(Tony Sifert, Headline USA) Sens. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., and Dick Durbin, D-Ill. have planned to assemble a “bipartisan” group of Senators to discuss comprehensive immigration reform when Congress reconvenes after its two-week recess, according to The Hill.
“We want to sit at a table and ask members who have immigration, bipartisan immigration bills, to come and propose those bills to us and see if we can build a 60-vote plus margin for a group of bills,” Durbin said. “It may not be possible, but I think it is.”
Durbin suggested that the group wouldn’t attempt to “start crafting a proposal from scratch,” but would instead “focus on looking at bills that have already been introduced.”
The most prominent piece of failed legislation is the Gang of Eight-sponsored Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013 (S744), which contained the infamous Path to Citizenship proposal.
That horrific piece of legislation was “tantamount to an immediate, unconditional amnesty, and thus [would] lead to the same moral hazard — attracting further illegal immigration — as every previous amnesty in the U.S. and Europe,” wrote Heather Mac Donald with the Manhattan Institute.
Tillis, who recently introduced legislation that would delay the Biden administration’s ability to rescind its Title 42 authority to expel illegal immigrants during a public health crisis, suggested that any immigration reform discussion had to include “DACA, border security, and . . . asylum reform.”
Tillis was one of the chief architects of 2017’s DACA-lite SUCCEED Act, which according to NumbersUSA would have granted amnesty to “young illegal aliens who meet certain requirements.”
While Biden’s decision to end Title 42 “sparked bipartisan backlash on Capitol Hill,” Democrats hope RINOs like Tillis will help rescue their unpopular and anti-American immigration agenda.
A recent Rasmussen Reports poll showed that “55% of Likely U.S. Voters believe the problem of illegal immigration is getting worse” and that 50% blame has handled the immigration crisis poorly.
