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- Three Senators and President Biden secretly negotiated a border security bill that funds and facilitates more mass illegal immigration. It is a disaster for border security.
- If passed, the bill would again fund “sanctuary” jurisdictions and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that have been facilitating mass illegal immigration, using federal grants provided by these departments.
- The Biden administration’s destructive policies and violations of immigration law would also be written into statute. These measures would not only continue the border crisis but would also make it more difficult for a future enforcement-minded President to fix.
- Unacceptably, the bill:
- Accepts and codifies crisis levels of daily illegal immigration.
- Continues “catch and release” and guts the mandatory detention statute.
- Expands and codifies Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’s mass parole abuse.
- Continues to encourage asylum fraud and accelerates work permits.
- When illegal aliens come to the U.S., they want to enter, remain, and work here—and that’s the best-case scenario. The border is just as open to terrorists, the Chinese, Russians, and any number of people who do not want to merely work here. Securing the border requires preventing those three things.
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- The grounds for impeaching Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas are overwhelming.
- What’s at issue in this impeachment is not just a policy dispute over how best to enforce the nation’s immigration laws. Mayorkas is actively nullifying and undermining those laws.
- As a Senate-confirmed officer of the government, Mayorkas has a duty to follow the law faithfully; he should refuse to carry out directives that are inconsistent with the law, or else resign from office.
- Border security never has been perfect and previous secretaries of the Department of Homeland Security have exercised some degree of enforcement discretion, including regarding parole and mandatory detention. But Mayorkas clearly has crossed the line of permissible discretion into flagrant nullification and violation of the law.
- It is the proper constitutional role of the House of Representatives to declare that Mayorkas has gone far beyond what is tolerable and consistent with the duties and privileges of his office.
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- U.S. Steel, the world’s first billion-dollar company, is being sold for scrap. And Washington made it happen.
- But the problem is much deeper than a single American manufacturer. For decades, blue-collar jobs have been disappearing across America as cheaper goods flooded in from around the world.
- The federal government has imposed tens of thousands of regulations on our once great manufacturing sector, grinding production nearly to a halt and racking up billions annually in compliance costs.
- With “green” energy mandates, diversity-driven quotas, and anti-competitive rules lobbied by large unions and corporations alike to keep out both non-union labor and small businesses, American manufacturing has been crippled.
- The loss of American manufacturing is ultimately a self-inflicted wound and it won’t heal until the regulatory knife is taken out of its back. The problem is not overseas, but in Washington.
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