Surprise! "Republican" Senators "Negotiate" a "Deal" on Immigration That Includes, Get This, More Immigration and No More Security
Update: It's Even Worse

I'm about to just defect from this party and never, ever vote for it again.

The only good thing is that Speaker Johnson replied "absolutely not" to this deal -- but what can a razor-thin House majority do when the entire Republican Party is Corporate Open Borders?

According to the Immigration Accountability Project, the proposed Senate deal would:

Increase green cards by 50,000/year

Work permits for adult children of H-1B holders

Immediate work permits to every illegal alien released from custody

Taxpayer-funded lawyers to certain UACs and mentally incompetent aliens

Expulsion authority for a limited number of days only if encounters exceed 5K/day over a seven-day period

Restrict parole for those who enter without authorization between ports of entry

Johnson has told the Senate that the House-passed H.R. 2 border security bill must be the baseline of a deal.

He says that the provisions of the House bill are crafted to work together to fix the problem, and that removal of one or more of the major provisions would render the bill ineffective at stopping the flow of migrants.

I've had it. The endless betrayals disguised as mere "failures."

It's enough. The "Republicans" are just the Democrats who want to do more overt favors for their liberal corporate donors.

I'm done. I'm done. Let it burn. I'm going to vote for Democrats -- at least they'll bear the burden for the collapse.

I am now a Democrat for tactical purposes. I am tired of Failure Theater. I am tired of betrayal after betrayal after betrayal.

You want to just serve the liberal corporate leadership, Republicans? Fine. Keep taking their filthy bribes. And you'll see how many votes they can actually deliver.

Meanwhile, blue states are blue states are spending taxpayer money on free health care for illegals, even those illegals who didn't even bother getting an asylum hearing date.

Left-leaning states around the U.S. have begun expanding healthcare options for illegal immigrants, with some of them not being required to show important papers such as green cards.

California is the most recent state to implement policies that offer health insurance to all illegal immigrants in the state through its program, Medi-Cal, the state's version of Medicaid.

In the past, illegal immigrants in the state were not qualified to get comprehensive health insurance, but could only get emergency services under Medi-Cal, according to ABC News. California state Sen. Maria Durazo said about 700,000 illegal immigrants between ages 26 and 49 are eligible for full coverage.

"This historic investment speaks to California's commitment to health care as a human right," Durazo said in a statement, using the phrase "undocumented residents" to describe the recipients.

Last week, California state Rep. Bill Essayli introduced legislation to revoke all taxpayer funding of healthcare for illegal immigrants.

"It is unconscionable to spend billions of taxpayer dollars to give universal healthcare to illegal immigrants when our own citizens cannot afford their own healthcare on top of historic inflation and the highest cost of living in the nation," Essayli wrote on the social media platform, X.

Update: It gets better and better, writes Amber Duke.

Some details of the latest congressional border deal, negotiated by Republican senator James Lankford and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, dropped Saturday. Conservatives didn't have high hopes for negotiations, but the reported deal is worse than imagined.

The Senate has been tight-lipped about discussions, but Rosemary Jenks, government relations director at the Immigration Accountability Project, says sources familiar with the negotiations have leaked details to her. The current framework of the deal reportedly involves expanding legal immigration and providing greater incentives to illegal immigrants in exchange for slight changes to border policy.

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CBS News has also reported that border talks have expanded in recent days to include Afghan evacuees. In exchange for these policy changes, Republicans would get tighter asylum laws, which means immigrants would have to meet a higher standard to qualify, and expedited deportations of families with children.

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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell reportedly told GOP senators in a meeting earlier this week that they ought to vote for the Schumer-Lankford deal because they wouldn't get anything during a Trump presidency. He also allegedly described it as a "good deal". It will be a non-starter for many in the House, since it does not meaningfully address border security and seems more focused on left-wing priorities related to faster processing times and more opportunities for legal immigrants. It'd be hard to argue that the proposal would lead to any significant reduction in illegal crossings, since the incentives for those who make it into the US still exist. In fact, handing out work permits to those who are caught and released would arguably make the problem worse. Not to mention that setting the threshold for expedited removal at 5,000 crossings/day or 150,000 a month means codifying crisis levels.

In other words, the "deal" sets a minimum level of illegal immigration which will be treated as normal and permitted. This level is higher than the maximum monthly illegal immigration under Trump.

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