{"id":22826,"date":"2020-04-16T07:49:27","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T11:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=22826"},"modified":"2020-04-16T07:49:30","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T11:49:30","slug":"congress-end-immigration-enforcement-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2020\/04\/16\/congress-end-immigration-enforcement-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Jayapal and Sen. Booker Call for End of Immigration Enforcement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) and Senator Cory Booker (D-N.J.) announced their joint introduction of the Federal Immigrant Release for Safety and Security Together (FIRST) Act<\/a>. The FIRST Act calls for a total cessation of all immigration enforcement in the United States and would facilitate the release of thousands of detained illegal aliens throughout the country, regardless of their criminal history. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), and Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) co-sponsored the bill in the Senate. With the exception of Senator Hirono, all Senate co-sponsors all campaigned to become the Democratic Party\u2019s candidate for president. Candidates throughout that campaign promised increasingly radical changes to our immigration law, with some candidates going as far as suggesting that we shut down immigration enforcement agencies. Presumptive nominee Joe Biden promised that he would pursue a pathway to citizenship<\/a> for every illegal alien in the United States. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The FIRST Act is not a bill<\/a> entirely different from what the Democratic contenders promised throughout the primary campaign – only this time, they use the COVID-19 crisis as added justification for these proposals. Releasing detained aliens is now essentially a mainstream position in the party. For weeks, some argued without evidence that it was too dangerous inside the holding facilities to justify the continued detention of illegal aliens. Federal judges<\/a> continue to order aliens released despite Immigration and Customs Enforcement\u2019s (ICE) efforts to keep the detention facilities free of the virus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This bill would also fulfill a dream held by\nfar-left Democrats and the open-borders groups alike: halting all immigration\nenforcement in the country. Section 5 of the bill essentially ends all interior\nenforcement in the United States by requiring a judge to issue warrants for any\nICE operations in \u201csensitive areas,\u201d conveniently including nonprofit activist\noffices. Section 5 also bans ICE from making collateral arrests of any kind,\neliminating a crucial tool used by ICE to identify illegal aliens and begin\ntheir removal proceedings. The only exceptions to the bill\u2019s erasure of\nimmigration enforcement are for individuals who are \u201clikely to pose a specific\nand substantial risk of causing bodily injury or using violent force against\nanother person.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Incredibly, the bill prevents using pending\ncriminal charges as a reason to justify detention. Sec.(7)(c) clarifies that\nthe Secretary of Homeland Security \u201cmay not justify the redetention of a\ncovered individual solely based on the fact that the individual has a criminal\ncharge pending against him or her; or was convicted of a crime more than 5\nyears previously.\u201d Covered persons defined in the bill include anyone with\nexisting health conditions, even as minor as an inherited metabolism disorder.\nHaving such an illness, under this bill, would protect someone with pending\ncriminal charges from immigration detention – a get out of jail free card. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rep. Jayapal and Sen. Booker\u2019s bill has no\nchance of becoming law, but rather highlights the continuing use by some\ncongressional Democrats of the COVID-19 crisis to pursue their long-held\nimmigration agenda and stymie the efforts of the government to continue\nenforcing immigration law during the crisis. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) and Senator Cory Booker (D-N.J.) announced their joint introduction of the Federal Immigrant Release for Safety and Security Together (FIRST) Act. The FIRST Act calls for a total cessation of all immigration enforcement in the United States and would facilitate the release of thousands of detained illegal aliens throughout the country,<\/p>\n

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