{"id":24790,"date":"2021-07-16T14:15:25","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T18:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=24790"},"modified":"2021-07-16T14:15:27","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T18:15:27","slug":"budget-reconciliation-wrong-idea-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2021\/07\/16\/budget-reconciliation-wrong-idea-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Reconciliation To Ram Through Amnesty: A Bad Means To A Bad End"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Democrats are attempting to push through a massive\namnesty, on a purely partisan basis, as part of a $3.5 trillion budget\nreconciliation proposal. And they are doing so in the middle of a historic\nillegal migration crisis at our southern border which the Biden-Harris\nadministration has so far failed to take seriously, let alone fix. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to The Hill<\/a><\/em>, \u201ca budget reconciliation bill would not include immigration reform per se, the current Democratic proposal includes funding to grant a path to citizenship\u201d for \u201c up to 10 million people,\u201d including illegal aliens benefitting from or eligible for the unconstitutional Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, the beneficiaries of Temporary Protected Status (TPS), farmworkers, and so-called \u201cessential workers.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Using the reconciliation<\/a> process would allow the Democrats to pass the amnesty without the need to secure any Republican support in the Senate. In other words, the GOP – as the minority party would not be able to use the filibuster to block the budget and the harmful immigration agenda it contains. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is basically a sneaky way to ram through an\namnesty without bringing a lot of attention to it. The Biden-Harris\nadministration and the Democrats are obviously hoping that Americans don\u2019t\nnotice, which is in itself an insult to the intelligence of \u201cwe the people.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, granting not only \u201clegalization\u201d \u2013 but eventually also U.S. citizenship \u2013 to approximately 10 million people (two-thirds of the current total illegal alien population<\/a>, according to FAIR\u2019s research) is something that will impact every aspect of American society. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The American people deserve a serious and honest debate, not deception and dirty political tricks. And something as impactful and far-reaching as mass amnesty should not be passed on a narrow, partisan basis \u2013 particularly when the governing party pushing this irresponsible proposal<\/a> has such razor-thin margins in the House and Senate. Moreover, riding roughshod over the opposition of the majority of Americans<\/a> to mass amnesty \u2013 including in key \u201cswing\u201d states<\/a> \u2013 is a slap in the face of many Americans. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unlike the proponents of this mass amnesty, the American people seem to understand that amnesty is a bad and harmful policy<\/a>. That is because:<\/p>\n\n\n\n