Don’t Let Dems Make Deporting Illegal Aliens Complicated
the Federalist article by eddie Scarry argues that Democratic leaders’ demands for additional DHS funding amount to a strategy designed to impede deportations by overcomplicating the immigration process.It centers on an open letter from Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries outlining 10 conditions they say are needed to reach a deal on DHS funding, insisting that immigration enforcement cannot continue to cause “chaos” while using taxpayer money.
Key points:
– The piece portrays the 10-item list as a means to block deportations and push for “common sense reforms” to ICE, rather than to genuinely support stronger enforcement.
– Among the proposals, some are framed as reasonable (e.g., body camera requirements), but most are described as designed to delay or prevent deportations.
– Specific criticized demands include: requiring proof that a person is not a U.S.citizen before detaining them, mandatory immediate access to an attorney for detainees, and restrictions on ICE operations near “sensitive locations” such as election centers and courthouses.
– The author argues these measures woudl undermine deportations and enable protracted judicial appeals, supported, in the piece’s view, by pro bono lawyers funded by left-wing nonprofits.
– The article suggests Democrats’ real aim is to protect illegal immigration and to self-justify open-border policies, rather than to prioritize working families.
– Eddie scarry, the columnist behind the piece, is identified with his role at The Federalist and his book, Traitors: The Democrat Party’s Collapse into Anti-American Filth, with a note on his Twitter presence and author page.
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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