Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers detain a man in Escondido, Calif., July 8, 2019.
Photo: Gregory Bull/Associated PressPoliticians used to write bills pandering to American voters in election years. Now a bill in the House panders to deported criminals living in foreign countries. Chicago-area Rep. Jesús “Chuy” Garcia and 44 Democratic co-sponsors—including three other lawmakers from gang-ravaged Chicago—recently introduced a radical immigration bill called the New Way Forward Act that seeks, as per a press release from Mr. Garcia, to “disrupt the prison to deportation pipeline.”
The bill would make it more difficult for U.S. authorities to deport illegal aliens who commit felonies. It would roll back the federal statute that requires local authorities to cooperate and communicate with Immigration and Customs and Enforcement, making sanctuary cities legal. Its provisions would also help return already deported felons to the U.S.
Not long ago such a proposal would have been dismissed as too radical in the faculty lounge at Berkeley; today it is fast approaching the mainstream in the increasingly woke Democratic Party. Consider the bill’s key points:
• It would create a five-year statute of limitations for deportations and formally decriminalize illegal border crossings.
• It would raise the minimum prison sentence needed to require deportation from one year to five, paving the way for illegal aliens convicted of serious crimes such as armed robbery, sexual assault, child molestation and manslaughter to remain in America.
• It would repeal a law that bars entry to aliens who have committed crimes of moral turpitude—depravity such as murder, voluntary manslaughter, rape, child molestation, kidnapping, assault and so on. Even multiple offenders would be permitted to enter under the bill.
• It concludes by bestowing a “right to come home” to the U.S. at taxpayer expense on anyone deported after April 24, 1996.
The media, lurching leftward with the Democratic Party, has largely failed to scrutinize the bill. But it’s a mistake to dismiss this as a fringe proposal that will never see the light of day.
Recall the first Democratic debate, when NBC’s Savannah Guthrie asked the candidates to raise their hands if their health-care plans covered undocumented immigrants. Every candidate on stage put his hand up, including Joe Biden, who hesitated and looked as if he knew it was madness but he had to keep up. The show of hands illustrated how bad ideas can go from fringe to mandatory in a few years.
We don’t have a clear idea of how many Democrats support it, but many prominent representatives do. There are the usual suspects—“the Squad,” led by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, as well as several lawmakers from districts with serious crime problems. There are also a couple of surprising co-sponsors, such as Madeleine Dean (D., Pa.) and Andy Levin (D., Mich.), who represent moderate districts.
What about the presidential candidates? The campaigns of Mr. Biden and Bernie Sanders didn’t respond to requests for comment. Mr. Biden has said he will have a moratorium on deportations in his first 100 days if elected. He has also asserted that criminal aliens with drunk-driving-related felonies shouldn’t be deported but is vague on details.
Mr. Sanders wants to decriminalize illegal border crossings, stop construction of what he calls a “racist and ineffective wall,” “break up” ICE and Customs and Border Protection, end workplace raids, and institute a moratorium on deportations. He also wants to “repeal 1996 immigration laws” intended to remove criminal aliens.
Why is the Democratic Party moving left on immigration when America elected a president who campaigned on building a wall? They might think they’re courting the Latino vote, but many Latinos live in neighborhoods with crime problems. Mr. Garcia’s heavily Latino district had 332 homicides in the past six years as of time of publication. The last thing people who live in violence-plagued neighborhoods need is a fresh infusion of deported criminals.
The media has a responsibility to pin the candidates down on issues like these, but too often reporters seem willing to save Democrats from themselves. If Democrats want to push for free return trips for deported criminals, let’s make sure the American people know about it.
Mr. Seminara is a former diplomat and author of “Breakfast With Polygamists: Dispatches From the Margins of the Americas.”
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