Biden’s Solution to a Border in Chaos? Amnesty, Of Course
avatar By FAIR Staff April 22, 2021 1 Comment
When President Biden entered the Oval Office on his first day, he had a multitude of reasons to rescind or, at the very least, rein in his immigration-related campaign promises. There was the obvious crisis brewing at the Southwest border, or the struggling economic and employment picture. There was the inability of foreign nations, particularly those in Central America, to get a handle on COVID-19. Both parties were committed to more pandemic spending and our social services already were buckling under pressure. Instead, President Biden sent to Congress a bill to “modernize†the immigration system by granting amnesty to almost 15 million illegal aliens.
Even if there were no pandemic nor unacceptably high unemployment, the U.S. Citizenship Act, which would increase foreign workers and expand legal immigration too, is antithetical to common sense.
As FAIR noted when congressional Democrats put Biden’s vision into legislative text, if passed, it would constitute the largest amnesty in history and reaches well beyond measures proposed in 2006 and 2013. However, FAIR is not alone in believing that any immigration proposal must be fair and responsive to the needs of the American people. “People who enter the United States without our permission are illegal aliens, and illegal aliens should not be treated the same as people who entered the United States legally,†said now-Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer in a June 2009 speech.
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