Rep. Nancy Mace@RepNancyMace
The swamp and their allies in corporate media are renewing their push for the largest amnesty in American history – the DIGNIDAD Act – a bill so bad for the American people they couldn’t even name it in English.
As if naming their amnesty bill in a foreign language wasn’t insulting enough, the swamp is trying to convince you their amnesty bill, which would give legal status to 13+ million illegal aliens, isn’t actually amnesty. What else are you supposed to call allowing foreign nationals who broke our laws to come into our country to stay here?
Republicans won in 2024 in large part because we correctly identified the amnesty and open borders being pushed by Democrats are reckless, dangerous, and compromise the American dream for natural-born citizens. The American people voted for Republicans to secure the border and deport illegal aliens.
But we are already starting to see some in our party seek to betray that promise. We read the bill, and here are some of the ways the DIGNIDAD Act (also known as the Dignity Act) betrays the American people:
Sec. 1122 – Codifies a Biden-era policy which establishes sanctuary areas for illegal aliens in every city and town in America by prohibiting immigration enforcement actions “in or “near” any courthouse, school, medical facility, place which provides social services, area where there are parades, demonstrations, or rallies, any place where religious or civil ceremonies occur, any place children gather, or any place which provides emergency or disaster assistance.
Sec. 1501 & 1502 – Creates up to 3 “humanitarian campuses” along our Southern border to quickly shepherd aliens into our country, requires 72 hour “rest periods” for aliens arriving at these campuses, and expedited procedures to give aliens asylum.
Sec. 1503 – If these campuses along our border weren’t bad enough, this creates up to 3 facilities in Central America, South America, and the Caribbean to pre-screen and process aliens seeking to come to America.
Sec. 1511 – Hidden in this section is the codification of the Flores Settlement Agreement, which incentivizes the exploitation and trafficking of children across our borders.
Sec. 1516 – Provides student loan forgiveness for 75% of law school loans of lawyers who provide legal services to illegal aliens seeking to enter our country at the campuses established in the bill.
Sec. 2102 – Grants conditional PERMANENT resident status to approximately 2.5 million illegal aliens, waiving almost all inadmissibility and deportability criteria in current law and even explicitly allowing certain CRIMINALS to become permanent residents.
Sec. 2104 – Grants full unconditional PERMANENT resident status to the approximately 2.5 illegal aliens from Sec. 2102 so long as they earn ANY income for a total of 4 years or obtain almost any education credential after high school or can demonstrate an “inability” or “hardship” as to why they can’t meet this incredibly low bar.
Sec. 2203 – Prohibits the deportation of any illegal alien who is prima facie eligible for the amnesty programs in the bill, requires the DHS Secretary to cancel existing orders of removal for those individuals, and gives advance parole and a work permit to any alien who applies for an adjustment of status under these amnesty programs.
Sec. 2206 – Creates an appeals process for aliens who had their amnesty applications denied and prohibits DHS from deporting any individuals while the lengthy appellate process unfolds.
Sec. 2208 – Prohibits DHS from disclosing or using information provided in these amnesty applications for the purpose of immigration enforcement and creates a $10,000 penalty for doing so. This means if someone’s application for amnesty is denied, DHS can’t use the information they provided to locate, apprehend, and remove them.
Title III of Division B (Secs. 2301 – 2305) – Creates the so-called “Dignity Program” to provide indefinitely renewable legal status and work permits to approximately 10.5 million illegal aliens who have been here since December 31, 2020. All the aliens would have to do is pay what amounts to approximately $83/month over a seven-year period, be employed in any manner (including self-employment) or attend any post-secondary classes for 4 years.
DHS would be prohibited from deporting or fining any illegal alien who even appear prima facie eligible for this program for 2 years. Those granted amnesty in this program would be exempt from payroll taxes – making it cheaper to employ these amnesty recipients than natural-born Americans. They would even be allowed to claim non-means tested public benefits and certain CRIMINALS would be granted amnesty under the program.
Sec. 3112 – Allows the admission of certain inadmissible and deportable aliens to the United States and allows DHS to terminate removal proceedings, decline to order the removal of, and grant these aliens permission to reapply for admission to the U.S. This allows for broad chain migration and an administrative pathway to amnesty.
Secs. 3201 – 3203; 3301 – 3304 – Dramatically increase the number of foreign nationals allowed into our country through various legal pathways, including for nonimmigrant work visas and permanent residence.
The sponsor of the DIGNIDAD Act, a so-called Republican, says this bill is a one-time fix. This is exactly what Republicans were told during the Reagan administration when they were fooled into supporting a one-time, last amnesty for 3 million illegal aliens in exchange for promises of border security and immigration enforcement which never materialized. It was one of Republicans’ greatest mistakes of the last 50 years. We will not be fooled again.
The sponsor of the DIGNIDAD Act, when faced with pushback the bill didn’t go far enough to help illegal aliens, said “at some point in the future, another legislator will write another law to give them path to citizenship, right now what we need to do is…allow them to stay”. Mark my words, green cards are just their first step. If we allow it, citizenship will follow. They will vote; their children will vote.
The sponsor of the bill says this is about “DIGNITY” (or DIGNIDAD). Dignity for whom? Certainly not for the American workers who will have to compete with illegal aliens given amnesty in this bill for jobs. Certainly not for American families who will have to compete with illegal aliens given amnesty in this bill for housing. Certainly not for the victims of illegal aliens granted amnesty in this bill who go on to commit crimes. Certainly not for the natural-born Americans who will watch their culture, their country, and their American dream slip away from them.
We will not bend. We will not break. NO to the DIGNIDAD Act.
America FIRST, Amnesty NEVER. us
