your “Dignidad” amnesty keeps coming up, and I've watched how this goes. People who were removed come back. Not all of them, but enough that you stop being surprised. Orders get issued and then sit for years because there's no bed space or the home country won't take the flight. Someone gets released on a Tuesday and the same address shows up in a file again a year later. I've seen jobs go to people with papers that wouldn't survive a basic check, and nobody on the employer side ever answered for it. I've seen detainers ignored, so instead of picking someone up at a jail, officers end up knocking on doors at 5 a.m. That's worse for everybody, including the neighbors. In 1986, they said legalize now and enforcement comes after. The legalizing happened. The rest never did, and the numbers kept climbing for 20 years. It's always going to be a problem. As long as wages are better here, family is already here, and work is available, people will come. Pretending a one-time fix ends that is how we got the last one. All amnesty does is reset the count, and the next group shows up expecting the next reset.@RepMariaSalazar your “Dignidad” amnesty keeps coming up, and I've watched how this goes. People who were removed come back. Not all of them, but enough that you stop being surprised. Orders get issued and then sit for years because there's no bed space or the home country won't take the flight. Someone gets released on a Tuesday and the same address shows up in a file again a year later. I've seen jobs go to people with papers that wouldn't survive a basic check, and nobody on the employer side ever answered for it. I've seen detainers ignored, so instead of picking someone up at a jail, officers end up knocking on doors at 5 a.m. That's worse for everybody, including the neighbors. In 1986 they said legalize now and enforcement comes after. The legalizing happened. The rest never did, and the numbers kept climbing for twenty years. It's always going to be a problem. As long as wages are better here, family is already here, and work is available, people will come. Pretending a one-time fix ends that is how we got the last one. All amnesty does is reset the count, and the next group shows up expecting the next reset. So I don't buy that enforcement failed. We never really tried it long enough or at full strength. Mandatory E-Verify, real detention capacity, orders that actually get carried out. Do that for ten years consistently, then we can talk.
— Scott Mechkowski (@ScottMechkowski) October 5, 2026
So I don't buy that enforcement failed. We never really tried it long enough or at full strength. Mandatory E-Verify, real detention capacity, orders that actually get carried out. Do that for ten years consistently, then we can talk.
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