Among the more terrifying parts of this horrifying, not-at-all-reform bill:
It took me many hours to run that down and confirm. And I have done so.
This is extremely dense material. I’ve extracted and uploaded sections 3214 and 3215 from theMay 28 version of the bill (the most recent listed on the Thomas website) along with the Corker amendment (3214 and 3215) as to these sections (which did not change anything relevant to this discussion) so you can read them yourself. The text references 8 U.S.C. 1182.
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I’m not sure if somewhere in our current immigration laws the Secretary has such discretion. Regardless, the Gang of 8 bill and the Corker amendment are supposed to provide public guarantees that the laws will be enforced as written, but in fact there is a loophole large enough to drive a political agenda through.
There is every reason to expect this discretion to be abused to widen amnesty.
While reading this legislation I noticed numerous sections which used the phrase “sole and unreviewable” in describing the powers attributed to either the Secretary of Homeland Defense or the Attorney General in cases involving admissibility or deportation. An insane amount of authority is extended to the DHS. The same Secretary who couldn’t monitor Fast and Furious guns which killed her own border agents and hundreds of Mexicans.
Forget the taxpayer-funded legal counsel for illegal immigrants, the “orientation programs,” the new system created to move businesses away from E-Verify, just the above alone should be enough to nix any votes from any common sense lawmaker.
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