FAIR Alert: Critical Vote on Amnesty Bill TODAY!

- Purports to add 19,200 Border Patrol agents to the U.S.-Mexico border. However, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has 8 years to add these agents (until 2021) — well after illegal aliens receive amnesty — and paying for them requires the Social Security Trust Fund.
- Purports to require that 700 miles of fencing be built along the U.S.-Mexico border, but does not strike the existing language in the bill that expressly states the Secretary of Homeland Security is not obligated to build a single mile of fencing.
- Purports to require DHS to implement billions of dollars in specific technology and resources for each border sector along the U.S.-Mexico border, but then provides the Secretary may re-allocate any of the resources required or substitute the technologies listed with any other technologies.
- Significantly restricts the ability of Border Patrol agents to conduct transportation searches along the Northern border by limiting the area in which agents are authorized conduct such searches.
- Codifies the Obama Administration’s prosecutorial discretion policy regarding visa-overstayers, by authorizes the Secretary to administratively close visa-overstay cases instead of initiating deportation proceedings.
- Bars the government from prosecuting amnestied aliens for felony-level Social Security crimes.
- Creates a rolling amnesty, by allowing aliens who have been in the U.S. with work authorization for 10 years, and then overstay their visas, to be eligible for merit-based visas.
- You will not accept a repeat of the 1986 amnesty when Congress promised better enforcement, but never kept those promises, and
- You demand real border security AND interior enforcement before any other changes are made to our immigration system.
< Previous Article
Infographic: 10 Problems with the Gang of Eight Immigration Bill
Next Article >
Corker Amendment Lets Napolitano Waive Border Security