Posted on 02/13/2021 9:26:41 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
A newly released Republican staff report makes a case for how President Joe Biden’s immigration policies will endanger Americans by reducing border security and interior enforcement, and elevating the risk posed by criminal aliens.
The report (pdf), jointly authored by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, and Rep. Tom McClintock (R-Calif.), ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship, warns that the Biden administration appears poised to adopt policies that will “incentivize illegal immigration and promote an unending flood of foreign nationals into the United States.”
One of these is the expansion of administrative amnesty policies, which former President Donald Trump sought to curb by enacting at least five policies since the beginning of 2019 that officials contend were designed to address asylum claims that don’t have merit and to confront a sharp increase in border arrests, which surged to a 13-year high in May 2020. The Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), dubbed the “Remain in Mexico” program, was one such Trump-era policy under which asylum-seekers were made to wait in Mexico for their U.S. court hearings.
Jordan and McClintock said in the report that Trump enacted the policy “to send the message to foreign nationals that simply because they make it to the U.S. and claim asylum, they will not be released into the U.S. while awaiting their immigration court proceedings,” arguing that most asylum claims are without merit and it is unreasonable to allow asylum-seekers to reside in the United States for the many years that some cases take to wind their way through the courts.
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The Democrat Party cares not one whit about Americans.
Hey, stupid Americans: Remember how every day or two the border agents found a Koran in the garbage piles left by the illegals entering across the border? One terrorist could bring over a bomb or a method of contaminating the food supply in your town. Bad idea voting Dem, morons.
“incentivize illegal immigration and promote an unending flood of foreign nationals into the United States.”
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That has been the policy of BOTH parties since the last amnesty, through FOUR Presidents, two of each party, until President Trump tried to stop it.
Both parties then cheated him out of office to start it back up again.
Neither does the Republican party.
As they say in the IT world, that’s a feature, not a bug.
Correction. Undoing IMMIGRATION LAW is endangering America. All Trump did was enforce the law.
And this policy is totally unlawful: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1324
I do not see by what rationale of justification policies like this are not totally unlawful.
To the best of my knowledge, President Trump's immigration policy was simply to enforce existing immigration laws.
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