Posted on 12/07/2022 7:21:44 PM PST by Signalman
After surrendering to Democrats on a myriad of hot-button issues, Senate Republicans may get yet another chance to sell out their base before the year’s end — this time, on a last-minute immigration bill reportedly engineered by North Carolina GOP Sen. Thom Tillis that would provide amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants.
According to reporting from melodramatic Washington Post columnist Greg Sargent, Tillis and Arizona Democrat Sen. Kyrsten Sinema are pressing for the upper chamber to consider their bipartisan “immigration reform” bill before Congress’s current lame-duck session ends later this month.
While the legislation would apparently provide more funding for Border Patrol officers, resources to “expedite the removal of migrants who don’t qualify for asylum,” and an extension of Title 42 (a health policy that permits federal officials to expel illegal immigrants with minimal processing) for another year, it doesn’t stop there.
Among its massive concessions, the legislation would establish a so-called “pathway to citizenship” — which usually denotes bypassing the pathway that already exists — for 2 million illegal immigrants brought to the United States as minors.
These immigrants refer to the recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. DACA was illegally established by former President Barack Obama, who admitted on multiple occasions throughout his presidency that he was “not king” and couldn’t “just bypass Congress and change the (immigration) law [himself].”
While it’s unclear whether the Senate plans to take up the bill before the current congressional session ends, Tillis’s last-minute attempt to ram through an amnesty package before Republicans take control of the House of Representatives next month runs contrary to claims issued by his office earlier this year. Back in June, a representative from the North Carolina senator’s office told Fox News there was “not much to negotiate” on immigration until President Joe Biden “enforce[s] immigration laws” and takes action “to end the crisis at the [U.S. southern] border.”
Judging by the number of illegal border crossings since that statement, however, it’s pretty evident that hasn’t happened. In October alone, Customs and Border Protection apprehended more than 230,000 illegals, marking a 1.3 percent increase from September and a new record high. Those figures don’t even include the estimated 64,000 “gotaways” that evaded apprehension by border patrol officials.
Since taking office, Biden has presided over a record-shattering number of border crossings, with 1.7 million apprehensions reported in fiscal year 2021 and more than 2.3 million in 2022.
Tillis’ office did not respond to The Federalist’s request for comment.
While the move to hand out amnesty like candy on Halloween is absurd, it should come as no surprise to conservative voters. Over the past year, Tillis and several of his Republican colleagues have worked overtime to sell out their base on a whole host of issues.
Most recently, Tillis ignored the wishes of his voters and helped spearhead the wrongly named “Respect for Marriage Act,” voting with 11 of his fellow GOP senators to help Democrats pass the bill. With the Democrat-controlled House poised to pass the legislation and send it to Biden’s desk for signature, the measure, once law, will open the door for radical LGBT activists to use the legal system to harass religious Americans for believing in the true definition of marriage.
The move came not long after the Senate GOP overwhelmingly reelected Sen. Mitch McConnell as party leader, despite a majority of likely Republican voters favoring a change in leadership.
But Senate Republicans’ betrayal of their base doesn’t stop there. Earlier this year, Tillis and 14 of his GOP colleagues demonstrated their fecklessness yet again by helping Democrats advance gun control legislation. Among the most notable changes to federal law included in the bill is a provision that “uses taxpayer money to incentivize states to enact red flag laws,” which erode gun owners’ constitutional right to due process.
All the Uniparty cares about is their own pompous backsides.
All these jackasses care about is filling their bank account. They could care less about this country or it’s people.
Next but not last.
Sen. Josh Hawley says, “Over my dead body!”
Even Texas Sen John Cornyn says “No way,” so we will see.
The GOOBers can all turn their homes and vehicles over to the invaders at the border, but those dumb asses will ALWAYS vote for the communist RATS the way the Africans do. Free stuff like erasing student loans and handing out “reparations” to those with the right skin tone win out over freedom and liberty every time. The handout tribes have learned how to vote themselves FREEBIES just like de Toqueville said they would. America is over.
We WILL be sending Bidet extortion money to Ukraine for his entire term.
The Deplorables want a Comprehensive Immigration Enforcement bill, missing since 1986 ONE TIME amnesty. Since that amnesty was granted already, a second amnesty is off the table. What remains is the enforcement the Democrats have disallowed since then.
The List of Comprehensive Immigration Enforcement, missing since 1986 goes like this -
1) southern barrier;
2) require eVerify to hire;
3) end all chain migration;
4) birthright per Minor v. Happersett (plural citizen parents = nat born citizen);
5) end work visas;
6) 40-year moratorium on all new applications for citizenship (to allow workplace automation effects on downsizing population);
7) Set up an illegal aliens’ victim restitution fund from tax on remittances. Use tax on remittances to replenish Social Security account.
Enactment of these provisions will motivate illegal aliens to SELF-deport, and remove colonizadors from our welfare rolls
Notice how its almost always the RINO go alongs that have no problem retaining their seats.
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