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‘Open Border Baldwin’: Senator Tammy Baldwin Demanded Release of Illegal Transgender Immigrants Into Country

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This is part 1 in a continuing series exploring U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin’s stances on illegal immigration.

U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin recently demanded the release of illegal transgender immigrants into U.S. communities.

In the same letter, Baldwin also criticized a number of Trump administration policies that had slowed the flow of illegal immigrants into the U.S.

Furthermore, Baldwin, along with Sen. Elizabeth Warren, demanded that then-President Donald Trump’s administration allow transgender immigrants into the country. “Turning away transgender asylum seekers not only places them in harm’s way, it also violates the United States’ treaty obligations,” they wrote.

Read the letter 2019.10.15 Letter to DHS ICE and CPB regarding transgender migrants and asylum seekers

Baldwin and Warren also criticized the lack of sufficient transgender “pods” to hold trans immigrants, saying it’s dangerous to house transgender “women” with “cisgender” men. However, they concluded, “alternatives to detention should be used for transgender migrants.”

They touted placing certain “asylum seekers…in the community with monitoring by social workers.”

“We ask you to immediately reverse policies that harm these vulnerable individuals and take swift action to protect the health and safety of transgender migrants,” Baldwin and U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren, both Democrats, wrote on Oct. 15, 2019. They addressed the letter to then President Donald Trump’s Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan, the ICE director Matthew Albence, and Mark A. Morgan, then acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

“Moreover, we urge you to use alternatives to detention, including release from detention on recognizance, parole, and community-based alternatives to incarceration, for vulnerable populations,” Baldwin and Warren demanded.

Baldwin and Warren chastised the Trump administration for making it harder for transgender migrants to come to the United States.

“Instead of offering refuge to this vulnerable population, the Trump Administration has made it harder for transgender individuals to seek and obtain asylum in the United States,” they scolded.

Specifically, they raised concern about the Trump administration’s policy, “known as the ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy, which forces asylum seekers at the southern border back to Mexico to wait while their requests are processed,” the letter reads. According to Baldwin and Warren, “Transgender asylum seekers have nevertheless been forcibly returned to Mexico.”

The pair wrote that transgender immigrants suffer “sexual and gender-based violence in Mexico after crossing the border at blind
spots.”

Baldwin and Warren also criticized a Trump policy of “metering at ports of entry to reduce the number of asylum
seekers entering the United States.”

They wrote: “Given the dangers that transgender people face in Mexico, policies that force asylum seekers to wait in Mexico—like the Remain in Mexico and metering policies and the third-country transit asylum bar—violate the United States’ moral and legal obligations to transgender asylum seekers.”

The state GOP is reminding voters of Tammy Baldwin’s weak record on illegal immigration. As is typical with Baldwin, she is now remaking herself and positioning as tough on border security with an election looming.

Read her full record on immigration here.

According to House Republicans, the Biden administration’s policies on illegal immigration have been a disaster.

“The Biden Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has failed to remove more than 99 percent of illegal aliens, through immigration court proceedings, released into the country by the Biden Administration between January 20, 2021, and March 31, 2023, alone,” they wrote.

House Republicans say:

“Between January 20, 2021, and March 31, 2023, there were over 5 million illegal alien encounters. Of these encounters, at least 2,464,424 had no confirmed departure from the United States.

During the same period, DHS released at least 2,148,738 illegal aliens into the United States.

Only 5,993 illegal aliens encountered at the southwest border and placed in removal proceedings before an immigration judge were actually removed from the United States during this time.

A mere six percent of illegal aliens released into the United States were even screened for fear of persecution for purposes of asylum.

As of March 2023, DHS had removed only 874 of the illegal aliens found to have a credible fear of persecution and whose claims were adjudicated on the merits and denied by an immigration judge.

An additional 205,473 aliens were released into the country through illegal categorical parole programs.”

The Wisconsin GOP has argued that Tammy Baldwin has supported weak policies on illegal immigration.

“A record 169 suspects on the FBI’s terror watch list have been apprehended at the border this year,” the Wisconsin GOP wrote on October 24, 2023.

“Remember that Tammy Baldwin,” the GOP wrote:

❌opposed the border wall
❌opposed the border emergency declaration
❌opposed Kate’s Law

“Wisconsin can’t trust Open Borders Baldwin to keep us safe,” the GOP wrote.

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“In Washington County our budget cycle starts right now, and it’s not due until November. We will propose our budget goals to the County Board in the next couple of months. We will share ‘This is what we’re thinking.’ It gives them months of time to think those through, give us feedback, and [have] that kind of dialogue,” Schoemann explained in an interview on News Talk 1130 WISN.

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“That’s not how government is supposed to work,” Schoemann said. “It’s not the vision of the governor. It’s not the vision of any one person.”

Evers and the Republican legislative leaders who will write the budget have been involved in on-again, off-again budget talks this month. On Thursday, the governor’s office said those talks were off once again because of gridlock in the Senate.

“Ultimately, the Senate needs to decide whether they were elected to govern and get things done or not,” Evers spokesperson Britt Cudaback said in a post on X.

Schoemann’s criticism of Evers is nothing new. He has long been a critic of the governor and has turned that criticism up since launching his campaign for governor.

But the recent criticism was also aimed at other Republicans who may jump into the 20206 governor’s race later this year.

“Nobody else in this race on the Republican side, being rumored to this point, has the executive leadership of skills and history to be able to show ‘This is how I’ve done it before, and here’s how we’ll do it Madison,’” Schoemann said. “The results in Washington County speak for themselves.”

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