DHS Spending Bill Still a Disaster For Immigration Enforcement - See the Betrayal yet again !
Aug 16, 2018 22:23:21 #
I hope you guys are waking up and see a pattern here:
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DHS Spending Bill Still a Disaster For Immigration Enforcement
We got their attention, now help us demand they fix their mess!
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote you about several damaging amendments added to the DHS Appropriations bill, backed by the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Homeland Security. One amendment in particular is a direct assault on the Trump Administration's immigration enforcement.
You may remember that Attorney General Jeff Sessions recently tightened up the criteria for claims of asylum by illegal border crossers to match existing law.
No longer would gang violence, for example, be grounds for an asylum claim.
THE OFFENSIVE AMENDMENT, sponsored by Rep. David Price (D-NC), and vigorously promoted by subcommittee chairman Rep. Kevin Yoder (R-KS), DEFUNDS ENFORCEMENT OF THESE NEW, MORE RATIONAL ASYLUM PROVISIONS.
Very shortly after NumbersUSA and others exposed how terrible this amendment was, Rep. Yoder took to social media and news interviews to promise to "fix" the bill.
Yoder's backpedaling went like this: "These concerns are legitimate and I am committed to continuing to work with the president and the administration to fix this as our bill moves forward and ensure that any loopholes are closed. . ."
Yeah, and it's still not fixed.
It's not as if Yoder wasn't warned.
During the committee markup, Attorney General Jeff Sessions himself explicitly warned Rep. Yoder of the devastating impact the amendment to DEFUND Sessions' new stricter asylum enforcement procedures would have.
That same day, Yoder passed it anyway. Again, NOW he says he will fix it. We'll see.
So Yoder has heard from you, as his comments make clear.
But he hasn't fixed the situation yet.
Unfortunately, when Yoder had the real authority, he caused the problem.
Now, only the House leadership can really fix it by amending the DHS appropriations bill.
We have to keep up the pressure on House leadership to fix this mess.
Sessions had explained the need for his policy when he introduced the changes earlier this year:
"The mere fact that a country may have problems effectively policing certain crimes or that certain populations are more likely to be victims of crime, cannot itself establish an asylum claim."
When news gets out to other countries that we are LOWERING OUR STANDARDS BACK DOWN TO THE OBAMA ERA THAT CREATED THE BORDER SURGE, there will be a huge NEW surge.
As I promised you a couple of weeks ago, we're determined to prevent this outrageous measure from becoming law.
. . . We'll fight it in the Rules Committee. . .
. . . . . . We'll fight it on the House floor. . .
. . . . . . . . . We'll fight it in the Senate.
They SAY they're going to take the DEFUNDING amendment out of the bill. WHEN? Congress meets again after Labor Day. We have to put the pressure on NOW to get them to act THEN.
We need to be ready to spring into action immediately when Congress returns. Here are other bad amendments they put into the DHS appropriations bill:
⬤ Allows the H-2A agricultural guest-worker visa to be used for year-round workers. Currently, the visa is limited to temporary or seasonal workers in agriculture.
⬤ Permanently exempts returning workers from being counted against the H-2B cap of 66,000 per year. That would further boost the number of unneeded, low-sk**led guest workers.
Patriot, I know this is an e******n year and it's easy to focus your political attention on which party you want to see win control of Congress.
But it's also urgent that once they get here in Washington, you hold their feet to the fire.
Otherwise you can replace the openly hostile lawmakers and the backstabbers, and two years later, you just have to replace the new ones.
NumbersUSA holds lawmakers' feet to the fire. Help us light that fire.
Give to NumbersUSA and let's get things done, NOW!
Help us bring real progress in 2018,
Jim Robb
VP Operations
P. S. Want to send me your feedback? I'm glad to hear from you at jimrobb@numbersusa.com.
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DHS Spending Bill Still a Disaster For Immigration Enforcement
We got their attention, now help us demand they fix their mess!
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote you about several damaging amendments added to the DHS Appropriations bill, backed by the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Homeland Security. One amendment in particular is a direct assault on the Trump Administration's immigration enforcement.
You may remember that Attorney General Jeff Sessions recently tightened up the criteria for claims of asylum by illegal border crossers to match existing law.
No longer would gang violence, for example, be grounds for an asylum claim.
THE OFFENSIVE AMENDMENT, sponsored by Rep. David Price (D-NC), and vigorously promoted by subcommittee chairman Rep. Kevin Yoder (R-KS), DEFUNDS ENFORCEMENT OF THESE NEW, MORE RATIONAL ASYLUM PROVISIONS.
Very shortly after NumbersUSA and others exposed how terrible this amendment was, Rep. Yoder took to social media and news interviews to promise to "fix" the bill.
Yoder's backpedaling went like this: "These concerns are legitimate and I am committed to continuing to work with the president and the administration to fix this as our bill moves forward and ensure that any loopholes are closed. . ."
Yeah, and it's still not fixed.
It's not as if Yoder wasn't warned.
During the committee markup, Attorney General Jeff Sessions himself explicitly warned Rep. Yoder of the devastating impact the amendment to DEFUND Sessions' new stricter asylum enforcement procedures would have.
That same day, Yoder passed it anyway. Again, NOW he says he will fix it. We'll see.
So Yoder has heard from you, as his comments make clear.
But he hasn't fixed the situation yet.
Unfortunately, when Yoder had the real authority, he caused the problem.
Now, only the House leadership can really fix it by amending the DHS appropriations bill.
We have to keep up the pressure on House leadership to fix this mess.
Sessions had explained the need for his policy when he introduced the changes earlier this year:
"The mere fact that a country may have problems effectively policing certain crimes or that certain populations are more likely to be victims of crime, cannot itself establish an asylum claim."
When news gets out to other countries that we are LOWERING OUR STANDARDS BACK DOWN TO THE OBAMA ERA THAT CREATED THE BORDER SURGE, there will be a huge NEW surge.
As I promised you a couple of weeks ago, we're determined to prevent this outrageous measure from becoming law.
. . . We'll fight it in the Rules Committee. . .
. . . . . . We'll fight it on the House floor. . .
. . . . . . . . . We'll fight it in the Senate.
They SAY they're going to take the DEFUNDING amendment out of the bill. WHEN? Congress meets again after Labor Day. We have to put the pressure on NOW to get them to act THEN.
We need to be ready to spring into action immediately when Congress returns. Here are other bad amendments they put into the DHS appropriations bill:
⬤ Allows the H-2A agricultural guest-worker visa to be used for year-round workers. Currently, the visa is limited to temporary or seasonal workers in agriculture.
⬤ Permanently exempts returning workers from being counted against the H-2B cap of 66,000 per year. That would further boost the number of unneeded, low-sk**led guest workers.
Patriot, I know this is an e******n year and it's easy to focus your political attention on which party you want to see win control of Congress.
But it's also urgent that once they get here in Washington, you hold their feet to the fire.
Otherwise you can replace the openly hostile lawmakers and the backstabbers, and two years later, you just have to replace the new ones.
NumbersUSA holds lawmakers' feet to the fire. Help us light that fire.
Give to NumbersUSA and let's get things done, NOW!
Help us bring real progress in 2018,
Jim Robb
VP Operations
P. S. Want to send me your feedback? I'm glad to hear from you at jimrobb@numbersusa.com.
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