I’m sure Mendendez’s plan will work to stop people from coming illegally, deincentivize them, deal with the smuggling, and, really, just stop as much illegal immigration as possible, right?
Sen. Bob Menendez unveils plan for immigration overhaul
Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., on Tuesday introduced a framework for revamping immigration programs amid ongoing concerns about the number of migrant crossings, particularly along the southern border.
The outline calls for creating new pathways to citizenship, boosting humanitarian aid to specific countries, increasing funding for border security, and expanding efforts to target human traffickers. A spokesperson for Menendez said his office shared the plan with the White House, the departments of Homeland Security and State, and Senate leadership.
In a statement, Menendez noted that he has repeatedly criticized the Biden administration’s immigration policies, which he described as implementing “short-term deterrence policies that fail to address the cycle of irregular migration at our southwest border.”
Menendez said his plan “provides a set of policies that will secure our borders without sacrificing our domestic and legal obligations to asylum seekers by working with partners in the region to give people alternative options to illegal smuggling networks. This plan largely includes policies that President Biden can pursue without Congress, until Republicans decide to come to the table and help the administration manage the current challenge.”
In other words, it will look towards amnesty, spend a lot of money, and, then, if they feel like it sometime, hire a few people to guard the border who will be stymied by Leftists both in and out of government. If you create new pathways, giving cheap and easy citizenship, that will simply entice more to come illegally and claim asylum. We’ve seen this schtick before many times, going back to Reagan, where the border security never really materialized after the mass amnesty.
And, once again, Congress would be abdicating it’s role as the lawmakers by letting the President do whatever the hell he wants (last sentence of the excerpt)
The plan also would address the busing of migrants from GOP-led states to Democratic-run cities by having the Department of Homeland Security be in charge of relocating migrants “to end the current challenge of states independently sending migrants to major urban centers without intergovernmental coordination.” Menendez’s plan would establish a new migration coordination office at the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
It seems as if Democrats are pretty upset over border states shipping illegals to dark blue cities, many of whom claim to support illegal aliens and are sanctuary cities. Now they simply want to ban the practice. Which would get the legislation sued.
Poll: Voters trust GOP to handle immigration more than Dems
President Joe Biden’s immigration problem isn’t just about policy. It’s that he’s not talking about the issue enough, voters say in a new survey from a Democratic polling firm.
Fifty-eight percent of voters in seven key Electoral College battleground states disapprove of how the president is handling immigration, compared with 32 percent who approve, according to a new swing-state poll from Global Strategy Group first shared with POLITICO. And a majority of voters surveyed, at 52 percent, believe Biden is ignoring problems at the border, while 50 percent said the president is ignoring the situation around undocumented immigrants.
Biden doesn’t care. He isn’t talking much about anything
Republicans talk more about immigration than Democrats, and they are trusted more to handle the issue, according to the poll. Both parties get low marks for how they are handling immigration, but Democrats face greater criticism because voters don’t know where the party falls on the issue. Thirty-nine percent of voters trust Biden and Democrats in Congress more on the immigration issue, while 47 percent said they trust Republicans lawmakers more.
In fairness, Republicans aren’t much better, since they so often join in with Democrats for silly plan, rather than simply cracking down.
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