Immigration Watch International (2): Governor Abbott Flames Biden's Mass Amnesty Policy

Sunday, June 23, 2024

Governor Abbott Flames Biden's Mass Amnesty Policy

President Biden announced executive action that creates mass amnesty for illegal aliens who are married to American citizens. It also gives mass amnesty to the children of illegal aliens under age 21 whose parents are married to American citizens.

This is the ultimate political pander by Biden, who is seeking re-election. He is hemorrhaging support from Hispanic voters. Biden often credits Hispanic voters for playing a big role in his 2020 victory.

The plan will affect 500,000 illegal aliens who have lived in the United States for at least 10 years and meet some legal requirements. The order also protects 50,000 young people under the age of 21. That's a total of 550,000 in one order.

Texas Governor Abbott released a statement that said Biden's unconstitutional amnesty political pander will be struck down, just as former President Obama's DAPA and DACA actions were.

“President Biden's mass amnesty announcement is blatantly illegal and is a desperate pandering for votes in his failing reelection bid. President Biden’s amnesty proposal, just like President Obama’s DAPA and DACA proposals, will be stricken down by the courts for a simple reason: it is Congress, not the President, that has the authority to make or change immigration laws. Rather than solving the border crisis he caused, President Biden’s mass amnesty will be another magnet to attract migrants to flood across our border illegally. President Biden needs to stop rewriting immigration law and start enforcing it.

President Biden gaslighted the American people into thinking that he is taking real action to secure the border by issuing a hollow executive order that will instead invite thousands of unvetted illegal immigrants to continue crossing our southern border daily. He is now doubling down by offering mass amnesty to hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants already in the country. President Biden’s reckless policies have already allowed over 11 million illegal immigrants—including dangerous criminals, gang members, and terrorists—into America. Our country can’t survive four more years of these dangerous open border policies.”

This week marks the 12th anniversary of DACA, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals executive order by Obama. Obama, who Democrats called a Constitutional expert (!), said at the time that he had no constitutional authority to do so but he went ahead anyway. Just like Biden's move five months out from election day, Obama did it as he was looking for a pander to Hispanic voters in an election year, in 2012.

This is what Democrats do. Those who are getting amnesty now have been in the United States for at least ten years, violating U.S. law every day by being in our country illegally. Their first action was to violate U.S. immigration law by arrogantly crossing the border without using a legal port of entry. Now they are being rewarded. This is political pandering at its most cynical.

Governor Abbott points out that the executive action will be struck down in court.

Biden (and Obama) don't care. They focus on winning elections above law and order. They blame Congress when Congress doesn't act on what they want. Then they move on their own.

Democrats are hysterical that former President Trump may win the election in November. They claim he will seize power and do whatever he pleases once he is in office again. The truth is that Democrats always accuse Republicans of doing exactly what they are doing. This is a good example. Trump promises to begin securing the border on day one of his second term in office, as he did during his first term. He did it before, he can do it again.

Rep. Mark Green (R-TN), chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, blasted the move as a political pander, too.

"President Biden’s election-year, 11th-hour ploy for mass amnesty is not surprising, but it is an important reminder for anyone who doubted: This administration was never serious about securing the border," House Homeland Security Committee Chair Mark Green, R-Tenn., told Fox News Digital.

"By allowing otherwise inadmissible aliens to remain in the country indefinitely through a ‘parole-in-place’ sleight of hand and to receive generous, taxpayer-funded benefits, this president is sending a loud and clear message to any would-be border crosser that the door is not only wide open, there’s a welcome mat."

We need change in November. The Biden border crisis is a threat to national security. It will take the next president some time to clean up Biden's mess. The sooner that begins, the better.

https://hotair.com/karen-townsend/2024/06/19/governor-abbott-flames-bidens-mass-amnesty-policy-n3790556

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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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Sunday, June 23, 2024

Governor Abbott Flames Biden's Mass Amnesty Policy

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