Should Congress Give Biden Administration More Money for Immigration?

The topic of discussion for this Constitution Monday concerns the two Houses of Congress and how they pass bills. The representatives in the House prepare their own bill, pass the bill in the House, and send it to the Senate. The senators in the Senate write a bill that has everything that they want and pass it in the Senate. Then a committee takes the House bill and the Senate bill and turns the two bills into one. The senators review, and the Senate votes on the combined bill. The representatives review, and the House votes on the combined. If both the Senate and the House pass the bill, it is sent to the President to be signed. If one or the other houses fail to pass the bill, it is reworked and sent through the process again.

Simon Hankinson published an article about the White House’s supplemental budget request. In his article, Hankinson quoted future president Cavin Coolidge as telling his father in 1910 that “it is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.” Hankinson said that the recently “reported outlines of a compromise border security del being brokered in the U.S. Senate indicate that Coolidge was correct” and compares them to tiny bones thrown into a large bowl of dog food. 

Hankinson discussed the additional “$1.3 billion” given to the “State Department to continue attracting the worldwide flow of illegal aliens to the Western Hemisphere and up to the U.S. border through its ‘Safe Mobility Offices.’” According to the supplemental budget request from the White House, the offices are to “assist and guide migrants and refugees toward authorized channels of lawful migration” – which are not lawful.

Hankinson reported that the administration also wants “another $4.5 billion for U.S. Customs and Border Protection to continue ‘processing’ more illegal aliens into the United States rather than deporting them … and to continue funding Federal Emergency Management Agency grants for nongovernmental organizations to transport and shelter illegal aliens throughout the U.S.”

According to Hankinson, the administration wants another $481 million for the Department of Health and Human Services to spend through 2025, thereby committing the next administration to continue NGO grants for ‘wraparound services’ for ‘refugees’ and unaccompanied minors.”

Congress should reject these border insecurity requests rather than continue to fund the demise of our nation’s sovereignty.

To add insult to injury, some of the proposals being floated in the Senate would codify Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’ open border tools and bind his successors to abide by them.

Congress should reject these border insecurity requests rather than continue to fund the demise of our nation’s sovereignty.

First, the bill would give illegal aliens work permits immediately when they are released at the border – as 85% or more have been recently, according to Mayorkas himself. Illegal aliens want to be allowed to enter the U.S., stay here under any pretense, and work. Few of them are qualified for asylum, but they know the system will take years to process their cases and prove that they aren’t qualified, and when it does, the chances of their being deported are low….

Second, the proposal would reportedly stop the Department of Homeland Security from giving parole to aliens who cross into the United States between ports of entry. Sounds good, but that’s like enforcing vehicle speed limits only where there are no paved roads – because Biden’s bogus programs actually allow inadmissible aliens to fly to U.S. airports and then apply for parole.

There is much more to Hankinson’s article, which you can find here. Whether or not you choose to link to the article and read it, you should be aware that America is in trouble over its illegal immigration problem and the Senate does not want to fix the problem. They have had the House version of a bill for six or eight months and have done nothing. Hankinson concluded his article with these paragraphs. 

            In the end, the White House’s supplemental request for $13.6 billion to continue funding NGOs              and mass migration should be a nonstarter. The Senate shouldn’t further compound the border                crisis by also codifying Biden’s and Mayorkas’ egregious open border tactics.

If the Senate doesn’t agree to the House-passed Secure the Border Act of 2023, then Congress should follow Coolidge’s guidance and kill whatever legislation comes out of this reported Senate proposal. Then things will remain as they are, which means hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens trying – and mostly succeeding – to enter every month.

The American people will have another 10 months to see the real consequences of unlimited and unvetted immigration. Then, they can decide for themselves in November whether to continue the open borders experiment or return to historical norms where laws, not executive discretion, decide who enters and who stays.