{"id":21319,"date":"2019-04-03T13:17:04","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T17:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=21319"},"modified":"2019-04-03T13:17:06","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T17:17:06","slug":"democrats-have-their-first-no-borders-presidential-candidate-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2019\/04\/03\/democrats-have-their-first-no-borders-presidential-candidate-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Have Their First No-Borders Presidential Candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The U.S. Border Patrol is presently confronting illegal immigration at the\u00a0highest rates since 2007<\/a>,\u00a0and could potentially apprehend one million illegal aliens by the end of this year alone. With our immigration system and border agents at a breaking point, Democratic presidential candidate Juli\u00e1n Castro unveiled a \u201cPeople First\u201d immigration plan that is the dream of every radical, open border activist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The plan represents his first major proposal since entering the presidential sweepstakes<\/a> in January and solidifies his position among the radical open borders crowd. Laid out in a blog post in Medium<\/a>, Castro says there is a need to \u201crepair our existing legal immigration system\u201d by reversing limits on refugee programs and then providing a \u201cpathway to full and equal citizenship\u201d\u00a0for 11 million illegal aliens presently living in the U.S., a conservative estimate of the current illegal population. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the former Housing and Urban Development (HUD) secretary doubles and triples down on amnesty by proposing to give protection to the beneficiaries of Obama\u2019s unconstitutional Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and <\/em>their parents. That is a bridge that even sponsors of the current amnesty plans introduced in Congress have not explicitly sought. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, when DHS data show<\/a>\u00a0more than 76,000 illegal aliens were apprehended in February alone, Castro thinks it makes complete sense to give amnesty to the approximately 699,350 DACA beneficiaries<\/a> living in the U.S. as of August 31, 2018 \u2013 and, assuming both illegal alien parents are here too, another 1,400,000 non-citizens?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But why stop there? Castro wants \u201cprotected status\u201d for anyone who \u201cfled natural disasters, persecution, or violence,\u201d which means amnesty for estimated 437,000 foreign nationals<\/a> who\u2019ve been granted Temporary Permanent Status (TPS) and the 4,000 Liberians who just had their Deferred Enforced Departure (DED) status extended<\/a> at a time when on average more than 2,000 illegal aliens are being apprehended or have been deemed inadmissible every day at the Southern border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A mass amnesty is not\nsufficiently generous (or reckless), so the former San Antonio mayor contemplates\nrevamping the visa system in order to end the backlog of people who are waiting to reunite with their\nfamilies.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

No one who is \u00a0the slightest bit interested in strengthening \u2013 or even having \u2013 borders would support Castro\u2019s nonsense. But those whose priorities lie with erasing meaningful borders, are delighted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Frank Sharry, the president of the pro-amnesty America\u2019s Voice, tweeted<\/a> his delight, saying Castro is \u201cfirst out of the gate with a thoughtful set of ideas and stands on immigration and refugees\u201d that \u201cintegrates humane and workable policies with smart enforcement priorities.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Likewise, Simon Rosenberg of the liberal think tank New Democrat Network called<\/a> it a \u201cwelcome offering\u201d and encouraged Democrats \u201cto be far more forceful in countering Trump\u2019s failed, incompetent and reckless immigration approach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There was a time when radical open borders policies\nwere simply ignored or laughed off by mainstream Democrats, but the pendulum\nhas swung far left in the party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen has described<\/a> the immigration crisis as a\u00a0\u201cCat 5 hurricane disaster,\u201d and it would get even worse if Julian Castro gets his way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The U.S. Border Patrol is presently confronting illegal immigration at the\u00a0highest rates since 2007,\u00a0and could potentially apprehend one million illegal aliens by the end of this year alone. With our immigration system and border agents at a breaking point, Democratic presidential candidate Juli\u00e1n Castro unveiled a \u201cPeople First\u201d immigration plan that is the dream of<\/p>\n

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