It’s hard to get much more radical on immigration than a 0% NumbersUSA Grade, but some politicians are trying.

Rep. Haley Stevens (0% Grade) lost Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary to Abdul El-Sayed, who is running on abolishing ICE.

[NumbersUSA is a single-issue organization. We never endorse candidates and recognize that voters take multiple issues into account at the ballot box.]

We are going to win this war.

The Boston Globe asked three writers: Is ‘Abolish ICE’ is a winning slogan for Democrats?

One warned that it may remind voters of Biden’s border crisis and why Democrats lost trust on the issue in the first place. Another argued that abolishing ICE wasn’t the same as calling for open borders, although he didn’t explain how. 

And a third — Joan Vennochi — asked the practical question: What bills would be likely to move under a Democratic majority?

There are already four bills to either fully defund or abolish ICE outright. A fifth bill (H.R. 6390) rescinds the entire $175 billion Congress allocated last year for border and interior enforcement. A total of 109 unique representatives are signed on to these bills. By comparison, the House-passed SAVE Act has 110 cosponsors.

Could an “Abolish ICE” bill move next year? Yes, it absolutely could.

Here are some other ideas that have found traction in legislation introduced by Democrats this Congress:

• Make every illegal alien who avoids deportation for 7 years eligible for a green card. (H.R. 4696 / S. 2468)
• Give green cards to every temporary or illegal worker who has been in the U.S. since the middle of the border surge and works an “essential” job like manufacturing or dry cleaning. (H.R. 5098)
• Prohibit enforcement within dense urban areas. (H.R. 1061 / S. 455)
• Mandate catch-and-release. (H.R. 6397 / S. 3702)
• Allow illegal aliens to claim a renter’s tax credit. (H.R. 6390)
• Nearly triple the H-1B program. (H.R. 6305)
• Expand chain migration and the visa lottery; and allow an estimated 100,000 previously deported aliens to return. (H.R. 6565)

These insane ideas would supercharge a mass immigration surge even worse than the 2021-2025 border crisis. They show no regard for the millions of Americans who want a full-time job but can’t find one — or for the tens of millions who are stranded outside the labor force. These bills would bury them.

We’re not going to let any of it happen. And we can start fighting now.

The list above doesn’t include the bipartisan Dignidad Act (H.R. 4393) to add over 17 million permanent foreign workers over ten years through amnesty and immigration increases.

And even now, a handful of Republicans are working with Democrats to force a floor vote on the largest legislative amnesty since 1986 (H.R. 1589), and similar in size. The bill offers nothing to American workers, nor any protections against the amnesty inciting another surge in illegal immigration. They are just 8 signatures short.

In Other News

The co-chair of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) confirmed to Fox News that the party’s platform includes abolishing ICE (“absolutely”) and borders (“as a long term plan, yup.”). 

ICYMI

• A federal court just blocked President Trump’s $100,000 fee on new H-1B visas. Nothing about the program has changed. The Legislative Branch must step up.
• President Trump issued two new executive orders targeting Birthright Citizenship that will invite new legal challenges.
• The White House released a report finding that the Smithsonian has been exhibiting pro-illegal-immigration propaganda. The real history of immigration policy prescribes a much different remedy for our ailing system: enforced limits.
• Illegal voting in federal elections is a crime and grounds for removal.
• How to put 5.5 million Americans back to work: End Mass Immigration
• While House Leadership has declined to bring the Shut Down Sanctuary Policies Act to the floor, two more avoidable attacks have taken place.

Immigration History Notes

Aug. 3, 1869 — Frederick Douglass‘s “We Are Not Quite Free” speech. Douglass described the mass immigration of the time as “a kind of Asiatic slave-trade–with a view to supplant the black laborer in the South”

Aug. 3, 1994 — Barbara Jordan testifies before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee: “[T]his country must set limits on who can enter and back up these limits with effective enforcement of our immigration law.”

NumbersUSA In The News

Roy Beck’s essay for Commonplace — “A Civil Rights Icon’s Blueprint for Immigration” — was picked up by HotAir and RealClearPolitics. Thirty-two years after Jordan’s Senate testimony (see Immigration History Notes above), her blueprint is back in circulation. Roy’s essay explains why it still matters.

Roy’s famous gumball video also got a shoutout on O’Connor & Company, Larry O’Connor’s national morning show on Salem Radio (the discussion starts at 1:48:20). Thirty years on, the video’s core argument still lands: mass immigration can never absorb more than a tiny fraction of the world’s struggling people — real compassion helps them bloom where they’re planted.

The South Shore Press dug into our congressional Grades and found a split in Long Island’s delegation: Rep. Garbarino earns the highest mark among the Island’s House members, while Rep. LaLota’s support for the Dignidad Act (see above) pulls his down.

And Newsweek gave me the last word in their story about the costs of interior enforcement:

“The most cost-effective way to enforce immigration in the interior is to prevent illegal immigration in the first place. To that end, Republicans and Democrats should come together to pass the border bill marked up by the House Judiciary Committee last month.

“That’s the only way we don’t find ourselves in the same situation a few years from now.”