House Passes Two Amnesty Bills – How Did Your Representative Vote?

On March 18, the Home of Representatives handed two
FAIR-opposed mass amnesty payments that might put practically over 4 million unlawful
aliens on a path to citizenship. The Home did this within the midst of a worsening
border disaster that Congressional Democrats and the Biden administration refuses
to acknowledge. These payments now head to the Senate, the place they face an
unsure future.

The American Dream and Promise Act (H.R. 6)

The primary invoice is H.R. 6, the American Dream and Promise
Act. Congress handed this invoice by a vote of 228-197. All Democrats and 9 Republicans voted in favor. Within the 116th
Congress, the American Dream and Promise Act was 237-187 with 7 Republican “Yea” votes. The next Republicans
voted for H.R. 6:

• Don Bacon (NE-02)
• David Valadao (CA-21)
• Fred Upton (MI-06)
• Maria Elvira Salazar (FL-27)
• Dan Newhouse (WA-04)
• Fitzpatrick (PA-01)
• Chris Smith (NJ-04)
• Carlos Gimenez (FL-26)
• Mario Diaz-Balart (FL-25)

This laws grants
a pathway to citizenship to round 3 million unlawful aliens who’re already
within the nation—which is properly past the 700,000 or so lively Deferred Motion
for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients. The invoice additionally supplies a pathway to citizenship
to lots of of hundreds of migrants underneath momentary reduction and humanitarian
packages, together with Short-term Protected Standing (TPS) and Deferred Enforced
Departure (DED). It additionally doesn’t include any immigration enforcement
provisions to deal with the present disaster on the southern border.

Farm Workforce Modernization Act (H.R. 1603)

The second invoice is H.R. 1603, the Farm Workforce
Modernization Act. Congress handed this amnesty by a vote of 247-174. Just one Democrat voted towards this invoice,
Rep. Jared Golden of Maine. Disappointingly,
30 Republicans voted in favor of this laws – a 4 vote lower
in comparison with the 116^th Congress:

• Mark Amodei (NV-02)
• Jim Baird (IN-04)
• Cliff Bentz (OR-02)
• Mike Bost (IL-12)
• Rodney Davis (IL-13)
• Mario Diaz-Balart (FL-25)
• Brian Fitzpatrick (PA-01)
• Andrew Garbarino (NY-02)
• Carlos Gimenez (FL-26)
• Anthony Gonzalez (OH-16)
• Jaime Herrera Beutler (WA-03)
• Chris Jacobs (NY-27)
• Dave Joyce (OH-14)
• John Katko (NY-24)
• Doug LaMalfa (CA-01)
• Peter Meijer (MI-03)
• Dan Newhouse (WA-04)
• Devin Nunes (CA-22)
• Tom Reed (NY-23)
• Cathy McMorris Rodgers (WA-05)
• Maria Elvira Salazar (FL-27)
• Mike Simpson (ID-02)
• Chris Smith (NJ-04)
• Lloyd Smucker (PA-11)
• Elise Stefanik (NY-21)
• Claudia Tenney (NY-22)
• G.T. Thompson (PA-15)
• Fred Upton (MI-06)
• David Valadao (CA-21)
• Jeff Van Drew (NJ-02)

The Farm Workforce Modernization Act would amnesty roughly 1.5 million unlawful
alien farmworkers, develop the H-2A guestworker program as unemployment
stays excessive, add 40,000 inexperienced playing cards to the EB-3 class, and mandate E-Confirm
throughout the agriculture sector. Regardless of the catchy title, the invoice does nothing
to truly modernize America’s agricultural workforce. That may require
automating many of those jobs utilizing superior know-how and packages designed
to present farmers entry to these improvements. Additional, the framework for
bettering authorized farm labor already exists – repair issues inside the present
H-2A program. This, and inspiring the adoption of labor- and cost-saving
automated harvesting applied sciences, represents true modernization. One other
mindless amnesty on the worst potential time doesn’t.

It’s price noting that each payments are horrible coverage even
underneath one of the best of circumstances. Passing them within the midst of a full-blown
border disaster pushed by the Biden administration is an affront to the integrity
of our system, in addition to to the security and safety of the American individuals.

Over the approaching weeks, FAIR will urge Senate Republicans to
maintain agency and oppose each these amnesty payments if they’re delivered to the ground
within the higher chamber. As Dan Stein reminded them, “The border disaster is raging,
and the American persons are watching – handle the disaster, don’t exacerbate
it.”