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President Trump promised the country a wall but instead delivered the biggest amnesty since 1986. Amnesty in this case doesn’t mean citizenship, it means de facto legal status by creating a new protected class of illegal aliens who are immune to detention, prosecution, and deportation. The law doesn’t stop there. Here are the worst of the immigration provisions of the spending bill passed last week:
Provides for a massive, open-ended amnesty that encourages trafficking in children.
Expands “catch and release,” wherein Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents catch illegal aliens and then very quickly releases them into the interior of the country, mostly never to be heard from again, except when they apply for amnesty or are arrested for other crimes.
Slashes funding to ICE for beds for detainees from 49,060 to 40,520.
Gives veto power over wall construction to deep blue, anti-border enforcement towns. Got that? The scant 55 miles of wall approved for the Rio Grande Valley in Texas, can be vetoed unilaterally by local authorities.
The spending bill President Trump signed Friday gave the open borders crowd much of what it wants. But surely the worst—practically, politically, and morally—is Section 224(a), which provides that “None of the funds provided by this Act or any other Act . . . may be used by the Secretary of Homeland Security to place in detention, remove, refer for a decision whether to initiate removal proceedings, or initiate removal proceedings against a sponsor, potential sponsor, or member of a household of a sponsor or potential sponsor of an unaccompanied alien child . . .”
This is the provision that amounts to an amnesty.
Trump Promised a Wall and Delivered an Amnesty – American Greatness
Interestingly enough, the bill Trump signed allocated over $9 billion to fund the security of foreign countries , while allowing for only $1.3 billion for fencing and barriers at the US border.
Rather than celebrating their victory in getting Trump to sign exactly the bill they'd wanted, Democratic leadership bemoaned the fact that Trump is still talking about a border wall.