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The DIGNIDAD Act: Sweeping Amnesty and Expanded Legal Immigration
Center for Immigration Studies ^ | 16 April 2026 | Mark Krikorian

Posted on 04/16/2026 8:03:53 AM PDT by zeestephen

DIGNIDAD Act introduced for the third time in six years by Rep. Maria Salazar (R-Fla.). Excellent written summary - plus - a 39 minute podcast. Key Points - Scope of Amnesty - Enforcement and Legal Concerns - Economic and Labor Market Impact

(Excerpt) Read more at cis.org ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Florida; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; assistantdemocrats; dignidad; florida; invasion; mariaelvirasalazar; markkrikorian; piginapoke; pignidad; rino; texas; veronicaescobar

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From the Center for Immigration Studies:

"The Podcast also explores the political outlook for the legislation, including the possibility of a discharge petition in the House, which would allow it to come to the floor despite Speaker Johnson's wishes."

1 posted on 04/16/2026 8:03:53 AM PDT by zeestephen
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To: zeestephen

Not only no, but hell no.


2 posted on 04/16/2026 8:05:35 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: zeestephen

What is a Digni Dad?


3 posted on 04/16/2026 8:06:41 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Robert DeLong

Looks like the Republicans want to make sure they lose the House in the midterms.


4 posted on 04/16/2026 8:08:39 AM PDT by chickenlips (Neuter your politicians)
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To: chickenlips

That seems to be the pattern. They seem far more comfortable in the minority. They don’t need to provide solutions. Complaining is easier.


5 posted on 04/16/2026 8:12:45 AM PDT by Dutch Boy (The only thing worse than having something taken from you is to have it returned broken. )
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To: zeestephen

Dear Representative Salazar. Just shut up, listen to your ‘legal’ constituents, and represent your district - not your personal agenda.

We have become a fractured nation, with way too many people who haven’t or don’t want to assimilate - and that’s counting many of those who are here legally. NO amnesty. DECREASED legal immigration. Let’s regroup as a nation.


6 posted on 04/16/2026 8:14:44 AM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: BenLurkin

It simply means that Rep. Salazar prefers to use her native language rather America’s English.


7 posted on 04/16/2026 8:18:00 AM PDT by hanamizu
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To: hanamizu

This bill is far, far, far worse than that. I listened to Matt Walsh talk about it at length a week or two ago. It would really be a catastrophe, the way it’s written.


8 posted on 04/16/2026 8:28:22 AM PDT by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." — M. O'Neal, USMC)
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To: zeestephen

Just goes to show that the enemies in our midst never, ever, absolutely refuse to stop fighting for the destruction of this country.

A few short months after Trump won a resounding victory on immigration, these RINO fools trot forth to completely nullify his election.

If only Republicans had one tenth of the fight in them that these RINOs and democrats have.

Take trials, for instance. Democrats can gin up an indictment and a trial in just a few weeks on fictitios evidence and Republicans are drowning in evidence on democrats and can’t even get an indictment in years.


9 posted on 04/16/2026 8:32:14 AM PDT by odawg
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To: zeestephen

Example 6578942 the GOP LOVES losing. Could there be a more insulting bill to republican voters? So much they hate us they won’t even use English.


10 posted on 04/16/2026 8:36:29 AM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: zeestephen

Rep. Maria Salazar (R-Fla.)
or
Rep. Maria Salazar (R-Somalia)


11 posted on 04/16/2026 8:39:10 AM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism. )
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To: zeestephen

If the bass turds need dignity, they all should go home and stand up for their own countries. If they just came here to get the gringos to pay for their sex changes in California, they and their RAT politicians need to show us where that is discussed in the U.S. Constitution. (They just did a story on those sick illegal alien pigs on FOX). California taxpayers forced to pay for sex changes for illegal aliens with sicko mental issues.


12 posted on 04/16/2026 8:43:19 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Asshat the Piker needs to get his domestic terrorist ass out of my country. )
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How’s that SAVE act going ? It has about 80% support


13 posted on 04/16/2026 8:46:20 AM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: zeestephen

Salazar sounds like she’s in the wrong party.


14 posted on 04/16/2026 8:48:59 AM PDT by dljordan (Yeah, I'm a Boomer and it's all my fault you whiny little bitch.)
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To: zeestephen

Kings X, they are allowed to break the law in certain places.

SEC. 1122. Protecting sensitive locations.

Section 287 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1357) is amended by adding at the end the following:

“(i) (1) Except as otherwise provided, an officer or an agent of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement or the U.S. Customs and Border Protection may not take an immigration enforcement action in or near a protected area...

...“(C) The term ‘protected area’ includes a structure or a place that provides essential services or at which a person would engage in an essential activity, including—
“(i) any school;
“(ii) any hospital, medical facility, mental health facility, or other health care facility;
“(iii) any place of worship or religious study, whether in a structure dedicated to activities of faith or a temporary facility or location where such activities are taking place;
“(iv) any structure or place, the purpose of which is for children to gather;
“(v) any structure or place, the purpose of which is to provide social services;
“(vi) any structure or place, the purpose of which is to provide disaster or emergency assistance or emergency relief;
“(vii) a place where a funeral, graveside ceremony, rosary, wedding, or other religious or civil ceremonies or observances occur;
“(viii) a place where there is an ongoing parade, demonstration, or rally; or
“(ix) any courthouse.
“(6) For the purposes of this subsection, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall promulgate guidance, in the exercise of their discretion, on the physical distance that constitutes in or near a protected area.”.


15 posted on 04/16/2026 8:50:10 AM PDT by Yogafist
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To: chickenlips

I mean, if they lose the House they can go back to being completely useless while making all their usual bs promises. As an added bonus they may see Donald Trump get impeached and removed from office, I’d be willing to bet about 3/4ths of Congressional Republicans secretly want that.


16 posted on 04/16/2026 8:51:27 AM PDT by Antihero101607
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To: zeestephen

Our legal system is broken. The criteria we use are not designed in the best interests of the country, and the process is Byzantine to say the least.

That said, I don’t believe it reasonable to address it until the problem of the illegals is dearly with.

And I absolutely oppose any “compromise” that in any way favors those who have broken the law over those who have not.


17 posted on 04/16/2026 8:52:51 AM PDT by jdege
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To: zeestephen

Never trust a Cuban. Trump has signaled that he was in favor of it. Miller on TV danced around it rather than opposing it.
Maria Salazar is from Florida, and has that Fox News look Trump mistakes for intelligence.

Just watch...


18 posted on 04/16/2026 9:06:40 AM PDT by DesertRhino (When men on the chessboard, get up and tell you where to go…)
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To: zeestephen

Maria Salazar (R-Fla.) - Heritage Action Scorecard: 53% conservative record for this session, 59% lifetime score.

Better than a Dhimmicrat for sure, but nothing to brag about. Her stances have been described as “nuanced.”


19 posted on 04/16/2026 9:08:43 AM PDT by SharpRightTurn (Giving money & power to government is like giving whiskey & car keys to teenage boys. P. J. O'Rourk)
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To: chickenlips

Looks like the Republicans want to make sure they lose the House in the midterms”

Yeah that make sense put the party in that in that will pass this dreadful bill. It is not the R’s pushing this it is a few rats who ran a R’s to get elected.


20 posted on 04/16/2026 9:12:46 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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