Don’t need a wall. Just deny any benefits. They’ll self deport. Churches and other so-called sanctuaries will tire of have to clothe, feed, care for them.
We need to contact out reps and tell them to support this.
“Now, Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) pretty much promised full legislative offensive against illegal immigration”
After he and his young gun bun partner(Ryan) have been fighting it for 2 years.
Let Jordan handle it, you rino schmuck.
The $1.6B is fake, too little to matter except as a trial balloon. The $23B is real. I wonder if they finally grew a spine and decided to do the right thing. Or did they finally get scared that they had to deliver to keep their cushy jobs? Either way, I’ll take real border protection and enforcement. Finally!
What’s with all of these no wall posts?
I don’t believe that the feds spend more money for anchor babies to be born here than the 1.6 billion appropriated for the wall.
Good
Let the democrats come out in support of Illegal Aliens
We need the wall, e-verify with teeth, punitive Action against employers, end anchor baby rights for all foreigners including tourists. You must be here with legal parents to be native born.
McCarthy sees Jordan as a threat to the Speaker position. We need to incentivize illegals to self deport.
There are millions of Republicans that will fall for this...and be energized.
Which is the plan. It’s just like passing a bill in the House to overturn Obamacare.
Because all of them know it will not get through the Senate.
UNLESS, we pick up 5-6 seats this November and a Dim defection (or two) to caucus with the GOP.
The Wall would pass a 58-42 GOP Senate and break the filibuster. There would be a few Red State Dim Senators remaining and thinking about 2020/2022 and they’ll be inclined to get on the Trump Train along with the RINOs.
Send the a bill to Mexico that includes:
costs for illegal’s education
costs for illegal’s welfare
costs for illegal’s heath care
costs for illegal’s incarceration
When Mexico sees that, THEY will build a wall.
Problem solved.
McCarthy really wants to be Speaker
This bill is more about highlighting the issue for the election, and improving McCarthy’s image with Conservatives (he wants to be Speaker of the House).
It will not become law - it would need 60 Senators, and there is nothing in it for Democrats.
If Republicans keep the House, and gain enough in the Senate seats, the next House would have to pass it again, if they want the next Senate to vote on it. The details would most likely change then, when it is for real.
There will still have to be a fight over next year’s (FY19) wall funding after the midterms anyway, because this Congress still has to do a DHS Appropriation Bill. It seems like the argument is between $1.6 to $5 billion, and about some detailed restrictions.
The main thing this bill does do however, is get everybody on the record in support of wall and security funding, without requiring any giveaways in it, like DACA. By making it a campaign issue, they can claim a mandate to do it. It makes it more likely that wall funding increases will follow if the Republicans do well in the midterms.
I’ll be interested in seeing how this bill proposes appropriating the $23 billion - all the first year, or spread over the ten year baseline budget. If it is over the baseline, that would just mean bumping up the $1.6bil/yr that is already there, to $2.3bil/yr. (~100 extra miles per year, and some more technology/people). If it is $23 billion up front in multi-year money though, that would be a boom in wall building and security.
A simple federal law that rendered employers of illegal aliens culpable for all legal damages, restitution for the crimes of, and government expenses Incurrd to prosecute and/or remove their illegal alien employees would stop this nonsense cold.
If they had done this two Years ago we wouldn’t be scrambling now.
In addition, there are many American Citizens who would still be alive today had they done their Jobs.
More than 50 years late, but, as they say: “Better late than never!”
Border security was a hot debate item when I moved to San Diego in 1966!