New Way Forward Act

[Monello]

This bill seems like a step backwards for US citizens.

Why any US politician would propose legislation that benefits people that are here illegally is something that I have a hard time understanding. And it's all written in language which is coded with racial/racist and xenophobic overtones.

Today, Representatives Jesús “Chuy” García (IL-04), Ayanna Pressley (MA-07), Pramila Jayapal (WA-07), Karen Bass (CA-37), and 30 Members of Congress, alongside over 145 advocacy organizations and community representatives, introduced the New Way Forward Act, a landmark piece of legislation to restore due process to the immigration system and disrupt the prison to deportation pipeline. The bill corrects racial and anti-immigrant injustices embedded in our immigration laws, many of which have enabled the Trump Administration’s inhumane assault on non-citizens in the United States and at our southern border.

Some snippets from the documents pushing passage of the bill

Latinx are imprisoned at 1.4 times the rate of whites.

Although only 7% of non-citizens are Black they represent 20% of people in deportation proceedings on “criminal grounds.”

We need to end federal prison sentences for people who cross the border seeking safety and freedom or trying to come home.

Provides a legal pathway for those previously ordered removed or deported to apply to return to their homes and families in the United States if they can show they would not have been not removable or would have been eligible for relief had this Act been in place.

Two of the most harmful, costly and unnecessary provisions in federal immigration law are sections 1325 and 1326 of Title 8 U.S.C., which make it a federal crime for someone to enter the United States somewhere other than an official port of entry. The legislative history of these provisions reveals them to have been born from white supremacist ideology and politics. The current administration has further weaponized these provisions to demonize immigrants and tear families apart.

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[Grumpy]

Heard about that last night..think it was on Tucker..MSM mostly ignoring it

 

[Barabbas]

This bill seems like a step backwards for US citizens.

Why any US politician would propose legislation that benefits people that are here illegally is something that I have a hard time understanding. And it's all written in language which is coded with racial/racist and xenophobic overtones.



Some snippets from the documents pushing passage of the bill











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That's a lot of stupid wrapped up in one bill.

 

[Monello]

That's a lot of stupid wrapped up in one bill.

To you and me it's ridiculous. But to some elected officials it's needed legislation to correct the sins of decades of white supremacy.

 

[awpitt]

This will never never become law.

 

[Barabbas]

This will never never become law.

Yet, they think it's a good idea. To me, that's the really scary part.

It's one thing to have differing policy positions, differing thoughts on how to handle (or, in my case, whether the government should handle something), but to put forth something this stupid is beyond a policy decision.