Amnesty? Senator Schumer Chairs Comprehensive Immigration Reform Hearing Today

Senator “Chuck” Schumer (D. N.Y.) will chair a hearing on Comprehensive Immigration Reform later today, called “Can We Do It and How?” If past is prologue, with Mr. Schumer crafting immigration reform expect amnesty and a policy that may ultimately hurt America.

Why? Because Senator Schumer’s early leadership role to fix America’s immigration system arguably contributed to the broken system that afflicts America today.

Recall it was in 1986 when President Ronald Reagan signed the far-reaching and ineffective Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. Schumer, the then little known Democratic congressman was singled out by the President for his critical work in negotiating a compromise for agricultural workers that gave life to this formerly dead bill. More here:

What followed the 1986 bill’s passage was amnesty for millions of illegal aliens and a policy that failed to stop or reduce the number of illegal immigrants coming to America. Today’s wide-ranging estimates vary from 12-20 million illegal aliens.

But there’s more. As Mr. Schumer rose to be among Washington’s most prominent politicians, he along with other long-serving lawmakers’ dereliction of duty under both Democrat and Republican administrations allowed America’s immigration agency, the United States Citizenship & Immigration Service, to amass a twenty-year backlog of legal immigrant applications which made legal immigration a nifty sound-bite but a heart wrenching exercise in futility for millions of law abiding immigrants. As previously reported, these long waits, according to a Homeland Security Threat Assessment Report, encourage illegal immigration. Worse, this agency’s inefficiency put America’s national security in jeopardy as it created a pathway for crime and corruption to flourish. See story here.

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