Border Security
Rand Paul to Introduce DACA Compromise
On Tuesday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that President Donald Trump is rescinding unconstitutional protections for DACA recipients with a six month delay, and Senator Rand Paul already has a proposal to maximize Republicans benefiting from an inevitable compromise.
“The program known as DACA that was effectuated under the Obama administration is being rescinded,” Sessions announced on Tuesday.
Sessions added that the executive branch under Obama “deliberately sought to achieve what the legislative branch specifically refused to authorize on multiple occasions.”
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In a comment about the DACA announcement, Senator Paul announced that he would like to see the receipients stay in the country, with some major immigration reform.
“President Obama’s executive order was illegal. However, this is a real problem we should solve in a bipartisan fashion,” Paul said in a comment provided to Big League Politics. “There are ways to make sure people who have been here for many years since childhood are allowed to stay, including reducing immigration in other areas and reforming it. Congress will need to address this problem.”
While Senator Paul agrees with Trump rescinding the order on the grounds that it is unconstitutional, he is against deporting those who have benefited from the program — and doesn’t think it would ever happen in the first place. Therefore, the Kentucky senator has decided to try and pair a compromise with funding for border security and limits on immigration.
According to sources close to Paul, the senator is planning to introduce a bill or an amendment that will allow current DACA recipients to stay, but will subtract the number from the immigration limits for a number of years so that there is no net increase.
While many may immediately say this is unfair to those in line to immigrate to the United States properly, Paul’s plan would not allow DACA recipients to gain citizenship — they would simply be allowed to remain here and continue to work. Paul also believes that all welfare should be cut off for those who are not US citizens.
While his plan may not be quite what Trump called for during his campaign, with Republicans like John McCain and Paul Ryan constantly bending over for the Democrats and supporting amnesty, Senator Paul hopes that serious immigration reform can be part of the deal. Even Senator Tom Cotton, a top immigration hawk, is supporting legalization in the DACA dealings.
“No chance, zero, that these people aren’t legalized,” a source close to Paul told Big League Politics. “Question turns to how to handle citizenship and welfare — and what serious reforms could be added as part of the deal.”
Border Security
Biden DHS Secretary to Illegal Immigrants: “We’re Not Saying ‘Don’t Come,’ We’re Saying ‘Don’t Come Now'”
Did he just endorse illegal immigration?
Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, appeared at Monday’s White House press briefing to give an overview of what he and the DHS are doing to “replace the cruelty” of the Trump administration’s immigration processes and to take questions from reporters.
In response to a reporter’s question about how he was going to rebuild the DHS and reunite families, Mayorkas began by saying that they are “progressing every single day” on building a system to accept “asylum seekers”—read: illegal immigrants—through ports of entry.
“We are progressing every single day. I don’t have a particular timeline, but all I can do is communicate, both to the American public and to the individuals seeking protection, that we are working around the clock seven days a week to make that timeframe as short as possible, but they need to wait. But they need to wait with a particular goal in mind. We are not saying ‘don’t come,’ we are saying ‘don’t come now,’ because we will be able to deliver a safe and orderly process to them as quickly as possible. There have been, I understand, approximately 105 families reunited in the recent past. That is through the extraordinary efforts of counsel and others in the community. We are joining with counsel, with members of the community to work on this.”
Another reporter asked Mayorkas if he thought there was a crisis at the border, to which he replied: “I think that the answer is no. I think there is a challenge at the border that we are managing, and we have our resources dedicated to managing it.” Despite the reporter’s pushback on his claim, Mayorkas reiterated that his team was working “around the clock” to address the issues confronting the DHS and that the level of illegal immigrants coming across the border constitutes a challenge, not a crisis.
Big League Politics has covered Mayorkas closely since his nomination to DHS secretary by Joe Biden. He previously said he would stop construction of the border wall and that he was unsure what he’d do with the amount of wall already built.
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