Sure, the popular-vote-losing president of the United States is only spilling classified information to our adversaries and then confessing to it on Twitter as his spineless minions in Congress overlook his possibly treasonous acts in the name of tax cuts for the rich and privatizing Medicare, but at least two Texas Republicans would still like you know that the real security threat to the nation isn’t his Orangeness and those thin loose lips, but those “bad hombre” brown folks:
Two key GOP lawmakers are crafting a bill that would punish sanctuary cities, force parents of undocumented teens to wear electronic ankle monitors so their children don’t skip deportation hearings, and establish five-year minimum prison sentences for immigrants who illegally re-enter the United States after having been deported, according to a congressional aide and a draft of the legislation obtained by The Washington Post.
The bill by Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.) and Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Tex.), which was still being reworked on Monday, also would increase detention space and boost the number of immigration judges on the border to speed deportations.
There’s a reason why the shameless senator from Texas was bestowed with the “Biggest Hypocrite on Immigration” award by immigrant rights group America’s Voice several years ago. Cornyn’s history is littered with nice remarks about wanting to fix our broken immigration system, all the while politicizing the nameless migrants who died crossing the U.S./Mexico border in search of better lives by filming an ad at their graves. Of course, the whole purpose of Cornyn’s ad was to oppose immigration reform legislation that would have actually prevented some of these deaths in the first place. You know you’re terrible when you’re serving with Ted Cruz and there could still be a long debate about who is worse.
McCaul, meanwhile, was pretty vocal back in 2016 about stripping popular vote winner Hillary Clinton of her access to classified information, introducing legislation in the name of national security. Come to think of it, his buddy Cornyn did the exact same thing in the Senate. So far, both have been silent when it comes to taking action on Trump’s blabbing to adversaries. But wait, aren’t they both for national security? Isn’t that supposedly the whole point of their hateful proposal to demonize and criminalize undocumented immigrants in the first place?
It calls for increased criminal prosecutions of immigrants who cross the border illegally, and would reimburse governors who deploy their state’s National Guard to help patrol the U.S. border, according to a congressional aide with direct knowledge of the bill.
The White House declined to comment on the bill late Monday.
The wide-ranging proposal, which is being refined with input from the Trump administration’s Department of Homeland Security, aims to boost border security and immigration enforcement in the interior of the United States.
Glaring hypocrisy from Cornyn and McCaul aside, at least two anti-immigrant, Southern Poverty Law Center designated hate groups, the Center for Immigration Studies and the Federation for American Immigration Reform, are already criticizing the proposal for “failing to provide for Trump’s long-promised border wall, sanctions against businesses that hire illegal immigrants, or E-Verify, the employment-verification system.” Well, if two racist groups founded by white nationalist, eugenicist, and retired eye doctor John Tanton hate this shit proposal, that’s a good start to defeating it.