The House Passed HR2: Secure the Border Act, May 2023 by (R) majority, sent to the Senate, and tabled as “extreme” by Sen. Chuck Schumer (D) without a vote.
A special small “bi-partisan” Senate team recently put together a border bill plan soon recognized as untenable for allowing entry up to 4000 “encounters” a day x 365 days = 1.46 million annually when authority “could” be activated; mandatory with a rolling average of more than 35,000 / week x 52 weeks = up to 1.82 million annually.
“The new emergency authority could be activated if border “encounters” reach a daily average of 4,000 over a period of seven days and would become mandatory once border encounters reach over 5,000 over a period of seven days or 8,500 over a single calendar day,” – excerpt from Senate Immigration Bill H.R. 815.
The current law allows zero “encounters” ( illegal entry is a felony) along with executive authority to enact stoppage action at any level.
“Got-aways,” currently about 500,000, more or less, a year, are additive and now raising terrorist red flags by the FBI. Advance migrant parole program (fly over border) migrants, estimated at around 400,000 a year, are also additive. Example: the migrant accused of sexual assault of a 15-year-old victim in Rockland.
“DHS sources told NewsNation (Cory B.) Alvarez was from Haiti, and part of the migrant parole program for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans. This program allows up to 30,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans a month to fly directly into the U.S. after being vetted and getting a sponsor,” – excerpt from the NewsNation article “Man accused of raping 15-year-old at Massachusetts migrant shelter” from March 15.
Another consequence: “Commuter communities” in Massachusetts are seeing local zoning authority superseded by the state with new added multi family demands.
Is there any wonder why cities and towns in sanctuary states are fully stressed and taxpayers are wondering how this is sustainable?
Vernon Polidoro