Sen. Cruz Introduces the Immigration Slush Fund Elimination Act

Cruz.Senate.Gov ^ | June 17, 2015 | Senator Ted Cruz

[SoConPubbie]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today introduced the Immigration Slush Fund Elimination Act to eliminate the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) ability to use the fees it collects for the provision of legal immigration services to fund amnesty. The bill would also restore congressional authority over the appropriations process and refocus the agency on its core national security mission.

“America has always been a land of refuge and opportunity for those seeking freedom, and we should champion legal immigration,” said Sen. Cruz. “Ronald Reagan referred to legal immigrants, immigrants like my father, as Americans by choice. The federal government should not be in the business of looting the wallets of those who followed the law and came here legally to fund the President’s illegal and unconstitutional amnesty. This bill will cut off DHS’s credit card and put Congress back in charge of funding the agencies responsible for immigration.”

Specifically the Immigration Slush Fund Elimination Act would do the following:

• End DHS’s ability to fund lawlessness. The Obama Administration’s DHS, via its U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), has admitted it uses so-called offsetting accounts (which function like agency checking accounts) to take the fees it charges legal immigrants and use them to fund amnesty and other activities that Congress has not authorized. In recent congressional testimony, USCIS Chief Financial Officer Joseph Moore confirmed that USCIS can access more than $1 billion in fee-based funding, and that it used those funds to pay for an unauthorized amnesty processing center in Arlington, Va. Eliminating the ability of USCIS to use the money it collects to support amnesty and other unauthorized activities is a first step toward reining in the executive branch’s lawless approach to immigration.
• Restore congressional authority over DHS and immigration issues. By eliminating the offsetting accounts under USCIS’s control, Congress would end USCIS’s ability to self-fund. This would reduce USCIS’s ability to ignore the people’s representatives and restore respect for the Constitution’s separation of powers and the legislative power of the purse.
• Eliminate DHS’s profit incentive, which distracts from the agency’s core national security mission. Right now, USCIS has an incentive to process as many immigration benefits as possible, without regard to consequences. While legal immigration should be celebrated and supported, the agency’s desire to collect more fee-based revenue – along with its unrestricted ability to keep and use those fees – arguably interferes with USCIS’s objective review of application processing. Removing the focus on fees and revenue will once again focus USCIS on its core responsibilities, including protecting our national security and preventing immigration benefit fraud.

Complete bill text can be found here.

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[SoConPubbie]

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[Norm Lenhart]

Well that’s it. Ted Cruz just lost my vote.

[MaxMax]

lol

[Norm Lenhart]

We can’t have someone acting in ways we approve of 95% of the time running America. that’s crazytalk! No FRiend. The new way is to back reality show starring, trannie promoting, Hillary donating liberals and calling that conservative.

No matter what.

It’s the lesser evil thing to do.

[EQAndyBuzz]

“Well that’s it. Ted Cruz just lost my vote.”

That’s why we all love you. Oh wait, that would imply I am a homosexual and on a Ted Cruz thread that would mean obviously Ted would support that too.

Well then. Ted Cruz just lost my vote also.

[Norm Lenhart]

“Third Way Conservatism”. Thats what we can call it. That way it aligns fully with Hillary. And thats what a lot on FR seem to want. Since they support one of her donors I don’t know what else to think.

[Norm Lenhart]

I’ve seen you looking at me. It’s OK. We are Big tent conservatives now. How do you look in heels?

[EQAndyBuzz]

“I’ve seen you looking at me. It’s OK. We are Big tent conservatives now. How do you look in heels?”

I wear flats. Heels accentuate my legs and it drives the rodeo clowns wild.

Wait...can I say clown? I thought that’s what the C in LGBTC meant. I’m so confused.

[MaxMax]

You’re killing me! I’ve fallen off my chair twice.

[Norm Lenhart]

Well I;m sorta picky but there are exceptions. I prefer my men in stripper heels but What’s your Gladiator movie collection look like?

[Norm Lenhart]

Wave of the future guy. There;s the right way, the liberal way and the third way. It takes the conservative name, all of the liberal philosophy and combines them into what we see posted here and other right wing sites often.

Oops, I shouldn’t say that. About three days ago a Third way guy admonished me for using the term ‘right wing’ to describe FR. (And I’m not kidding about that part)

[TNMOUTH]

Beat me to it Norm!

You forgot to mention how he is a traitor, how he is losing voter and how his wife is part of the NWO ;-)

[Norm Lenhart]

Well I mean that goes without saying doesn’t it? He hates puppies too. Did you ever hear him speak of puppy rights? What freeper in good conscience would elect a man like that.

Gay backing Hillary donors, illegal advocates and such are A-OK though.

Come to think of it, not a word from him on cannibalism either. If he opposed it, he’d say so. Telling...

[Mariner]

I understand your affinity for Cruz and desire to get his message out. I'll not disparage that.

But surely you realize this is political posturing designed to aggrandize Cruz even though he knows, with certainty, it will never see the light of day?

Oh, and I'm pretty sure Senator Cruz is aware that appropriation bills must originate in the House.

[SoConPubbie]

But surely you realize this is political posturing designed to aggrandize Cruz even though he knows, with certainty, it will never see the light of day?

A lot of assumptions built into that assertion Mariner. I don't like living on assumptions.

Oh, and I'm pretty sure Senator Cruz is aware that appropriation bills must originate in the House.

Since he memorized the US Constitution at age 13, I am pretty sure of that as well.

[ExTxMarine]

Oh, and I'm pretty sure Senator Cruz is aware that appropriation bills must originate in the House.

I'm certain, listening to your tone, that you are more likely to support a "middle of the road" Republican nominee, like the last two that got their a$$es kicked by an EASILY beatable, NOBODY!

However, this is NOT an appropriation bill. It is an accounting bill. The money is already legally appropriated through legal fees. What this bill would do is not allow them to create slush fund accounts and move the money to whatever endeavor the Administration wants, after the money has been legally appropriated.

Two totally different things.

[itsahoot]

Since he memorized the US Constitution at age 13, I am pretty sure of that as well.

So why is he ignoring it?

[MaxMax]

How is Cruz ignoring the Constitution?

[TNMOUTH]

Probably believes in Sorcery...while doing skull and bones rituals with the Bush boys.

These people have gone nuts...and they are losing. I love it.

I am going to do this on most pro-Cruz threads...it drives them nuts seeing their insanity