ISessions: Border security amendment would not hire
agents until 2017
Breitbart – Kerry Picket –
6/21/2013
The Schumer-Corker-Hoeven
amendment doesn’t change the bill’s amnesty first framework. Instead it goes
even further and creates an automatic amnesty for future illegal aliens.
Section 2302 says if you overstay your visa in the future you can still apply
for a green card and become a citizen. It is permanent lawlessness. Joined with
existing language that restricts future enforcement, it guarantees unending
illegal immigration.
Contrary to their rhetoric
there is no border surge. The Secretary [of Homeland Security] doesn’t even
have to start hiring new border patrol agents until 2017, and the amendment
only gives her until 2021 to increase the number by 20,000. According to the
National Association of Former Border Patrol Agents, this hiring process could
take up to 20 years. Much like the 2006 law requiring a 700-mile border fence,
it’s never going to happen.
To raise money, the
amendment increases fees on visas for legal immigrants, but keeps the same low
fees and fines for those applying for amnesty – favoring illegal over legal
immigrants. Under the 2007 comprehensive immigration bill, amnesty applicants
had to pay up to $8,000 – vastly more than the fines in the current plan which
total only $2,000 and are subject to numerous waivers. The Gang has repeatedly
claimed their bill is completely paid for by fees. However, under the
Schumer-Corker-Hoeven amendment, the American taxpayers are on the hook for $38
billion.
The amendment—created with
the help of both Sens. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Bob Menendez (D-NJ), among
other 'Gang of Eight' members—is expected to come to a vote Monday. Current
supporters of the measure believe it will draw more Senators over to their side.
However, Sessions' statement declares that lawmakers have only a few days to
analyze the measure and its effectiveness.
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