Posted on 12/12/2023 4:18:21 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Immigration advocates are livid over the White House’s role in Senate negotiations pairing Ukraine funding and border policy.
They blame the Biden administration for linking the two disparate issues in the first place, and grassroots groups are raising alarm that political gamesmanship will lead to years of pain for immigrants nationwide.
The administration’s original supplemental funding request, which covered foreign security aid, border and disaster funding, wasn’t well received among immigration advocates because it enhanced some controversial areas of enforcement.
Those border proposals have snowballed into a GOP wishlist that advocates say would essentially codify former President Trump’s border proposals.
“We are deeply concerned that the President would consider advancing Trump-era immigration policies that Democrats fought so hard against — and that he himself campaigned against — in exchange for aid to our allies that Republicans already support,” Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) Chair Rep. Nanette Díaz Barragán (D-Calif.) and Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) wrote in a joint statement.
“Caving to demands for these permanent policy changes as a ‘price to be paid’ for an unrelated one-time spending package would set a dangerous precedent.”
Immigrant advocates say the administration isn’t caving, but rather is intentionally seeking aggressive expansion of its border enforcement powers.
“It was the White House — officials at the White House — who proactively engaged and reached out to Republicans on the Hill to suggest that it would be perhaps not a bad idea to have their arm twisted on restricting asylum and making it harder. And that was the opening act that led us to this point,” said an advocate close to the negotiations, who asked for anonymity to speak candidly.
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Good.
It is a pity illegal aliens think they should have a voice. They aren’t immigrants. They are illegal border invaders mooching off American citizens and deserve no consideration at all.
Immigration advocates want their cut.
List? That’s helpful.
Would these “immigrant advocates” be based on Marta’s Vineyard by any chance?
You could give Biden a trillion dollars for the border, and he’s not going to do anything.
“...grassroots groups are raising alarm that political gamesmanship will lead to years of pain for immigrants nationwide.”
Immigrants advocates? Grassroot groups??? Like hell they are grassroot groups. They are democrat activists groups that comprise a very small percentage of the population of this country, pretending that their anger eclipses the fury of the rest of the entire country.
Pain for immigrants nationwide??? As if they were forced to come here. If the country is to survive, they will have to be forced out and soon.
I noticed that no one ever reminds the American people struggling to get by that an individual illegal gets $3300 a month, a family get $4500 a month, plus free health care and numerous other benefits paid for by the taxpayer. The government estimates the cost will be close to $500 a year to finance these illegals.
The average Social Security check is only about $1200 a month and the person has paid into it his whole working like.
$500 billion a YEAR to finance the illegals.
Merry Christmas!!
Thanks for the pros, now list some cons.
Tie progress on the wall to the next installment for Ukraine
Good idea.
Don’t be surprised if this is yet ANOTHER STUNT, where they want our side to again think ‘yeah, we got them now’...just to get stabbed in the back.
Ukraine funding should be tied at the hip with repealing the 1965 LBJ/Ted Kennedy Immigration Act. 100%. or no funding.
Democrats will never agree to real reform/enforcement.
Never.
The left wants Biden to be a dictator.
Barragan and Padilla aren’t “advocates”.
They’re Mexicans. They want an unimpeded flow of Mexicans into the US so they can seize power by calling themselves “Americans”.
They are nothing of the sort. For them it is Mexico first and forever.
I’d rather let the entire population of the Ukraine walk over the US border than what is pouring in right now,
Not me…..I don’t want them either .
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