Quick Look at Some of the Corker-Hoeven Amendment's Many Flaws

A document circulating on the Hill highlights some of the Corker-Hoeven substitute amendment's worst provisions. The amendment leaves in place the basic structure of the Schumer-Rubio amnesty: mass amnesty first, real enforcement never.

The gory details include:

  • Border security loopholes

  • Broad latitude for the administration

  • Illegal aliens' right to sue for amnesty or to kill enforcement measures

  • Rolling amnesty for visa overstayers

  • No deportations of illegal aliens for two and a half years

  • Adoption of the Obama Justice Department's soft-on-crime standards for probable cause and reasonable suspicion — not only on immigration, but across all of criminal law enforcement

  • Coddling criminal aliens, including ruthless immigrant gang members and foreign drunk drivers

  • Taxpayer-funded legal counsel for illegal aliens in civil immigration proceedings

  • Encouraging in-state tuition for illegal aliens

  • Putting Social Security at financial risk by allowing amnestied aliens to claim credit for illegal work, based on their word without any evidence

  • Creating slush funds from which to reward La Raza, MALDEF, American Immigration Lawyers Association, and other amnesty cronies