Loading ...Senate border deal would allow 5,000 illegal immigrants a day
Conservative activists are recoiling as details leak from the immigration deal being negotiated in the Senate suggesting illegal border crossers will be immediately eligible for work permits and the government will allow up to 5,000 illegal immigrants a day before new expulsion powers kick in.
Talks have been going on for weeks and the plans have been tightly guarded by the negotiators, but Rosemary Jenks, government relations director at the Immigration Accountability Project, said she’s been briefed by multiple people familiar with the negotiations and has been sharing details online.
She said the current framework includes a right to government-funded lawyers for illegal immigrant children struggling through the immigration courts, and would also expand legal immigration, both priorities for President Biden. In exchange, Republicans have won new limits on attempts to claim asylum and expanded speedy deportation powers, but no significant new restrictions on Homeland Security’s power to “parole” illegal immigrants directly into the U.S.
OK, so regardless of whether you agree with the purpose of this action, am I the only one who can see the hypocrisy in it? The Senate, the arm of the government that makes the laws of this country, is encouraging illegals to break the laws and US citizens to accept that the law will be broken – when it is their job to create or modify existing laws? Has the US become this dysfunctional?
In a word, yes.
But its been this way for a while. Its just now in the open.