Speaking in a powerful speech before the House of Representatives, Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX), a freshman representative who ran and was elected on a MAGA platform, sounded off on how welfare benefits are going to illegal aliens, including gangsters, and introduced a bill that would end such a practice forever.
Beginning, he described how a Tren de Araqua gang member could come across the US-Mexico border under the Biden-Harris Administration, with help from “taxpayer-funded NGOs who have provided him assistance throughout his entire journey.” He then noted that, in such a case, such a person could “file a bare bones application for asylum that everybody knows is frivolous and stands no chance of success.”
Continuing, Rep. Gill noted that such a person could “move to New York or Chicago or San Francisco, be given taxpayer-funded benefits, be arrested for one crime or another, be coddled by sanctuary city leaders and defended by Democrats who say America’s long-standing immigration laws are simply too mean.”
Then, after describing the lengthy appellate process the gangster could use to stay in America even after being caught, Rep. Gill said, “That’s the process for one hypothetical illegal alien, gang member allowed into the United States. It’s not abnormal by any means, due to the open borders Democrat administration years ago, 1000s of federal man hours at the Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security and in the federal courts have been expended on this case alone, including countless taxpayer dollars, all of this to deny a frivolous claim by an illegal alien gang member to ensure he’s deported from the United States.”
Then, introducing what his bill will do, Rep. Gill noted that all welfare would be cut off for criminal illegal aliens, saying, “Today, we’ll consider a bill to help in this insane nonsense, the expedited removal of criminal aliens act is straightforward. It says if you’re a criminal alien in the United States, you cannot game our asylum system, and you cannot take advantage of the American people’s generosity and remain in the country for years waiting for an immigration court hearing. If you’re a foreign national who is convicted of certain crimes, you’re ineligible for immigration benefits and relief.”
He added that the law needs to reflect the fact that these people should be deported, saying, “You must be detained and you must be deported quickly. For decades, current immigration law has authorized a more efficient process to quickly remove certain dangerous criminal aliens from the country. Under existing law, aggravated felon aliens can be removed from the United States without going through traditional immigration court removal proceedings.”
And, describing how his bill would speed up deportations, he said, “Current law also makes aliens convicted of aggravated felonies ineligible for immigration relief such as asylum, and presumes they are deportable from the United States. This process is known as administrative removal, or expedited removal. Every federal court of appeals to consider the constitutionality of these Expedited Procedures have held that the current statute comports with due process. This bill expands the categories of criminal aliens that may be placed in removal proceedings when they are in criminal custody, and authorizes DHS to place additional criminal aliens in expedited removal proceedings. The bill allows DHS to fast track the deportation of aliens who are not lawful permanent residents and one are members of a criminal gang, transnational criminal organization or foreign terrorist ordinate organization, or two have been convicted of dangerous crimes.”
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Noting that Democrats would freak out about how criminals were being cut off but the bill should be pushed forward regardless, he said, “Democrats, I’m sure, are going to hyperventilate about this bill, but before they do, let’s listen to the categories of criminal convictions to which this bill applies, any felony, any misdemeanor against a member of a vulnerable group, any assault of a law enforcement officer, any sexual offense, any crime of domestic violence, any stalking offense, any crime against children, including sex trafficking of a minor or sexual abuse of a minor, any activity relating to material involving the sexual exploitation of minors or any violation of a protective order.”
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