Immigration Watch International (2): ‘Stop Illegals From Voting’: House Freedom Caucus Urges Amendment to Omnibus Spending Bill

Tuesday, August 13, 2024

‘Stop Illegals From Voting’: House Freedom Caucus Urges Amendment to Omnibus Spending Bill

The conservative House Freedom Caucus is calling for Republican leadership in Congress to tie appropriations to fund the government next year to a recently passed House bill to prevent foreign nationals from voting in U.S. elections.

In July, the House passed the SAVE Act—short for the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act. If enacted and signed into law, the bill would amend the 1993 National Voter Registration Act, known as the “motor voter law,” to require that states obtain documentary proof of U.S. citizenship before anyone can register to vote.

“[T]he continuing resolution should include the SAVE Act—as called for by [former President Donald] Trump—to prevent noncitizens from voting, to preserve free and fair elections in light of the millions of illegal aliens imported by the Biden-Harris administration over the last four years,” said a statement on Monday from the 39-member caucus.

Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, sponsored the SAVE Act in the House and is a member of the House Freedom Caucus. Rep. Bob Good, R-Va., is its chairman.

The House Freedom Caucus, a group of Republican fiscal conservatives, contends that the next continuing resolution—which would fund the federal government well into fiscal year 2025, beginning Oct. 1—should not just be a continuation of the current spending priorities of President Joe Biden, which would hamstring a potential second Trump administration, if he wins the November election.

In a post on X, the caucus wrote, “Stop Illegals from Voting and Block The Biden-Harris Omnibus.”

The statement said, “The House Freedom Caucus believes that Republicans should return to Washington to continue the work of passing 12 appropriations bills to cut spending and advance our policy priorities,” adding:

If unsuccessful, in the inevitability that Congress considers a continuing resolution, government funding should be extended into early 2025 to avoid a lame-duck omnibus that preserves Democrat spending and policies well into the next administration.

https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/08/12/stop-illegals-from-voting-house-freedom-caucus-urges-amendment-to-omnibus-spending-bill/

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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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Tuesday, August 13, 2024

‘Stop Illegals From Voting’: House Freedom Caucus Urges Amendment to Omnibus Spending Bill

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