{"id":24440,"date":"2021-04-22T11:13:57","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T15:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=24440"},"modified":"2021-04-22T11:14:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T15:14:00","slug":"biden-citizenship-amnesty-bill-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2021\/04\/22\/biden-citizenship-amnesty-bill-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden\u2019s Solution to a Border in Chaos? Amnesty, Of Course"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When President Biden entered the Oval Office on his first day, he had a multitude of reasons to rescind or, at the very least, rein in his immigration-related campaign promises. There was the obvious crisis brewing at the Southwest border, or the struggling economic and employment picture. There was the inability of foreign nations, particularly those in Central America, to get a handle on COVID-19. Both parties were committed to more pandemic spending and our social services already were buckling under pressure. Instead, President Biden sent to Congress a bill<\/a> to \u201cmodernize\u201d the immigration system by granting amnesty to almost 15 million illegal aliens. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even if there were no pandemic\nnor unacceptably high unemployment, the U.S. Citizenship Act, which would\nincrease foreign workers and expand legal immigration too, is antithetical to\ncommon sense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As FAIR noted<\/a> when congressional Democrats put Biden\u2019s vision into legislative text, if passed, it would constitute the largest amnesty in history and reaches well beyond measures proposed in 2006 and 2013. However, FAIR is not alone in believing that any immigration proposal must be fair and responsive to the needs of the American people. \u201cPeople who enter the United States without our permission are illegal aliens, and illegal aliens should not be treated the same as people who entered the United States legally,\u201d said now-Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer in a June 2009 speech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sen. Schumer (D-N.Y.), who was set to brief President Obama about his immigration principles the following day, told attendees<\/a> at a conference hosted by the Migration Policy Institute that the \u201cAmerican people will never accept immigration reform unless they truly believe that their government is committed to ending future illegal immigration.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of seven principles of immigration reform that Schumer laid out, he said the first principle \u201cis that illegal immigration is wrong, plain and simple.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAny immigration solution must recognize that we must do as much as we can to gain operational control of our borders as soon as possible,\u201d added<\/a> Schumer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Twelve years later, now-Senate Majority Leader Schumer, Biden and many in the Democratic Party won’t even use the term illegal immigration, much less adopt policies to end it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the total number of illegal aliens encountered in Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 already surpassing<\/a> the total <\/em>number apprehended in three of the four prior fiscal years, Schumer\u2019s remarks are even more relevant today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his 2009 speech, Schumer also backed the idea of \u201ca biometric-based employment verification system with tough enforcement and auditing is necessary to significantly diminish the job magnet that attracts illegal aliens to the United States and to provide certainty and simplicity for employers.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today,\nthere is no mention of E-verify, efforts to combat visa and employment fraud,\nor cracking down on employers who hire illegal aliens. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Schumer called<\/a> for \u201call illegal aliens present in the United States on the date of enactment\u201d to \u201csubmit to a rigorous process of converting to legal status and earning the path to citizenship, or face imminent deportation.\u201d Yet nowhere in the U.S. Citizenship Act are any such requirements. In fact, Biden has moved to pause deportations of even some criminal aliens. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Under the Biden-backed amnesty measure<\/a> introduced in the Senate by Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients and beneficiaries of the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program would only have to wait three years after the bill\u2019s passage to get their green cards, while illegal aliens would have an eight year wait. For more information on the full bill, the January FAIR Take<\/a> has a break-down.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Senate Democrats have a steep climb to persuade or arm-twist 10 Republicans into supporting the bill for it to pass, but that does not mean it is not possible. The inaction to address the border crisis and the unserious proposal to fix real and ongoing problems with the immigration system shows demonstrates his disconnect from reality and disdain for the American people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not only did members of the Biden administration not act in the first 100 days to address the border crisis, none of them would even use the word “crisis.” Read more tomorrow about why language matters. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To join FAIR\u2019s campaign to send a message to President Biden, Vice President Harris and Congress, click here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

To make a critical donation to FAIR\u2019s efforts to stop the Biden administration\u2019s disastrous dismantling efforts, click here<\/a>. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When President Biden entered the Oval Office on his first day, he had a multitude of reasons to rescind or, at the very least, rein in his immigration-related campaign promises. There was the obvious crisis brewing at the Southwest border, or the struggling economic and employment picture. There was the inability of foreign nations, particularly<\/p>\n

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