NumbersUSA has the legislative update for next week:
House Democrats are poised to vote on an enormous
appropriations bill that will fund a great deal of federal spending next year.
It covers the Departments of Defense, Health and Human Services, Education,
Labor, State, and others.
This funding bill contains language that UNDERMINES AND EVEN
REVERSES efforts already being made to tighten enforcement and end the border
crisis. NumbersUSA has already urged House Members to oppose the bill. We
warned them that we will score against this action in our Immigration
Gradecards. These grade cards are read by hundreds of thousands of our
activists. They sort out those that merely pay lip service to enforcement from
those who actually vote to reduce immigration.
The NumbersUSA scoring notice sent to Congress states,
"House Democrats, however, aren't content with the utter collapse of our
entire immigration infrastructure, and instead are using this bill to actively
obstruct the Administration's efforts to deal with the crisis on the southern
border."
The bill, H.R. 2740, contains these outrageous provisions:
Blocks any federal funds from any source
whatever from being used to construct "border security
infrastructure." This includes blocking the wall/fencing money
appropriated by Congress even earlier this year! But H.R. 2740 provides funding
to Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt and Tunisia to protect their borders.
Rewards illegal immigration by making DACA
recipients eligible to take federal jobs.
Protects and rewards the illegal alien sponsors
of unaccompanied alien children by blocking ICE from working with HHS to deport
the illegal alien sponsors. Many of these sponsors are directly involved in
human trafficking.
By obstructing efforts to control the border and
enforce immigration laws, his bill could help strengthen Mexican drug cartels,
which control the entire Mexican side of the Southern border.
The House is pursuing this ruinous course despite border
apprehensions exploding, up by another third in May compared to April. Over
144,000 were apprehended in May. Reuters reports the makeup of the arrests:
"While the vast majority of undocumented migrants arriving in the United
States are from Central America, significant numbers have been arriving in
recent months from Cuban and Haiti, via Panama, and from African countries,
often via Brazil."
The Capitol switchboard number is:
(202) 224-3121
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