT IT DOWN and get them, their parents and offspring out of our country and off our books.

SENATE REJECTS ALL IMMIGRATION PROPOSALS OFFERED THIS WEEK

Originally Posted by ALIPAC

Senate deal grants amnesty to future illegals

This is what I said in another post on here. All this talk about amnesty is drawing more illegals here like stink on sh*t so they can hurry up and get in on this whole amnesty scam. Democrats are destroying this country with this whole daca talk.

Originally Posted by GeorgiaPeach

Illegal immigrants who fly, drive or walk into the United States before July 1 will be shielded from deportation if Congress approves an amnesty amendment now supported by eight GOP Senators.

Yup! Brace yourselves for the big stampede from our southern border.

Originally Posted by GeorgiaPeach

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He looks like an evil bastard. Trust me, he knows what he's doing.