Don’t Let Dems Make Deporting Illegal Aliens Complicated
The piece argues that Democratic leaders recently issued an open letter outlining ten conditions for additional DHS funding, wich the author contends is a intentional effort to obstruct deportations rather than bolster immigration enforcement. The author, Eddie Scarry of The Federalist, asserts that Democrats’ stated goal of “working families” is undermined by policies that would complicate or delay removal of illegal entrants and expand legal challenges.
Key reforms highlighted (many of which the author считает would hinder deportations):
– Require verification of citizenship before detaining someone, and expand access to an attorney for those in detention.
– Ensure immediate access to legal counsel and address concerns about protracted judicial appeals.
– Prohibit ICE operations near sensitive locations, including election centers and courthouses.
– Implement body camera requirements for ICE agents (one of the less controversial items).
– Mandate that agents verify residency status before arrests of unkown individuals.
– Remove masks from agents and other steps seen as limiting operations.
The article argues that,despite some proposals that might be reasonable in isolation,the overall package is designed to block or slow deportations and to push for administrative or legal protections that would reduce enforcement effectiveness. It contends that these demands reflect a broader Democratic stance of favoring open borders and overcomplicating the immigration process.
Eddie Scarry is identified as the author, with a note about his background and links to more of his work. The piece is framed within broader debates on immigration policy and law enforcement, and it uses the cited letter and proposals to argue that Democrats are not genuinely committed to deportations.
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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