Democrats Ram through Immigration Bills as Border Crisis Worsens
Preston Huennekens
Government Relations Manager
FAIR Take | April 2021
On April 21, House Democrats passed two immigration bills that do nothing to address the out-of-control situation at our southwest border. Even worse, these two bills may actually lead to a worsening of the crisis by burdening U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), exacerbating already significant threats to national security, and overwhelming our immigration courts.
FAIR opposed both bills aggressively and will include both votes in our annual Congressional Voting Report. The House previously passed both bills in July 2020 during the 116th Congress.
H.R. 1333, the NO BAN Act, makes it virtually impossible for presidents to restrict the entry of potential national security threats. The bill’s authors wrote this piece of legislation based on the canard that travel restrictions imposed by former President Trump, and upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court, were based on religious discrimination rather than on risk assessments made by the State Department and intelligence agencies. The bill makes several disturbing changes to the President’s 212(f) authority. This includes stripping the President’s ability to determine if classes of aliens represent a threat to the United States.
https://www.fairus.org/legislation/federal-legislation/border-security/democrats-ram-through-immigration-bills-border
