Sen. Ted Cruz
(R-TX (CR 93% A) introduced legislation on Wednesday that would forbid the
Obama administration from using fees paid by legal immigrants to fund Obama’s
executive amnesty for illegal aliens.
The Immigration
Slush Fund Elimination Act would stop the executive branch from using fees
collected from legal immigrants who obeyed U.S. immigration law to pay for
the ongoing illegal alien naturalization surge. Thanks to the million or
so legal aliens flocking to America every year, that’s a lot of cash. Cruz
notes that USCIS Chief Financial Officer Joseph Moore can lay claim to
nearly $1 billion in application fees. Cruz’s bill would return the purse strings
back into Congress’s hands — and perhaps most importantly, stop the White House
from ramping up legal immigration and issuing more and more fees in order
to grant more illegal aliens amnesty.
Legal
immigrants can wait up to ten years to become legalized and pay thousands of
dollars in fees. Once Obama enacted his DACA executive amnesty order in 2012,
wait times for legal immigrants tripled.
“America has
always been a land of refuge and opportunity for those seeking freedom, and we
should champion legal immigration,” Cruz said in a statement. “Ronald Reagan
referred to legal immigrants, immigrants like my father, as Americans by
choice. The federal government should not be in the business of looting the wallets
of those who followed the law and came here legally to fund the President’s
illegal and unconstitutional amnesty. This bill will cut off DHS’s credit card
and put Congress back in charge of funding the agencies responsible for
immigration.”
In typical Obama
fashion, amnesty is funded by a wealth transfer from the law-abiding to the
law-breaking. A Mexican man who applies for U.S. citizenship and goes through
the normal process subsidizes his Mexican neighbor who darted across the
border, maybe threw a few rocks at border patrol, and lives in a sanctuary city while waiting for amnesty.
Both are
legalized; Mexican man number one is poorer than his illegal cousin thanks to
the fees he paid, and both of them work for lowered wages while voting for more government spending. It’s a win-win for Democrats and big business.
Email Katie at kmchugh@breitbart.com.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/06/20/ted-cruz-introduces-bill-to-drain-amnesty-slush-fund-subsidized-by-legal-immigrants/
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