{"id":6899,"date":"2014-06-12T09:00:15","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T13:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=6899"},"modified":"2018-12-28T14:56:28","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T19:56:28","slug":"american-politicians-wont-call-it-amnesty-but-illegal-border-crossers-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2014\/06\/12\/american-politicians-wont-call-it-amnesty-but-illegal-border-crossers-do\/","title":{"rendered":"American Politicians Won\u2019t Call It ‘Amnesty,’ but Illegal Border Crossers Do"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ice_detainees\" In America, amnesty proponents on<\/a> both<\/a> sides<\/a> of the aisle have long avoided the term \u201camnesty\u201d like vampires avoid a cross. Just a couple of weeks ago, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson insisted under oath<\/a> that the Administration\u2019s policies purporting to give lawful presence to illegal aliens were not \u201camnesty.\u201d And, when asked directly whether the Administration\u2019s policies directly fit the definition of amnesty in Black\u2019s Law Dictionary, he simply refused to answer.<\/p>\n

That is because amnesty activists know as well as true immigration reformers that amnesty encourages more illegal immigration, and they also know that Americans don\u2019t want<\/i> to encourage<\/a> more illegal immigration. Johnson also insisted under oath that there should be \u201cdisincentives<\/a>\u201d to engage in illegal immigration, as if we can stop a reward for breaking the law from being an incentive to break the law just by saying<\/i> it\u2019s not a reward at all.<\/p>\n

Sometimes American politicians, by saying<\/a> they are against amnesty even as they support it, can fool<\/a> their constituents long enough to get through an election, and sometimes<\/a> they can\u2019t<\/a>. \u00a0But there are some people who won\u2019t be fooled by calling amnesty \u201cimmigration reform.\u201d And that is those who are considering whether or not to illegally cross the border. \u00a0According to the Tuscan Border Patrol Union President, when agents ask the illegal border crossers what drove them, \u201cwe are hearing a lot of amnesia.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

While the Administration\u2019s official explanation<\/a> for the dramatic surge in border crossings by unaccompanied minors is violence in Central America, its credibility<\/a> on border protection is long gone<\/a>. It is the (justified<\/a>) rumors all over the Central American news<\/a> that have caused the recent surge in illegal arrivals, not an uptick in violence. As true immigration reformer Senator Jeff Sessions (R-Alabama) says<\/a>, the Administration has only itself to blame for the humanitarian catastrophe at the border. Unfortunately though, it is the American people that it wants to pay<\/a> for its dereliction of duty.