{"id":2463356,"date":"2025-07-18T06:59:01","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T10:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/salazar-bill-would-swap-amnesty-for-penalties-illegals-wont-pay\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T07:00:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T11:00:16","slug":"salazar-bill-would-swap-amnesty-for-penalties-illegals-wont-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/salazar-bill-would-swap-amnesty-for-penalties-illegals-wont-pay\/","title":{"rendered":"Salazar Bill Would Swap Amnesty For Penalties Illegals Won&#8217;t Pay"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsalazar-bill-would-swap-amnesty-for-penalties-illegals-wont-pay%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2463356&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article criticizes Republican Representative Maria Elvira Salazar&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-slams-biden-admin-sweeping-immigration-reform\/\" title=\"GOP slams Biden admin. sweeping immigration reform\">proposed immigration bill<\/a>,known as the &#8220;Dignity Act,&#8221; which offers amnesty to illegal immigrants in exchange for paying a $7,000 restitution fee over seven years. The author argues that the fee is unrealistic adn unlikely to be paid by most illegal immigrants, who have already been living in the U.S. without penalty and are unlikely to suddenly comply with new rules. The article accuses Salazar of being out of touch with the realities of illegal immigration and of promoting amnesty for political reasons, despite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/steve-scalise-predicts-he-will-have-the-votes-to-secure-speakers-gavel\/\" title=\"Scalise confident in securing speaker&#039;s gavel with enough votes.\">recent legislation aimed<\/a> at securing the southern border. It also highlights concerns that while federal benefits would be barred, illegal immigrants under the bill could still receive state benefits, perhaps leading to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/what-we-really-need-to-do-to-make-college-affordable\/\" title=\"What We Really Need To Do To Make College Affordable\">increased federal spending<\/a> later. the piece strongly opposes Salazar&#8217;s bill, dismissing it as ineffective and unfair to American citizens.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-body body-md bdr-top-black pt-30\">\n<div class=\"row justify-content-center\">\n<div class=\"col-12\">\n<figure class=\"article-thumbnail mb-30 mb-sm-60\">\n<div class=\"article-thumbnail-caption d-flex align-items-center justify-content-md-end label-xs mt-15\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-camera me-10\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Image Credit<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TW_UrIbrzRo\" target=\"_blank\">Office of rep. 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Maria Salazar: If her <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/07\/17\/america-is-not-a-nation-of-immigrants\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">proposed immigration bill<\/a> passes, she has to personally cover the cost for every illegal alien who doesn&rsquo;t voluntarily pay the laughable $7,000 &ldquo;restitution&rdquo; she&rsquo;s offering them in exchange for amnesty. Oh, and they all need to move to her district.<\/p>\n<p>Salazar has been on cable news all week promoting her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2025\/07\/localimages\/8c6c9698-e493-4d4b-93b3-4e7651290410.png687a28f730cb2.png?rdr=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&ldquo;Dignity Act,&rdquo;<\/a> which would give illegal aliens protection to stay in the United States if they, among other things, pay the paltry sum over the course of seven years. That&rsquo;s how little Salazar thinks of her fellow Americans: Lawbreakers who barged into the country uninvited get to live with us in exchange for a few thousand dollars that there is no reason to believe a single one of them would ever pay.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2 d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1931015531\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1463670073398-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Why would they? They&rsquo;ve been living here all along with no penalty at all. But she expects them to pay something now? Salazar should go play in traffic.<\/p>\n<p>At the risk of giving Salazar&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/07\/17\/republican-says-her-amnesty-bill-will-help-illegals-treat-america-like-a-piggy-bank-forever\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">trash bill<\/a> the <em>dignity<\/em> of considering it at all, it&rsquo;s ridiculous to assume that people who break the law every single day by being here would instantly become sticklers for rules. Salazar either doesn&rsquo;t know how this works or she doesn&rsquo;t care.<\/p>\n<p>All migrants who illegally enter the U.S. have a simple thought process: They know they&rsquo;re not supposed to do it, but breaking the law and evading deportation is worth the risk. Each day they have that same thought.<\/p>\n<p>Here&rsquo;s what would happen if they were mandated to pay $7,000: Many of them, probably most, would continue to have that same thought. They wouldn&rsquo;t pay, and it would be worth the risk.<\/p>\n<p>And then what? The same thought process starts all over again. They&rsquo;re here illegally, they know they shouldn&rsquo;t be, and it&rsquo;s worth the risk.<\/p>\n<p>Salazar surely understands this, but like many Republicans before her, she wants to <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >grant illegal aliens amnesty<\/a> for any number of reasons, including that she simply believes Americans owe something to foreigners. That&rsquo;s not me reading into her heart. She said so at a press conference promoting her bill <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/theblaze\/status\/1945876036941500538\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">on Thursday<\/a>. &ldquo;Some of the most shameful moments in our past as a country,&rdquo; she said, &ldquo;relates to how we have treated immigrants who are not criminals.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Yes, she&rsquo;s that terrible.<\/p>\n<p>Also in her miserable proposal is a fake mandate that no illegal alien protected by it can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-republicans-dont-seem-serious-about-balancing-the-budget\/\" title=\"House Republicans Don\u2019t Seem Serious About Balancing the Budget\">receive federal benefits<\/a>. Which is another way of saying: Illegal aliens protected by Salazar&rsquo;s bill would get state benefits, and those states would be reimbursed by some massive future federal spending bill. That&rsquo;s always how it goes.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s been less than one month since Congress passed and President Trump signed into law major legislation that intends to effectively seal shut the southern border to would-be unauthorized entrants and turbocharge deportation efforts. Did Salazar miss work that day? Because she&rsquo;s acting like there&rsquo;s a yearning among voters across the country to make sure illegal aliens get something nice.<\/p>\n<p>She can toss her bill into the Rio Grande.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">      Eddie Scarry is the D.C. columnist at The Federalist and author of &#8220;<a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.com\/Liberal-Misery-Hateful-Everything-Everyone\/dp\/1637584350\">Liberal Misery: How the Hateful Left Sucks Joy Out of Everything and Everyone<\/a>.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-author mt-30 mt-sm-60 pt-30 bdr-top-bold-black\">\n<div class=\"row g-0 align-items-center\">\n<div class=\"col-12 col-md-6\">\n<div class=\"article-author-profile d-flex align-items-center justify-content-center justify-content-md-start\">\n<div class=\"article-author-details\">\n<div class=\"label-md\">Eddie Scarry<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-author-twitter label-sm d-flex align-items-center mt-10\">             <i class=\"mdi mdi-twitter me-5\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>             <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Visit on Twitter<\/span>            <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eScarry\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"text-decoration-none\">@eScarry<\/a>           <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-12 col-md-6 d-flex justify-content-center justify-content-md-end mt-15 mt-md-0\">        <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/author\/eddiescarry\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">More Articles<\/a>     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-tags bdr-top-black mt-30 mt-sm-60 pt-15 pt-md-45\">\n<ul class=\"list-unstyled d-flex flex-wrap align-items-center mb-0 mx-n10 p-0\">\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/amnesty\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">amnesty<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/congress\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Congress<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/dignity-act\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Dignity Act<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Donald Trump<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/federal-benefits\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">federal benefits<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/illegal-immigration\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Illegal Immigration<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/immigration\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Immigration<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/maria-salazar\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Maria Salazar<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/penalties\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">penalties<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/republicans\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Republicans<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image Credit Office of Rep. 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