Posted on 07/18/2025 10:48:53 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
It clearly illustrates congressional Republicans’ apparent compulsion to betray their base.
Conservatives supported the Big Beautiful Bill on the promise that it would kick deportations and border enforcement into overdrive, and less than two weeks later Republicans have stabbed them in the back with an amnesty bill.
On Tuesday, Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, R-Fla., reintroduced the DIGNITY Act alongside a cadre of fellow Republicans as well as Democrats. Her office couched the legislation in words like “dignity” and “opportunity,” saying it will allow “certain long-term undocumented immigrants to earn legal status, without amnesty or a path to citizenship.”
Salazar gave a speech on Thursday directed at President Donald Trump that overflowed with the same lies and emotional manipulation we’ve heard for decades about illegal aliens. That we need illegal aliens to do work Americans just simply don’t have the will to do themselves, that aliens who crossed the southern border illegally are not criminals, that mass amnesty would catapult Trump to the status of a modern-day Lincoln or Reagan.
She even tried to morally blackmail Trump by reminding him that “the eye of history is upon us” and warning him that “if we get this wrong, future generations will pay the price in shame.”
Despite using just about every Democrat talking point in the book, no one is buying the spin. It’s amnesty by another name.
But a throwaway attempt by Salazar to flatter Trump underlines just how much of an outrage this is from the congressional GOP. Listing off Trump’s accomplishments over the last six months, she mentioned, “You signed the BBB [Big Beautiful Bill] the day that you said you were going to sign it.”
It’s strange that Salazar praises the Big Beautiful Bill...
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Assuming it passes the Senate, Trump will veto it. Let the RINOs expose themselves so they can get primaried. There are several we’ve been itching to dump. Now is the chance to primary them.
Another Latina politician supporting Amnesty. Did she poll her Latino constituents to see what they think first?
I'm sick of these ridiculous, dishonest names for ballot propositions and legislative acts.
If you oppose the "Dignity Act" it must mean you're anti-dignity.
Streamline the work permit process.
Please...please...PLEASE,Mr President...make it clear that any such amnesty bill will be DOA when it hits your desk.
Mike the shiv Johnson must be lurking around
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Yo, Maria. Wipe your own ass.
I was not aware we treated LEGAL immigrants badly, at least since 1930 or so.
These POSs want full plus benefits of being citizens including free money, medical, housing et al. Sorry, that boat left, pun intended.
“Where other Americans don’t participate!”
Note how she equates the illegals to us.
And as for not participating, you can be assured that a) they will come cheaper, b) any Whiteys that get hired will be bullied, marginalized, attacked, ostracized and generally told they need to leave so that c) within a year or so of the first “hispanic” being hired, half his extended family will work there and the Caspers what got dumped will never be back.
Ethnic intimidation is what they do, and for 50 years have had US Protected Class status to shelter them when they do that.
Will Sra. Salazar be willing to revoke all that for them and their offspring? Or does she still want all 660 million Latin Americans to enjoy ethnic superiority over Evil White People in jobs, education, loans, military slots, etc etc?
We all know that answer.
“Geev eet all to us! Geev eet now!”
There is no DIGNITY being in a country illegally it’s a warning your going to do a lot more things illegally and they do it all the time.
Parasites muggers murderers rapists in motion.
Amnesty for millions of Criminals ? All they want is money to send to their home countries . Don’t do this crap again
The giant moral dilemma about all forms of amnesty is that they give the giant middle finger to all the millions of legal immigrants, effectively telling the legal immigrants - “screw you, you were fools, idiots who did everything right, went through all the legal steps essentially FOR NOTHING, when all you had to do was just join the illegals and everything would just be handed to you anyway”.
She’s Cuban. Why is she shilling for Mexicans, Ecuadorians, Haitians, Africans and Venezuelans.
She was a Telemundo anchor. Did we really expect she would be a Republican?
THERE IS ALREADY A THREAD ON THIS STORY!
Isn’t Salazar of Cuban lineage?
Yeah, those lazy ass American children just won’t put in an honest day’s work in the marijuana groves.
She is of cheap labor whore lineage.
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