GOP Senate leader Sen. Mitch McConnell criticized the “big business” that is pushing President Joe Biden’s amnesty agenda. The rare criticism of the GOP’s traditional donors suggests that McConnell will lead a fight against the Democrats’ draft amnesty, which would push more than three million illegal migrants on a fast track to the voting booths in 2024. The Democrats, McConnell said March 3, “want to fast-track 11 million illegal immigrants into temporary legal status, then green cards, and then full citizenship.” He continued: The far-left loves this approach. But so does a certain cross-section of Big Business. There’s a whole lot of cultural power and economic power pushing the liberal vision. As for the best interests of American workers — well, that’s not as trendy a cause in certain circles. The truth is that it’s not helpful or compassionate to just open up our borders. It’s not fair to American citizens and workers, but neither is it fair to the people who are being lured into a humanitarian crisis in the middle of a pandemic because they believe this Democratic administration just conspicuously turned on a neon ‘Vacancies’ sign. For at least 30 years, the GOP has backed immigration bills that import legal immigrant consumers and workers for Wall Street, while they also reassured worried voters with vague and unfilled promises to end illegal immigration. But that two-track policy hit a wall in January 2021, when immigrants tipped Georgia’s two Senate seats over to the Democrats, so pushing McConnell and the entire GOP Senate caucus out of their jobs as members of the Senate majority. Many investor-run Fortune 500 companies favor the amnesty bill, which would provide them with a huge spike of cheap workers, taxpayer-aided consumers, and high-occupancy renters. Democrats are pressuring the companies to collectively lean on the GOP to accept the passage of the amnesty bills — and the resulting personal and collective irrelevance for GOP ...
AZ Sheriff: We’re Getting ‘Five or Six Groups a Day’ Crossing in Spot Where Fence Isn’t Complete
On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” Cochise County, AZ Sheriff Mark Dannels (R) criticized President Joe Biden for halting the construction of the border wall and stated that “one area where the fence is not complete, we get five or six groups a day coming across there.” Dannels said, “When President Biden rescinded the emergency order on the southwest border, it stopped resources and stopped construction on our border. As a result of that, one area where the fence is not complete, we get five or six groups a day coming across there. It’s opened up the border. … This administration owns this decision and what it’s doing is it’s forcing us back to 2019, when we had the largest what I call crime scene in the country, to include the largest humanitarian situation going on.” Follow Ian Hanchett on Twitter @IanHanchett ...
Senate Democrats vote to provide $300 unemployment benefits into September
Senate Democrats voted early Saturday morning to provide a $300 weekly federal unemployment payment into early September—effectively undoing a GOP effort to end those payments in mid-July. Senators voted 50-49 to add the amendment from Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden Ronald (Ron) Lee Wyden Progressives won't oppose bill over limits on stimulus checks GOP pulling out all the stops to delay COVID-19 package Overnight Health Care: Biden slams Texas, Mississippi for lifting coronavirus restrictions: 'Neanderthal thinking' | Senate panel splits along party lines on Becerra |Over 200K sign up for ACA plans during Biden special enrollment period MORE (D-Ore.) into the roughly $1.9 trillion coronavirus bill currently being debated by the chamber. All 50 Democratic senators vote for the amendment, which provides the weekly $300 payment until Sept. 6. Every Republican on hand to vote opposed it. ADVERTISEMENT The vote came roughly an hour after Senate Republicans were able to get a short-lived win when they muscled an amendment from Sen. Rob Portman Robert (Rob) Jones Portman Mandel gets Club for Growth nod in Ohio Senate primary Rick Scott caught in middle of opposing GOP factions Five takeaways from dramatic Capitol security hearing MORE (R-Ohio) temporarily into the coronavirus bill. Portman's amendment provided a $300 per week payment but until July 18. Republicans were able to claim the brief victory because Sen. Joe Manchin Joseph (Joe) Manchin Overnight Defense: Capitol Police may ask National Guard to stay | Biden's Pentagon policy nominee faces criticism | Naval Academy midshipmen moved to hotels Progressives won't oppose bill over limits on stimulus checks Senate votes to take up COVID-19 relief bill MORE (D-W.Va.), who supported the subsequent Democratic amendment, also voted for Portman's proposal. But a Democratic aide had telegraphed in advance how the drama would ...
Senate GOP gets short-lived win on unemployment fight
Senate Republicans are getting what's expected to be a short-lived win in a fight over unemployment benefits in Democrats' nearly $1.9 trillion coronavirus bill. Sen. Joe Manchin Joseph (Joe) Manchin Overnight Defense: Capitol Police may ask National Guard to stay | Biden's Pentagon policy nominee faces criticism | Naval Academy midshipmen moved to hotels Progressives won't oppose bill over limits on stimulus checks Senate votes to take up COVID-19 relief bill MORE (D-W.Va.) voted with all 49 Republican senators — Sen. Dan Sullivan Daniel Scott Sullivan The Hill's Morning Report - Presented by The AIDS Institute - Finger-pointing on Capitol riot; GOP balks at Biden relief plan Sanders votes against Biden USDA nominee Vilsack Senate confirms Vilsack as Agriculture secretary MORE (Alaska) is absent due to a family emergency — in support of a proposal from Sen. Rob Portman Robert (Rob) Jones Portman Mandel gets Club for Growth nod in Ohio Senate primary Rick Scott caught in middle of opposing GOP factions Five takeaways from dramatic Capitol security hearing MORE (R-Ohio) to provide a $300 per week unemployment payment through mid-July. But Democrats are expected to strip out Portman's amendment and replace it with a deal they announced on Friday night, after a nearly 12-hour delay, before they pass the coronavirus deal likely on Saturday. ADVERTISEMENT Democrats are still waiting for a Joint Committee on Taxation score about the cost of the Democratic proposal, which would provide a $300 per week payment through Sept. 6. "We expect Senator Portman to offer his UI amendment and for it to pass. However, it will be superseded by Senate Democrats’ new UI agreement, which will be offered and passed as an amendment tonight," a Democratic aide said about the path forward. Though Manchin supported Portman's amendment, he's also expected to support the Democratic deal. In addition to the ...
Joe Biden Expands ‘Sanctuary Country’ Orders, Gives Illegal Aliens Another Route to Avoid Arrest
President Joe Biden is expanding his breakdown of interior immigration enforcement, dubbed “sanctuary country” orders, by giving illegal aliens another avenue to avoid arrest by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. On Friday, ICE officials told Congress that the agency would open an “ICE Case Review” process in which illegal aliens can challenge their arrest and detainment. Already, Biden has implemented sanctuary country orders whereby about nine-in-ten illegal aliens, who would typically be arrested by ICE and deported, now face no threat of arrest and deportation until they are convicted of an aggravated felony or found to be a national security threat. The review process will mean that illegal aliens can challenge their arrest and detainment if they believe they do not meet the convicted aggravated felon, terrorist, gang member, or national security threat standards . As a result, the limited number of illegal aliens arrested and detained by ICE will now be able to contest their arrests through this additional route. “It’s as if the Biden people are more intent on reversing every single immigration enforcement action that the Trump administration took, no matter how appropriate or routine, and no matter the cost to taxpayers nor how illogical to reverse it,” the Center for Immigration Studies’ Director of Policy Jessica Vaughan told Breitbart News. “It’s an insult to legal immigrants,” Vaughan said. As Breitbart News reported, Biden’s sanctuary country orders are helping arrested illegal aliens avoid arrest and deportation by ICE. Instead, local law enforcement officials are having to release illegal aliens arrested for crimes back into their communities. John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at [email protected] Follow him on Twitter here . ...
