Eric Schmitt

Mr. President, The ask · 12 wordsreserving the right to object, I object to this mass amnesty bill. Claims · 36 wordsLast week, Democrats asked the Senate to extend Haitian temporary protected status.¹ Today, they have dropped the quotation marks. Instead of extending temporary status, this legislation would convert temporary status into permanent status--green cards, permanent settlement. Positioning · 12 wordsAt least the bill last week continued the same old Washington lie.Positioning Claims · 19 wordsToday, Democrats finally admit what this scheme was always designed to be. Temporary was always meant to be permanent.Unearned certainty Positioning · 16 wordsIt is the final stage of the scam. But that is how Democrats do mass amnesty.Positioning Claims · 138 wordsFirst, they declare an emergency. Then, they import hundreds of thousands of people. They then extend the program over and over and over. Then, they unleash activist lawyers against anyone who tries to enforce the deadline. When the American people finally elect a President to end this chaos, to end this abuse, Democrats demand mass amnesty. And when the American people finally elect a President who enforces the law, Democrats change the law and hand out green cards. That is what this bill does. It turns a program created for temporary emergencies into a pipeline for green cards and citizenship not only for people who have temporary status--not only for people who once had TPS; this bill reaches beyond our borders and allows people who were already removed from this country to apply for permanent residency from abroad.² Procedure · 6 wordsThink about how crazy that is.Procedure Claims · 81 wordsThe law was enforced. The alien was removed. The case was closed. Yet Democrats want to erase the removal, reopen the border, and bring that person back with a green card. Under the radical, new Democratic immigration platform, deportation isn’t deportation; it is merely an inconvenience before a green card arrives. This bill does not merely reward those who broke our laws and remained in our country; it reaches around the entire globe to reverse deportations and to restart mass migration. Procedure · 6 wordsBut even that is not enough.Procedure Claims · 56 wordsThis bill also creates an ICE blackout. Information provided in these applications can’t be used for immigration enforcement.³ The bill even threatens penalties against law enforcement who properly use the information.⁴ So Democrats want the information we have about foreigners to be placed behind a legal shield so it cannot be used to enforce immigration law. Positioning · 26 wordsRepublicans want to handcuff illegal criminals; Democrats want to handcuff law enforcement officers so they can’t do their jobs. They are not hiding the choice anymore.Positioning Claims · 11 wordsThey will punish the officer before they punish the illegal alien. Positioning · 13 wordsWhy are illegal aliens more important to them now than protecting American citizens?Positioning Procedure · 6 wordsOh, but it doesn’t stop there.Procedure Claims · 11 wordsThis bill ensures that any President-- any future President--can’t end TPS.⁵ Reasoning · 7 wordsSo what is missing from the bill? Claims · 67 wordsAmericans; American citizens and the impact mass migration is having on our people. This bill has no consideration for American wages; no consideration for American housing; no consideration of schools, hospitals, or communities; no consideration of whether mass migration serves the national interest of the American people. Every question is about what the foreign country needs; no question about what America needs or what American families need. Procedure · 9 wordsThat tells you everything that you need to know.ProcedureUnearned certainty Claims · 24 wordsTo today’s Democrat Party, immigration policy is written for foreign governments, immigration lawyers, activist groups, and leftwing organizations waiting to file the next lawsuit. Positioning · 45 wordsThe American people are treated as a logistical obstacle. Their votes--our votes--are an inconvenience. Their communities--our communities--are an afterthought. Their country is treated as common property for the rest of the world. Democrats are becoming more and more radical by the day on this issue.Positioning Claims · 56 wordsYesterday, they insisted that temporary programs must never end. Today, they demand permanent residency for all--permanent residency for people who already left, legal shields against law enforcement, and more ammunition for activist lawsuits. And they will turn around and call us cruel. You will hear it shortly. It will be said about me blocking this bill. Procedure · 8 wordsLet me speak clearly to my Democrat colleagues: ProcedureReasoning · 61 wordsThere is nothing compassionate about betraying your own citizens--the very citizens who put you in office. There is nothing compassionate about flooding the labor market with more foreign workers while Americans struggle for a decent wage. There is nothing compassionate about flooding the housing market and putting young families behind the eight ball. There is nothing compassionate about diluting American citizenship. Positioning · 21 wordsAmerica is a nation, not a global waiting room, not a refugee camp, not a lifetime stay at a taxpayer-funded hotel.Positioning Claims · 20 wordsOur immigration laws exist to serve the American people. Foreign nationals do not have a right to permanent settlement here. Positioning · 21 wordsToday, I speak on behalf of the American people who have been ripped off by this scam for far too long.Positioning Procedure · 2 wordsNo more.Procedure Claims · 14 wordsWe had an election on this issue. The Democrats have not gotten the message. Positioning · 17 wordsThey want the United States of America to be a global refugee camp cloaked behind their compassion.Positioning Claims · 109 wordsThere is no compassion for the American people--the guy that swings the hammer, who is working 7 days a week so he can pay for the benefits of an illegal alien who they don’t ever want to leave this country. The American people are a sovereign people who have the right to decide who enters this country, who remains, and who has to leave. This bill reverses that principle. This Democrat bill tells the American people that their elections cannot end a temporary program, that the President cannot enforce the law, that their officers cannot use information in front of them, that their country belongs to everyone but them. Positioning · 40 wordsOnly the migrant’s claim matters. Only the foreign country matters. Only the ambulance-chasing immigration lawyer matters. I reject all of that completely, in public, for the world to see, because I stand by my brothers and sisters of this country.Positioning Claims · 35 wordsLast week, I objected to the Democrats’ attempt to give 350,000 Haitians extended TPS.⁶ Today, I am objecting to this Democrat attempt to give millions of illegal aliens mass amnesty, green cards, ⁷and work authorizations. Promise · 37 wordsI will always object to this mass amnesty. I will always object to this mass migration. I will always object to putting American workers last. I will always object to tying the hands of our law enforcement. The ask · 4 wordsSo therefore I object.