NumbersUSA sent out this newsletter earlier today:
Thirty-three Republican U.S. Representatives want to put young
illegal aliens who received the unconstitutional DACA amnesty ahead of the
interests of American workers, according to a letter they all signed addressed
to House Speaker Paul Ryan earlier this week.
The letter signers urged Speaker Ryan to immediately pass
legislation that would grant a permanent
amnesty to approximately 700,000 illegal aliens before the end of the year.
While they did mention their desire to improve border security
and to fix the "broken immigration system", they offered no
specifics. And they did not suggest that those fixes or any other
immigration-related provisions be paired with DACA legislation.
We write in
support of passing of a permanent legislative solution for Deferred Action for
Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients before the end of the year. ...
We are compelled
to act immediately because many DACA recipients are about to lose or have
already lost their permits in the wake of the program's rescission. ...
We must pass
legislation that protects DACA recipients from deportation and gives them the
opportunity to apply for a more secured status in our country as soon as
possible. Reaching across the aisle to protect DACA recipients before the
holidays is the right thing to do.
You can read the full letter here: https://www.numbersusa.com/news/34-house-republicans-call-daca-amnesty
The letter's signees -- led by Reps.
Scott Taylor of Virginia and Dan Newhouse of Washington
-- fail to address any of the unintended consequences that would result from
passing amnesty-only legislation. They ignore interior enforcement, including a
requirement for all employers to use E-Verify for all new hires, that would cut
off the jobs magnet and significantly reduce future illegal immigration. An
amnesty without E-Verify would only guarantee demands for future amnesties for
the new illegal aliens who would be enticed to come.
The letter fails to address Chain Migration, which if not ended,
would multiply the size the amnesty, adding millions more foreign workers to
the labor market to compete with unemployed and underemployed American workers.
Pres. Trump, himself, has said that an end to Chain Migration must be part of
any DACA deal, but the letter signers instead refer to an outdated quote from
White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders that leaves out Chain
Migration.
The full list of the letter signers is at the link above to the
full letter, or click here. I am pleased to say that none of the signatories are from Ohio, so
there’s no Action Alert today to get on the phone to them.
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