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January ?, 2022

When President Biden entered office in January, with Democratic control of the Senate and House, there was a great deal of hope from left-wing immigration activists that 2021 would be the year in which a broad pathway to citizenship for millions of illegal immigrants would be created and signed into law — but as the year ends, those hopes have so far been dashed as multiple efforts have hit the rocks.

The Biden administration released a proposal on Inauguration Day, which eventually became the U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021, and was headlined by an 8-year path to citizenship for illegal immigrants already in the country.

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It would also grant farmworkers, along with Temporary Protected Status (TPS) and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), immediate green card eligibility. They would then be eligible for citizenship three years later.

While there was a smattering of security provisions, it was significantly less than seen in past immigration reform efforts — provisions that were key in getting Republican support. The bill also envisioned processing centers set up in Central America, more immigration judges — and avenues for legal immigration, including a mass “recapturing” of family and works visas from previous years.

However, with a 50-50 Senate, Democrats recognized that it would need Republican support to gain the 60 votes to overcome the threat of a filibuster. Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., admitted that it would be a “Herculean” task to pass the reform effort.

Sure enough, with minimal border security measures in the legislation and a brewing crisis at the southern border, even Republicans who had supported reform efforts in the past balked — with Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., calling it a nonstarter.

“There are many issues I think we can work cooperatively with President-elect Biden, but a blanket amnesty for people who are here unlawfully isn’t going to be one of them,” Rubio said.

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As the bill stalled in Congress, the White House expressed openness to breaking the legislation up into individual pieces that might be able to gain Republican support, with some Republicans having expressed willingness to grant permanent status to DACA recipients.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters that “Congress will have to work through what it looks like moving forward, and what components will be included here and what components could be dealt with separately.”

But as the border surge of 2021 grew over spring and summer, with more than 200,000 encounters a month at one point, there was little sign of a broader Republican appetite for immigration measures that didn’t include border security. And so Democrats tried a different approach.

Build Back Better/budget reconciliation

As Democrats looked for ways to pass sweeping parts of President Biden’s agenda on issues like climate change, family policy and immigration, they eventually zoned in on the budget reconciliation process in order to bypass the Republican filibuster. The budget reconciliation process requires only 50 votes in the Senate, and therefore if all Democrats in the chamber voted in favor, with Vice President Kamala Harris casting a vote as a tiebreaker, legislation would pass the chamber.

In outlines for the bill were a variety of proposals for amnesty or protections for illegal immigrants, in addition to sweeping changes to legal immigration. The first of those plans would grant a pathway to citizenship for DACA and TPS recipients, farmworkers and those deemed “essential workers.” However, that… more here.

 DACA illegal aliens in GA whould pay less college tuition than U.S. citizens and legal immigrants from other states

Candidate for Lt. Governor and current President Pro Tem of the state senate, Sen. Butch Miller Miller, has come out in support of giving the illegal aliens with DACA a lower tuition rate in public colleges than U.S. citizens and legal immigrants from other states.

Thanks to a Twitter post from an elated  former GALEOstaffer and illegal alien DACA recipient, Jaime Rangel, who lobbies for FWD.us under the Gold Dome (yes, really) we see a January 7 report from the liberal Gainesville Times with that policy nugget.

The Georgia Chamber of Commerce is also pushing hardf or that action.

Boiled down for those new to the issue, there are about twenty thousand illegal aliens living in Georgia with a deferral on deportation proceedings because they came to the U.S. as “children.” That number could soon zoom up because of Biden’s “ya’ll come!” policy on our southern border.

Currently the University System of Georgia (and the Technical College System of Georgia – TCSG) offers essentially two levels of tuition rates – instate and out of state. For academic year 2020-2021, the average tuition & fees for colleges in Georgia was $4,739 for instate and $17,008 for out-of-state according to experts at collegetuition.com. It’s pretty simple: Georgia residents pay less to attend Georgia’s public universities and Tech colleges than a student from Michigan or Arizona, for example.

The news of Miller’s support comes in the Gainesville Times report “5 issues to watch to watch from Hall County legislators in 2022 session.”… read the rest here.

The Washington D.C. U.S. Attorney has done a 2021 year-end roundup of the charges resulting from the idiot riot at the U.S. Capitol last January. We don’t see any charges of “insurrection.” So, what does that make the AJC?

Here are screen shots from just two Tweets by AJC reporters Greg Bluestein and Tia Mitchell.

Imagine the liberal AJC using an accurate term to describe the anti-enforcement mob in stories on immigration. Of course they don’t. The corporate-funded anti-borders organizers are usually described as “civil rights groups” or “immigrant advocates.” It’s part and parcel of the mind-molding mission at Kevin Riley’s Dunwoody newspaper.

While the days of the AJC opinion editor running my critical letters of correction to this ongoing dishonesty are apparently over, there was was a time when the trickery could be noted in the letters section. Here is one. It makes the point.

AJC use and normalization of the terms the left spews out is standard trickery.

Another example came this week when the Cobb County Republican Party cancelled a prayer vigil related to the victims of the disgraceful January 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol. The liberal AJC headline on the celebratory story from “aspiring Mensch” Greg Bluestein was “Cobb GOP cancels ‘homage to treason’ for Jan. 6 insurrection.”

Insurrection. Get it? Forget that there were and are zero charges of insurrection. It’s hyperbole designed to indoctrinate the mouth-breathing idiot liberals who automatically believe the dishonest liberal media. Because “Democracy.” And it works.

But how about the event being labeled ‘homage to treason?’ in the headline – where did that come from? In his news story Bluestein boasts that it came from a Democrat state legislator:

The details of the event, which emerged Sunday, sparked a torrent of criticism — and a nickname from state Rep. Teri Anulewicz, who called it an “homage to treason.”

You can read the entire smear for more.

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I wish I didn’t have to read it…