‘Release The ICE Detainees’ Myth Based On Flawed Understanding Of Jail Medicine
Since the beginning of the pandemic, open borders advocates have insisted that the United States must release every immigration violator currently in ICE custody. In fact, Documented’s piece is only the latest in a long line of articles and essays implying that the COVID-19 outbreak creates some kind of ethico-legal obligation for the United States to ignore its immigration laws and give any immigration violator who may have a passing risk of exposure to the virus a free run of the United States.
Their basic contention is that it’s unreasonable, some say cruel, to keep foreign nationals in immigration detention – because the close confines and communal living arrangements inherent in a detention setting allegedly increase the risk of becoming infected with COVID-19. And, because detainees can’t leave, they can’t protect themselves through social distancing, self-quarantine, etc. Therefore, the argument goes, continued immigration detention is akin to a death sentence.
New York’s Amended ‘Green Light’ Law Is Absurd, And It’s Also Illegal
Check out what Ira wrote in the Daily Caller.
If you violate federal immigration laws and settle in New York, the state will give you a driver’s license (and lots of other benefits too).
If you work at the New York Department of Motor Vehicles and you comply with a request for information from either Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) or U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), you could be charged with a Class E felony, be locked up for as long as five years, and forfeit many basic rights, including the right to vote.
Reflections of an Immigrant: Why Accepting DACA is Wrong
Check out what Pawel wrote in The Hill:
The Supreme Court recently ruled in favor of President Obama’s executive quasi-amnesty — Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). In essence, Chief Justice Roberts joined the liberal justices, determining that the Trump administration’s decision to rescind DACA supposedly did not offer sufficient explanation. As Justice Thomas pointed out, this effectively binds President Trump to an unlawful Obama policy. However, the court simultaneously ruled that the president can still rescind DACA again, but with a more comprehensive explanation. And the president stated that he intends to do just that.
But regardless of what ultimately happens on the DACA front, it is clear that the program is a bad policy that rewards illegal migration, flouts the rule of law, and is unjust towards American citizens.
More illegals enter U.S. under parole than legal immigrants are issued green cards
Read Dan Stein and Congressman Dan Bishop’s (R-NC) op-ed:
Some 8,447 pounds of fentanyl seized at the border this fiscal year — enough poison to kill 2 billion people. And 15,000 aliens with criminal convictions or outstanding warrants — including 195 gang members — were arrested after illegally crossing our border. Violent crime and chaos are sweeping our communities, shown horrifically by the killing of Laken Riley. The person charged with murder in her slaying is a criminal illegal alien.
Illegal Aliens Stand to Cash-In on Congressional Proposal to Increase the Additional Child Tax Credit
Neither Congress nor the Biden administration can seem to get their acts together to halt the record influx of illegal aliens to the United States. Illegal immigration already costs American taxpayers upwards of $150 billion annually, and Congress is considering legislation that would add to that already hefty price tag.
In January, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 7024, Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act of 2024 and the bill is awaiting action by the Senate. Tax relief is always popular with voters, especially when it is targeted toward middle- and low-income American families. But the bill, as written, is also a windfall for the ever-growing population of illegal aliens in the U.S.
A key provision of H.R. 7024 is an increase in the Additional Child Tax Credit (ACTC). The bill increases the maximum amount a parent may claim per qualifying child from $1,600 to $1,800. It would also increase the ACTC in future years, raising it to $1,900 in 2024, and $2,000 in 2025. Because Congress did not explicitly bar illegal aliens from claiming the ACTC when the program was established in 1997, the IRS has allowed them to claim the benefit. The ACTC is also a refundable credit, meaning that If the amount of the credit is greater than what is owed, the IRS sends the taxpayer a check for the difference. Given that millions of illegal aliens pay little in federal income taxes because their reported incomes are extremely low, many would be in line for even bigger government checks if H.R. 7024 is enacted…