The Huge Threat of Another Mass, Third-World Amnesty

By An Old Friend

Sat, Aug 7, 2021 1:19 a.m.

The Huge Threat of Another Mass, Third-World Amnesty

It's getting very little play in the news and commentary, unlike -- so far as I can tell -- the huge, blaring struggle in May and June 2007, when "we" crashed the Senate's switchboard and beat the McCain/Kennedy/Bush mass amnesty.

After consulting with [---- ---------], I sent what's below to Paul Mirengoff of PowerLine blog, hoping to produce some coverage there to educate their large audience. In Mirengoff's response to me [on top] he says they have been covering it, so it's not clear to me that my carefully crafted email to him will have the desired impact.

Sent: Friday, August 6, 2021, 10:33:30 P.M. MDT

Subject: Re: PM: The looming threat of the biggest-ever amnesty being part of "budget reconciliation" ...

Thanks, AOL.  I know [----] pretty well.

We have written about this.  It may come down to whether the parliamentarian agrees that an amnesty can be part of reconciliation.  Under any reasonable analysis, it can't be.

On Fri, Aug 6, 2021 at 3:11 AM, AOL wrote:

... is receiving hardly any attention.  I'm hoping you PowerLiners will help educate and spread the alarm....

... the parameters of what would be the biggest amnesty yet (see history below).  It would obviously "complete" the amnesty for the DACA-ites, include full green-card legalization for much or all of the TPS (Temporary Protected Status) population, and add millions of supposedly "essential" workers and -- one must assume -- all their illegal-alien family members.  So surely at least five million who'd meet the written requirements, but also massively supplemented by the usual high incidence of fraud (details below). As Michelle Malkin says, "It's never over until the [illegal] alien wins."

Absent changes in our regime of legal immigration, those receiving legal status will soon be sponsoring relatives, so that the total increment from such an amnesty would probably be upwards of 15 million of a heavily welfare-dependent population.  

Thus doing yet another amnesty is a ruinous idea and, at a minimum, needs to be partially offset by (newly) limiting chain migration to nuclear-families-only, i.e. end sponsorships of siblings and of adult sons and daughters.

History

Many people are aware of only the original 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act [IRCA] amnesty, but there have been six subsequent ones, aggregating to more total legalizations than in IRCA:

        https://www.numbersusa.com/content/learn/illegal-immigration/seven-amnesties-passed-congress.html

The Seven Amnesties Passed by Congress

1. Immigration and Reform Control Act (IRCA), 1986: A blanket amnesty for some 2.7 million illegal aliens

2. Section 245(i) Amnesty, 1994: A temporary rolling amnesty for 578,000 illegal aliens

3. Section 245(i) Extension Amnesty, 1997: An extension of the rolling amnesty created in 1994

4. Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act (NACARA) Amnesty, 1997: An amnesty for close to one million illegal aliens from Central America

5. Haitian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act Amnesty (HRIFA), 1998: An amnesty for 125,000 illegal aliens from Haiti

6. Late Amnesty, 2000: An amnesty for some illegal aliens who claim they should have been amnestied under the 1986 IRCA amnesty, an estimated 400,000 illegal aliens

7. LIFE Act Amnesty, 2000: A reinstatement of the rolling Section 245(i) amnesty, an estimated 900,000 illegal aliens

IRCA's abuse of the rule of law was promised to us as a one-time clearing of the books, never to be repeated, since the legislation also made it illegal to knowingly employ illegal aliens and included promises of enforcement going forward.  But the enforcement was strangled in its cradle, and we endure far more illegal aliens now than when we started this in the mid-1980s.  So why would we do it again?

Fraud  

IRCA was expected to apply to about a million individuals.  It turned out to be about 2.7 million, among which there were some 800,000 fraudulent legalizations.

This fraud was concentrated in the Special Agricultural Workers [SAW] component of IRCA.  SAW applicants were interviewed by INS agents to check out their claims of having recently worked in agriculture.  Some applicants described digging cherries out of the ground and setting up ladders to pick strawberries from high in strawberry trees.  Yet many such tellers of tales got amnesty!

The poster child for SAW fraud is Mahmud Abouhalima.  He was an illegal alien from Egypt who drove taxis, badly, in NYC.  Claiming to have picked beans somewhere on the eastern seaboard, he applied for the SAW amnesty ... and got it!  Then he went on to be a principal in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmud_Abouhalima

I hope I'm not boring you with facts you already knew; in my experience, few conservatives (never mind liberals!) are familiar with what I've laid out here.

Threat

Last I heard, Biden is pushing to include a mass amnesty in the reconciliation bill.  Do we really want to rely on the Senate's parliamentarian to rule against such an inclusion?  Or hope that a Senate Dem or two -- Manchin?  Sinema? -- will show some stones, along with some awareness of the national interest?  Unlike in May and June of 2007, there's been no big noise so far alerting the public about this mortal betrayal the post-national Democrats want to sneak through.

Ciao,

AOL