Senator launches assault on illegal immigration gaps as GOP races midterm clock to lock in key wins
Jim Banks has seven bills and a midterm clock. Executive orders die. A first-grader's skull does not get a second draft.
Summary
- Fox News reports Sen. Jim Banks, R-Ind., is pressing the Senate to take up a seven-bill immigration package before midterms, warning a future Democratic Senate could erase Trump executive actions.
- The Dalilah Law, named for first-grader Dalilah Coleman, who was critically injured and needed a craniectomy after illegal immigrant Partap Singh, licensed in California, caused a multi-car pileup in an Indiana big-rig crash, would stop states from issuing CDLs to illegal immigrants and certain foreign nationals, revoke some existing licenses, and require English-only commercial tests.
- Banks cited California, Pennsylvania, and New York as states that 'hand CDLs out like candy.' The American Tech Workforce Act would lift many H-1B salary floors from $60,000 to $150,000.
- Other bills would tighten congressional control of Temporary Protected Status, add border funding, restrict chain migration, and target grants to colleges that employ illegal immigrants.
Commentary
A first-grader in Indiana still has a scar a truck should never have written. Her father did not vote for a California CDL mill. He voted for a road that does not treat a child as a rounding error.
That is the gap. An order can be shredded in January. A statute cannot. Banks wants English tests, a $150,000 H-1B floor, and Congress on the TPS switch. The other side wants the next majority to unlock the same loopholes and call it compassion.
Look every parent at a school crossing in the eye: if a CDL can be handed out like candy, who decided the first-grader should pay the deductible?
Comments
A memo dies. A first-grader's craniectomy does not. Write the Dalilah Law.
I drove a deuce-and-a-half in English. A CDL in a language the trooper cannot test is a weapon.
TPS is a statute Congress can cabin. Leaving it to the next White House is how the cheat returns.
Allied trucking tests are in the local language. That is not cruelty. That is a brake pedal.
Watch the H-1B shops scream about $150,000. They liked the $60,000 discount on an American graduate.
I do not get a CDL for free. Why does a man without status get one in three states?
My kid walks a highway feeder. English-only tests are the least a state can do.
Chain migration and college grants are the quiet pipes. Cut them in the same package.
Fox printed seven bills, Dalilah, $60,000 to $150,000, and the midterm clock. Argue those nouns.
Floor the package. English tests. Statute over memo. Do it before the recess eats November.
