• MEDIA: Government Funding Bill a Mixed Bag on Immigration

    From John D Groenveld@21:1/5 to All on Thu Mar 17 13:18:07 2022
    Morris Dees and $PLC certified deplorable, Robert Law, on the
    failure of the Cheap Labor Lobby to insert language opening the
    spigot wider for scab workers from the top two quintiles: <URL:https://cis.org/Law/Government-Funding-Bill-Mixed-Bag-Immigration>
    | But the bill does include a few problematic immigration provisions.
    | First, Congress provides money for the Biden administration to
    | continue allowing Afghans into the country through the Special
    | Immigrant Visa (SIV), or "humanitarian parole". This is problematic
    | because Congress already allocated $7 billion for this purpose in
    | December and there is no way that money has already been spent.
    | Additionally, previous stopgap funding bills adopted an overly broad
    | definition of who can qualify as an Afghan parolee. Tragically, some
    | of these visa-less, and largely un-vetted, Afghans have gone on to
    | commit heinous crimes in American communities once DHS released them
    | from custody. Additionally, Congress yet again delegated authority
    | to DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to increase the H-2B cap. While
    | many members of Congress from both parties champion this cheap labor
    | pipeline, lawmakers continue to punt the matter to the executive
    | branch instead of revising the law to set the H-2B cap at the
    | "right" number.

    Will Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy impeach Lloyd Austin, Tony
    Blinken and Alejandro Mayorkas for importing future Omar Mateens?

    John
    groenveld@acm.org
    --
    "Wolf did little to secure funding for the border wall. We had to
    wait until the end of the Trump admin to see how little got done: 80
    miles of new wall. Trump is campaigning now on doing what he said he
    did already got done in 2020 with guys like Wolf fumbling around. https://t.co/3eho7wHCzr" - Pedro Gonzalez <URL:https://twitter.com/emeriticus/status/1487627825721061378>

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