There is a human tendency to believe that all of the things one doesn’t like are in league or of a piece. That can lead to delusion and misapprehension. On the other hand, it sometimes turns out to be true.
Take the case of the Inflation Reduction Act, which should better be known as the Inflation Promotion Act. This grotesque law is nothing but a grab-bag of payoffs to Democratic Party constituencies. And it turns out that, guided by left-wing ideology, these constituencies do turn out to be in league. The Wall Street Journal reports:
We recently told you that the Environmental Protection Agency handed [Inflation Reduction Act] money to an outfit backing anti-Israel protests. Turns out EPA is also funding groups that oppose immigration enforcement.
What on God’s green Earth does the EPA have to do with promoting illegal immigration?
EPA tapped Fordham University as a grantmaker to distribute $50 million, in collaboration with the New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC) and the New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant Justice (NJAIJ). What does immigration have to do with climate? Nothing, though progressives say the issues “intersect” in the oppression of minority groups.
According to the EPA, Fordham and its partners will take “an intersectional approach to place frontline communities in positions of power” to advance climate justice “in disadvantaged and hard-to-reach communities and communities disproportionately impacted by climate change, pollution, and other environmental stressors.” What does that even mean?
Perhaps abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which is what NYIC advocates. NYIC condemned ICE as “racist and abusive” at a “Member Congress” in January. The group this month rallied with Democrats in Albany for a bill to prohibit local law enforcement from working with ICE.
So the federal government is using taxpayer dollars to fund an organization that seeks to undermine an agency of the federal government. And of course, none of this has anything to do with inflation–the purported target of the Inflation “Reduction” Act–or with the climate, which obviously will not be one whit different if pro-illegal immigration pressure groups get more money.
Basically, the Democratic Party views much of the federal budget as a giant slush fund with which to pay off and empower its supporters so as to perpetuate its political power. Forever.
