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.'

 

Four men with mid-east names just out for a hike. Consider their intentions if they made it.

 

Four "British Hikers" Caught on Golden Road After Illegally Entering U.S. from Canada: Court Records

Apr 09, 2026 robinsonreport.substack.com

British men Ali Mohammed Ali Abdullah, Hameed Mohammed Nagi, Ibrahim Ayyub Khan, and Mohammed Sultan Saleh were caught illegally sneaking into the U.S. in a remote part of Maine, per court records.

Four British nationals were apprehended by U.S. Border Patrol agents in a remote stretch of Somerset County woods after illegally crossing from Canada into the United States on April 3, federal court documents filed this week reveal.

One of them captured the whole thing on a GoPro camera, narrating a celebration as the group set foot on American soil.

“I can confirm you are now on US Soil,” Mohammed Sultan Saleh narrated on video as the group crossed through thick forest just a few hundred yards from the St. Zacharie Port of Entry in northwestern Somerset County, according to an affidavit sworn by U.S. Border Patrol Agent Scott Hanton and filed April 7 in U.S. District Court for the District of Maine.

Another man in the group — Ali Mohammed Ali Abdullah — can be heard on the recording asking, “I’m on US Soil?” Saleh replied by showing his phone screen with GPS coordinates displayed, and declared, “Now, we are in the US. We just made it, baby.”

The bust began with an unlikely pair of informants: two maple sugar workers heading into Canada who spotted four men of apparent Middle Eastern appearance walking south along the Golden Road near mile marker 90 — in the wrong direction to be casual hikers.

For those unfamiliar with the Golden Road, it’s a 96-mile, primarily unpaved private logging road in Maine, stretching from Millinocket west to the Quebec border — and there’s nothing but trees to see for 95.9 of those miles and no cell service.

The unidentified maple sugar workers flagged down a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer at the St. Zacharie Port of Entry at approximately 9:15 a.m. to alert them to the bizarre sighting.

By 9:40 a.m., the same workers had returned to the U.S. side with more intelligence: a third man had told them that two men in a gray Nissan parked on the Golden Road were asking passersby for fuel and Wi-Fi so they could contact the people they were supposed to pick up. At 10:13 a.m., that same third man called back — the Nissan had turned up near his maple sugar shack at mile marker 80.

A Border Patrol agent and the CBP officer loaded up a marked patrol vehicle and headed south on the Golden Road. At mile marker 90, they spotted fresh footprints in the soft dirt. At mile marker 87, they found the men themselves — four individuals attempting to conceal themselves in roadside vegetation.

Google Maps images of the area help show just how remote a location the supposed British hikers had found themselves in.

 

“One of the four men was acting nervously,” Hanton wrote in his affidavit. “The two officers took the four men into custody without incident.”

Although the Go Pro recording would show the men indisputably entered the U.S. illegally and intentionally, they initially claimed they were ‘just going for a hike.’

When questioned about their citizenship, all four told agents they were British citizens. They claimed they didn’t know they had entered the United States, a claim the Go Pro recording revealed to be a lie.

After being transported to the Jackman Border Patrol station, the men were identified as Ali Mohammed Ali Abdullah, 18, of Liverpool, England; Hameed Mohammed Nagi; Ibrahim Ayyub Khan; and Mohammed Sultan Saleh — all British nationals, according to court documents.

Their stories didn’t hold up.

Abdullah declined to answer questions. Nagi claimed he was just going on a hike with the group. Saleh echoed that line — but federal agents had already found the GoPro footage on his phone, along with a series of telling Google searches conducted April 3: “bangor from my location,” “boston from bangor,” “new york from boston,” and — critically — “is st zacharie border crossing still used the one near quebec golden road.”

That last search would appear to put to rest any claim that Saleh was unaware he had crossed an international border.

The gray Nissan the maple sugar workers had described was still sitting near mile marker 80 when agents returned — out of gas. Two men were inside. They identified themselves as U.S. citizens.

Before the driver could fully exit the vehicle, a CBP officer observed him reach under the driver’s seat. When agents checked, they found a loaded 9mm handgun.

The two men in the Nissan were taken to Jackman as well, in connection with what the affidavit describes as “a suspected alien smuggling event.” The passenger of the vehicle later admitted to investigators that the driver had intended to pick up one of the four men — someone the driver said he had dropped off in the same Golden Road area approximately 30 days earlier, according to Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent Pierre Mathieu, who briefed Hanton.

A forensic review of the driver’s cell phone found text messages with an individual believed to be one of the four men, discussing expected arrival times and pickup logistics, according to the court filing.

Federal prosecutors’ motion for pretrial detention adds a further wrinkle to the story.

Abdullah, identified as the lead defendant in the criminal complaints, had previously run afoul of U.S. immigration authorities. His application to extend his U.S. visa was denied in March 2025, and he departed the country in May 2025, the motion states.

Prosecutors allege that Canadian authorities had recorded his arrival in Canada on April 1, 2026 — two days before the Maine crossing — traveling on a United Kingdom passport.

“Law enforcement authorities are attempting to ascertain the purpose of his travel to Maine,” the motion states.

All four men are charged with one count each of Entry Without Inspection, a Class B misdemeanor under 8 U.S.C. § 1325(a)(1), which carries a maximum sentence of six months in federal prison and a $5,000 fine. The case is assigned to U.S. Magistrate Judge John C. Nivison.

Abdullah appeared before the court on April 7 and waived his right to both a preliminary hearing and a detention hearing, consenting to remain in federal custody pending trial. The court accepted his waiver and ordered him detained.

Trial is scheduled to begin June 3, 2026, before Magistrate Judge Nivison. Pretrial motions are due April 21.

The three co-defendants — Nagi, Khan, and Saleh — have related cases pending in the same district.

 

This post provides extremely important illegal alien crime statistics. Reading it will require special attention to details.

 

Unveiling The Hidden Truth About Illegal Aliens And Crime

The Democrats have done their best to hide the data, but it is possible to use available information to extrapolate just how bad illegal alien crime is.

Allan J. Feifer | April 9, 2026 www.americanthinker.com

The Democrats have done their best to hide the data, but it is possible to use available information to extrapolate just how bad illegal alien crime is.

Every day, all over America, illegal aliens, legal immigrants, and naturalized Americans from a rogue’s list of countries to our South and from the Middle East kill, rape, rob, and defraud us, almost with impunity. Yet, if you try to prove it by citing reliable government statistics, you can’t. The left works hard—it may be its most important job—to ensure you can’t find out exactly how bad things really are across America.

The bottom line: almost no states or the federal government track crimes using reliable indicators of someone’s country of origin, immigration status, or citizenship status. To the extent that states do, information is spotty and irregular. Only one state, Texas, keeps comprehensive records...only one! (Thank you, Governor Abbott!)

And, if you guessed that blue states not only don’t collect such data, but have created laws to ensure that information is not collected, you would be correct. Several Democrat-led states and localities have laws or official policies that restrict asking for, collecting, or sharing immigration or national-origin information for most public, state, and local government purposes. Notable examples include California’s SB 54 (the California Values Act), New Jersey’s Immigrant Trust/Privacy Protection laws, and statewide/local guidance in New York; many other blue states have statutory or policy limits on participation in federal immigration programs.

Recently, moments after being sworn in as Governor, Virginia’s Abigail Spanberger’s first act was to reverse all policies that former Governor Glenn Youngkin had enacted on a range of immigration and cooperation subjects. Her statements were masterclasses in duplicity, promising to enforce the law, even while making it impossible for Virginia law enforcement to do so because ICE detainers are administrative, not judicial:

I have full confidence that Virginia law enforcement agents are keeping Virginia safer when exercising their authority under Virginia law.

[snip]

And, importantly, any time there is a judicial warrant in hand, state and local law enforcement should be, and the expectation is, they should be cooperating with any other law enforcement agencies that might need their assistance.

By stating this and through other Executive Orders, Spanberger wasted no time in returning Virginia to its status as an aggressive and repressive sanctuary state, effectively favoring non-citizens over citizens. Recent high-visibility incidents in Virginia that involve illegal aliens include Old Dominion, the Fairfax bus stop stabbing, the stabbing death of a 3-month-old, and a machete murder. There are more, but it’s hard to dig most of them up due to the limitations previously mentioned.

But, what if there were a way to tabulate an approximation, imperfect, but a starting point to achieve a national number? Obviously, the left wants to ignore this possibility because it would likely drive people into the streets in a furious demand that the carnage stop by reversing policies that are intended to obscure data and encourage the veritable war on traditional America.

We’ll extrapolate official Texas numbers and see where that takes us—Data and Assumptions:

• Texas population (July 1, 2024): 31,290,831.
• U.S. population (2024 estimate): 340,110,988.
• Texas share of the US population: 31,290,831/340,110,988\approx 9.20% of the country.
• Texas DPS cumulative DHS-matched counts (June 1, 2011–Feb 28, 2026): homicide 1,123; assault 78,122; robbery 3,394; sexual assault 7,629. These are charges tied to DHS-identified non-citizens.
• Time window length used: June 1, 2011 → Feb 28, 2026 ≈ 14.75 years.
• Calculations (method: proportional extrapolation)
• Sum Texas violent charges used: 1,123+78,122+3,394+7,629=90,268.
• Extrapolate to the US by population share: 90,268/0.09197\approx 981,500 total extrapolated US charges over the same period.
• Per-year estimate: 981,500/14.75\approx 66,600 violent-offense charges per year nationwide (DHS-matched non-citizen charges, estimated).
• Category breakdown (rounded)—Offense Texas cumulative Extrapolated US cumulative Estimated per year: Homicide 1,123 ~12,200 ~828 / year Assault 78,122 ~849,300 ~57,600 / year Robbery 3,394 ~36,900 ~2,500 / year Sexual assault 7,629 ~83,000 ~5,600 / year (Totals match rounded to ~66,600 violent, non-citizen crimes per year nationwide

Of course, some states will have lower illegal alien crime rates (e.g., Vermont) but that will be offset by those that have high rates, such as California, New York, etc.

A note about my calculations:

Bad enough at over 66,000 violent non-citizen crimes annually, these numbers are likely greatly understated. Why? First, my numbers spanned 15 years. The Biden presidency greatly upped the tally of non-citizens, and we are naturally experiencing greater numbers of non-citizen violent crime today than 15 years ago. Second, the number of non-citizen crimes is understated because authorities cannot always confirm someone’s non-citizen status. Lastly, and this is a big one, these stats are based on arrests. A significant portion of criminals go undetected and unarrested.

Most reported violent offenses do not result in an arrest; nationally, roughly 60–65% of violent offenses are not cleared by arrest or exceptional means (i.e., not “cleared”) in recent years—about 63% not cleared in 2022 and 58% not cleared in 2020. If one adds that into the assumption, our 66,000 number rises to at least 150,000 murders, rapes, and violent assaults annually.

But wait, that’s not the end of this horror show guaranteed to make you ill! We are not even beginning to count the non-violent crimes, scams, thefts, and petty crimes committed. No one seems even to want to make a guess, but it’s got to be hundreds of thousands of crimes by non-citizens each year. Just look at Minneapolis and Los Angeles, where immigrant fraud is rife.

All of us are paying for this financially, socially, and personally, as every American reading this is a victim in some way, whether it’s the cost of credit due to fraud, higher taxes than they would otherwise be, the loss of someone close to us, or, for some, even being afraid to walk our streets.

One other group for which no statistics exist: naturalized Americans who go on to become (or already were) criminals. The numbers here are also staggering, and the fact that too many government agencies won’t collect the relevant data is a crime in itself.

Can you imagine the outcry if we really could quantify the cost in actual murders, economic destruction, and the resulting loss of emotional wellness due to non-citizen crime? It would force change almost overnight, as if waking up from a nightmare. The hue and cry for immediate reform would expose the leadership of every major city in America, leaving no room for misinterpretation about how bad non-citizen criminality has become. Spare me the fake numbers of crime having been vastly reduced. NYC cops don’t arrest violators anymore; they’re too afraid of Mamdani! Police are on defense, almost everywhere in America, afraid to do their jobs.

This could be the wake-up call for Americans to take to the streets demanding accountability and change.

God Bless America!