I am pleased to report huge progress on the Dignity Act.
Please note Rep. Salazar Introduces Historic Bipartisan DIGNITY Act to Finally Fix America’s Broken Immigration System
July 15, 2025: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman María Elvira Salazar (R FL-27) and Congresswoman Veronica Escobar (TX-16) introduced a new and improved version of the DIGNITY Act – the DIGNITY Act of 2025: a bold, historic, and commonsense immigration reform bill.
They were joined by a group of 20 members including Reps. Mike Lawler (R NY-17), David Valadao (R CA-22), Dan Newhouse (R WA-04), Mike Kelly (R PA-16), Brian Fitzpatrick (R PA-01), Gabe Evans (R CO-08), Marlin Stutzman (R IN-03), Don Bacon (R NE-02), Young Kim (R CA-40), Adriano Espaillat (NY-13), Hillary Scholten (MI-03), Susie Lee (NV-03), Adam Gray (CA-13), Salud Carbajal (CA-24), Mike Levin (CA-49), Nikki Budzinski (IL-13), Laura Gillen (NY-04), and Jake Auchincloss (MA-04).
At a press conference held at the U.S. Capitol, Rep. Salazar outlined a revolutionary path forward to fix a system that has been broken for decades.
“The Dignity Act of 2025 is a revolutionary bill that offers the solution to our immigration crisis: secure the border, stop illegal immigration, and provide an earned opportunity for long-term immigrants to stay here and work,” said Congresswoman Salazar. “No amnesty. No handouts. No citizenship. Just accountability and a path to stability for our economy and our future.”
“I have seen firsthand the devastating consequences of our broken immigration system, and as a member of Congress, I take seriously my obligation to propose a solution. Realistic, common-sense compromise is achievable, and is especially important given the urgency of this moment. I consider the Dignity Act of 2025 a critical first step to overhauling this broken system,” said Congresswoman Escobar. “Immigrants – especially those who have been in the United States for decades – make up a critical component of our communities and also of the American workforce and economy. The vast majority of immigrants are hard-working, law-abiding residents; and, most Americans recognize that it is in our country’s best interest to find bipartisan reforms. We can enact legislation that incorporates both humanity and security, and the Dignity Act of 2025 offers a balanced approach that restores dignity to people who have tried to navigate a broken system for far too long. The reintroduction of this legislation includes changes that reflect the challenges in today’s political environment. I’m proud of my bipartisan work with Representative Salazar, who has been a strong partner on this issue since December 2022. It is our hope that Congress seizes the opportunity to take an important step forward on this issue.”
The Dignity Act delivers a long-overdue solution: it secures the border, restores law and order, revitalizes the American Workforce, and allows certain long-term undocumented immigrants to earn legal status, without amnesty or a path to citizenship. The bill restores order while offering a tough but fair opportunity for those who have contributed to the country.
Unlike past efforts, the DIGNITY Act is fully funded through restitution payments and application fees made by immigrants, requiring NO taxpayer dollars.
The Dignity Act
Please consider The Dignity Act.
Topline Summary: The Dignity Act provides a reasonable, compassionate, and final solution to America’s immigration crisis. It ends illegal immigration to the United States once and for all, reestablishes law and order, provides a practical solution for the long-term undocumented, revitalizes the American workforce, fixes our legal immigration system, and restores America’s economy. *This bill is fully funded by fees and from restitution payments by immigrants, requiring no taxpayer funding.
Dignity Act Key Points
- Secures the Border.
- Mandates E-Verify.
- Reforms the Asylum System.
- Protects Dreamers.
- Dignity Program: Undocumented immigrants can enter a 7-year program for renewable legal status.
- Provides workforce grants, apprenticeships, and on-the-job training for American workers.
- Improves our legal immigration system, ensuring U.S. competitiveness.
NBC Interview of María Elvira Salazar
Salazar did a superb job explaining the bill in the above NBC interview. Please play it.
If she can convince Trump, this will sail.
And she went about it the right way, praising Trump’s ability to fix a decade’s old problem that nobody else could fix.
The New Home for Hispanics is the Republican Party
I have written about Salazar before. Please consider my November 7, 2024 post The New Home for Hispanics is the Republican Party
I had not read the Dignity Act until today. The act, or something very close, is undoubtedly the best immigration policy. It is both exceptionally balanced and bipartisan.
There have been recent changes to the bill first presented in 2025.Refer to the links above for current details.
Trump has been on and off regarding mass deportations, currently off.
Trump Flip Flops Again With a “Temporary Pass” on Mass Deportations
On July 1, 2015, I noted Trump Flip Flops Again With a “Temporary Pass” on Mass Deportations
Trump wants a reprieve from migrant raids for farmers, hotels and some others.
Trump Says Dreamers Should Stay!
On December 9, 2024, I noted On Meet the Press, Trump Said He “Wants the Illegal Dreamers to Stay”
Trump’s interview on Meet the Press sounds exactly like the deportation strategy I proposed.
Partial Interview Transcript (Emphasis Mine)
Kristen Welker:
What about dreamers, sir? Dreamers, who were brought to this country illegally as children. You said once back in 2017 they, quote, “Shouldn’t be very worried about being deported.” Should they be worried now?President-Elect Trump:
The dreamers are going to come later, and we have to do something about the dreamers because these are people that have been brought here at a very young age. And many of these are middle-aged people now. They don’t even speak the language of their country. And yes, we’re going to do something about the dreamers. And —Kristen Welker:
What does that mean? What are you going to do?President-Elect Trump:
I will work with the Democrats on a plan. And if we can come up with a plan, but the Democrats have made it very, very difficult to do anything. Republicans are very open to the dreamers. The dreamers, we’re talking many years ago they were brought into this country. Many years ago. Some of them are no longer young people. And in many cases, they’ve become successful. They have great jobs. In some cases they have small businesses. Some cases they might have large businesses. And we’re going to have to do something with them.Kristen Welker:
You want them to be able to stay, that’s what you’re saying?President-Elect Trump:
I do. I want to be able to work something out, and it should’ve been able to be worked out over the last three or four years and it never got worked out. You know, Biden could’ve done it because he controlled, you know, Congress to a certain extent, right? He could’ve done something, but they didn’t do it. I never understood why because they always seemed to want to do it, but then when it comes down to it, they don’t. I think we can work with the Democrats and work something out.
What Was the Consensus?
People insist deportation is one of the few issues that Trump has broad popular support.”
But what was the question? Ponder these questions.
- Illegals are stealing our jobs and costing us money. Should we deport them all?
- We will have massive inflation and job shortages if we deport them all. Should we do it?
It’s easy to get the answer you want by phrasing the question one way or another.
What are the Economic Costs and Benefits
On June 15, I asked What are the Economic Costs and Benefits of “Deport All Illegals”?
Trump is already backing down from “deport them all” madness, but let’s discuss the question anyway.
What Are the Costs to Deport them All?
- The first cost in rounding up 11 million people.
- The second cost is holding facilities awaiting a hearing and we have already heard the Supreme Court ruling on that.
- The third cost is a massive labor shortage especially in skilled construction, but also agriculture, hotel cleaning, and other service sector jobs.
Unless you explain the costs of an idea, answers to questions are invalid.
Try this question on for size: “Should we deport everyone here illegally, even if they have been here five years, have a job, have citizen children, and have no criminal background, at a cost of hundreds of billions of dollars, resulting in labor shortages and huge inflation?
Only confirmed bigots and economic illiterates would answer yes. But that is exactly what deport them all means.
I am very pleased that the Dignity Act is back in play and there are at least 10 House Republican sponsors. This has a shot.
O am embarrassed as a human being to live in a country with so much hatred and close mindedness. There has to be more to all this immigration than just “illegal”. How have they hurt you and what are you so jealous of? But before you can answer…how many illegals do you actually know?
And….I didn’t think so!!!
Way too early to negotiate a bill. After 500k plus criminals are deported Republicans need to negotiate a much tougher bill than this.
There has not been anywhere near close to 500k deported
We have not had a “broken immigration system”, we have a broken enforcement system. We also allow too many people to enter the country who cannot contribute and therefore become a liability, this needs to end, except in some humanitarian cases. This bill rewards those who entered the country illegally or overstayed a visa. It is time the USA gets right with reality in regards to immigration that is only good for the country as a whole.
I hope Rep. Salazar and Escobar get censored by the party for this, they pander for their own kind.
As a born citizen I have been through the system, what took my wife and I 6 years to accomplish, I am a white male, my wife is a Chinese female, I have witnessed asians who were gaming the system get through much quicker. No amnesty, no more silly games. Strict rules with strict enforcement.
1: Trump shut the border so stop the bullshit about allowing people to come here.
2: You are an economic illiterate who does not understand the impact of deport them all
3: Do you want to censure Trump who accurately said in an interview …
President-Elect Trump:
The dreamers are going to come later, and we have to do something about the dreamers because these are people that have been brought here at a very young age. And many of these are middle-aged people now. They don’t even speak the language of their country. And yes, we’re going to do something about the dreamers. And —
Kristen Welker:
What does that mean? What are you going to do?
President-Elect Trump:
I will work with the Democrats on a plan. And if we can come up with a plan, but the Democrats have made it very, very difficult to do anything. Republicans are very open to the dreamers. The dreamers, we’re talking many years ago they were brought into this country. Many years ago. Some of them are no longer young people. And in many cases, they’ve become successful. They have great jobs. In some cases they have small businesses. Some cases they might have large businesses. And we’re going to have to do something with them.
Kristen Welker:
You want them to be able to stay, that’s what you’re saying?
President-Elect Trump:
I do. I want to be able to work something out, and it should’ve been able to be worked out over the last three or four years and it never got worked out. You know, Biden could’ve done it because he controlled, you know, Congress to a certain extent, right? He could’ve done something, but they didn’t do it. I never understood why because they always seemed to want to do it, but then when it comes down to it, they don’t. I think we can work with the Democrats and work something out.
A very very very small bipartisan group of Congressfolks sponsor the Get Out of My Face Act to reduce the constant and seemingly inevitable intrusion of Government into everything. Making a law doesn’t do anything other than make a law. Action require the fourth branch of Government, the one they teach little about. That is the unelected, semi-permanent Bureaucratic branch. May god help the USA.
people always say “broken”. I wish they’d be specific. Probably new administrations ignoring existing law and flipping every four or eight years and doing whatever they feel like is what I’d call the broken part.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-approval-immigration-lowest-second-160320341.html
[shrug] So? Do you think Trump cares?
I’m almost certain that Trump will declare martial law prior to the next Presidential election and suspend elections so he can remain in office.
He can try but with numbers like that it’s not likely to end well for him.
You should look up the definition of “martial law”. Poll numbers have no effect on it.
He can try that but with numbers like that, it would not end well for him, any more than it did for King George. I imagine King George also thought little of public opinion.
Sure, let’s have a nationwide tea party! We’ll toss all the tea in supermarkets on the floor! Just wait and see!! Hrrump…
I certainly would not rule that out. Given last time he is certain to try something at least
With his hidden health issues…I doubt he makes it that far.
Funny, more of the same “free market” no tariffs normalizing illegal alien BS resulting in more of those expensive violent counter culture no go zones’ social realty of non-assimilating illiterate “migrants” in the millions deserving amnesty that Mish bailed out of, as I recall. Ditto for Martha’s Vineyard, Buckaroo Barack’s elite nirvana bail out site for enjoying amnesties for the counter culture illiterates on the mainland. Oh, and auto pen Biden as well as amnesty giver Ronald Reagan, like the Frankfurt school’s mover’s and shakers of the Rolling Stone’s brown sugar 60s setting up the stage through the 2025’s deep state NPR, were not boomers. And neither was Harvey Milk or Ken Kesey and his party hardy Hells Angels pissing in Ken’s toilet bowl Jesus before Fonda became Hanoi Jane. Have a nice hip hop do wa diddy day while safely enjoying the EU’s on going violent immigrant counter cultural civil war. .
While the EU definitely has a problem with cultural tensions, I’m not sure it is more likely to see civil war than the USA with its culture wars being fanned strongly.
This will fix immigration like ACA/Obamacare fixed healthcare.
The markets aren’t stretched. The mag 7 rise cont. SPX to 7K. NVDA market cup: $4.21T. Germany GDP: $4.5T. Japan: $4.2T and France GDP: $3.0T. On Aug 1 tariffs will rise and stay high. The mag7 earnings wouldn’t matter. What matters: Trump needs lower rates.
I’d like to thank the comments for showcasing the real reason we can’t/won’t fix immigration. It’s not because we can’t do so with an act like this, it’s because turdmouthed baby boomers absolutely refuse to part with the “muh white man’s America picket fences apple pie jerbs” bullshit. Can any of the people whining about immigrants work 12 hour days in a meat packing plant? Hell no! Can their kids? No because they got a college education and rightfully expect better for the effort. But they’ll pretend they still can and if you press them they’ll winge about “back in my day…”
The baby boom making the population an inverted pyramid age wise has been a disaster because of this. Anyone in their 20s can speak to just how devastating the effects of having a gigantic voting bloc that, much like our president, cannot draw a clock.
If you think I’m being off topic, consider that you can trace most major issues back to this: The whole American made everything delusion? Because Grandpa Trump thinks factories still work like they did in 1980. Inability to continue being a tech leader? Because the people in power demonstrably don’t understand even the basics of tech everyone works with daily. Ditto for why we can’t hold a secure election with modern voting technology like they do in Europe. Medicare and Medicaid being broken and absolutely out of control budgeting? Probably has to do with a huge chunk of the population being too old to work all of a sudden. When we run out of money and the streets become nursing homes, I’m sure everyone will be delighted to know that it was the homeless who voted themselves there because they wanted to see their retirement money go to Israel instead.
Korea and Japan are a stern warning of where this is headed, and why we absolutely need to get our asses in gear before we become a complete rump state.
waaaa, it’s dem mean boomers. waaaa.
What exactly is so bad in Korea and Japan? I’m waiting to hear how colonizing those countries with entire provinces of people from Africa and South America and India will bring prosperity to countries that boast tidy, harmonious, civil well-run high-tech societies.
https://youtu.be/Ufmu1WD2TSk
This video offers a full explanation but in short: no kids. Calling these countries “tidy, harmonious, and well run” is a great showing of how out of touch you are. These countries are struggling more by the day with a population that the remaining worker population literally won’t be able to support in only a few years. Any new brains they get immediately hop on a boat somewhere nicer.
And as for the ever popular “Have more kids” line? How do they pay for that while struggling under the dead weight? The brown people you’re so terrified of have kids and actually keep in touch with their families, they haven’t lost the plot. We have. By gouging the middle class over and over you give the middle class two options: leave to where they’re wanted, don’t have kids, or become poor. Option one has given Asia and Mexico a thriving community of educated expats, option two is catching up already, and option 3 will eventually mean enough poor people get fed up and break out the guillotine. Either stop screwing the middle class or watch America deflate into a rump.
Colonization is never an easy path to prosperity, whether its boatloads of whites stealing indigenous lands or the brown people I’m so afraid of, as you say. A declining population does not mean a doomed society. But you are correct that the slow annihilation of the middle class is to blame for western — or should I say — high tech societal woes.
Have more kids. problem solved.
Alternatively, encourage more old people to die.
Medicaid cuts in the recent bill will go a long way towards this, especially in rural areas that will lose hospitals and are grey already, as will anti-vax sentiment, which already killed a million or so boomers in 2020 and 2021.
Sorry to pop another of your nonsense bubbles but I’m unvaxxed, had Covid twice and didn’t die, even though I am a senior.
Thank you for your single data point, it was deeply illuminating.
There are many millions with the same data point.
Yet covid deaths diverged immediately following the introduction of the vaccine, leading to an estimated 1 million avoidable deaths among the willfully unvaccinated. Those are the stories we don’t hear about any more, because, well, they’re dead
That is a false narrative. Dr. Wagshul of the FLCCC said he had none of his patients need hospitalization, once he prescribed Ivermectin. There never was a pandemic of the unvaccinated. Deaths were mostly avoidable, if Covid had actually been treated as a public health crisis and antiviral drugs been made widely available to those sick with Covid. The Covid shot didn’t prevent anyone from contracting Covid, and the moved goalpost, that it reduces hospitalization and death, i consider to be just another false narrative, to keep people taking the shots.
It’s impossible to get good stats on this. Many people, even those w/o Covid, were classified to have Covid because hospitals received extra money for each such diagnosis from Medicare under the CARES act.
People died of heart attacks but they had also been classified as having Covid. So what did they die of? The heart attack or Covid?
This is why Covid death statistics are unreliable.
There were a lot less Covid deaths than estimated by the CDC and whatever number died, the total percentage of people who died against the population of the USA was something like a miniscule 0.25%.
How many “miniscules” were your friends or family?
Most Covid deaths were ioatrogenic. Dr.s Fareed and Tyson early treated some 20,000 Covid patients without a single death, using obstructed antiviral drugs. PREP hospital protocol was not designed to save lives. As a boomer, i am doing fine without taking any of the vaxxes for seniors. The media’s “triple” and “quadrupledemics” of the last 2 winters haven’t affected me.
That’s the Canadian solution.
The federal government should have End of Life centers in each city that would allow people to check out on their own terms whenever they choose to do so.
Offer 2-3 days of mandatory psychological counseling to ensure that decisions made are not just spur of the moment due to sudden bouts of depression or mental illness.
Offer assistance with listing/contacting relatives/next of kin, disposing of assets or making a simple will, processing the body.
Allow the [to be] decedent to sell their body parts to pay debts or bequeath something to family or to charitable institutions.
Sounds like a decent business model to me! Even franchisable.
I remember a movie from 1973 based on your idea : Soylent Green
Idiots think this is a good idea until they end up in a 40 lb bag of Soilent green. Watch what you wish for, you might end up Soilentized.
Or young people to get a job…or some sort of life
If you know about the clock, you must be a boomer :).
Both Korea and Japan cannot feed themselves, the basic necessity for independence. Even if they could produce enough basic food, it requires importing massive amount of fertilizers.
Do you want to go down that path?
The US already imports a lot of fertilizer from Canada and Russia.
You are correct! Which is… Why the post is about not being them? Industrial farming as we do it now is really unsustainable and we’re running out of topsoil so yeah we definitely need to get on that.
To the Soylent Green tanks for anyone over 50!
Logan’s Run proscribed it for anyone over 30 🙂
Inflation strikes everywhere!
Other than the obvious term limits and basic competency requirements for holding office, I don’t think there’s really a solution given that the two party system is already broken as is. Though I think two two things might help.
I dont think trump will like someone stealing his thunder. Would not be surprised if he threatens to primary and republican that signs on.
I wonder if it would be better to have a lot of the responsibility for these workers placed on the businesses where they will be working. If it ends up having to track down a business is easier than an individual. Maybe set up payroll wise like temp labor to cover gov expense The cost should be on the businesses and not the government. Hey if its that expensive hire a citizen.
Sounds like a reasonable idea coming from an unexpected source. But MAGA will not let go of the issue. If you are a non-college educated American deeply disappointed by what life has to offer, undocumented immigrants are by far the most convenient scapegoats for whatever is wrong with education and other policies completely unrelated to undocumented immigrants.
Of course! The market liberal line for the last 50 years (Trump included) has been to blame poor people while stealing everything that’s not nailed down and moving it to Asia. When America finally collapses in on itself after decades of stripping the copper wire out of the very soul of the nation, Bezos and friends plan to simply hop on a jet and go to Paris or wherever with their spoils. It’s the gilded age 2.0
I can’t believe that I agree with you.
It’s not hard for Americans to agree when they’re not being manipulated by Fox and CBS. Everyone knows something is deeply wrong with this nation, and it’s a running joke that every party is bought and paid for. If people talked more maybe we could fix it, but these days I just don’t know.
According to California’s own testing, 53% of the kids in public school can’t read or write at grade level and 66% can’t do math at grade level.
This is an epic failure in a deep blue state run by the education party. There is no MAGA here, but systemic failure sure is.
Explain.
Agree. It’s not about MAGA, Blue, or Red running the education system. The problem is we have a failed education system that sorts people into college and non-college educated, with the latter standing little chance to do as well as the former.
Wrong! That 54% is actually a statistic for the US overall. Why? No Child Left Behind. Bush made it to where funding was tied to test scores… So schools stopped teaching anything other than how to do tests. This is why Americans since have the reading comprehension of a stump and only know how to do math if it’s multiple choice. Note that NCLB was a bipartisan act and hailed as a good thing by both parties. Why? Because they don’t understand how teaching works and won’t listen to teachers, they just want to slash budgets without understanding what that costs them in the future.
https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/08/02/us-literacy-rate/
You’re an idiot. Here’s the data from California. https://caaspp-elpac.ets.org/caaspp/DashViewReportSB?ps=true&lstTestYear=2024&lstTestType=B&lstGroup=1&lstSubGroup=1&lstSchoolType=A&lstGrade=13&lstCounty=00&lstDistrict=00000&lstSchool=0000000
The advantage of being non-college educated today is that you are not handicapped with enormous loans you have to pay back. In the best case your diploma can help you make a living. In the worst case your diploma is worthless. Without that debt you have flexibility. With it you have none.
In the best case a diploma can help you make a living that doesn’t involve sacrificing your body or working super long hours, which is the devil’s bargain made by many in the trades and manual labor.
Thinking of my linesman neighbor who is basically a cripple at 70 now thanks to decades of wear and tear on his body, living alone because he lost his wife and kids thanks to being on the road on the job for months at a time. Or another acquaintance of mine who was a delivery guy for a beverage company for decades, and now can’t stand up thanks to debilitating back pain.
If Americans were smart, they would be thankful that cheap labor wants to move here and do these kinds of jobs.
The smart thing is to use robots for the heavy work.
Meanwhile, the average office worker is obese and sports a +30 BMI reading, has diabetes, heart disease, venous insufficiency [lol] and is on a slew of prescription medicines for high blood pressure, high cholesterol, uncontrolled sugar, etc., etc.
This is living?
The average college educated person has like 10+ years longer life expectancy. https://www.axios.com/2023/10/16/life-expectancy-educated-adults-mortality-rate
He must have done some awfully hard work back in the 1970s to be a cripple like that.
These days linemen don’t work anywhere near that hard or in the same conditions. Same with a lot of other trade type labor.
That’s what I’ve always thought.
I remember when Bill Clinton wanted to set a lower retirement age for people who do manual work
You read it? Did you read the part that prohibits the use of any data base to determine gang membership? Did you read the part that gives the sec of DHS the complete discretion to wave any requirements (criminal history etc) for BS reasons such as “family unity” and “interests of the country.” Did you read the part that allows anyone to stay while their case to prove their eligibility is pending? What court will adjudicate those claims? Our already overwhelmed immigration courts? How do we stop the fraud where everyone will just claim that they have been here for the requisite amount of time, just like asylum seekers all claiming they fear being in their home country? Oh and we will set up camps at the border which will have lawyers for the immigrants and mental health experts.
It’s a horrible bill. I only agree with giving the Dreamers permanent legal status. They’ve all been here a long time now and they shouldn’t have to keep living in limbo.
I’m sure overall it’s a pug & a poke.
Agreed. Keep the pressure on to self deport. It’s the most effective, least costly way to resolve this.
Those whining because of the cost of deportation have no understanding of the societal costs of importing a permanent underclass to compete with the working poor already here.
It is a bad bill but I do understand why it appeals to Libertarians. They are for unhindered immigration and this bill gives them that when you look behind the fig leaf.
Its funny im probably the only person here who has actually lost a job to a Mexican. Years ago prob around 2012 or so i was a ski bum with a night job of cleaning a local bank. The business owner fired myself and another because he was able to get hb2 visas for his Mexicans that could not get in due to 911. I have nothing against his staff. I do find it ironic a good’ christian’ business man had to have his good republican representative pull strings to get the visas through while publicly preaching the taking American jobs line.
Until you address the issue of businesses hiring illegals and have a relative good system in place to oversee operations your not fixing the issue. Your just being fed political bs to pull your voter strings.
For the 25 years ive followed politics its the same topics. Its like they dont want to fix the issues. God guns immigration abortion and rights minority groups. First color/ then gay and now trans.
“Its like they dont want to fix the issues.”
BINGO
They don’t want to fix what others see as “issues” because they do not see them as “issues”. Here’s some direct info:
Texas Talks Tough on Immigration. But Lawmakers Won’t Force Most Private Companies to Check Employment Authorization.
Texas’ conservative Legislature has again and again refused to mandate that most private businesses use E-Verify. Experts say that Republican resistance is rooted in how the system could impact the state’s labor supply and economy.
by Lomi Kriel, ProPublica and The Texas Tribune
June 5, 2025, 11:15 a.m. CDT
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The U.S. Business Community Used to Be a Force for Immigration Reform. What Happened?
Even when states adopt these, most lack strong enforcement. Texas legislators have never tasked an agency with ensuring all employers comply. South Carolina, which has among the toughest enforcement, randomly audits businesses to see if they are using E-Verify, said Madeline Zavodny, a University of North Florida economics professor who studied the program for a 2017 Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas report. But South Carolina does not check whether companies actually hired immigrants here illegally, said Alex Nowrasteh, vice president for economic and social policy studies at the libertarian-leaning Cato Institute in Washington, D.C. Some states have carve-outs for small companies or certain employers that often rely on undocumented labor. North Carolina, for example, exempts temporary seasonal workers.
Immigrants here illegally contribute billions to the economy, said Tara Watson, an economist at the Brookings Institution, a Washington, D.C., think tank. Much of the rhetoric over the issue is “using immigration as a wedge issue to rile up the base of voters who are concerned about cultural change, but at the same time not wanting to disrupt the economy too much.”
Expanding E-Verify, she said, is “not really in anybody’s interest.”
….
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-e-verify-requirements-immigration
This bill would do fine under any other Administration.
The Trump Admin (and their supporters) are all about sadism, making people suffer.
Arresting illegal aliens is not sadistic, Flavia. It’s called upholding the law.
That’s the part that gets lost.
The reason many are here is because businesses in the US are happy to hire cheap labor. So you want to get rid of illegals – stop hiring them. And yet even Trump wont use e-verify because so many businesses would go under.
Thanks for the heads up about why the illegals are here. I guess you’re the only one who has this figured out?
Not sure what your reply has to do with me pushing back on deporting illegals being “sadistic”.
It’s not necessarily cheap labor. There was a story a few weeks back about a farm orchard owner who is paying ANYONE who will work $4/hr to pick plums.
I think what employers are more interested in is that undocumented workers don’t complain to government about work conditions, safety issues, mandatory time off or “creative” pay calculations that shortchange workers pay.
That should sat $44/hr, not $4/hr.
Take 4 TDS gummies every 3 hours until symptoms subside.
MAGA will revolt as it’s all about the anger and cruelty,
Exactly.
No, it’s about not letting drugs, violence, criminals and terrorists just walk into our country.
I’ve never heard of conservatives having a problem with legal immigration.
Well done, sir. 3 extra TDS gummies at your next meal.
The regional banks and the industrials are doing well, but SMH (semis), which are rising on an uptrend channel since May 30, made a new all time high, before turning red.
I would like to see two additional conditions:
1.) children born of non citizens do receive birthright citizenship.
2.) The census can’t count non-citizens for the purpose of representation in the Federal government or allocation of Federal funds.
Disagree with #1, agree with #2. Thumbs up and thumbs down cancel out.
For #1 I meant children born of non citizens do NOT receive birthright citizenship.
“Undocumented immigrants can enter a 7-year program for renewable legal status.”
Otherwise known as amnesty. Same tune as the “Clear Skies Act”
Amnesty means you stay forever and have a path to citizenship. This is not that. It was stated no citizenship / no handouts.
It just legal status to work / get a drivers license / get an SSN etc. In other words function in society.
Every 7 years you’ll have to show you are still working, not a criminal etc in order to remain.
What you describe is amnesty, which is why there is almost no chance it flies in the MAGA world.
Secures the Border – Trump has already taken care of this.
Mandates E-Verify – Extremely important but need to know all the details, NO LOOPHOLES
Reforms the Asylum System – Again, extremely important, details matter
Protects Dreamers – This is where the GOP will have to give in for sure.
Dignity Program: Undocumented immigrants can enter a 7-year program for renewable legal status – Sounds like amnesty which will be very hard to make fly. You think the base is revolting over Epstein. This would be tsunami.
Provides workforce grants, apprenticeships, and on-the-job training for American workers – Again details matter, but we’re definitely entering a period of significant job dislocations from immigration, AI & robotics. Hopefully, huge investments in American Manufacturing will make this area of focus even more important. I would add moving assistance.
Improves our legal immigration system, ensuring U.S. competitiveness. It’s certainly a start regarding the overall conversation. Trump definitely needs to get a major immigration reform bill through Congress.
I read the Dignity Program as essentially an infinitely renewable work visa for law abiding people. As in as long as they are working and self sufficient (ie no handouts was explicitly stated) and not breaking laws they can remain. Once every 7 years their status will be checked (still working/self sufficient/not a criminal) and then they’ll be kicked out or allowed to remain another 7 years.
As a Canadian who’s been in the US since 96 on renewable work visas, it sounds exactly like what I have (mine’s checked every 3).
Did you enter the US legally or did you sneak across the border/overstay a visa?
Endless TN work visa’s.
Mine every 10 years.
“No amnesty, no handouts, no citizenship”. Some will open new small businesses. The rest will work for them for lower wages. That’s life. Law and order: Trump deported gang’s members and locked illegal criminals. No bs. Lower gov spending on immigrants. More working people ==> higher tax collection and higher consumption. Obama sacked Biden for Michelle, but Michelle cannot stand her husband. So, we got Kamala. Timmy, please come back. Open the borders for more illegal immigrants bc what we got isn’t good enough. Pay attention to what Trump does, not what he says. Kristin Welker Is sharp.
“AMNESTY, n. The state’s magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil’s Dictionary
“Beto” O’Rourke, Veronica Escobar. M’kay.
When Democrats hold the majority they’ll ignore the Dignity Act as well and turn a blind eye to border security. That way, they can load up another 10 million into the Dignity Act hopper. There should be no pathway for anyone who entered illegally. If they want to go home and come back the right way, then sure.
There is no pathway to citizenship in this bill. It explicitly states that.
Instead its giving them a pathway to remain on what’s going to be renewable work visas. So as long as they are productive they can remain.
The problem with this feel good policy is that it has a large effect on American politics.
The next census comes up in 4 years. US residents, illegal or not, get counted at that time AND that count is used to apportion Representatives to Congress for each state AND which also affects the number of electoral votes a state wields in Presidential elections.
This is little mentioned (known?) information, so everyone, please repeat it whenever you encounter this subject.
Nothing is ever simple!
Most Republicans, and no MAGA Republicans, want a solution because it’s the issue that gets them elected. Quoting what Trump said 5 minutes ago is pointless, let alone months ago.
the deport them all movement is too entrenched now, with Stephen MIller, Project 2025 and so on. Allocating billions more to ICE, sending the National guard to LA for no reason…Trump has gone too far already.
For no reason? It was an insurrection 🙂
You do realize that part of the reasons the base wants mass deportations is because they know, IF there comes a time for real immigration negotiations, this gives them enormous leverage?
Trump sent in the NG, because Bass & Newsom wouldn’t do their jobs.
And MAGA has evolved to the point that it WILL outlive Trump’s final term.
I agree though. He knows who to talk out of both sides of his mouth.
man, social media has done a number on you. Get help.
Finally, some common sense emanating from Washington……
UFC on White House Lawn 2026 will fix that wagon real quick