Democrats are reinvoking Thursday’s Senate vote on a border bill that was rejected in February in an effort to blame Republicans for their unpopular economic policy of mass illegal immigration.
Democrats are also using the debate to try to drown out the domestic immigration debate about the damage of President Joe Biden’s cheap labor immigration policies and shift focus to the smaller issue of border control.
“this [Democratic] “If passed, this bill would be effective in bringing order to our southwest border,” said Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.). Said on tuesday.
The goal of “order” is shared by many progressive supporters and Democratic Party donors. This bill “immigration increases Get here well and efficiently,” said progressive columnist Greg Sargent.
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Democrats will try to pass a border bill in the Senate on Thursday. The bill reportedly remains unchanged from a version introduced in February that would have allowed low-wage economic migrants to enter the country by expanding various asylum and parole windows. The bill does not include any significant restrictions or legal authority to deport illegal immigrants or impose penalties on employers who hire illegal immigrants.
The bill is expected to fail, but it will distract from media touting the enormous economic and fiscal damage caused by Biden’s mass migration, a goal that has become increasingly important as President Donald Trump focuses on the damage during his campaign. A May statement from the Trump campaign said Biden’s unpopular policies “are flooding America’s workforce with millions of low-wage illegal immigrants, which is a direct attack on the wages and opportunity of hardworking Americans.”
On Wednesday, Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.), the third-ranking Democrat in the Senate, blamed President Trump for the bill’s failure, saying:
They decided to ask one man if they should move on. [and vote for the bill]Can you guess who it was? It’s Donald Trump. Donald Trump said, “I’m sorry, but I don’t want to see this issue go away. I want to address this issue as part of my 2024 presidential campaign.” That happened, and the bill died.
“Do you care about your country’s security, or do you care about the political prospects of your party or your presidential candidate?” Murphy asked.
But some Republicans are taking note of Democrats’ immigration bait-and-switch.
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) said Wednesday. reporter at a Senate press conference.
When you hear Democrats say they want to secure the border, what they really mean is they want to make the border more efficient. [for the government] This bill aims to encounter, process, and disperse illegal immigrants who do not have valid asylum claims across the United States… [and] Instead of securing our borders, we are spending $20 billion to more efficiently find, process, and turn away illegal immigrants.
Republicans are also throwing the political blame back onto Democrats.
Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kansas) said Democrats’ staged debate was a political relief, adding:
With six months to go until the election, Democrats are in crisis. They’ve seen the polls. They have to take responsibility for 11 million illegal immigrants crossing this border… This is a crisis that Democrats have spent three years creating.
“What they’re doing now is a political ploy,” said Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.). Reporter.
Johnson also took note of the Democratic Party’s previous comments on the border bill.
As the Border Bill was announced, Mr Murphy gloated in a tweet that “the border will never close”.
Economic migrants are not refugees. https://t.co/J473eZR4LD
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) September 24, 2023
“We were playing chess and they were playing checkers,” said Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), the Democratic majority leader. Said After Democrats loudly placed the blame for defeating the bill on Trump, Politico.com said: “We will also deliver better results. [political] “The border looks different than it did three months ago,” Schumer said with a laugh.
Since 2021, Biden’s unpopular immigration policies have allowed more than 10 million legal, semi-legal and illegal immigrants into American homes, workplaces and schools, despite popular immigration laws aimed at protecting Americans from cheap labor immigrants.
The result has been lower wages, higher housing costs, higher interest rates, lower productivity and greater disruption for 330 million Americans. But Biden’s pro-immigration economic policies have also generated huge windfalls for investors, federal and state government agencies, urban retailers, landlords, employers and other Democratic donors.
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The Republican-controlled House of Representatives passed a replacement bill. HR-2protect Americans from illegal immigration.
Despite much media buzz, Biden and the Democratic Party have rejected any significant restrictions on immigration or any political compromises on immigration economic policy ahead of the November election. Instead, they are relying on Mexico’s promise to reduce the flow of immigrants and trying to solve the problem on TV screens across the country.
“We have seen the government’s focus change from: [President Joe] Biden focuses on immigration [border] “The flow of migration is orderly,” said Mark Krikorian, director of the Center for Migration Studies. “The Biden campaign wants to control mass illegal immigration, not stop it. This is new,” he added.
But the economic fallout from Biden’s move has hit his polling ratings hard, and Democrats are now trying to convince swing voters that Trump is to blame for the impasse.
“Trump is the boogeyman in Democratic circles,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) declared on Tuesday.
Biden’s aides have drafted rules that would allow conscious government officials to grant asylum and citizenship quickly to economic migrants. https://t.co/16SaBJlbTY
—Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) August 22, 2021
The Democratic Party’s immigration economic policies were championed by Sen. Richard Durbin (Illinois) during the campaign. Tuesday’s showdown Durbin made the remarks on the Senate floor as he blocked Cruz’s efforts to bring the Republican Party’s HR-2 immigration update to a Senate vote.
Durbin said:
when [Biden] Decided to help refugees of the Ukraine war… It is estimated that 36,000 Ukrainians came to Chicago [and] We basically told them, “If you can find a family to sponsor you, we’ll give you a work permit. You can stay here while the conflict continues in your country.” They were absorbed into the economy of Chicago, Illinois, and the Midwest without any ripples. They’re hard-working, good people… and they really contributed to the Chicago scene… The authority of a president like Biden to make that decision for Ukrainian refugees has been stripped away by the state. [GOP] invoice.
…this [GOP] The bill would also require electronic employment verification (E-Verify) in all sectors of the American economy. In other words, [GOP] The bill would require E-Verify and would also target the agriculture industry and these illegal immigrants. [illegal migrant] Worker. 50% of agricultural workers will no longer be able to work! How will it affect our food supply chain? …Food prices will rise.
But the Democrats’ border bill would provide U.S. employers with more cheap immigrant labor, Durbin said.[It] It addresses economic needs and provides a path to citizenship. [illegal migrants who entered while children] and [illegal] They are migrant farm workers, upholding our nation’s tradition of providing a safe harbor for refugees fleeing for their lives.”
Durbin’s explanation is that polls show a majority of Americans say immigration is an invasion, and a plurality say immigration is a burden on Americans and not a “national heritage.” There is.
This shift in public opinion helps explain why Republican politicians are increasingly talking about the fiscal damage caused by Democratic immigration policies. For example, Mr. Cruz responded to Mr. Durbin:
It was striking that when he talked about how Chicago loves illegal immigrants, he somehow acknowledged that the Mayor of Chicago had declared a state of emergency due to the crisis of illegal immigrants inundating the city. [and] Illegal immigrants are taking resources away from Chicago residents. [for exampler,] It is housed at Chicago O’Hare Airport.
In places like New York City, illegal immigrants are being detained in public schools while Americans are being removed from those facilities… [Durbin] “Farm workers, if you don’t open the borders, you can’t hire farm workers!” Apparently, in the Democrats’ view, Americans are lazy and don’t want to work, and the only way to grow food is to open the borders wide and let in invaders. And if some people have to die, if people have to be killed by the criminals and gangsters that the Democrats let out every day, that’s an acceptable price for the Democrats.
If you listen to his criticism of HR-2, you know what he said: “Well, people who are here illegally won’t be able to work. Oh my goodness, that would stop illegal immigration!”
“That’s what Democrats are against. They’re against this.” [GOP HR-2] “I don’t support this bill because it accomplishes what they say they want to do,” Cruz said.
Sen translator On Schumer’s border bill:
“Six months before the election, Chuck Schumer and the Democrats have faith on border security…it doesn’t even pass the smell test. Joe Biden has opened the southern border, but he can also close the southern border. It’s really that simple.”🔥 pic.twitter.com/a4XGQ5PO8D
— Senator Vance Press Office (@SenVancePress) May 22, 2024
Extract migration
Since at least 1990, the federal government has relied on extractive migration to grow the consumer economy after helping investors relocate high-wage manufacturing jobs to low-wage countries.
Immigration policies extract vast amounts of human capital from impoverished countries. Additional workers, consumers, and renters Boost stock prices By lowering American wages, subsidizing less productive businesses, raising rents, and inflating real estate prices.
Economic policies have caused many U.S.-born Americans to lose jobs in various business sectors, reduced productivity and political influence, slowed high-tech innovation, reduced trade, and Citizen solidarityAnd he encouraged government officials and progressives to ignore the policy. increased mortality rate of Discarded, Low status American.
The policy also siphons jobs and wealth from core states by subsidizing coastal investors and government agencies with large numbers of low-wage workers, high occupancy renters, and government-supported consumers. ing. Similar policies are hurting the people and economies of Canada and the United Kingdom.
Policies like colonialism have damaged small nations and killed hundreds of Americans and thousands of immigrants, including: Taxpayer-Funded Jungle Trail Through the Darién Canyon in Panama.
