In the weeks since Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell committed to holding a vote on immigration, senators of both parties have been busy piecing together various fixes to a broken immigration system. What the backroom bartering has produced are four proposals that to varying degrees would lead to increased illegal immigration and fail to mitigate the damage done to the nation\u2019s economic, national and environmental security by unmanageable levels of legal and illegal immigration.<\/p>\n
After endless talk by Democrats about the urgency of reaching a permanent solution about the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, Sen. McConnell put the lawmakers on notice that a deal would be reached by Friday or not at all.<\/p>\n
Three of the four proposals offer amnesty to DACA beneficiaries, flimsy promises of border security, and virtual silence on ending chain migration and other needed fixes to the legal immigration process. The fourth deals strictly with ending sanctuary cities.<\/p>\n
Schumer-Rounds-Collins-King<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Despite being benignly characterized as a \u201cbipartisan compromise,\u201d Schumer-Rounds-Collins King<\/a> is an egregious proposal that would create a mass amnesty for more than 10 million illegal aliens, while simultaneously eviscerating immigration law enforcement agencies. It even grants amnesty to future illegals<\/a>.<\/p>\n According to the Department of Homeland Security<\/a>, a group of 16 Republicans and Democrats led by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) are proposing to:<\/p>\n McCain-Coons <\/strong><\/p>\n Sponsored by Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Chris Coons (D-Del.), the so-called \u201cskinny proposal\u201d<\/a> is slightly less egregious, but goes down a dangerous path by giving a fast-track path to citizenship to 3.2 million illegal aliens in exchange for the government studying the effectiveness of building a border wall.<\/p>\n McCain-Coons also would:<\/p>\n Grassley Proposal <\/strong><\/p>\n Introduced by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the Secure and Succeed Act most closely mirrors White House Framework on Immigration Reform & Border Security<\/a>, which means it is the most viable option to send to the House.<\/p>\n Like the others, it would grant amnesty with a path to citizenship to the approximately 1.8 million illegal aliens enrolled in or eligible for DACA. It would create a $25 billion trust fund for construction of a border wall. However, it does not include mandatory E-verify and reforms to the visa and legal immigration system aren\u2019t fully implemented until the 4 million people on the chain migration waiting list are admitted \u2013 which could take 15-20 years.<\/p>\n\n
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