Jenny Beth Martin is joined for the full hour by Rosemary Jenks, co-founder and Policy Director of the Immigration Accountability Project, a leading voice on immigration enforcement and amnesty opposition for over two decades. Also joining is Grant Newman, Director of Government Relations at the Immigration Accountability Project, who tracks immigration legislation and policy on Capitol Hill.
In the second half, Jacob Grandstaff of Restoration of America discusses the organization's new $5 million ad campaign pressuring Senate Republicans to force a talking filibuster on the SAVE America Act.
Topics covered:
• Lauren Bullis murder and the Biden administration's 2022 naturalization failure
• How USCIS background check shortcuts allowed a violent felon to become a citizen
• Senator Schmidt's SCAM Act to expand denaturalization authority
• Maria Salazar's so-called Dignity Act and what amnesty for 12 million actually means
• How the Dignity Act waives unlawful voting and shields employers who hired illegal aliens
• The Dignity Act sensitive locations provision blocking ICE from schools, hospitals, courthouses, and jails
• Restoration of America's $5 million ad campaign for the SAVE America Act
• Why a talking filibuster could force moderate Democrats to back voter ID
• The Make Elections Great Again (MEGA) Act and 30-day voter roll maintenance
• Immigration Accountability Project polling: 87 percent of Trump voters want over one million deportations
• 78 percent of likely voters support mandatory E-Verify, including 72 percent of Hispanics
• House Republicans break with Trump administration to extend TPS for Haitian immigrants
• Closing calls to action: SAVE America Act, fund DHS, no amnesty
Timestamps:
00:14 — Cold open: Lauren Bullis was murdered by a man Biden naturalized in 2022
01:24 — Guest introductions: Rosemary Jenks and Grant Newman, Immigration Accountability Project
02:02 — Clip: DHS Secretary Mark Wayne Mullin on Fox News confirming the killer's record
03:33 — Rosemary Jenks on how USCIS background check shortcuts let this happen
06:10 — Can the government revoke citizenship? Denaturalization explained
07:17 — Senator Schmidt's SCAM Act and the push to expand denaturalization
09:19 — What Congress can do to prevent the next Lauren Bullis
09:40 — Polling preview: 66 percent support deporting those with final removal orders
12:23 — The 20 Republicans backing Salazar's so-called Dignity Act
14:23 — Rosemary Jenks breaks down the Dignity Act: amnesty for roughly 12 million
16:24 — Why anyone would self-deport when amnesty is being dangled
18:04 — The sensitive locations provision: ICE blocked from schools, hospitals, courthouses, jails
19:11 — The business coalition and Chamber of Commerce driving the amnesty push
21:49 — DHS funding crisis and the reconciliation bill fight
23:57 — Why the bill is named in Spanish despite Trump's English-as-official-language order
25:12 — Jacob Grandstaff joins: Restoration of America's $5 million SAVE America Act ad campaign
27:01 — The Restoration of America ad plays in full
28:05 — Strategy: pressuring Senate Republicans to force a talking filibuster
29:41 — SAVE America Act passed the House February 11. Why is it stalled in the Senate?
31:06 — Clip: Chairman Bryan Steil on the Make Elections Great Again Act
33:02 — Why Democrats fear the SAVE database voter roll match more than photo ID
34:14 — Debunking the left's lies about photo ID and voter disenfranchisement
36:00 — Action item: call your senators and demand action on the SAVE America Act
37:08 — Back from break: which Dignity Act co-sponsors are most vulnerable
40:38 — Grant Newman: criminals do qualify under the Dignity Act, contrary to its sponsors' claims
41:55 — How the Dignity Act doubles employment-based visas and codifies the OPT program
42:52 — Clip: Senator Mike Lee — amnesty is still amnesty even if you call it dignity
44:22 — The Immigration Accountability Project poll: 82 percent of Trump voters cite mass deportation
45:51 — Eisenhower-level deportation numbers: 87 percent of Trump voters want over one million
46:42 — Why the left is wrong about Trump's immigration message
50:06 — 78 percent support E-Verify; 80 percent say corporate exploitation of illegal labor is unfair
51:51 — House extends Temporary Protected Status for Haitian immigrants
55:18 — Closing calls to action from Rosemary Jenks and Grant Newman
56:01 — Jenny Beth heads to Phoenix, Tucson, and Alaska with Scott Pressler
56:52 — Closing calls to action: pass the SAVE America Act, fund DHS, no amnesty
Links mentioned in this episode:
• Immigration Accountability Project: IAproject.org
• Restoration of America
• Tea Party Patriots Action: teapartypatriots.org
• The Jenny Beth Show: jennybethshow.com
• Capitol Switchboard: 202-224-3121