Sneaky Congress up to its Old Tricks; Stealth Amnesty for Liberians

Guest Post by Joe Guzzardi

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Recently, I’ve become addicted to the Weather Channel. The reason is simple. Every word that the meteorologists utter, I understand – “It’s 85 degrees in Miami today,” “A cold front is blowing across the Northern Plains” or “New England residents are digging out.” The national news, however, whether broadcast or in print, defies comprehension. Inexplicably, the leading Democratic candidates push for decriminalizing illegal border crossing and abolishing ICE. No subject that the establishment spins is more baffling than immigration, the topic pollsters found is Americans’ top concern.

To truly fathom what’s going on in the Washington, D.C., immigration swamp, citizens have to seek out the truth for themselves, read the legislative fine print, and then read the footnotes in the fine print – dreary business. Case in point: unbeknownst to 99.9 percent of Americans, a full-blown amnesty for Liberians is on the table, and will soon come up for a Senate vote. Only citizens who took the time to read the massive National Defense Authorization Act for 2020 (NDAA) would be aware of the proposed amnesty. In keeping with its stealth mode on bad immigration bills, the last thing the Senate would do is publicize a Liberian or any other amnesty, because senators know voters would strongly disagree.

Nevertheless, if the Senate approves the NDAA, and President Trump signs the bill, the Department of Homeland Security will grant permanent legal status to 4,000 Liberians who have been legally present since at least November 20, 2014. Under some conditions, criminals will qualify. And eventually, assuming they apply for permanent residency within one year of NDAA becoming law, the spouses, children, and unmarried sons and daughters of the qualifying Liberian nationals will be amnestied too. Most will petition their extended families to join them in the United States – population-busting chain migration – so the original 4,000 will morph into a much greater number.

The first question that comes to inquisitive minds is how did the Liberians get to the U.S. in the first place? The answer dates back to 1991 when President George H. W. Bush granted temporary permanent status (TPS) to Liberians. At the time, Bush stated that the First Liberian Civil War made conditions too dangerous for its nationals to return home. What subsequently followed is a maze of immigration procedures that nearly defy comprehension.

LiberiaSince 1991 and with Presidents Bush 41, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump’s approval, Liberians have benefited from, variously, multiple rounds of deferred enforced departure (DED) that extended for periods between 12 and 18 months, and two TPS renewals. DED, simply defined, means Liberians won’t be going home even though the political climate has stabilized and the World Health Organization declared that the Ebola crisis ended five years ago. Leave it to Congress to define “temporary” as TPS for Liberians that began nearly two decades ago.

The second question that right-minded Americans might ask is what is an amnesty amendment doing in a national defense bill? Sticking amnesty in must-pass legislation like the NDAA is a so far unsuccessful but favorite trick of pro-immigration legislators. In 2014, California GOP U.S. Rep. Jeff Dedham filed an amendment to the fiscal 2015 defense spending bill that would have given Green Cards to illegal immigrants who serve in the military. Republicans blocked Dedham’s measure.

Pew Research estimates that about 320,000 foreign nationals are present under TPS guidelines. In addition to Liberians, there are Hondurans, Salvadorans, Haitians and others. They have been issued employment authorization documents and have access to other affirmative benefits. Their continued presence reinforces the widely held, and correct, worldwide opinion that once an alien reaches the U.S., odds are overwhelmingly in his favor that he’ll remain permanently.

Even though excessive migration adversely affects every facet of U.S. life – unsustainable population growth, depressed wages, crowded schools, strained health care services – at no time ever has an American cast a vote in a federal election to determine what kind of a country we aspire to be. Instead, members of Congress travel their own expansionist path, consistently rejecting voters’ pleas for sensible immigration.

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flash
flash

Congress is America’s #1 enemy . Beyond a shadow of a doubt. They do not work for US and never have.

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oldtimer505
oldtimer505

1. Term limits.

2. Minimum wage pay.

3. Criminalize the lobbyist.

TC
TC

Saw that the DOJ has dropped the case against Hillary Clinton. Are you guys tired of winning yet?

RiNS
TampaRed

i watched it all–this is a far leftist bitch who is simply trying to bring down trump–

yahsure
yahsure

Trump talked about term limits when he ran. he also talked about taking Marijuana off being a class 1 drug and letting states decide. I would like to see both happen.

DeltaLima
DeltaLima

And not infringing on the 2A, balancing the budget, stopping the foreign wars, defunding planned parenthood, draining the swamp, etc. Don’t hold your breath…

KaD
KaD
DeltaLima
DeltaLima

Stick them in Chicago or Detroit. They’ll be right at home.

AC
AC

Somebody should tell Guzzardi about H.R.5038 – Farm Workforce Modernization Act of 2019 – amnesties 1.5 million illegals PLUS their families.

Remember, it’s a “two-party” system.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/5038/cosponsors

Maria Fotopoulos
M G
M G

That’s a good tip… I emailed to Admin for consideration. Thanks, Maria… they are sneaky, sneaky white boys, those CongressCritters.

piearesquared
piearesquared

It is not just Congress that is complicit in this kind of stuff. Most presidents, including (and especially) Trump, despite all of his campaign rhetoric, are just as bad. One year ago all of the Trumptards were constantly clamoring for The Wall, but I haven’t heard much about that for a while. Apparently most of the Trumptards have finally figured out that Trump isn’t going to do anything about immigration, wall or no wall. Now they are more interested in clamoring for war with Iran than in clamoring for a reduction in immigration.

“Only citizens who took the time to read the massive National Defense Authorization Act for 2020 (NDAA) would be aware of the proposed amnesty.” If I didn’t know better I would think that that was satire. This bill (as are many bills that Congress passes) is a couple thousand pages long. No one could possibly read and understand the whole thing in less than a few months. That is why the members of Congress never read the bills they vote on. Sometimes they read a portion of the bill, but never the whole thing. They rely on their staff, lobbyists, and special interest groups to tell them generally what is in the bill. They rely on party leaders, donors, lobbyists and their handlers to tell them how to vote.

In a sane world there would be a (fairly small) limit to the size that any one bill could be. Longer bills would have to be split into two or more smaller bills. And the members of Congress would be required to sit through a reading of the bill, and if they didn’t attend the reading then they wouldn’t be allowed to vote on the bill. But there isn’t much sanity in Washington D.C.

Maria Fotopoulos

There was just an announcement about 100 miles of wall built in Arizona.

Ghost

Built? Or scheduled to be built?

TampaRed

rasmussen polling has started a weekly immigration poll that polls the us population about their attitudes regarding immigration–
there is a link there where you can sign up 4 free–

https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/immigration_index/immigration_index_jan07?utm_campaign=RR01072020DN&utm_source=criticalimpact&utm_medium=email

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