The 'left' agents of hypocricy, are masters of deception. This post describes their demands of 'both sides' of the debate on 'birthright citizenship'.

 

Rights and birthrights: The unborn versus illegal immigrants.

Leftists want to have it both ways on these issues.

Eric Utter | April 13, 2026 www.americanthinker.com

Has any group ever been used more for political purposes than babies in the womb?

It is certain that no other group has less power and is less “seen” and more “marginalized.” I have come across a few recent tweets on ‘X’ that illustrate the madness.

Lozzy B @TruthFairy131 wrote: White/ Europeans don't have children because they can't afford to support them. Migrants have children because White/ Europeans support them. If we didn’t fund migrants we could reduce taxes & afford to have kids again. Remigration now!

Jack Posobiec opined: Well, well, well, Notice that the liberal justices suddenly refer to unborn babies as people with full rights when the subject changes from abortion to immigration Like magic.

And Matt Walsh stated: The left’s argument for birthright citizenship is obviously insane but it’s even more insane when you consider that they actually don’t believe in your or my “birthright.” We are on stolen land and don’t belong here, according to them. But the anchor baby whose parents got here from Guatemala 10 seconds ago has a “birthright” and is tied to this nation by blood for all time. That’s actually their position. It’s so psychotic that you can’t even argue against it. Like trying to have a political debate with a dog. These people are not rational.

Logically, none of these points can be refuted, yet logic and rationality don’t enter into the equation when “progressives” are involved. Democrats view truth like George H.W. Bush viewed broccoli, and they believe reality is only what they say it is. And that the rest of us have no right to challenge their views on either.

No sane person could believe that a sixth-generation American citizen is an evil colonist who helped steal the land from the Indigenous Peoples and has no right to be here, and that illegal immigrants who have been in country for 45 minutes and drop a kid are rightfully and proudly Americans who should never be considered for deportation. And whose extended families should be allowed in, as well. Nor could any sane person believe that all invasive species, flora and fauna, are an existential threat to our native plants and animals, and that each and every illegal immigrant enriches us immeasurably with their very presence.

No sane person does believe this. Many leftists are mentally ill. Sadder still, many are not, but purport to believe this obvious bullsh*t because they see it as a pathway to power. Lies? Gaslighting? Projection? Doesn’t matter. Only power does. Their power. So they shamelessly use and abuse another large group to further their interests: low-information and low-IQ voters. And the kind-hearted and gullible. This is sick and depraved. They will ceaselessly attempt to abort babies, truth, and reality…and evade justice, accountability, and judgment.

It is up to us to see that they don’t succeed. We owe it to the vulnerable and less fortunate.

Because their incessant virtue signaling is not only hollow and hypocritical, but depraved and dangerous.

 

Eric Cantor joins the failed group of Republicans - because of their support of 'amnesty for illegal aliens'.

 

Backdoor Amnesty for Illegal Aliens Is (Still) Political Cyanide

Republicans should have learned this lesson over ten years ago. Yet they’re preparing to die on the amnesty hill yet again.

William Sullivan | April 12, 2026 www.americanthinker.com

Do you remember Eric Cantor?

I reckon that few Americans today do.  But he was kind of a big deal a little over a decade ago. 

First elected to Virginia’s 7th district in 2001, Cantor served as the House minority whip from 2009 to 2011, during which time he was instrumental in orchestrating Republican opposition to the 2009 Obama stimulus and 2010 passage of Obamacare, against which Republicans stood resolute as fiscal hawks, and without a single Republican voting for the latter abomination.  Then, when Republicans had won the House in November of 2010, he served behind Speaker John Boehner as the House majority leader. 

Republican voters would later prove that they would tolerate many hypocrisies from the GOP politicians whom they had given the legislative mandate.  Under Boehner, for example, the spending packages only got bigger than they were in the Obama years, somehow, prompting many conservatives to wonder if Republicans were interested in the reduction of spending at all. 

Though it seems that American voters of all stripes, for some reason, have become okay with reckless fiscal spending that has us careening toward a suicidal debt cliff at breakneck speed, there is one thing that has long been understood as excommunicable for Republican politicians, and that is the rewarding of illegal aliens with amnesty.

Eric Cantor may have been an effective and promising politician, but he became the canary in the coal mine when it comes to the absolute toxicity of the amnesty issue with Republican voters and, arguably, voters in general. 

You see, Eric Cantor presented the shell game that politicians routinely play with the electorate.  He publicly opposed the form of amnesty that was presented by the Democrat-led DREAM (Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors) Act of 2010, which was already an old backdoor amnesty ploy that Democrats had been pushing since 2001.  It failed in 2010, and, given that Republicans swept the House by winning over 60 seats in that year, that was the closest it would ever come to being a law.

But in 2013, Cantor “softened” his stance on the core ideas of the DREAM Act and began suggesting that it was a good starting point for immigration reform.  “It’s time to provide an opportunity for legal residence and citizenship for those who were brought to this country as children,” he declared.

Cantor was counting on a very specific ignorance among the American people.  The idea was that he obviously knew that American citizens, and particularly the Republican constituency, had no tolerance for immediate amnesty.  Instead, he argued for granting illegal aliens a legal status, free from any prospect of deportation.  This would, the argument went, open the door for future citizenship at some point further down the road.  The political term for this backdoor amnesty process became known as a “path to citizenship” for illegal aliens.

But Republican voters sniffed him out in historic fashion.  To their credit, voters in Virginia absolutely wrecked Eric Cantor’s future as a congressman, an event that should have prevented any Republican from ever trying to do it fifty years hence, much less twelve.

It was, inarguably, among the most surprising and historic upsets in recent political memory. 

Eric Cantor is the first and only House majority leader to lose a primary since that position was created in 1899.  Internal polls showed him over 20 points ahead of his Tea Party opposition candidate, Dave Brat, in the weeks leading to the election.  But Eric Cantor lost by over 11 points in a primary after relentless attacks by his opponent about his softness on the issue of amnesty.

That’s a thirty-point swing, which is insane.  To this day, I can’t think of anything like it.  And it was obvious to anyone paying the slightest bit of attention that it was because of Cantor’s reversal on amnesty.  

I commented on this at the time, as prominent talking heads like Brit Hume and Karl Rove were suggesting that Republican voters, in their resistance to supporting backdoor amnesty efforts, were mucking up Republican presidential chances in 2016.  Anyone who hoped to win in 2016, they argued, would simply have to have a plan for some “path to citizenship” for illegal aliens to win the election.

Then came Trump.

The backdoor amnesty issue may have destroyed the promising political career of Eric Cantor in historic fashion.  And absolute opposition to amnesty, backdoor or otherwise, was arguably the leading driver of President Donald J. Trump’s victory in the 2016 election. 

It appears that many Republicans today, like Mike Lawyer of New York and Maria Elvira Salazar of Florida, who are actively spearheading this newest bipartisan backdoor amnesty bill, have not learned this important lesson that voters taught Republicans twelve years ago.  

Both are openly suggesting that illegal aliens of a certain age should be shielded from deportation until such time that they can be granted full amnesty down the road.  It’s the same backdoor amnesty plan as 2014, only with a new and more insulting name.  The “Dignidad” (Spanish for dignity) Act is purposefully being marketed in a foreign language, make no mistake, because it serves as a thumb in the eye to the 3 in 4 Americans who believe that English should be the national language of our country. 

Lawyer was recently embarrassed in a Fox News interview with Laura Ingraham, and Salazar cannot answer the most basic questions about how the federal government can even begin to go about vetting 17 million illegal aliens, as required by the law she is spearheading.

The Dignidad Act is doomed to fail, and we can reasonably expect some Republican careers to die on this amnesty hill.  And if you harbor any disbelief about that, perhaps you can direct your questions to Eric Cantor, who found a career in investment banking after his historic electoral defeat back in 2014.

Our 'immigration policy' does not need another disgusting form of legislation. What we need is for government to follow existing laws, rules and regulations.

 

Yes, the so-called Dignity Act is just another tired amnesty for illegals

A good look at this bill indicates Republicans gain nothing and Democrats wallow in the goodies.

Monica Showalter | April 8, 2026 www.americanthinker.com

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/04/yes_the_so_called_dignity_act_is_just_another_tired_amnesty_for_illegals.html

Amid President Trump's successful border-surge shutdown, there's always someone looking to bring up amnesty for illegal immigrants, claiming humane motives, but in fact perpetuating the Democrat political project of replacing the electorate with Chavista-style foreigners who will always vote Democrat.

H.R. 3293, introduced last year, is known as the Dignity Act, or the “Dignity for Immigrants while Guarding our Nation to Ignite and Deliver the American Dream Act of 2025” (DIGNIDAD Act, to use the Spanish word for 'dignity,') is going around again, purporting to iron out some of the bugs in U.S. immigration policy, and is intended to create a kinder, gentler illegal immigration system, while supposedly toughening border security.

Sponsored by Miami's Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, a Cuban-American Republican, and Rep. Veronica Escobar, a Texas border-region Democrat, it supposedly has growing bipartisan support, with about 35 lawmakers onboard from both parties signing on, which is yes, higher than its original 20. And it's certainly getting a lot of press now.

It claims to be tough on illegal immigration and 'not amnesty.'

Salazar tweets:

1/ Brandon, let’s get something straight: I want DIGNITY for Americans and I put Americans first.

Here are the facts: https://t.co/LuYMeHjdkk

— Rep. María Elvira Salazar (@RepMariaSalazar) April 8, 2026

She's been making the video rounds, too:

Rep. Salazar tried to explain how the Dignity Act isn’t mass amnesty and is beneficial to the American people.

It went as poorly as you would expect. Send this legislation to the trash where it belongs. pic.twitter.com/XIpvt1UsCp

— Wall Street Mav (@WallStreetMav) April 8, 2026

Some did read the law and spotted the underlying agenda early:

But like it or not, it is about amnesty. The bill can be read here. A look through its 261 pages shows that the tough border security it supposedly promotes -- is all things President Trump has already accomplished as he has already secured the border. More fence, e-Verify, fines for amnestied illegals, and the like.

We already have those things, so what are Republicans gaining here? There's nothing in the bill about illegals voting (which ought to be required vetting and instantly deportable as every illegal ballot cast is a disenfranchisement of an American citizen) or taxing remittances, which has created a lot of incentive for tyrants to ship their troublemakers, good and bad, here.

What, again, do Republicans gain from this?

We know the Democrats are gaining.

The bill offers quite a goody bag to the things Democrats have been after which is not just relief from deportation for those who have been in the U.S. for a few years already and have not committed more than two misdemeanors (in one section it says not more than three) or one felony against Americans, with pot offenses and 'nonviolent protest' exempted, meaning, the tire burners and foreign flag wavers, and loud, raging activists who have disrupted Congress (compare and contrast to Jan. 6) or chased Sen. Kyrsten Sinema into the bathroom screaming after her, get to stay with no demerits for their insulting, offensive, disruptions described in their arrests and convictions.

DACA kids, who include some of the loudest offenders on this front, get a full free pass, all 21 million of them, and DACA recipients can qualify up to the age of 18, which is higher than the previous cutoff of age 14. 

The three-to-10-year ban on legal admission for those who have already been caught entering illegally and removed is ended. No more deterrent there.

Illegals will get free federal legal to fight the federal law, and better still, the leftist lawyers who aid them will get full student loan forgiveness in their goody packet, incentivizing more legal gaming of the system amid endless appeals.

The list of appeals allowed is long  -- appeal after appeal if they don't like the outcome of their cases, and the Attorney General will be free to stay deportations, as many deportations as he likes, for 'family hardship' which we already know means that all you need to do is elect another Democrat to make that happen for all of them.

The 'fine' that illegals will pay to get to stay is ... $1,000 ... which stands in stark contrast to the $20,000 legal immigrants are required to pay for admission farther down in the bill. The bill says illegals will have to be current on their taxes -- and let's see how anyone can enforce that.

And about that $1,000 -- the funding supposedly goes into a money pot to help American workers. One of about two or three dozen already out there, none of which have been useful. Combine it with requirements that the feds deal with NGOs and basically it's the hog wallow again for illegals andagencies like Catholic Charities and other NGOs promoting illegal immigration, the money rolling in and out and the six figure salaries expanding. Rest assured, most of that money will be spent on BMWs, Hawaiian holidays and other luxuries for fraudsters.

Supposedly, illegals will be denied federal benefits, but that's already the law, so once again, another pig in the poke for the Republicans. The problem there is in states which hand out the lavish benefits using fungible federal funding. Nothing there is addressed at all. 

Same with asylum abuse, those who fly back to the places they supposedly fled in terror of their lives for vacation losing asylum claims, but that's the already the law, too, this just softens it to a five-year waiting period to take those happy Cuban and Haitian holidays. 

CATO guy David Bier, who is libertarian, argues that alarm is overblown:

watch the shock. “This ends mass deportations!” Oh the horror! She acts like having to be in a country with… the exact same people she was before.. would be the end of her world. The only change is that they’d be legal and paying more taxes, and ICE would focus on criminals! https://t.co/yqUta8LQUi

— David J. Bier (@David_J_Bier) April 8, 2026

But it isn''t overblown. It is amnesty. And while I don't hate Salazar or Bier who are often right on many other things, they are wrong on this.

The GOP already has what it wants from President Trump who has secured the border and Democrats are already singing his tune on tough border security, having taken a shellacking in the last election for condoning Joe Biden's open borders. So they haven't given a thing in exchange for their goodie package to Democrats, incentivizing more illegal immigration with mass amnesties and a plethora of crony pork barrel shoveling for Democrat-only agencies such as NGOs. As Milton Friedman has said, you can have open borders, or you can have a welfare state, but you can't have both. This is nothing but another bill for Democrats to 'have both.'