Why the DIGNIDAD Act Must Die
From Lies and Loopholes to Chattel Management In my column, “Lies, Loopholes, and Legalization,” I went through H.R. 4393 — Rep. María Elvira Salazar’s so-called DIGNIDAD Act — section by section. I called it what it is: an awful amnesty bill full of lies, slicker and roughly four times larger than the 1986 Simpson-Mazzoli scam. It grants protected legal status and work authorization to roughly 11–12 million people who were here illegally before 2021, offers Dreamers a clear path to green cards and citizenship, waters down criminal and gang bars, accelerates chain migration through hardship presumptions, and sells the whole thing…