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Another day in DC, another amnesty deal attempt for illegal immigrants

Amnesty undermines the rule of law, social solidarity and cultural assimilation, and treats working Americans like second-class citizens

By Kevin D. Roberts Fox News

Published May 1, 2026 7:00am EDT

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Whenever Washington politicians tell you that a new, 250-page bipartisan immigration bill isn’t amnesty, it’s probably amnesty. And sure enough, the "Dignity for Immigrants while Guarding our Nation to Ignite and Deliver the American Dream" (DIGNIDAD) Act of 2025… is amnesty.    

Like Hollywood executives incapable of telling original stories anymore, Washington’s corporate establishment is trying to reboot a failed franchise — Comprehensive Immigration Reform (CIR) — that audiences never embraced in this first place. DIGNIDAD is the legislative equivalent of Howard the Duck II.

Like all CIR proposals, DIGNIDAD ostensibly improves immigration enforcement policy in exchange for amnestying millions of illegal immigrants. It would legalize — and create a pathway to citizenship for — aliens who came here illegally as........

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