Don’t Let Dems Make Deporting Illegal Aliens Complicated
An opinion piece by Eddie Scarry in The Federalist argues that Democratic leaders’ open letter outlining 10 conditions for more DHS funding reveals a strategy to hinder deportations rather then facilitate them. The author contends that Republicans should view the letter as a form of political posturing that overcomplicates the process of removing illegal entrants.
Key points include:
– Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries called for “common sense” immigration reforms tied to additional DHS funding, claiming they want to reduce chaos and support working families.
– the piece asserts many of the proposed demands are explicitly designed to block deportations, such as requiring verification of non-citizen status before detention, guaranteeing immediate access to an attorney, and limiting judicial appeals.
– Other proposed limits include restricting ICE operations near “sensitive locations” (including election centers and courthouses) and removing masks on agents, which the author argues would enable harassment and undermine enforcement.
– While the author concedes a couple of proposals, like body-camera requirements, might be reasonable, he argues the bulk of the demands are aimed at preventing deportations rather than expediting them.
– The article portrays Democrats as dishonest about their immigration goals and suggests their true position is to constrain deportations, not to promote them.
The piece ends with background on Eddie Scarry and links to his other work.
It’s useful, if unserious, for congressional Democrat leaders this week to have issued a list of demands in exchange for votes to fund the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees immigration law enforcement. The administration should see it as a reminder that the default position of Democrats is “pretend to support deporting illegal aliens while overcomplicating the process so as to render it impossible.”
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, both of New York, published the demands in an open letter on Wednesday, detailing 10 things they say are needed to strike a deal on more DHS funding. “Federal immigration agents cannot continue to cause chaos in our cities,” the letter said, “while using taxpayer money that should be used to make life more affordable for working families.”
That line right there alone exposes Democrats as dishonest. They have no interest in “working families,” as literally every policy they champion, including open borders, is catastrophic for all of them. In any event, they went on to write that it was “critical” to “come together” for the purpose of agreeing on “common sense reforms” to ICE before Democrats would consent to more funding.
Admittedly, among the 10 proposals, a couple aren’t unreasonable, even if Democrats would surely poison-pill whatever legislation attempted to include them. The demands include body camera requirements, for example, which the administration has already initiated. But the bulk of them are explicitly intended to prevent as many illegal alien deportations as possible, starting with the first one, which insists that ICE agents “require verification that a person is not a U.S. citizen before holding them in immigration detention.”
Agents already ask for proof of legal residency before making arrests of unknown subjects — something Democrats oppose! Relatedly, another one of the demands is for ICE detention centers to “require immediate access to a person’s attorney.” Both ultimatums serve to reinforce Democrats’ favorite method of blocking deportations: endless judicial appeals. Behind every illegal alien’s judicial appeal is an army of pro bono lawyers funded by left-wing nonprofits whose sole purpose for existing is to keep as many foreigners in the U.S. as possible.
Also on the Democrat wish list are imperatives that ICE agents cease wearing masks and be forbidden from conducting operations near “sensitive locations,” including election centers — weird, I wonder why! — and courthouses. Both of those should be non-starters for any Republican in Congress with two brain cells.
The masks are only necessary because Democrat activists have made a sport out of hunting down ICE agents to harass and assault them in the streets and at their homes. Forcing their removal would only serve to make that easier. And the suggestion that law enforcement be forbidden from public legal facilities is preposterous. If an illegal alien can’t be immediately detained following a final court order for removal, there is no point to any of this.
But, of course, there is no point to any of this. Democrats aren’t serious about supporting any deportations.
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