Senate Immigration Bill 2024
Segment # 119
This is the bill that attempted to codify Biden’s open Border policy. It throws money at processing illegals rather than vetting honest asylum requests outside the US. It is a thinly disguised attempt to defraud the American public by using their money not for the services they need but for corrupt agenda of the left.
Reagan agreed to concessions for the dreamers if the Democrats would secure the border. They promised to do this but failed to follow through. In 2018 Trump proposed an immigration bill to deal with the dreamers. The Senate killed it. By Executive Order Trump secured the border. On day 1 Biden reversed Trump’s Executive Orders and opened the border to the world causing chaos in our largest cities and increased crime across the country. Now in 2024 the left is ignoring the House bill HR2 and crafting their own Immigration and Expenditure Bill. The issue has not changed since Reagan and the need to first secure the border and then to agree on a fair immigration bill is still desperately required.
You don’t need a conservative analysis of this new senate bill, just look below at the left leaning pro-immigration organization AILA who is touting this bill as a win. This bill codifies what is already happening with an open border. It throws money at processing and grants interpretive powers to the President and his agencies to legally open the border. If the Biden Administration has failed to enforce existing law, does it make any sense to give them more power in the future to follow their own agenda?
Any conservative voting for this is doing it for reasons other than fairly dealing with immigration and its associated problems. It fails to address the hardships imposed on Americans of every economic level and it spends your money to effectively lower your standard of living. For education and healthcare systems that are already failing this bill will expedite their descent into an inability to serve the public. Its wrong and its nuts.
American Immigration Lawyers Association
Policy Brief: AILA Analysis of the Border and Immigration Provisions of the “Emergency National
Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024”
Last Updated: February 5, 2024
Contact: Greg Chen at gchen@aila.org or Sharvari Dalal-Dheini at SDalal-Dheini@aila.org
With unprecedented levels of global migration and an outdated U.S. immigration system pushing more migrants to the U.S. southern border, solutions are urgently needed to reform the immigration system, bring order to the border region, and process migrants more rapidly, efficiently, and fairly. To address the border situation, the Senate’s emergency spending bill includes the most extensive border funding and security measures proposed in decades, perhaps ever. This bill provides massive resources to the Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) and other agencies on the order of $20 billion, mostly targeted to the border. The bill creates new executive powers that will restrict and reduce the flow of migrants and asylum seekers at the southern border. If enacted, the border enforcement bill will accelerate asylum processing and rapidly expel many migrants from the United States. The bill also takes important first steps in expanding or affirming existing legal pathways to alleviate pressures that force people to the border. It is undeniable that the rapid and truncated procedures will undermine the fairness and thoroughness of asylum screenings and endanger asylum seekers by pushing them back to unsafe and violent conditions. More migrants, including people needing humanitarian protection, will be detained or placed under ICE supervision while waiting for hearings. The bill’s new federal expulsion authority, which enables the rapid
deportation of asylum seekers entering between ports of entry, will result in large campments of migrants waiting on the Mexican side of the border, fostering crime and violence in the region and making the border more chaotic and dangerous, rather than safe and orderly. Efforts to control the flow of migrants must include a protective process that requires coordination with Mexico to ensure that anyone having to wait at the border for processing will be safe from smugglers and cartels, and that they have a meaningful chance to claim asylum as our laws require. In addition to urgently needed funding that will help make the entire immigration system work faster and more efficiently, the bill includes several improvements:
● One-time infusion of 250,000 green cards for families and workers to be distributed over five years to reduce immigrant visa backlogs.
● Recognition of the President’s authority to grant humanitarian parole on a case by case basis through programs such as those created for Ukrainians, Cubans, Haitians, Venezuelans and Nicaraguans – critical legal pathways which also reduce people coming to the U.S. border.
● Legal representation paid-for by the government for young children.
● Pathway to permanent residence for our Afghan allies fleeing the Taliban.
● Protection for the children of high-skill temporary workers from falling out of status and losing their opportunity to become lawful permanent residents simply because of their age
Congress must acknowledge that the bill imposes severe hardships on asylum seekers and that the United States will unfairly turn away more people who qualify for asylum under U.S. laws. The border can be managed effectively with emergency funding and solutions that do not compromise fundamental fairness or the bedrock humanitarian principles of U.S. immigration law.
Key Provisions
● Provides emergency funding. $20 billion for DHS, Justice Department, State Department and other agencies. The urgently needed funds will increase border management and migrant processing capacity as well as commit resources to reduce the excessive case backlogs that are delaying employment, family and humanitarian visas. Key areas funded:
○ Port of entry (POE) capacity and CBP officers
○ Asylum officers and immigration judge teams
○ Consular processing and visa processing
○ Combating Fentanyl and other narcotics smuggling
○ $930 million for cities to provide temporary assistance to migrants, and $300 million
more conditioned on DHS meeting metrics which will delay use of funds.
○ International migration and refugee processing, including Safe Mobility Offices
○ The bill also includes $3.2 billion to expand ICE detention capacity to an estimated
50,000 beds and an additional $210 million for U.S. Marshals detention costs. AILA
opposes these increases as unnecessary and unjustified.
● Creates a new border expulsion authority. This new expulsion provision either authorizes or
mandates that DHS bar access to asylum and rapidly expel anyone apprehended between ports of entry. The authority would be triggered when border encounters reach set levels:
○ When daily levels reach 4,000 (over a 7-day average), DHS has discretion to use this
authority; when encounters reach 5,000 (over a 7-day average), or 8,500 on any 1
calendar day, DHS is mandated to use it.
○ This authority must be in effect for a minimum of 90 calendar days and a maximum of
270 days in its first year of implementation. In the third year, this maximum decreases to
a period of 180 days total.
○ The expulsion authority does not “shut down” the border. Ports of entry remain open for
people with U.S. passports and visas, and in addition, processing at least 1,400 people
daily.
○ This expulsion power is likely to foster crime and violence at the border rather than
improve order and security. Large numbers of asylum seekers will wait up to a year on
the Mexican side of the border in unsafe, unsanitary conditions. As was the case with
Remain in Mexico and under Title 42, cartels will increase human smuggling operations
and compete for control of border crossings. This will jeopardize the security of
Americans in U.S. border communities.
○ As yet, Mexico has not agreed to accept people the United States would expel under this
authority. Mexico’s asylum process is unable to process and provide consistent screening
and protection for those expelled from the U.S. under this authority.
○ When the expulsion authority is triggered, people apprehended between POEs are
excluded from asylum, but they can seek Withholding of Removal or Convention Against
Torture protection if they proactively request it (also known as a “shout-test”).
○ There is no judicial review of removal orders issued under the expulsion authority.
2AILA Doc. No. 24020433. (Posted 2/5/24)
We are hearing that your status as asylum seekers will be established by answering a few basic questions that are in the bill. I am certain in the days ahead we will hear of many more reasons cloaked in legislation speak that will give us more reason not to trust our legislators to represent us.
