Re: Newscum barfs lies again

On 10/20/2024 12:49 PM, Mitchell Holman wrote:
> Senate Republicans block bipartisan border
> security bill for a second time

https://www.heritage.org/homeland-security/report/the-senate-border-bill-disaster-border-security

THE ISSUE
The U.S. Senate has finally released the “border security” text that 
three Senators secretly negotiated for weeks with the Biden 
Administration. The Emergency National Security Supplemental 
Appropriations Act of 2024 includes more than $20.2 billion for “border” 
funding and hundreds of pages of border and immigration reforms. The key 
takeaway is that neither the funding nor the statutory reforms would 
truly secure the border, and border security is the only measure that 
Congress should use.

CONGRESS SHOULD STOP FUNDING SANCTUARY CITIES AND NGO INFRASTRUCTURE
With more than $7 billion for the Departments of Homeland Security, 
State, Justice, and Health and Human Services, the Biden Administration 
would again fund “sanctuary” jurisdictions and nongovernmental 
organizations (NGOs) that have been facilitating mass illegal 
immigration, using federal grants provided by these departments. 
Sanctuary mayors and governors have decried the volume and cost of 
illegal aliens amassed in their jurisdictions, yet they do not terminate 
their sanctuary policies. Instead, they demand more federal taxpayer 
money to pay for sheltering, transporting, and providing social services 
to the ever-increasing number of illegal aliens. This bill would deliver 
for these mayors and governors.

Both the Biden Administration and the sanctuary officials work with a 
network of secretive NGOs that built and staff the considerable 
infrastructure that facilitates the mass illegal immigration from as far 
south as South America to, and throughout, the United States. Multiple 
videos have shown that NGO staff at shelters, hotels, and airports 
refuse to answer questions about the illegal aliens they guard and grow 
physically abusive when filmed. Congress should be investigating and 
shutting down this sanctuary-NGO machinery, not giving it more money to 
continue operating.

SENATE-NEGOTIATED BILL CODIFIES BIDEN’S OPEN-BORDER TOOLS
What three Senators negotiated with the architects of America’s border 
crisis would convert the Biden Administration’s destructive policies and 
violations of immigration law into statute. These measures would not 
only continue the border crisis but would also make it more difficult 
for a future enforcement-minded President to fix.

Unacceptably, the Senate bill:

Accepts and codifies crisis levels of daily illegal immigration. If 
passed into law the bill would create a three-year “Border Emergency 
Authority” to allow agents to expel illegal aliens back across the 
border during “extraordinary migration circumstances”—but the numerous 
exceptions and limitations swallow that authority whole. The Secretary 
of Homeland Security has the discretion to activate the authority after 
the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) encounters an average of 
4,000 illegal aliens daily for seven consecutive days. Secretary 
activation of the emergency authority becomes mandatory after the CBP 
encounters a 5,000 illegal-alien daily average for seven consecutive 
days or 8,500 in one day. Not counted in those numbers are unaccompanied 
children, parolees, those who claim a fear of persecution, have already 
been in the U.S. for 14 days, or already traveled beyond 100 miles from 
the southwest border. The Secretary would not be able to activate the 
authority for more than 270 days, 225 days, and 180 days in calendar 
years one, two, and three, respectively. The bill then adds cumbersome 
and confusing calendar calculation requirements that further limit the 
Secretary’s use of the emergency authority. Finally, both the Secretary 
and the President could suspend the authority.

Continuing to allow these crisis-level numbers of illegal-alien 
encounters means that border agents would remain overwhelmed and more 
illegal crossers would evade the agents—turning into “gotaways”—and bad 
actors would slip thorough limited and rushed vetting.

Continues “catch and release” and guts the mandatory detention statute. 
Current law mandates detention for any alien who illegally enters the 
U.S. while pursuing asylum protection. The Senate bill redefines 
“detention” to “noncustodial detention” and applies this supervised 
release-by-another-name only to adults. If passed into law, families and 
children would be released without supervision. Worse, the bill codifies 
the Flores settlement agreement, as interpreted by a single U.S. 
district judge in California, who ruled that unaccompanied aliens could 
not be in immigration detention longer than 20 days. She later expanded 
her ruling to accompanied aliens, meaning families. This bill encourages 
more child recycling by cartels so that more aliens would pose as 
families to avoid even supervised release. DHS Enforcement Lifecycle 
Reports show that aliens released from detention are rarely removed and 
are far less likely to abide by a court-issued deportation order. 
Noncustodial release will result in a significant increase in the alien 
fugitive backlog.

Expands and codifies Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’s mass parole abuse. 
The Senate should have adopted the parole-narrowing text from the 
House-passed bill, the Secure the Border Act (H.R. 2). Instead, the 
Senate bill expands parole beyond exigent medical circumstances and a 
significant law enforcement or intelligence purpose for those arriving 
at or between land ports of entry. It includes other urgent humanitarian 
reasons, religious and cultural celebrations, and permits an 
accompanying alien to join the principal alien. In addition, the bill 
does not limit parole for aliens arriving at air or seaports.

Continues to encourage asylum fraud and accelerates work permits. In 
violation of the Homeland Security Act and section 103 of the 
Immigration and Nationality Act, Secretary Mayorkas finalized a rule in 
which he removed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) 
attorneys and immigration judges from credible fear asylum cases. He 
replaced them with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) 
asylum officers reviewing their fellow asylum officers, resulting in 
rubber stamping grants of asylum. If enacted, the Senate bill would 
codify Secretary Mayorkas’ asylum processing rule. It would give aliens 
work authorization immediately upon release and create a bureaucratic 
third administrative appellate body with multiple chances for review, 
reconsideration, appeal, and motions to reopen their case. This would 
continue to encourage illegal aliens to submit fraudulent asylum claims 
to gain entry and remain and work in the U.S.

Provides numerous and significant immigration reforms that are unrelated 
to border security. These include:

Requiring U.S. taxpayers to fund deportation defense attorneys for 
unaccompanied aliens under 14 years and aliens found to be incompetent. 
Deportable aliens should continue to pay for their own deportation 
attorneys or seek the services pro bono. The left is breaking this 
bright line rule, starting with children, but it would certainly expand 
this benefit to other deportable alien populations in future 
legislation. Notably, U.S. citizens do not receive taxpayer-funded civil 
defense attorneys.
Providing amnesty (green cards) to Afghans inspected and admitted to the 
U.S. by the date of the bill’s enactment or paroled from July 30, 2021, 
until enactment. The bill also accelerates naturalization for the 
amnestied Afghans and gives “Afghan allies” refugee status for up to 10 
years.
Increasing the annual cap on the number of permanent family-based and 
employment-based immigrant visas for five years.
Providing minor status and employment authorization for sons and 
daughters of H-1B visa holders, even though they have turned 21.
Expanding the “business or pleasure purpose” of the “B” temporary visa 
to add a broad definition of “family purposes.” The bill also permits 
family members to use the broader “B” visa to remain in the U.S. while 
they await their family-based green card. This undermines the temporary 
purpose of the “B” visa.

PRESIDENT BIDEN COULD SECURE BORDER WITH CURRENT AUTHORITY—HE DOES NOT 
WANT TO

President Joe Biden opened the border and created the country’s crisis 
using only executive, not congressional, authority. He can end the chaos 
with the same executive authority; he does not need congressional authority.

THE ONLY TEST FOR FUNDING AND LEGISLATION: WOULD IT TRULY SECURE THE BORDER?

When illegal aliens come to the U.S., they want to enter, remain, and 
work here—and that is the best-case scenario. The border is just as open 
to terrorists, the Chinese, Russians, and any number of people who do 
not want to merely work here. Securing the border requires preventing 
those three things. The bill negotiated by three Senators and President 
Biden funds and facilitates more mass illegal immigration. It is a 
disaster for border security.