U.S. House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy issued a statement on January 20 opposing Biden‘s Amnesty as soon as he took office
On January 20, Biden promised to issue an “amnesty” on the day he was sworn in and announced that his administration would ask Congress to pass a bill that would allow tens of millions of illegal immigrants in the United States to have legal status. This was opposed by congressional Republicans.
According to Breitbart.com, House Republican Leader McCarthy condemned the Biden Administration‘s move on the 20th, saying it would jeopardize the livelihoods of Americans who are already struggling due to the Chinese Communist virus.
In a statement, McCarthy warned that Biden’s amnesty plan would undermine the rule of law in the United States and encourage more illegal immigrants to enter the country, while hurting the job prospects of American workers already hit by the Communist virus Epidemic.
He argued that the new Biden administration should now focus on how to open up the U.S. economy and allow Americans to go back to work, “and until Americans go back to work, the Biden administration must focus on helping our American citizens first.” .
The statement said, “The Communist virus epidemic and government-imposed lockdown policies have caused millions of Americans to lose their jobs and numerous small businesses to close. Our nation must immediately prioritize how to help Americans get back to work. Yet the new administration’s first priority is not how to reduce unemployment among Americans or reopen our economy, but rather a policy of granting U.S. citizenship to millions of illegal immigrants in the extreme,”
“This move would not only undermine our rule of law and encourage more illegal immigrants to enter the United States, but would also inform our fellow Americans that their misfortune is not our nation’s top priority,” the statement noted.
Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) issued a similar statement on the same day, opposing the pardon as soon as Biden took office.
On his first day in the White House, Biden signed an order strengthening protections for Dreamers, a move to protect the Obama administration’s political legacy by providing a pathway for thousands of young immigrants to avoid deportation and gain citizenship. Biden also called for the passage of a broader immigration benefits program that would provide a five-year green card and an eight-year path to citizenship for some 11 million U.S. residents without legal status, a bill that would require congressional passage.
If not enough Democratic lawmakers oppose the bill to provide legal status to illegal immigrants, the Biden administration’s bill will pass the Democratic-dominated House of Representatives, and at the Senate stage, the bill will need at least 10 Republican members to vote in favor of it before it can become an act.
In the 2020 House elections, McCarthy-led House Republicans added more than a dozen seats, substantially weakening the Democrats’ dominance in the House in 2018, which helped Republicans lobby somewhat on some bills.
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