{"id":24801,"date":"2021-07-20T08:47:45","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T12:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=24801"},"modified":"2021-07-22T08:47:32","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T12:47:32","slug":"west-virgina-manchin-amnesty-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2021\/07\/20\/west-virgina-manchin-amnesty-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Pressure Growing on Senator Manchin to Oppose Amnesty via Budget Reconciliation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In West Virginia, pressure continues to grow on Senator Joe Manchin<\/a> (D) to oppose the partisan \u201cinfrastructure\u201d package concocted by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Senate Budget Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). The proposed package \u2013 which would move through the process of budget reconciliation<\/a> \u2013 could put around 10 million illegal aliens on a pathway to citizenship. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Budget reconciliation is a tool allowing the party in control of the Senate to bypass the regular 60-vote threshold in order to pass legislation that changes federal spending or revenue. The Byrd Rule<\/a> \u2013 which governs the process \u2013 prevents the Senate majority from hijacking it to pass significant policy changes unrelated to the federal budget. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, the Byrd rule is exactly what Senate Democrats are trying to get around. Under the guise of \u201cinfrastructure<\/a>\u201d and at the urging of their party\u2019s radical fringe, Democratic leadership plans to stuff the bill with progressive wish-list items, such as legislation related to climate change, federal education standards, Medicare and Medicaid expansion, and a massive amnesty of illegal aliens. How? By improperly framing them all as budgetary issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fact is this: Senate Democrats cannot lose\na single vote if they want such a proposal to pass. The Senate\u2019s party\nbreakdown is 50-50, so Majority Leader Schumer needs all 50 Democrats to vote\nin favor of the package, which would allow Vice President Kamala Harris to\nbreak the tie in the Senate and send the bill to the lower chamber, where a new\nlift begins for Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). This makes supposed moderates\nlike Senator Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) and Manchin the masters of this bill\u2019s\noutcome. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Political leaders in West Virginia have already sounded the alarm. Led by Delegate Riley Keaton, 32 legislators from West Virginia\u2019s House of Delegates wrote<\/a> to Senator Manchin demanding that he reject any amnesty provisions in the reconciliation package. The delegates emphasized that \u201camnesty for illegal immigrants redistributes wealth from working class Americans through increased economic competition.\u201d They also highlighted the need for the federal government to enforce the rule of law as written in the U.S. Code while respecting the sanctity of our national sovereignty by improving border security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Polling in West Virginia<\/a> also shows that including amnesty for millions as part of the infrastructure package is unpopular. By large margins, 52% to 34%, West Virginia voters object to the use of budget reconciliation \u201cto enact major immigration legislation.\u201d Opposition to including amnesty for millions of illegal aliens cut across all demographic and party lines. Further, voters reject the idea of large-scale amnesty in the midst of unprecedented numbers of new illegal migrants crossing our borders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most revealing, 55% of respondents said they would be less likely to support Senator Joe Manchin if he were to support efforts to short-circuit normal Senate rules in order to gain amnesty for illegal aliens. Manchin is a Democrat that represents a state that voted overwhelmingly for President Donald Trump in the 2020 election. Manchin is up for re-election in 2024, a presidential election year that normally see voters come out in greater numbers. Can he expect to keep his job if he votes for something as unpopular in his state<\/a> as amnesty? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manchin is facing pressure from both sides of\nthe political aisle. His fellow Democrats want to keep him in line with the\nrest of the party, so as not to spoil the progressive wish-list disguised as an\ninfrastructure bill. Senate Republicans, meanwhile, see Manchin as the only\nreal hope of stopping this package. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ultimately, the only people that Senator Manchin must answer to are the voters in West Virginia. On the issue of including amnesty in the budget reconciliation package, their voices are loud and clear: amnesty is not infrastructure. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In West Virginia, pressure continues to grow on Senator Joe Manchin (D) to oppose the partisan \u201cinfrastructure\u201d package concocted by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Senate Budget Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). The proposed package \u2013 which would move through the process of budget reconciliation \u2013 could put around 10 million illegal aliens<\/p>\n

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