Immigration Watch International (2): Dems aren’t even hiding it — Kamala Harris promises mass amnesty and more illegal immigration

Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Dems aren’t even hiding it — Kamala Harris promises mass amnesty and more illegal immigration

Progressive Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren appeared on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday and called for “comprehensive immigration reform” — including a “pathway to citizenship”, i.e., amnesty, for 11 million illegal immigrants.

She then said the quiet part out loud, admitting that a President Kamala Harris “will work with Congress to get that done.”

This Democratic call for amnesty is nothing new.

One of the first acts of the Biden-Harris administration was to release a framework for the “U.S. Citizenship Act.”

Ignore the title: that bill would have put virtually every illegal immigrant in the United States — including serious criminals — on a path to citizenship, while at the same time opening the door for aliens deported under Trump to return.

What’s more, that Biden-Harris proposal would have weakened immigration enforcement and doubled future legal immigration.

Any popular support for the bill evaporated when millions of unvetted illegal migrants poured over the Southwest border, more than a few motivated by the prospect of a fresh amnesty and a shot at lavish government benefits.

Still, congressional Democrats kept trying, next attempting to exploit legislative “budget reconciliation” loopholes to push through a more modest (but still extremely costly) amnesty that would have benefitted “only” 6.5 million illegal immigrants.

That effort was repeatedly stymied by the nonpartisan Senate parliamentarian.

But had the reconciliation amnesty come to the floor, Harris would almost definitely have cast the deciding vote (it had zero Republican support in the closely divided Senate) to make it law.

That defeat didn’t deter Sen. Chuck Schumer from taking to the Capitol steps in November 2022 to demand an amnesty for so-called “Dreamers,” unlawfully present aliens brought to this country as children.

He apparently couldn’t help himself at the time from admitting that this effort was simply a stalking horse for the party’s “ultimate goal” — “a path to citizenship for all 11 million, or however many undocumented, there are here.”

Thanks to the Biden-Harris border debacle, the number of “undocumented” is now well north of 13 million, but that surge likely plays into Democrats’ amnesty plan.

The last major amnesty passed on a bipartisan basis in 1986, and proponents’ strongest talking point was that the illegal population — then just over 4 million — had grown so large that legalization was the only option, coupled with a promise of more serious future enforcement.

Illegal immigrants got their amnesty, but it simply encouraged even more of them to come here.

And of course, the promise of beefed-up enforcement never came to fruition.

If Kamala Harris wins this fall, and Democrats control enough of the legislature, it will be deja vu all over again.

Don’t say we haven’t been warned

https://nypost.com/2024/07/30/opinion/dems-arent-hiding-it-kamala-harris-promises-mass-amnesty-and-more-illegal-immigration/

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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.

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Immigration Watch International (2)

Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Dems aren’t even hiding it — Kamala Harris promises mass amnesty and more illegal immigration

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