Yes, the Lankford-Biden immigration bill to legislate invasion is dead. But there are still uncodified invasions that are turning our country into a primitive cesspool.
It’s not enough to oppose a bill that pours lighter fluid on a fire. We need policies to quell the flames. Fortunately, the Republicans still have plenty of power left that they can use against invasion if they choose.
If Republican governors were serious about properly securing their borders, their own states would lose their magnetism.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) was right to block Oklahoma Republican Sen. James Lankford’s compromise immigration bill in the House and push for the impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. But don’t lose sight of the fact that the power of your wallet is at play. It is the most effective weapon in checking Joe Biden’s wrongdoing. Federal funding is set to expire on March 1st and March 8th, giving Prime Minister Johnson an opportunity to capitalize on public sentiment against the invasion and deny funding to the Department of Homeland Security until the invasion is stopped. are given the opportunity.
In addition to fighting federal funding, states can further increase Mr. Johnson’s influence by enacting their own immigration policies that demagnetize borders. Much has been said over the past few weeks about the unity of Texas’ Republican governors in support of Greg Abbott. But that aid amounts to little more than a photo op at the border, with no concrete plans to cut off benefits to illegal immigrants, let alone organize a national deportation program.
Invaders don’t stop at borders. They spread to every state. If Republican governors were serious about properly securing their borders, their own states would lose their magnetism. But few red states are considering legislation similar to the laws passed in Texas and Florida.
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, for example, made a high-profile border pilgrimage last week that included the usual photo ops and cable news interviews, including some tough talk about Biden. It was included. She also addressed a joint session of Congress updating lawmakers on what she saw at the border. But what’s the point of a speech if it doesn’t encourage support for a particular bill?
Still, despite South Dakota’s unusually quick legislative session, Noem and his supporters in the legislative leadership are still on the brink of a bill that would ban the employment of illegal aliens, which would be very powerful in South Dakota’s agriculture sector. ) and there is no sense of urgency to push for legislation to make foreign workers illegal. Transportation of illegal aliens into the state.
The same goes for most other Republican governors.
If Republican governors matched their words with action, the immigration problem could be solved overnight. Do they want illegal aliens in their state?Here’s what they can do this month Demagnetize borders, or at least keep illegal immigrants away from red states.
Make illegal immigration a national crime: Texas already criminalizes illegal entry into Texas, and Florida also criminalizes transporting illegal aliens. All red states should go one step further by passing these bills this Congress and criminalizing the presence of illegal aliens in their states. In any case, we need to enact some laws that make illegal immigration a national crime.
Utilize criminal penalties for voluntary removal: When illegal entry, transportation, or at least illegal re-entry becomes a state crime, states can threaten illegal immigrants with prison terms if caught. As a way to leverage prison sentences against self-deportation, states could establish diversion courts similar to those for drug crimes. Illegal immigrants could choose between a year in prison if they commit a crime, or a prison term if they agree to leave the country.
Obviously, if an illegal alien commits a serious crime against a citizen, the judiciary will order that person to remain in prison. However, illegal immigrants are often arrested for crimes such as driving without a license or driving under the influence. Most of these people remain in the country indefinitely because Immigration and Customs Enforcement has refused to take action on them.
Under the Biden administration, decreased by 71% ICE arrested an illegal alien on charges of drunk driving. In general, deportations of all criminal aliens decreased by 67%.Now Biden is threatening To further reduce deportations. The issue is the federal government’s responsibility, but states could encourage the deportation of illegal aliens by imposing prison sentences.
Cutting off their ability to work. What none of these Republican governors are saying is that they have no interest in removing illegal aliens just because lobbyists for agricultural companies and other industries won’t allow it. We all know that if red states actually enforced laws against working without a permit, illegal aliens would avoid those states.
Crackdown on labor contract organizations: Part of the package that illegal aliens get from smugglers is the guarantee of secret employment from labor contract organizations that work with cartels to pay off smuggling debts. This is truly human trafficking, but large farm and factory employers work with these recruitment and staffing agencies to import illegal workers. In addition to passing the mandatory E-Verify check, the state must also hold you accountable for collaborating with these organizations.
We hear all the time that Republicans don’t have control over immigration policy. But they have a majority in the House, a filibuster-enabled minority in the Senate, and control half of the states. Just as states are coordinating border photo-ops, they could be waging an all-out battle over funding while conducting shock-and-awe campaigns to adjust degaussing laws. . The problem is not simply the resistance of the Democratic Party. That’s because Republicans think: Complex relationship Same with illegal immigrants.
