Immigration Watch International (2): Heritage Action President Calls on House Speaker to Prioritize Border Security in Spending Fight

Thursday, December 7, 2023

Heritage Action President Calls on House Speaker to Prioritize Border Security in Spending Fight

Heritage Action for America President Kevin Roberts called on House Speaker Mike Johnson to prioritize securing the border and reject additional spending for Ukraine without a “plan that defines the end goal in Ukraine,” in a letter released Tuesday.

A $106 billion supplemental spending bill proposed by the White House in October includes around $61 billion to help Ukraine, as well as funding for Israel, those affected by the war in Gaza, and border measures.

“We agree emphatically with Speaker [Mike] Johnson that the hill to die on … is border security,” said Heritage Action’s Roberts in a conference call with reporters Tuesday. “The House with a slim majority has already passed HR 2.” (Heritage Action for America is an independent, nonprofit organization affiliated with The Heritage Foundation, which is the parent organization of The Daily Signal.)

In the letter addressed to Johnson, a Republican from Louisiana, Roberts called HR 2 the “most significant border security legislation in American history.” He added:

The provisions of HR 2 are no more than what is required to regain control of the border and stem the deadly influx of terrorists, criminals, and drugs into this nation. The bill removes the four tools the Biden administration uses to achieve its open border agenda: asylum fraud, mass immigration parole, unaccompanied alien children, and [nongovernmental organization] money. Almost every Republican senator is on the record supporting HR 2. There is no good reason to pass a bill in the name of border security that falls short of its provisions.

Roberts also criticized the proposed border spending in the supplement package, writing that Biden’s “clear purpose is not to stop the worst border crisis in American history, but to speed the processing and release of illegal aliens into the United States and provide grants to sanctuary cities overwhelmed with the consequences of President [Joe] Biden’s decision to open the borders when he took office.”

The letters comes amid debate on Capitol Hill over Biden’s proposed supplemental package. On Monday, Shalanda Young, director of the Office of Management and Budget, wrote to congressional leaders that funds for Ukraine were about to run out.

“We are out of money to support Ukraine in this fight. This isn’t a next-year problem. The time to help a democratic Ukraine fight against Russian aggression is right now. It is time for Congress to act,” Young wrote.

Roberts called on European Union nations to contribute more to Ukraine, and wrote that “aid for Ukraine should not be provided until the administration provides a plan that defines the end goal in Ukraine, describes the expected U.S. commitment to achieve that goal, addresses the effects of the presidential drawdown authority on U.S. capabilities, and assures further commitments from our European partners.”

In remarks Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer criticized Republicans for not supporting Ukraine aid.

“If funding for Ukraine fails, it will not be a bipartisan failure,” Schumer, D-N.Y., said, per CBS News. “It will be a failure solely caused by the Republican Party and the Republican leadership because it was a decision of that Republican leadership, pushed by the hard right, many of whom want Ukraine to fail, to make border [aid] a precondition to supporting Ukraine.”

https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/12/05/heritage-action-calls-speaker-johnson-prioritize-border-security/

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Postings from Brisbane, Australia by John Ray (M.A.; Ph.D.) -- former member of the Australia-Soviet Friendship Society, former anarcho-capitalist and former member of the British Conservative party.

Why is "La Raza" the one Spanish term that is NEVER translated in the American mass media? Because translating it would make it a lot less respectable. It means "THE RACE" -- The mixed Hispanic "race" of Mexico. Racism is fine South of the Rio Grande only, apparently.

The "line" of this blog is that immigration should be SELECTIVE. That means that:

1). A national government should be in control of it. The U.S. and U.K. governments are not but the Australian government has shown that the government of a prosperous Western country can be. Up until its loss of office in 2007, the conservative Howard government had all but eliminated illegal immigration. The present Leftist government has however restarted the flow of illegals by repealing many of the Howard government regulations.

2). Selectivity should be based on "the content of a man's character, not on the color of his skin", as MLK said. To expand that a little: Immigrants should only be accepted if they as individuals seem likely to make a positive net contribution to the country. Many "refugees" would fail that test: Muslims and Africans particularly. Educational level should usually be a pretty fair proxy for the individual's likely value to the receiving country. There will, of course, be exceptions but it is nonetheless unlikely that a person who has not successfully completed High School will make a net positive contribution to a modern Western society.

3). Immigrants should be neither barred NOR ACCEPTED solely because they are of some particular ethnic origin. Blacks are vastly more likely to be criminal than are whites or Chinese, for instance, but some whites and some Chinese are criminal. It is the criminality that should matter, not the race.

4). The above ideas are not particularly blue-sky. They roughly describe the policies of the country where I live -- Australia. I am critical of Australian policy only insofar as the "refugee" category for admission is concerned. All governments have tended to admit as refugees many undesirables. It seems to me that more should be required of them before refugees are admitted -- for instance a higher level of education or a business background.

5). Perhaps the most amusing assertion in the immigration debate is that high-income countries like the USA and Britain NEED illegal immigrants to do low-paid menial work. "Who will pick our crops?" (etc.) is the cry. How odd it is then that Australians get all the normal services of a modern economy WITHOUT illegal immigrants! Yes: Before the pandemic, you usually COULD buy a lettuce in Australia for a dollar or thereabouts. And Australia IS a major exporter of primary products.

6). I am a libertarian conservative so I reject the "open door" policy favoured by many libertarians and many Leftists. Both those groups tend to have a love of simplistic generalizations that fail to deal with the complexity of the real world. It seems to me that if a person has the right to say whom he/she will have living with him/her in his/her own house, so a nation has the right to admit to living among them only those individuals whom they choose.

I can be reached on jonjayray@hotmail.com -- or leave a comment on any post. Abusive comments will be deleted.

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Heritage Action President Calls on House Speaker to Prioritize Border Security in Spending Fight

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