Taxpayer Funds to Undo Deportations?
Senate Appropriations Committee wants to give DHS money to facilitate the return to the U.S. of criminal and other removed aliens
By George Fishman on November 18, 2022
Senator Christopher Murphy (D. Conn.) has introduced the “Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2023” (S. 4678). The bill has not yet been, and may never be, considered by the Senate. However, an explanatory statement has turned up on the Internet. I presume that it is not some Senate Appropriations Committee staffer’s purloined draft, as it is posted on the Senate Appropriations Committee’s website.
One portion of that explanatory statement is titled “Wrongful Removals” and is remarkably wrongheaded. It states that:
The Committee recommends the creation of an Office of Removal Order Review [OROR] as an independent unit charged with the task of reviewing applications from individuals who are seeking to return to the United States after removal and/or review of their final orders of removal. The Committee is concerned that current procedures and mechanisms to allow individuals to seek lawful return to the U.S. following removal, and/or challenge their removal order, are unduly burdensome, inaccessible to most individuals without legal counsel, and granted only in rare cases. This is the case even for individuals who have a claim to lawful status and/or arguments regarding material concerns with the underlying removal order. OROR shall utilize all mechanisms provided by current law to facilitate the return of those individuals whose removal orders were contrary to law or justice, including the use of humanitarian parole, joinder in a respondent’s motion to reopen, and stipulation to relief from removal. [Emphasis added.]
Committee Democrats do not appear concerned about the 60 percent plunge in removals of criminal aliens from the interior of the U.S. from 2019 to 2021, as reported by my colleague Jessica Vaughan.
https://cis.org/Fishman/Taxpayer-Funds-Undo-Deportations
