In the wee hours of Thursday morning, the Department of Homeland Security released a batshit insane press release slamming the bipartisan bill a handful of senators crafted to try to find a compromise on immigration. It was really, really insane, as in something that should never, ever be released by a functioning government agency. Here’s just a sample.
The Schumer-Rounds-Collins proposal destroys the ability of the men and women from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to remove millions of illegal aliens. It would be the end of immigration enforcement in America and only serve to draw millions more illegal aliens with no way to remove them. By halting immigration enforcement for all aliens who will arrive before June 2018, it ignores the lessons of 9/11 and significantly increases the risk of crime and terrorism.
It is an egregious violation of the four compromise pillars laid out by the President’s immigration reform framework. Instead of helping to secure the border as the President has repeatedly asked Congress to do, it would do the exact opposite and make our border far more open and porous. It would ensure a massive wave of new illegal immigration by exacerbating the pull factors caused by legal loopholes. By keeping chain migration intact, the amendment would expand the total legalized population to potentially ten million new legal aliens—simultaneously leading to undercutting the wages of American workers, threatening public safety and undermining national security.
While that has all the hallmarks of a rant from the leading white supremacist in the White House, Stephen Miller, it apparently can be attributed to an unnamed former staffer of batshit insane Tom Trancredo, at least according to South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham. The White House itself issued a slightly less inflammatory statement hours later (via email).
