‘Let’s Say It’s Not an Amnesty’
By Mark Krikorian on November 11, 2021
The latest version of the reconciliation bill in the House contains a giant amnesty for at least 7 million illegal aliens.
How do we know it’s an amnesty? Because House Democrats are insisting it’s not an amnesty.
This hackneyed talking point is a dead giveaway. (The title of this post is from National Review’s July 9, 2007, cover, about John McCain and Ted Kennedy’s proposed non-amnesty amnesty.) The House Judiciary Democrats’ talking points on the immigration provisions in the bill claim that this latest attempt to sneak an amnesty into the reconciliation bill (this is the third try, the Dems’ Plan C) is not an amnesty for two reasons.
First, it’s supposedly temporary. The proposal would grant immigration parole to illegals here since 2011, providing them work permits, Social Security numbers, and driver’s licenses, and everything that flows from that — effectively, a “DACA-for-All” program. But, these benefits “will not be available beyond September 30, 2031.” Two points here: Ten years is not “temporary,” and in any case, there’s no chance that on September 30, 2031, anyone’s status will be terminated. DACA, after all, is also supposed to be temporary, and yet the courts stopped the Trump administration from ending it. And the template for DACA, called Temporary Protected Status (for illegals from countries that suffered natural disaster or civil strife), is not actually temporary, either — lawless judges stopped the previous administration from even allowing the built-in expiration of TPS grants to take place. Passage of this measure would mean de facto permanent status for all beneficiaries.
https://cis.org/Krikorian/Lets-Say-Its-Not-Amnesty
