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Republican leaders debate every day how and when to move forward with the budget reconciliation process, but some days Americans will have to wait for President Trump's policies to take effect.
The American people need their leaders to act with the urgency this moment demands. The safety and security of the American people must be our top priority.
Congress' top priority now must be to ensure that all illegal aliens who enter our country are detained and deported, or promptly leave of their own volition.
Congress must support the administration in tracking, arresting, detaining, and deporting all 20 million illegal aliens that the American people elected President Trump to remove. (Reuters)
The Trump campaign, led by border czar Tom Homan, is ready to do the job. During President Trump's first term, ICE removed illegal aliens at a rate of 32% of total encounters, but under President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, that rate has dropped to 3.5%.
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Congress now needs to give the administration its full support in tracking, arresting, detaining, and deporting all 20 million illegal aliens that the American people elected President Trump to remove.
To carry out the largest deportation operation in American history, Congress will need to take further action and fund ICE on a historic scale.
Implementing President Trump's plan would require ICE to have at least 100,000 detention beds, 12,000 ICE agents, and 4,000 OPLAs to accommodate expanded aviation operations and increased turnover in deportation facilities. Lawyers, 1,000 EOIR immigration agents, and 1,000 ICE mission support staff must be retained.
Democrats will try to make you think the price is too high to pay, but over the past four years they have turned to non-governmental organizations to make it easier to bring millions of illegal aliens here. Billions of dollars have been spent. Diverting NGO funding to immigration enforcement and cutting state and federal welfare subsidies for illegal aliens would save Americans even more money each year.
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Furthermore, American sovereignty and the lives of all Americans are precious. Where there are representatives who disagree, Heritage Action will seek to explain to voters why.
In addition to funding ICE on a historic scale, Congress also plays an important role in pressuring illegal aliens to voluntarily leave. A good place to start would be to crack down on employers who hire illegal aliens without paying Americans a fair wage.
Requiring businesses to use electronic verification systems to verify employees' eligibility for work would largely solve the problem, but even if some illegal aliens were to slip through the cracks, Congress would There are still tools at your disposal.
An unused tool is Congress' ability to tax remittances that illegal aliens earn in the United States and send back to their home countries. According to the Federation for American Immigration Reform, our country loses more than $150 billion annually in remittances, which is roughly equal to the annual production of the entire U.S. mining industry (excluding oil and gas).
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To stop illegal aliens from staying here, Congress should pass a law requiring money transfer services to prove their legal status, or a 50% tax on money transfers should be imposed. It is. This tax revenue can be reused for deportation operations and for the completion of border walls.
Another way to save Americans money and encourage illegal aliens to leave our country is by Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) Act 1, which permanently blocks foreign nationals from accessing American welfare benefits.
Last year, the Center for Immigration Studies estimated that illegal aliens received $42 billion in benefits paid for by U.S. taxpayers in 2021 alone. Since then, the Biden administration has allowed millions more illegal aliens into our country, meaning that number will almost certainly increase.
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In July 2024, the Congressional Budget Office scored that the Biden administration's failure to secure the border would increase America's debt by nearly $300 billion over the next decade because foreigners have access to federal welfare programs. Announced.
And that doesn't even take into account the billions of dollars of taxpayer money that goes into supporting the enormous strain that illegal immigrants place on other state and local resources, such as public schools. With this in mind, Congress should require school districts to collect enrollment data by immigration status and pass legislation requiring public schools to charge tuition to children of illegal aliens. be.
Finally, Congress should pass legislation requiring U.S. banks to verify the legal status of applicants before issuing mortgage loans. There is no way illegal aliens can achieve the American dream of owning a home when so many of their fellow citizens cannot afford to pay rent.
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If foreigners cannot get a job, send money to their families, access welfare, send their children to school for free, or buy a home, many will leave the country. It's gonna be bad. By ourselves. This will make ICE's job easier and save Americans even more money.
Republicans in Congress liked to beat the drum for border security and mass deportations when raising money for their campaigns. It's time for them to stick with it and put Americans first.
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