House Bill Would Protect Criminal Illegal Aliens

A largely unnoticed bill introduced last December in the House of Representatives (H.R.5383) called the “New Way Forward Act” would repeal federal laws which punish illegal immigration and protect illegal alien criminals from deportation.  Katy Grimes of the California Globe reports that the bill, which is sponsored by 44 House Democrats including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Karen Bass of California, “rolls back harmful immigration laws that, for decades, have led to racial profiling and disproportionately resulted in incarceration….” according to proponents.  As Rep. Jesus Garcia of Illinois noted the bill would break the “prison to deportation pipeline.”  While this measure has no chance of passage, some might be concerned that 10% of the members of the House of Representatives would like to see this bill become law.  With the exception of Fox News, no national news organization has bothered to report on this measure.