The Republicans have been trying to pass a bill to provide humanitarian services for the illegal aliens that the Democrats pretend they care about. They have voted it down at least a half a dozen times.
Now, they are trying to load up the bill with riders they know Republicans cannot live with because they want to throw the blame on Republicans for its failure. The amendments are aimed to make it impossible to stop the flow of illegal aliens into the country.
These amendments would effectively do away with the current weak immigration laws and replace them with no immigration law at all.
One rider allegedly prevents border agents from conducting asylum interviews, a direct challenge to one of the administration’s plans to speed up the vetting process for migrants claiming asylum. U.S. officials said in May they intended to train border agents to conduct “credible fear” interviews
Another rider reportedly pushed by Democrats would block HHS from sharing information about sponsors or potential sponsors of child migrants with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which Republicans say would prevent HHS from reporting child smugglers and traffickers for potential removal.
Similarly, the government would have to notify illegal immigrants in advance that their illegal status will not be used against them if they sponsor and bring an unaccompanied child to the U.S. That child will also be delivered to them without “any reservations.”
“So we’d not only be protecting the child smuggling loop, we’d be advertising the child smuggling loop to illegal aliens throughout the United States who would in turn then be able to have confidence they could pay a smuggler in a transnational criminal organization to smuggle a child into the country that we would then tell them we would deliver to them regardless of the law breaking involved,” a Republican source said.