The\ncoronavirus pandemic has effectively paralyzed the United States \u2013 and much of\nthe world. Many people are preoccupied with COVID-19, its extremely disruptive\neffects on society and their economic situation, and are crossing their fingers\nhoping that the disease \u2013 which originated in Wuhan in communist China \u2013 will\nspare them and pass sooner rather than later. And yet, in the midst of all\nthis, the open-borders left \u2013 both in Congress and the public square \u2013 is\nmainly interested in utilizing the crisis as a pretext to further a radical\nillegal-aliens-first agenda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
No Illegal Aliens Left Behind<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n In the House, Rep. Lou Correa (D-Calif.) introduced the Leave No Taxpayer Behind Act<\/a> to correct what he considers to be an “egregious error” in the $2 trillion CARES Act – that disqualified ITIN taxpayers from receiving federal cash assistance. Of course, the \u201cITIN taxpayers\u201d in question include <\/a>illegal aliens<\/a><\/em>. This follows the lamentations<\/a> of New York Rep. Alexandria Occasio-Cortez (AOC) and other open-borders radicals that illegal aliens (and other ITIN-less foreign nationals) will not receive coronavirus relief checks \u2013 even though many immigrants will (as long as they have Social Security Numbers and meet the income requirements). Not surprisingly, AOC \u2013 and fellow \u201cSquad\u201d members and radicals, Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar \u2013 are among the co-sponsors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There is\nvery little chance that the bill will even receive a vote on the House floor,\nlet alone go the Senate or the President\u2019s desk. Rather than a serious\nlegislative proposal, this appears to be a public relations stunt to show how\nmuch the Democrats care about \u201cimmigrants.\u201d It is also yet another installment\nin the never-ending drumbeat aiming to rhetorically normalize illegal\nimmigration and blur any meaningful differences between citizens\/legal\nimmigrants and illegal aliens (thereby insulting the intelligence of the\naverage American).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Using Children To Further the Agenda\n(Again)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Then there is the Washington Post <\/a><\/em>op-ed<\/a> urging the release of illegal alien children from immigration detention. The author, Shalyn Fluharty, is the director of a legal advocacy group which \u201crepresents women and children seeking asylum.\u201d This plea too did not come out of nowhere, but was published in the wake of demands<\/a> by radical leftist pro-illegal-alien groups to release some or all detained immigration violators.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n The op-ed is a blatantly transparent attempt to capitalize on a global health crisis by opportunistically playing on Americans\u2019 heartstrings to achieve a political objectives that the pro-illegal-alien lobby has been promoting all along. It is certainly natural to sympathize with children who have been placed in an unenviable position by parents who took them on long and dangerous journeys through snake, scorpion, and drug-cartel-infested territory. However, the U.S. is also not holding the children in detention by force: their parents can always voluntarily return with them to their homelands. And, as a FAIR blog has pointed out<\/a> before, there may be health risks associated with keeping people in detention, but releasing them is no less fraught with risks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Out-of-Touch Priorities<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n In the\nmiddle of a major public health emergency one would expect Americans to put\naside their differences \u2013 and pet projects \u2013 and focus on the common good.\nThat, however, is apparently too much to ask, at least from the\npro-illegal-alien left. The open-borders crowd has seemingly not considered\nthat it may be at least a tad bit inappropriate and tactless to push the cause\nof people who broke our laws, violated our borders, and remain in our country\nunlawfully while tens of millions of Americans and legal immigrants are\nsuffering and struggling as a result of the pandemic. However, this latest\noffensive makes one thing clear about the pro-illegal-alien left: while their\nideas may be foolish, na\u00efve, and harmful to the best interests of the United\nStates and its people \u2013 earning them an F on this front \u2013 they deserve an A+\nfor effort. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The coronavirus pandemic has effectively paralyzed the United States \u2013 and much of the world. Many people are preoccupied with COVID-19, its extremely disruptive effects on society and their economic situation, and are crossing their fingers hoping that the disease \u2013 which originated in Wuhan in communist China \u2013 will spare them and pass sooner<\/p>\n