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Emergency Saturday Transmission! Biden Administration Preparing Forced Injections

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On this powerful Saturday transmission, Alex Jones lays out how the Biden administration’s censorship rollout is meant to silence all opposition against the coming forced COVID-19 injections via door-to-door “vaccine strike forces.”
The Big Tech purge is here! Follow <a href="https://www.infowars.com/posts/the-big-tech-crackdown-is-accelerating-follow-infowars-on-these-growing-alternative-platforms/">Infowars and Alex Jones on other growing platforms</a> now to stay informed as the information blackout accelerates.
 
 
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On this powerful Saturday transmission, Alex Jones lays out how the Biden administration’s censorship rollout is meant to silence all oppos...

Democrat Lawmakers Who Fled Texas Test Positive For COVID-19 — Despite Taking Vaccine!

Nearly 60 Texas House Democrats <a href="https://www.infowars.com/posts/texas-democrats-to-flee-state-on-private-jets-in-effort-to-block-voter-id-bills/">fled the state in a private jet</a> this week to block Republican-led election reform bills.
Now, three of those lawmakers Saturday have tested positive for COVID-19 despite receiving both doses of the experimental COVID shot.
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Those three Democrats, who the caucus is refusing to name, are experiencing only mild symptoms and will reportedly <a href="https://www.statesman.com/story/news/politics/state/2021/07/17/texas-democrats-walk-out-three-test-positive-covid-in-washington-dc/8002121002/">isolate</a> for 10 days before taking a follow-up test.
In <a href="https://mailchi.mp/796bcaecf08e/failure-to-lead-refusing-medicaid-expansion-1675011?e=d906063289">statement</a> released Saturday, House Democrat Caucus chair Rep. Chris Turner said the caucus is “following all CDC guidance and protocols.”
“This is a sober reminder that COVID is still with us, and though vaccinations offer tremendous protection, we still must take necessary precautions,” he stated. “We are in touch with public health experts in Texas to provide additional guidance. Our caucus will follow all recommendations from public health experts as we continue our work.”
This latest development is ironic given the Texas Democrats <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/texas-democrats-masks-plane-voting-bill">flouted their own mask rules</a> when fleeing the state for Washington, D.C. in a private jet on Monday.
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Another bold display of <a href="https://freeworldnews.tv/watch?id=60ecd67ceac9c959a4f9249b">hypocrisy by Democrats</a> trying to rig elections and fly maskless.
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Tucker Carlson Roasts DOJ Over Hunter Biden Laptop Cover Up

Fox News host Tucker Carlson scorched the Democrats and Department of Justice for covering up Hunter Biden’s laptop scandal weeks before the 2020 presidential election.
“So much happens in the final weeks of a presidential campaign that it’s easy to lose track of it. Whatever happened to this or that — development in the news. You can’t remember. A lot falls between the cracks. There’s overload,” Carlson said in his opening monologue of “Tucker Carlson Tonight” on Friday.
“Politicians know this, obviously, and they take advantage of it. If they can derail a story until after Election Day, often that story goes away forever. No one really remembers. And that was precisely the thinking behind the Democrats’ response to Hunter Biden’s laptop.”
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“They knew from the first day that the contents of that laptop were in fact genuine,” Carlson continued. “Look at what’s on there, it may be theoretically possible that some foreign Intel service would Photoshop a picture of Hunter Biden’s crotch mostly for self-amusement, but a hundred pictures of Hunter Biden’s crotch adorned with M&Ms? No. No Russian did that. Those pictures were real.”
“And so are the huge numbers of e-mails and texts from Hunter Biden explaining how he was selling access to his father, then the Vice President and how his father was helping him do it,” he noted, adding that that revelation “was the real crime that Hunter Biden’s laptop revealed” which the “permanent bureaucracy hid from the country.”
But despite the clear crimes revealed in Hunter’s laptop, the Department of Justice – including the FBI and other law enforcement – not only failed to look into the matter, they actually helped cover it up.
“E-mails on that laptop directly implicate Hunter Biden in his family’s foreign influence peddling operation. Joe Biden, his brother, son — so, why haven’t we heard anything to this day about any of this from the Department of Justice?” Carlson asked.
“Good question, and today we got our answer, and actually it came from <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/16/hunter-biden-probe-prosecutor-499782">Politico</a>. The magazine reported, meaning it was told likely for complex reasons, we can never really know, that the U.S. Attorney in the State of Delaware, a man called David Weiss had, in fact, buried the Hunter Biden case and done so on purpose because he was asked to do it.”
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“And in case you have any doubt that that’s exactly what happened and had nothing to do with the timeframe before the election,” he went on, “you should know and you may already know that the FBI had Hunter Biden’s laptop for an entire year before the election.”
“We know they made a forensic copy of the hard drive in 2019. But they did nothing and they still haven’t, now they don’t have time. They’re too busy hunting down senior citizens who talk about election integrity, the fabled ‘insurrectionists,'” he added.
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Hunter Biden has been allowed to walk away as the intermediary for his family’s <a href="https://freeworldnews.tv/watch?id=60cfa67a5959181b2893ea2d">pay-to-play scheme</a> that violates the Oval Office and jeopardizes national security.
 
 
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Fox News host Tucker Carlson scorched the Democrats and Department of Justice for covering up Hunter Biden’s laptop scandal weeks before the...

ABC Report on Delta Variant Dragged & Ratioed on YouTube

A panicky report by ABC News on the Delta variant of the coronavirus has been ridiculed and ratioed by YouTube users Thursday, underscoring the public’s distrust in the mainstream media and government health experts.
The ABC report, titled “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9DicthmKPo">Misinformation around COVID-19, vaccines an ‘urgent threat,’ surgeon general says</a>,” has as of this writing received over 11,000 “thumbs down” votes compared to 2,900 “like” votes on YouTube.
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Likewise, the comments reflect the public’s disdain for the media’s censorship tactics and demonization of anyone who questions their COVID narrative.
“Why would I trust anyone who tries to hide information from me?” one user asked.
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“This is straight up fear mongering at this point,” another user said.
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“Sounds like everyone is waking up and the media doesn’t like it,” another said.
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The ABC report comes as <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/los-angeles-official-defends-mask-mandate-even-for-vaccinated-residents-much-easier/ar-AAMeVOO?ocid=uxbndlbing">Los Angeles health officials once again imposed an indoor mask mandate</a> – regardless of vaccination status – despite COVID deaths in California remaining at all-time lows.
Following suit, Las Vegas officials have also recommended masks once again, even though Nevada currently has an extremely low COVID death rate.
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This is illustrative of the fact that the public is sick and tired of the media’s debunked COVID narratives that have only resulted in oppressive lockdowns, decimated businesses, and declined mental health for the American people.
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Gerald Celente hosts the fourth hours of the Alex Jones Show to warn of the COVID 2.0 pandemic with the so-called <a href="https://freeworldnews.tv/watch?id=60ecc41547ac8e595d9e5d3c">“Delta” variant</a>.
 
 
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Kamala’s Husband Spreads Misinformation, Says COVID Vaccine ‘Only Thing’ That Will Prevent ‘Dying Or Getting Really Sick’

As <a href="https://www.emilypostnews.com/subscribe?utm_medium=web&utm_source=subscribe-widget&utm_content=38775749">subscribers</a> read on Thursday, the Second Gentleman of the United States is now terrifying immigrants to convince them get the COVID vaccine. Douglas Emhoff pressured a native-Spanish speaker into a publicity stunt to help his wife’s administration achieve its vaccination goals. A Mexican immigrant was given a vaccine after the heavy-handed arm twisting by Emhoff.
On Wednesday, Emhoff was at a mobile vaccination site at the Broadmoor Community Church in New Orleans. Emhoff has been touring the country this summer to help promote the political vaccination goals of his wife, Vice President Kamala Harris, and Pres. Joe Biden.
The media was brought outside the church to watch Mexican immigrant Gustavo Posadas waiting for a shot at a vaccination site, according to a press pool report. The PR gimmick was clearly set up in advance. “Who do we have here?’ Emhoff asks, while looking around for the man.
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“This is Gustava, here,” replied a man wearing a clerical collar. The pastor pointed at Posadas who was wearing a green t-shirt, straw hat and a face mask below his nose.  A live video of the event was taken by NOLA on Facebook.
“I heard it took a little work, but you’re there, so let’s do this,” creepy Emhoff said to Posadas. “Thanks for doing it in front of everybody.”
Emhoff spoke to the 44-year-old man as if he was a toddler at the doctor’s office. “Don’t be nervous. It won’t hurt. I’ve had it. I can take it. So don’t be scared,” Emhoff told Posadas.
The immigrant then stood off to the side while Emhoff shook hands with doctors and medical staff from Ochsner Health. After posing for photos, Emhoff turns back to Posadas. 
“Gustava, thank you so much. Muy importante,” Emhoff said in English-accented Spanish.  “What do you have to say to people? And you’re going to tell a bunch of people…?”  
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“I tell everybody,” Posadas said in Spanish-accented English.  “I don’t want this before. But now I think this is real…” 
“This is real,” Emhoff says, completing his sentence. “And it’s the only thing that is going to prevent you, your family and others from dying or getting really sick.”
Say what? A vaccine is the only thing that is going to prevent people from dying from COVID? Is this what the Biden administration’s door knockers are telling people in private? 
The recovery rate for COVID is 98 to 99 percent. Almost all the deaths are due to age or underlying conditions. Johns Hopkins currently has the rate at 98.2 percent in America. Even Dr. Anthony Fauci testified before Congress that the survival rate is actually 99 percent because asymptomatic cases are under counted. 
Emhoff seemingly doesn’t care to give the facts to Posadas and put the success of the media stunt at risk. “I’m so grateful you’re doing this in front of the cameras so you can tell everyone it’s okay,” said Emhoff. 
Posadas nods his head. “Everything – my people – I thinks, we want the shot. This is real. I not believe you before, but I feel it now.”
No reporter asks questions. But the obvious one is: How long ago did Posadas not “believe” Emhoff? Who convinced him to take the vaccine? What was told to him in English or Spanish?
Emhoff wastes no time with Posadas’s hesitancy.  “Well let’s do it!” said the Second Gentleman while the medical staff and clergy applaud. 
Posadas is put in a white, folding chair. He keeps on the mirrored sunglasses. A woman in scrubs tells him to pull the mask over his nose. He rolls up his sleeve as the woman comes in with the needle. Posadas looks in the opposite direction. 
“Look at me! Look at me!” Emhoff tells him, while the shot is administered. The crowd applauds. Emhoff holds out his fist, and Posadas bumps him after he stands. 
“Thank you for doing this,” Emhoff says, while Posadas rubs his arm and says something in Spanish. “Thank you for telling everyone to do this.”
Emhoff walks away to do media interviews while a woman is heard off camera saying, “Gustava, did you get your card with your vaccination on it?”
The Second Gentleman tells reporters that, “On the Covid piece, on the vaccinations, I’m not going to stop. This administration is not going to stop until we continue to get the word out here.”
Emhoff continues but seems to not remember Posadas’s name. “You heard what he said –  it’s real. He didn’t believe it. He believes it now….” Harris’s husband does a hard sell of the vaccines and adds, “We’re going to go door to door, bring the vaccines out to the people until we get this done.”
The July 4th deadline for the Biden’s goal to get 70 percent of Americans vaccinated is past. He and Harris should stop their obsession with universal vaccination and just let people like Posadas make their own medical decisions based on a risk assessment. Also, there should be a required interpreter for any door-to-door vaccine salesman from the Biden White House who convinces a non-native English speaker to get a shot.
<h3>LINKS TO SOURCES</h3>
<a href="https://fb.watch/v/3pvtAacN1/">NOLA.com video</a>
Johns Hopkins <a href="https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality">MORTALITY ANALYSES</a>
C-SPAN: <a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4860450/user-clip-dr-anthony-fauci-addresses-covid-19-mortality-rate">Fauci testifies about mortality rate</a>
CDC: <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/covid19/mortality-overview.htm">COVID-19 Mortality Overview</a>
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Alex Jones explores the absurdity of <a href="https://freeworldnews.tv/watch?id=60f214a6e7ef8467b1c7ee57">injecting someone with mRNA or virus vector vaccines once a month</a> to fight the cause and side effects of COVID and its dangerous spike proteins.
 
 
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A federal judge just declared DACA unlawful. Here’s what that means.

On Friday, a federal judge in Texas <a href="https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21010983/7-16-21-texas-v-us-opinion.pdf">blocked</a> an Obama-era program protecting undocumented immigrants who arrived in the US as children from deportation, halting the program’s ability to accept new applicants and once again throwing the lives of more than 600,000 people into tumult.
In his 77-page <a href="https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21010983/7-16-21-texas-v-us-opinion.pdf">opinion</a>, district court Judge Andrew Hanen concluded that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, is unlawful because it violates the Administrative Procedure Act, which governs federal rulemaking, by evading the normal “notice and comment” process in adopting new rules.
Hanen’s decision doesn’t immediately affect the <a href="https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/reports/Active%20DACA%20Recipients%20%E2%80%93March%2031,%202021.pdf">616,030 people</a>, often known as DREAMers, who are currently protected under DACA — but it does mean that the Department of Homeland Security can no longer approve new DACA applications or grant applicants the protections DACA provides.
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Just in: A federal judge in Texas has blocked the DACA program going forward — it won't affect current recipients for now (judge is putting that issue on hold, pending expected appeals), but it blocks DHS from approving new applications <a href="https://t.co/urJh8jnJDd">https://t.co/urJh8jnJDd</a> <a href="https://t.co/LqvSDWx2ao">pic.twitter.com/LqvSDWx2ao</a>
— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) <a href="https://twitter.com/ZoeTillman/status/1416135205925146624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 16, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Hanen also emphasized Friday that “neither this order nor the accompanying injunction requires DHS or the Department of Justice to take any immigration, deportation, or criminal action against any DACA recipient, applicant, or any other individual that it would not otherwise take.”
DACA not only protects undocumented immigrants who came to the US as children from deportation, but allows them to work in the US. DACA protections are renewable and valid for two years at a time.
A coalition of nine states, led by Texas, filed the lawsuit challenging DACA’s legality in 2018, <a href="https://www.maldef.org/2021/03/texas-v-united-states/">according to the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund</a>, or MALDEF.
Currently, some 81,000 first-time DACA applications are pending with US Citizenship and Immigration Services as of the end of June, <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/immigration-daca-applications-biden-administration-more-staff/">according to CBS News</a>. All of those applicants, however, are now in limbo following Hanen’s decision and pending appeals.
As Vox’s Ian Millhiser <a href="https://www.vox.com/2020/12/5/22155815/daca-court-nicholas-garaufis-batalla-vidal-chad-wolf-homeland-security-joe-biden-trump">explained</a> in December, the Trump administration previously curtailed DACA in an earlier, failed attempt to end it outright, and new applications <a href="https://www.rollcall.com/2021/06/30/low-daca-approval-numbers-prompt-concern-from-lawmakers-advocates/">surged</a> after it was fully reinstated in December — though USCIS has been slow to process the new influx of applicants, resulting in the current backlog.
The Texas ruling has already been met with condemnations from the White House, immigrants’ rights groups, and Democrats in Congress.
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Terrible decision on DACA by a federal judge in Texas.
The dreams of hundreds of thousands of young people who are contributing to the American economy will be put on hold for no good reason.
Congress must pass a pathway to citizenship this year. We can’t wait.
— Joaquin Castro (@JoaquinCastrotx) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoaquinCastrotx/status/1416148265544949761?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 16, 2021</a></blockquote>
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In a <a href="https://unitedwedream.org/2021/07/home-is-here-coalition-federal-judge-sides-with-republicans-rules-to-partially-end-daca/">statement</a> Friday, the Home Is Here Coalition, which includes immigrant advocacy groups like United We Dream, described Hanen’s decision as “cruel and malicious.”
“This decision is a reminder that DACA has never been enough to protect immigrant communities who continue to be at risk of deportation,” the group said.
The Biden administration has already promised to <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/07/17/statement-by-president-joe-biden-on-daca-and-legislation-for-dreamers/">appeal</a> Friday’s decision and reiterated that DHS “plans to issue a proposed rule concerning DACA in the near future.”
President Joe Biden also called for a “permanent solution” for DREAMers in a <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/07/17/statement-by-president-joe-biden-on-daca-and-legislation-for-dreamers/">statement</a> released by the White House on Saturday.
“I have repeatedly called on Congress to pass the American Dream and Promise Act, and I now renew that call with the greatest urgency,” Biden said. “It is my fervent hope that through reconciliation or other means, Congress will finally provide security to all Dreamers, who have lived too long in fear.”
If signed into law, the <a href="https://www.hrc.org/resources/american-dream-and-promise-act">American Dream and Promise Act</a>, which <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/6">passed</a> the House earlier this year, would provide “conditional permanent resident status” for several categories of immigrants, including DREAMers and Temporary Protected Status beneficiaries, putting them on the path to citizenship.
For many, Friday’s DACA ruling doesn’t come as much of a surprise. Hanen, a George W. Bush appointee who has been <a href="https://archive.thinkprogress.org/trump-administration-wants-andrew-hanen-to-chill-out-7b60deb582cf/">described</a> as possibly “the most anti-immigrant judge in the United States,” has made his feelings on DACA clear well before Friday’s ruling. In 2018, he <a href="https://www.npr.org/2018/08/31/643814735/texas-judge-says-daca-is-probably-illegal-but-leaves-it-in-place">opined</a> that, “if the nation truly wants a DACA program, it is up to Congress to say so” — and even aside from Hanen’s particular feelings, DACA has been under attack virtually since its inception in 2012.
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IMMIGRATION FRIDAY BAD NEWS ALERT
Judge Hanen has issued his long-expected decision striking down DACA, ordering the Biden administration to stop approving any new applications. This is the terrible outcome that we unfortunately expected for months. <a href="https://t.co/WTMYZsM0WC">https://t.co/WTMYZsM0WC</a>
— Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@ReichlinMelnick) <a href="https://twitter.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1416138697192452102?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 16, 2021</a></blockquote>
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As former Vox senior correspondent Dara Lind has <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/8/31/16226934/daca-trump-dreamers-immigration">explained</a>, DACA has its origins during Congress’ failure in 2010 to pass the DREAM Act, which would have created a pathway to citizenship for immigrants who entered the US illegally as children.
Despite failing in the Senate, the DREAM Act gave a name to those immigrants — DREAMers — and after its 2010 defeat, President Barack Obama attempted to address their plight via executive authority.
<a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/8/31/16226934/daca-trump-dreamers-immigration">According to Lind</a>,
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Obama claimed that the immigrants who would be eligible for legalization under it weren’t being deported anyway, since his administration was targeting “high-priority” immigrants (like those with criminal records) rather than “low-priority” immigrants who’d lived quietly in the US for years. But federal immigration agents were still deporting “low-priority” immigrants, including DREAMers.
So in summer 2012, rather than relying on Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to protect immigrants by declining to deport them, the administration decided to allow DREAMers to apply for protection from deportation themselves.
In June 2012, President Obama announced the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. It allowed young unauthorized immigrants who meet certain criteria to apply for a commitment from the federal government for “deferred action” — that is, a commitment not to initiate deportation proceedings — for two years. Successful applicants also received a work permit.
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Subsequent attempts to expand the program during the Obama administration were <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/24/us/supreme-court-immigration-obama-dapa.html">blocked</a>, however, and President Donald Trump launched a renewed assault on DACA upon taking office.
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The Trump administration moved to <a href="https://www.vox.com/2017/9/5/16252648/trump-daca-end-deadline">end DACA outright</a> in September 2017, but ran afoul of the Administrative Procedure Act — the same statute Hanen ruled DACA itself to be in violation of on Friday.
In a June 2020 decision, <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/19pdf/18-587_5ifl.pdf">Department of Homeland Security v. Regents of the University of California</a>, the Supreme Court <a href="https://www.vox.com/2020/6/18/21295518/supreme-court-daca-trump-roberts-regents-university-california-homeland-security">concluded</a> that the Trump administration’s decision to end DACA failed to consider the interests of the more than 600,000 people affected by the change and thus was “arbitrary and capricious” and a violation of the APA. Still, the Court left the door open for subsequent attempts to end the program.
Following that decision, the Trump administration also <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2020/07/28/daca-trump-texas/">moved</a> to stop accepting new DACA applicants and to impose other limits on the program, though those measures were <a href="https://www.vox.com/2020/12/5/22155815/daca-court-nicholas-garaufis-batalla-vidal-chad-wolf-homeland-security-joe-biden-trump">reversed</a> by a federal judge in New York last year.
As a result of the back-and-forth between the courts and the Trump administration, DACA recipients, who have lived their entire adult lives in the US, have long been stuck in an uncertain position — something which <a href="https://twitter.com/SenatorMenendez/status/1416160608349827074?s=20">many</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/RepChuyGarcia/status/1416159803534155776?s=20">lawmakers</a> were quick to point out after Friday’s decision.
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Not a surprise, just a painful reminder that we need to stop relying on temporary immigration fixes.
Congress must seize the moment and any and all opportunities to finally provide a pathway to legalization for millions of undocumented immigrants.<a href="https://t.co/iDewNu4wWx">https://t.co/iDewNu4wWx</a>
— Senator Bob Menendez (@SenatorMenendez) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenatorMenendez/status/1416160608349827074?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 16, 2021</a></blockquote>
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“Not a surprise, just a painful reminder that we need to stop relying on temporary immigration fixes,” Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) said in a tweet Friday. “Congress must seize the moment and any and all opportunities to finally provide a pathway to legalization for millions of undocumented immigrants.”
Menendez is right: Though DACA itself has been subject to years of controversy as a matter of executive authority, it would be relatively straightforward for Congress to provide a permanent legislative fix for the more than 600,000 Dreamers who are currently part of the DACA program (<a href="https://www.migrationpolicy.org/programs/data-hub/deferred-action-childhood-arrivals-daca-profiles">according to the Migration Policy Institute</a>, there are more than 1.3 million people in the US who are potentially eligible for DACA, as of 2020).
However, previous bills to do so have failed to clear the Senate, despite the <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2021/2/4/22264074/poll-undocumented-immigrants-citizenship-stimulus-biden">overwhelming popularity</a> of providing a pathway to citizenship for DREAMers.
<a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/06/17/americans-broadly-support-legal-status-for-immigrants-brought-to-the-u-s-illegally-as-children/">According to Pew Research Center polling</a> from June 2020, 74 percent of US adults — including a majority of Republicans and those who lean Republican — support “granting permanent legal status to immigrants who came to the U.S. illegally when they were children.”
Still, the DREAM Act <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2010/12/dream-act-dies-in-senate-046573">failed</a> in 2010 thanks to the filibuster, despite passing the House and winning majority support in the Senate. And in 2018, four possible DACA fixes all <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/2/15/17017682/senate-immigration-daca-bill-vote-failed">died in the Senate</a>, though three of the four also won at least 50 votes.
Most recently, the <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/6/text">American Dream and Promise Act</a> has now <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/03/18/977887411/house-passes-2-bills-aimed-at-overhauling-the-immigration-system">passed in the House</a> in two different sessions — first in 2019 and more recently in March this year — but has yet to come to a vote in the Senate, and all but certainly would not survive the filibuster as a standalone bill.
For now, an appeal of Hanen’s Friday decision looks to be the next front in the struggle over DACA. The Biden administration has already pledged to do so, which means the case will likely end up before the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals.
Groups involved in the case, including the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, have expressed optimism about future appeals.
“The decision was plainly determined by the judge’s views of many years ago,” MALDEF president and general counsel Thomas A. Saenz said in a <a href="https://www.maldef.org/2021/07/maldef-statement-on-texas-federal-court-daca-ruling/">statement</a> Friday, “and the decision fails to reconcile important recent developments in the law of standing and of presidential authority; it therefore presents numerous grounds for potentially successful appeal.”
However, it’s by no means a sure thing that DACA will fare any better on appeal. <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/16/politics/what-to-know-daca-ruling-illegal/index.html">As CNN’s Priscilla Alvarez and Tierney Sneed point out</a>, the 5th Circuit is famously “an extremely conservative appeals court,” while the current US Supreme Court features a 6-3 conservative majority, including “three justices who called the program unlawful in a dissent in a previous case.”
Still, there are other possibilities: In response to a day-one Biden <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/20/preserving-and-fortifying-deferred-action-for-childhood-arrivals-daca/">memo</a>, Biden’s DHS has said for months that it is working to <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-daca/u-s-will-issue-proposal-to-preserve-program-for-dreamer-immigrants-dhs-idUSKBN2BJ00K">shore up DACA</a> with a new rule to “preserve and fortify” the program, which could put it on more solid legal footing going forward.
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DHS reiterated that commitment on Friday in a <a href="https://www.dhs.gov/news/2021/07/17/statement-secretary-mayorkas-daca-ruling">statement</a> on the Hanen decision: “DHS remains focused on safeguarding DACA, and we will engage the public in a rulemaking process to preserve and fortify DACA,” DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said.
The most promising avenue for DACA advocates, though, could prove to be Congress, despite the continued existence of filibuster. With the Senate gearing up to push for a sprawling second reconciliation package, many Democrats have <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/13/democrats-go-big-bill-499425">suggested</a> that immigration reform — including a path to citizenship for DREAMers, among other potential provisions — could make the cut.
In his <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/07/17/statement-by-president-joe-biden-on-daca-and-legislation-for-dreamers/">statement</a> Saturday, Biden gave the idea a nod, noting that “it is my fervent hope that through reconciliation or other means, Congress will finally provide security to all DREAMers, who have lived too long in fear.”
Under reconciliation, legislation in the form of a budget reconciliation bill can pass the Senate with just 50 votes and no fear of the filibuster — but there are restrictions. As Vox’s Dylan Scott <a href="https://www.vox.com/22242476/senate-filibuster-budget-reconciliation-process">explained</a> in January, “a lot of things” are could potentially be included, but they all must affect federal spending and revenue in some (occasionally tenuous) capacity.
Senate Democrats — whose 50-seat majority, with Vice President Kamala Harris as the tie-breaking vote, gives them exactly enough votes to pass a reconciliation bill along party lines — have already used the reconciliation process once this year, to pass the $1.9 trillion <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2021/3/10/22320350/biden-sign-stimulus-bill-covid-19">American Rescue Plan</a>. Another, even larger package — focused on a laundry list of priorities dropped from the still-in-the-works <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/07/15/senate-infrastructure-budget/">bipartisan infrastructure bill</a> — looks to be <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/07/14/democrats-budget-plan/">on the way</a>.
Significantly, the inclusion of a path to citizenship seems to have the <a href="https://thehill.com/latino/563047-manchin-signals-support-for-immigration-in-budget-deal">support</a> of Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), a frequent holdout in the Senate Democratic caucus. However, a permanent fix for DREAMers still needs to survive the Senate parliamentarian to make it into any upcoming reconciliation package, and that appears to be an <a href="https://www.kqed.org/news/11881322/can-democrats-immigration-reform-plan-succeed-through-budget-reconciliation">open question</a>.
The parliamentarian’s role in the reconciliation process, <a href="https://www.vox.com/22242476/senate-filibuster-budget-reconciliation-process">according to Scott</a>, is to determine whether or not the budgetary impact of reconciliation measures, such as a potential path to citizenship, are “incidental” or not — and current rules require that incidental provisions be dropped from the bill.
Despite that fact, some senators — such as California Democrat Alex Padilla — are <a href="https://www.rollcall.com/2021/07/13/padilla-says-citizenship-path-in-reconciliation-is-realistic/">optimistic</a>, and at least one member of the House, Rep. Jesús “Chuy” García (D-IL), has said that immigration provisions are a must-pass in the next reconciliation package.
“A robust and equitable budget reconciliation deal must include a pathway to citizenship for immigrants,” García said in a <a href="https://chuygarcia.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-garc-s-statement-regarding-budget-reconciliation-negotiations">statement</a> this month. “We must seize this historic opportunity to bring compassion and dignity to our immigration system and provide the certainty that comes with having the legal status that millions of immigrants and their families deserve.”
 
 
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