Republicans Vote to Gut Enforcement, Increase Foreign Workers
By Mark Krikorian
July 27, 2018 2:52 PM
Appropriations Committee chairman Congressman Rodney Frelinghuysen, February 25, 2016. (Gary Cameron/Reuters)
The DHS funding bill shows the skewed priorities of GOP appropriators
The House Appropriations Committee this week approved the Department of Homeland Security funding bill for fiscal year 2019 (starting October 1, 2018), after considering a raft of amendments. This is not necessarily the final product; the bill will likely be amended further if and when considered by the full House of Representatives, and again when the House and Senate confer on reconciling their respective versions of the legislation.
Nevertheless, at this stage the DHS appropriations bill, passed Wednesday on a party-line vote of 29–22, is a snapshot of priorities of this most important committee. And it contains several harmful provisions that would increase illegal immigration and the importation of foreign workers on “temporary†visas — provisions passed with the support of the Republican chairmen of the full committee and its Homeland Security subcommittee.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/07/immigration-dhs-appropriations-bill-bad-amendment/