Who are Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Heroes? Based on the $3
trillion HEROES Act that House Democrats have just unveiled, the answer is
illegal aliens and criminals.
While the HEROES Act pretends to be about coronavirus
relief, its focus is on immigration.
With over 20 million jobs lost in April, the HEROES
Act goes to great lengths to make sure that
millions of illegal aliens will still be able to keep their jobs, no matter how
many Americans lose theirs.
Buried under the misleadingly titled, "Protections for
Essential Critical Infrastructure Workers", is a virtual blank check to
keep illegal aliens from being deported. The HEROES Act's definition of
"critical infrastructure workers" covers cafeteria workers, warehouse
janitors, and pet food delivery boys.
Anyone who works in virtually any field involving food in
any way is a "critical infrastructure worker". An illegal alien
putting out mouse traps at any facility involving food from "wholesale to
retail" is a critical worker. A vast array of call center workers and
delivery people are covered. Even laundromat employees are critical
infrastructure workers under the federal definition used by the HEROES Act.
The HEROES Act doesn't just protect illegal aliens from
deportation, but SEC. 191203 declares that "hiring" illegal aliens is
not a violation of the Immigration and Nationality Act and that the aliens are
"deemed to be in a period of deferred action and authorized for
employment."
Americans seeking jobs as essential workers will be
forced to compete with newly legalized illegal aliens.
Even while tens of millions of Americans are out of work,
Pelosi and the House Democrats are going to great lengths to protect the
ability of employers to illegally hire illegal aliens while authorizing them to
accept those jobs. And considering how Federal judges have defended DACA’s
deferred action, this temporary deferral could effectively become a permanent
amnesty for millions of illegals.
The HEROES Act is really a backdoor amnesty that will
declare illegal aliens “heroes” for delivering pizza. And these heroes who
delivered pizza and sprayed for roaches in a plant somewhere can’t be deported.
Instead, they’re going to be honored and legalized while Americans lose their
jobs, savings, and lives.
The HEROES Act may end up killing more Americans of
employment age than the coronavirus will.
Pelosi’s boondoggle also extends visas for aliens already
in this country, regardless of whether they're "critical" workers or
not, and 'rolls over' all the visas that weren't issued during this time. The
Democrats are determined not to miss a single chance to bring more of their
voters into the United States.
The rollover provisions focus on chain migration via
"family-sponsored immigrants", "employment-based
immigrants" and "diversity immigrants". All of these are aspects
of a broken immigration system.
SEC. 191204 or “Supplementing the COVID Response
Workforce” expedites processing applications for aliens who "provide
healthcare" within 30 days by email. Visa applications can be bypassed
with video-conferencing, and interviews are waived, even though the shortage of
personnel that is driving this strategy has never actually come into being and
American workers are being furloughed at hospitals that were prevented from
performing most procedures.
There are an estimated 1.4 million American health care
workers out of work. Maybe the Democrats could prioritize finding them jobs
first?
American health care workers furloughed because of the
lockdown may end up losing their jobs because the Democrats who praise them as
“heroes” insist on bringing in foreign workers to take their place.
And these foreign health care workers are being brought
in under the broad umbrella of “preventing COVID-19”. If we didn’t have open
borders on the ground and in the air, there wouldn’t have been a Wuhan Virus to
prevent. But even while claiming to fight a pandemic caused by a foreign virus,
Pelosi and the Democrats want more immigration and more open borders to spread
more pandemics.
SEC. 191205 seeks to free illegal aliens already in ICE
custody with a review of "the immigration files of all individuals in the
custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to assess the need for
continued detention" to free those who are "not subject to mandatory
detention laws."
The section also demands that illegal aliens get free
video chats, email access, and orders that pro-illegal alien lefty groups be
given "broad and flexible access" to illegals.
But the HEROES Act doesn’t just settle for freeing
illegal aliens, not when it can also free criminals.
The Dem bill seeks to free "vulnerable and low-risk
individuals" in pre-trial detention. The definition of
"vulnerable" is any prisoner over who is over 50 or under 18 who has,
sickle-cell anemia, or asthma.
And how do Pelosi and her ilk define
"low-risk"?
Any criminal who "does not pose a risk of serious,
imminent injury to a reasonably identifiable person".
That covers criminals who pose a risk of serious,
imminent injury to any random member of the public.
Criminals who pose a risk of serious, but not imminent
injury, criminals who pose a risk of imminent, but not serious injury, and
criminals who pose a serious, imminent risk of injury to someone who can’t be
reasonably identified, could all be considered “low-risk” by the jailbreaking
HEROES Act.
Under these parameters, an asthmatic serial killer ought
to be considered low-risk because we can’t identify whom he might chop to bits.
A paranoid schizophrenic who only seriously assaults people when he goes off
his medication could be considered to pose a risk of serious, but not imminent
injury.
And, of course, muggers who don’t seriously hurt their
victims would be considered low-risk. Ditto for car thieves, burglars, assorted
robbers, and any felon who isn’t walking around with a sign reading, “I will
kill Andrew next Tuesday”. And even then, we might not be “reasonably” sure
which Andrew he means.
These are the heroes of Pelosi’s HEROES Act.
There's also money for "safe and sanitary temporary
transitional housing" and facilitating "family reunification"
for the released criminals. And a push for applying "all pre- and
post-adjudication release processes and mechanisms applicable to juveniles… as
quickly as possible".
That would cover 17-year-old offenders.
Pelosi and her Democrat allies claim to be very concerned
about inmates in custody contracting the coronavirus. And yet after months of
this, the predicted mass death tolls in prisons haven’t happened. Instead the
elderly have been dying in large numbers in nursing homes. If the Democrats
were really concerned, they would cut off funding to any municipality arresting
people over social distancing.
But the Dems seem happy with a state of affairs in which
citizens are arrested and criminals are freed.
The HEROES Act contains plenty that is bad, including a
waiver of the Buy American Act that is a free gift to the People’s Republic of
China, but its obsession with criminals and illegal aliens, at the expense of
Americans, shows who Speaker Pelosi and the Democrats think that they’re really
in office to serve.
While Americans are put out of work, the Democrats help
illegal aliens hang on to their jobs. And while Americans are locked up for
trying to cut hair, go for a walk, or play catch, criminals are set free.
The Democrat coronatopia is a place where criminals are
free and everyone else is in prison, and where only government officials and
illegal aliens have jobs.
Daniel Greenfield is a
conservative columnist and investigative reporter. He is a Shillman
Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously
appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine at the above link.
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