While the nation is distracted with bread and circuses, Open Borders Inc. lobbyists have stuffed the latest spending bill and 2020 National Defense Authorization Act with all sorts of hidden goodies.

Case in point: The mass amnesty for thousands of Liberian illegal aliens

Minnesota’s Liberian community is celebrating the passage of a long-awaited measure that gives permanent residency to those who have been living here for decades under temporary protections.

The U.S. Senate on Tuesday approved the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act, which included an amendment that offered a path to American citizenship for Liberians currently under Deferred Enforced Departure (DED) status. The $768 billion spending package, which passed the House last week and President Donald Trump has said he will sign, would prevent the deportation of many Liberians that was set to take place after March 31.

Most Americans have never heard of this program. But if you’ve been paying attention to my reporting and read Open Borders Inc., you know who has been pushing this: Open Borders tool and United Nations refugee resettlement racket beneficiary Ilhan Omar.

With my #SOTU guest, DED recipient Linda Clark. She has been in the U.S. 18 years and played by the rules—yet Individual 1 is trying to deport her.

He needs to rescind this hateful policy and let Linda stay in the country she calls home. pic.twitter.com/OMVlQJ6Asf

— Rep. Ilhan Omar (@Ilhan) February 5, 2019

Flashback to my March 2019 column:

Crying “hate” is a lazy way to debate. But in the Beltway, where honest discussion and vigorous deliberation are desperately needed, the rhetorical sloth is so thick you need a Big Foot circular saw to cut it.

Take Minnesota Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar, who thrust a Liberian immigrant, Linda Clark, into the limelight as her State of the Union special guest and poster child. “She has lived here over 18 years,” Rep. Omar lamented, “and there’s no reason she should be taken from her family.” Ahead of the annual address to Congress on Tuesday, Rep. Omar blasted President Donald Trump for “threatening to deport” Clark and “thousands of Liberians for no reason other than hate.”

Clark in turn echoed her radical host’s heated rhetoric, calling White House efforts to reform the Temporary Protected Status and Deferred Enforced Departure programs “hateful” and castigating Trump “for deliberately targeting people like me.”

Sigh. This is why the White House cannot deal in good faith with the unreasonable party of “abolish ICE!” “no walls!” “amnesty for all!” and “deportation equals hate!” The Democrats have weaponized America’s grace against itself.

There is a very simple reason that Omar’s SOTU guest and hundreds of thousands like her from 10 different countries have been threatened with deportation. They were allowed to enter, stay and work here because of the extraordinary generosity of the United States of America. And now, after decades of our government’s largesse, their time is finally up.

The Temporary Protected Status and Deferred Enforced Departure programs were established as part of the Immigration Act of 1990, signed by President George H.W. Bush. (News flash: Bush was a Republican, but the Resistance smear merchants never let such facts get in the way of their hate hyperbole.) The idea was to create an orderly way to deal compassionately with foreigners who could not return to their home countries due to natural disasters, hurricanes, environmental catastrophes, civil war, epidemics and other “extraordinary and temporary conditions.”

An estimated 250,000 illegal immigrants from El Salvador first won TPS golden tickets after an earthquake struck the country in January 2001. In addition, 60,000 illegal immigrant Haitians received TPS after earthquakes in their homeland in 2010. An estimated 90,000 illegal immigrant Hondurans and Nicaraguans have been here since 1998 — when Hurricane Mitch hit their homeland. Several hundred Somalis remain in the country with TPS first granted in 1991, along with some 700 Sudanese who first secured TPS benefits in 1997.

TPS designees won three-year renewable passes to live and work here, travel freely and enjoy immunity from detention or deportation. Participants were originally required to provide proof that they arrived here on an eligible date, committed no more than two misdemeanors and no felonies and maintained a continuous presence in the country. But the programs are dangerously rife with unchecked document fraud, including unknown numbers of TPS winners who have used multiple aliases and faked their country of origin to qualify.

And without a fully functioning biometric entry-exit database in place to track temporary foreign visitors, there’s no way to track all the TPS enrollees.

As I’ve reported repeatedly over the past quarter-century, these “temporary” amnesties have become endless, interminable residency plans for unlawful border crossers, visa overstayers and deportation evaders from around the world. They are not, and never were, entitled to be here. Entry into our country is a privilege, not a right. That’s not “hateful.” It’s the stance that every modern, industrialized sovereign nation takes toward noncitizens.

Trump is the first commander in chief to challenge the temporary-in-name-only farce since the creation of the program. At least 3,700 Liberians like Clark have been here since 1991 on TPS because of civil wars that ended 16 years ago. President Bill Clinton first ordered Deferred Enforced Departure (discretionary deportation delays) for this group in 1999, arguing that the country was still unstable. Nineteen years later, after multiple extensions by Presidents Bush and Obama, Trump finally determined that it was safe for these guests to return to their homeland.

But instead of thanks and farewell, the beneficiaries of our country’s humanitarian TPS and DED policies like Linda Clark and their Democratic enablers like Rep. Omar are clinging bitterly and hurling invectives at leaders who take our laws and borders seriously. The disgruntled “victims” have an army of ACLU lawyers helping them sue to avoid deportation and a phalanx of open borders journalists to drum up public sympathy for their plights. Next week, they’ll be marching on Washington, pounding their drums and shaking their fists as they demand green cards and citizenship.

What other nation in the world has been so foolishly tolerant of so many foreign ingrates and agitators overstaying their welcome? If President Trump can’t pull the plug on this interminable charade, no one can. Once again, my old adage will prove true: There is no such thing as a “temporary” amnesty.

As I wrote in Open Borders Inc., the Trump administration initially tried to end the Liberian amnesty, but ultimately caved as Ilhan Omar cranked up the noise machine and Soros-funded groups like Alianza America went door to door lobbying for the goodie:

Trump was the first commander in chief to challenge the temporary-in-name-only farce since the creation of the program. At least 3,700 Liberians like Clark have been here since 1991 on TPS because of civil wars that ended 16 years ago. President Bill Clinton first ordered Deferred Enforced Departure (discretionary deportation delays) for this group in 1999, arguing that Liberia was still unstable. Nineteen years later, after multiple extensions by Presidents Bush and Obama, Trump finally determined that it was safe for these guests to return to their homeland.

But instead of thanks and farewell, the beneficiaries of our country’s humanitarian TPS and DED policies like Linda Clark and their Democratic enablers like Rep. Omar cling bitterly and hurl invectives at leaders who take our laws and borders seriously. Clark now leads the charge as a community organizer for black immigrants demanding sanctuary policies and local government-funded legal defense funds for illegal aliens challenging deportation decisions. The disgruntled “victims” have a phalanx of ACLU lawyers helping them sue to avoid deportation and a phalanx of open borders journalists to drum up public sympathy for their plights. One of the key groups lobbying on the issue, Alianza Americas, went door to door hunting for TPS recipients in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Houston, Miami, Nashville, Minneapolis, Raleigh-Durham, and Henderson, N.C. Alianza is a George Soros-funded grantee of the International Migration Initiative. There were 15 different plaintiffs dragooned into two separate lawsuits filed on behalf of TPS aliens by the ACLU of California and the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, both with financial ties to SorosWorld, as you’ll learn in Chapter 2.

In March 2019, the Trump White House gave in after relentless bitching and moaning from immigration expansionists and extended TPS for Liberians until March 2020. The White House similarly caved on TPS extensions for illegals from South Sudan, Sudan, El Salvador, Haiti and Nicaragua after Trump’s cancellation of the programs was blocked by Obama appointee Judge Edward Chen in one of the two ACLU lawsuits against Trump’s DHS. Chen is a former lawyer for the open-borders, Soros-funded American Civil Liberties Union in San Francisco. Even though federal statute plainly limits judicial review of the executive branch’s TPS-related designations, Judge Chen found a way to override the president’s prerogative. He cited his personal belief that President Trump harbored “animus against non-white, non-European immigrants in violation of Equal Protection guaranteed by the Constitution” based on, among other things, Trump’s liked illegal alien MS-13 gang members to snakes. (That’s a rather mild and generous comparison, if you ask me.)

Is it America First or America Last?

What say you, President Trump?