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