Quick Look at Some of the Corker-Hoeven Amendment's Many Flaws

By James R. Edwards, Jr. on June 24, 2013

A document circulating on the Hill highlights some of the Corker-Hoeven substitute amendment's worst provisions. The amendment leaves in place the basic structure of the Schumer-Rubio amnesty: mass amnesty first, real enforcement never.

The gory details include:

  • Border security loopholes


  • Broad latitude for the administration


  • Illegal aliens' right to sue for amnesty or to kill enforcement measures


  • Rolling amnesty for visa overstayers


  • No deportations of illegal aliens for two and a half years


  • Adoption of the Obama Justice Department's soft-on-crime standards for probable cause and reasonable suspicion — not only on immigration, but across all of criminal law enforcement


  • Coddling criminal aliens, including ruthless immigrant gang members and foreign drunk drivers


  • Taxpayer-funded legal counsel for illegal aliens in civil immigration proceedings


  • Encouraging in-state tuition for illegal aliens


  • Putting Social Security at financial risk by allowing amnestied aliens to claim credit for illegal work, based on their word without any evidence


  • Creating slush funds from which to reward La Raza, MALDEF, American Immigration Lawyers Association, and other amnesty cronies