Do Democrats Love Illegal Aliens More Than They Love Big Government?

Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD.) traveled to a prison in San Salvadore, El Salvador, on April 17 to meet with illegal immigrant Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia who had been deported back to his home country of El Salvador. Other Democrats made such a fuss about Garcia being deported that the Trump administration brought him back to the United States. Now he is slated to be deported to Africa because he complained about being deported to other nations.

From the Democrat reaction to the deportation of Garcia and other illegal immigrants, it looks like they love illegal immigrants more than they love Americans. Now Democrats have shut down the U.S. government to object to a “clean” continuing resolution passed by the Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives on September 19 with a vote of 217-212. It looks like Deroy Murdock may be correct in his statement, “Democrats love illegal aliens more than Big Government itself.” 

This continuing resolution would have kept the government open through November 21, which would enable representatives and senators to work out compromises – the way that democracy is supposed to work. Government funding ends annually at the end of the fiscal year, which is September 30, unless it has been refunded. This year it was not refunded, so the lights went out. Murdock explained the situation as follows:

Republicans performed their responsibility to finance Uncle Sam’s activities, from Social Security to the Secret Service. They voted “yea” by a 216-2 margin, with 99.1% of Republicans present agreeing to keep the federal doors open.

House Democrats, however, voted almost unanimously “nay” – 1-to-210. Less than 0.5% chose to maintain federal services.

Regarding the House bill, 43 of 45 Republican senators who voted (95.5%) voted “Yea.” (Alaska’s Lisa Murkowski and Kentucky’s Rand Paul demurred.) Within the Senate Democrat Caucus, only 1 of 47 (Pennsylvania’s John Fetterman), or 2.1%, voted to keep federal functions going. (Eight Republicans didn’t vote, but their potential “yeas” would not have yielded the 60 required for passage.)

All told, Democrats killed that continuing resolution 44-48. They also torpedoed three subsequent GOP bids to end the minority party’s intransigence. So, the Schumer Shutdown roars on.

Democrats could have kept their beloved Big Government chugging along, with tax dollars cascading into every marble palace in Washington, D.C. Federal salaries would sustain park rangers at the base of the Grand Canyon and NASA’s astronauts aboard the International Space Station. Veterans Affairs doctors would heal war wounds, just as Foreign Service officers would advance American diplomacy at U.S. Embassies worldwide. Washington’s printers would spew checks for soybean subsidies, highway construction, endangered species, law enforcement, Head Start, and atomic weapons.

Democrats could have savored this and much more that Big Government undertakes. Their sacred programs, extravagant initiatives, and lavish freebies would have flowed like Ol’ Man River.

But Democrats said, “hell, no!” to all of this because they love something even more than Big Government itself: Illegal aliens. Once merely romantic, this passion inches toward the erotic….

Among other things, Democrats’ attempted wet kiss for their illegal-alien paramours would have:

·         Renewed Medicare benefits for illegal aliens and foreign citizens (10-year cost: $5.1 billion).

·         Revived Medicaid assistance to same ($6.2 billion).

·         Restored bonuses for taxpayer-financed emergency care ($28.2 billion).

·         Resurrected Obamacare subsidies ($91.4 billion).

If enacted, tis Democrat blueprint would have handed illegal aliens and foreigners $192.8 billion in “free” taxpayer-funded health care….

And since Republicans are blockading this nearly $200 billion, decade-long raid on the Treasury, Democrats repeatedly have voted to deny American citizens basic public services.

And that’s how the Schumer Shutdown was born….