Speaking during an appearance on Fox News, Rep. Maria Salazar (R-FL) doubled down on betraying Trump and MAGA, pushing an amnesty plan on the country alongside other RINOs who are willing to infuriate the MAGA movement to give illegal aliens amnesty that lets them eventually gain legal residency. She was skewered online in the wake of her appearance and bill.
Defending the idea of amnesty when speaking to Fox News about her so-called Dignity Act, which was co-sponsored by far-left, Trump-hating Democrat Rep. Veronica Escobar (D-TX), Rep. Salazar argued that it would only provide a pathway to legal residency in America for certain illegal aliens and thus is much-needed.
Beginning, she said that it is time for a “national conversation” about who ICE is targeting for arrest and deportation, suggesting that illegals who haven’t committed crimes other than ignoring and breaking our immigration laws should be allowed to remain. She said, “I believe that after the border has been sealed… the moment now is to have that national conversation and determine ‘who are we going to be targeting?’”
She then added that there are a great many illegal aliens who generally contribute to the economy and are law-abiding, other than their immigration status, arguing that they should be allowed to stay. She said, “Now there is another mass of people—who most of them are Hispanics—who have been here for more than five years. They have been contributing to the economy, who do not have a criminal record… and for that reason, I’m introducing today… immigration reform.”
This is much the same message that Rep. Salazar has generally pushed about the idea of some sort of legal pathway for illegal aliens. Speaking about the idea in June, for example, she said, “Arrests in immigration courts, including people with I-220A and pending asylum cases, the termination of the CHNV (Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, and Venezuelan) program, which has left thousands exposed to deportation, and other similar measures, all jeopardize our duty to due process that every democracy must guarantee.”
Watch her defend the idea on Fox News here:
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As could be expected, Salazar and her allies got skewered online. For example, Eric Daugherty named and shamed all of them in an explosive post. Beginning it, he wrote, “🚨 UPDATE: A SOFT AMNESTY BILL has been filed and has the support of several House Republicans. It would allow illegal aliens who crossed the border before 2021 a pathway to stay and work here, legally.”
Continuing, he explained, “They can get up to 7 years of legal status with work authorization. They’d need to pay restitution and check in regularly with DHS, and the legal status could be RENEWED if there is good conduct.” He further added who those who are going along with it are, writing, “The REPUBLICANS who have signed on: Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE), Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL), Rep. Gabe Evans (R-CO), Rep. Brian K. Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA), Rep. Young Kim (R-CA), Rep. Michael Lawler (R-NY), Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-WA), Rep. Marlin A. Stutzman (R-IN), Rep. David G. Valadao (R-CA).” He concluded by adding that the bill name is, “HR 4393.”
Responding to Daugherty’s somewhat moderate post about the amnesty bill, the X account that goes by “Red Hawk” wrote, “I will be using all of my influence to destroy the careers of everyone involved and I encourage everyone to do the same.” Similarly, in response to another post naming those involved with the bill, Logan Hall wrote, “Republicans who are complicit in the invasion are 10x worse than the Democrats.”
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