Worst Thing GOP Could Do For Midterms
Is Embrace Amnesty, So Of Course They’re
Doing That
Federalist,
by
Shawn Fleetwood
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
4/8/2026 2:21:39 PM
You almost have to admire how far some Republicans are willing to go to lose the 2026 midterms — and ultimately, the country.
Throughout their recent two-week vacation, several GOP lawmakers have been making the media rounds to tout “bipartisan” legislation they claim will finally solve America’s broken immigration system. There’s just one teensy-weensy important detail that somehow gets brushed aside: The bill would allow millions of illegal aliens to continue living in the United StatesSponsored by Reps. Maria Elvira Salazar, R-Fla., Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., and other lawmakers, the so-called DIGNIDAD (Dignity) Act permits “certain long-term undocumented immigrants to earn legal status, without amnesty or a path to citizenship”
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Kate318 4/8/2026 2:41:58 PM (No. 2090477)
That’s fine, but they have to do it from home. Their original home.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 4/8/2026 2:42:09 PM (No. 2090478)
Thune and company, pass the Save America Act soonest. Or Else. Got it?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Poorboy 4/8/2026 2:51:40 PM (No. 2090481)
What I find unsettling is that there are voting communities undergirding all these hare-brained ideas, and the politicians proposing them... ranging from wholesale amnesty; to men in womens' sports, bathrooms and locker rooms; to the whole sad gamut of inanities and insanities we read about every day...Yeats was prescient when he wrote "The Second Coming."
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I want to hear President Trump's opinion. He gets a little soft on this subject. I want America and Americans taken care of first. If there is even one veteran on the street (or all other needs), send them home and let them apply, but they need to get in line, no cutting. So the sooner they leave, the sooner they can get in line. No special treatment, it's an insult to those who did it lawfully.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Luandir 4/8/2026 3:16:24 PM (No. 2090492)
I hope Speaker Johnson drowns this without a bubble.
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Note to weak-kneed RINOS— Hell No! In the words of Margaret Thatcher: ‘Don’t go wobbly.’
Or have you forgotten the meltdown of DC phone lines when they tried to implement amnesty under Bush ll??!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
jalo1951 4/8/2026 3:47:33 PM (No. 2090499)
No. Short, sweet and simple. You will lose me and millions will join me in my disgust.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
MindMadeUp 4/8/2026 3:48:24 PM (No. 2090500)
Trump successfully carried out a hostile takeover of the GOP. Now he needs to finish the job and purge it of its sociopaths and other Democrats.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
privateer 4/8/2026 3:53:20 PM (No. 2090504)
And where would we go? CPUSA-Lite, AKA democrats? There was a reason laws had to be passed to control monopolies
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Venturer 4/8/2026 4:13:54 PM (No. 2090513)
Effing Republicans are almost as bad as Democrats. Weak kneed sone of beeches.'
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 4/8/2026 4:18:12 PM (No. 2090516)
Pass the SAVE Act first. Get that done.
Then if you want to try to solve the immigration problem, you need to start with at least a 10 year wait in the back of the existing line for those in the process of becoming a U.S. Citizen. My understanding that line is about a 10 year wait, so they can adjust their 7 year to 10 years wait time.
This would NOT be amnesty since amnesty would be immediate and more in line with what happened in 1986 when Republicans were fooled into thinking they would get the Democrat promised reforms.
Besides, we still don't have a full handle on the open door policy of unvetted immigration under Biden administration which is why I suggest at least a 10 year wait for processing.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
DVC 4/8/2026 4:50:44 PM (No. 2090525)
Absolutely NOT!
Deport ALL illegal aliens.
No exceptions, no amnesty.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
voxpopuli 4/8/2026 5:03:54 PM (No. 2090529)
isn't the federalist a rino rag?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Gordon Freeman 4/8/2026 6:47:51 PM (No. 2090546)
You know they’re going to do it. How else will the swamp be able to derail Trump?
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Rebooblicans, forever snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Ragman73 4/8/2026 7:46:47 PM (No. 2090558)
# 2 has summed up how I feel and I believe
Many others feel. I don’t care what it takes…
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
CactusStar 4/8/2026 9:07:33 PM (No. 2090569)
So 85-90% of us want the SAVE act passed, but no can do, but amnesty that no one wants?, good to go. Sounds about right for our elected leaders.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
bighambone 4/8/2026 9:22:13 PM (No. 2090570)
No matter what the political backers of this latest amnesty try are claiming, both Democrats and wimpy Republicans, to illegal aliens it is just another amnesty that will allow them to stay in the USA and qualify for all sorts of public welfare benefits provided through taxes upon the American people. The history of previous such amnesties shows that they served as encouragement and an invitation for growing masses of aliens to enter the USA unlawfully. When Reagan was President he signed into law the 1986 amnesty that granted a legal immigration status to over three million illegal aliens, now with this new amnesty bill they believe it could legalize about ten to fifteen million illegal aliens. So you can see that amnesties simply cause more mass uncontrolled illegal immigration, as aliens sneak into the country and hide out to await the next amnesty! During the buildup to the 1968 amnesty the leftist Democrats falsely claimed that they would support Federal immigration law enforcement, but after that amnesty was passed into law the leftist Democrats never did support immigration law enforcement. Of course the leftist, progressive, and socialist Democrats do not want any illegal aliens to be deported, or the Federal immigration laws to be effectively enforced, and in that respect want the Federal law enforcement agencies that enforce the immigration laws, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) and the US Border Patrol (CBP) to be abolished, and instead want all illegal aliens to qualify for a Democrat designed amnesty and to be transitioned through “a path to citizenship” to become a massive foreign born leftist Democrat constituency to keep the leftist Democrats in majority political power on into the future. As for the wimpy Republicans, the reason that a bunch of them are already touting that they will support this proposed amnesty as they love illegal alien cheap labor, and the resulting kickbacks from employers of illegal aliens into their campaign coffers.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
mc squared 4/8/2026 10:24:37 PM (No. 2090575)
No one in the uniparty gives a damn who wins. Are their names on Epstein's flight logs?
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
YorkieMom 4/8/2026 10:39:32 PM (No. 2090577)
Mike Lawler was on Laura Ingraham's show today and talk about a wimpy Rino. This so-called Act is a bunch of nonsense. Laura let him have it big time, but he just kept yapping. Since the House is on another vacation, they can't vote on this yet, but they're idiots if they do vote for it when they get through vacationing.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Flyball Dogs 4/8/2026 11:37:42 PM (No. 2090582)
This made my blood boil:
“Aside from the “One Big Beautiful Bill” that they never effectively sold to voters, Republicans have virtually nothing to show for their congressional majorities. The Senate GOP still hasn’t passed the SAVE America Act, rogue judges continue to go unpunished, many of Trump’s executive orders haven’t been codified into law, and other conservative priorities remain untouched.”
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Hermit_Crab 4/9/2026 12:24:18 AM (No. 2090583)
I'd be willing to discuss this amnesty proposal......
As long as that for EACH Illegal Alien Invader that gets Amnesty, one sitting Congress Person or Senator gets permanently deported.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Timber Queen 4/9/2026 3:39:43 AM (No. 2090589)
Can we just start a MAGA Party and leave the "democratic" Republicans at the curb?
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Mizz Fixxit 4/9/2026 7:41:29 AM (No. 2090650)
Don’t lose sleep over this. As we all know, breaking the filibuster takes 60 votes. And 2/3 of the Senate to override a Presidential veto. That would require 14 rinos to vote with the democrats.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
mifla 4/9/2026 8:05:56 AM (No. 2090672)
The only thing broken about our immigration system is that we ignore the laws we passed.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
judy 4/10/2026 5:15:59 AM (No. 2090961)
Lawler is another fake republican...one thing for sure Lawler was unsuccessful in attempting to outtalk Laura..
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