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Post by the Scribe on Dec 25, 2022 20:24:31 GMT
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Why immigration reform died in Congress:
Immigration reform couldn’t pass into law when Republicans controlled the White House and Congress (in 2005-2006). It couldn’t pass when a Republican was in the White House and Democrats controlled Congress (in 2007-2008). It couldn’t pass when Democrats controlled both the executive and legislative branches (in 2009-2010). It couldn’t pass with a Democrat in the White House, Democrats in charge of the Senate, and Republicans in charge of the House of Representatives (2011-2014). Back in 2008 or 2012, Republicans COULD argue that President Obama didn’t make immigration reform a priority, or that he took steps to stymie reform in when he was a senator. (And 2010, in particular, the one REAL moment of the Obama first term when immigration was possible, it was Senate Democratic leaders who weren’t ready to give up the politics of the issue. And the White House didn’t fight.) But no reasonable person can say that immigration’s death -- in 2013 and 2014 -- is anyone’s fault but House Republicans. They saw no short-term benefit. And Trump’s arguable success had more to do with the pandemic than anything else. worth repeating.
Here's the real truth.
If what was going on at America's southern border was really a concern to our politicians, corporations and the wealthy, their response would be immediate.
This issue, has been allowed for decades by people who hope to keep us divided. People really need to wake up about this.
The wealthy who run this country want to keep us fighting a culture war among ourselves, to prevent us from fighting the real class war against them!
Our government only cares about protecting and promoting commerce under our capitalist system. And, this is done only for the benefit of banks, corporations and the wealthy.
The rest of us are only useful for three purposes. Fighting wars, paying taxes, and consuming.
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Post by the Scribe on Jan 9, 2023 7:04:32 GMT
 President Obama's Four Part Plan for Comprehensive Immigration Reform
obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2013/01/29/president-obamas-four-part-plan-comprehensive-immigration-reform
JANUARY 29, 2013 AT 2:30 PM ET BY MEGAN SLACK
Summary: President Obama speaks from Las Vegas about creating a fair and effective immigration system that lives up to our heritage as a nation of laws and a nation of immigrants.
President Obama delivers remarks on immigration at Del Sol High School in Las Vegas, Jan. 29, 2013
President Barack Obama delivers remarks on immigration at Del Sol High School in Las Vegas, Nev., Jan. 29, 2013. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
Today, President Obama spoke from Las Vegas about creating a fair and effective immigration system that lives up to our heritage as a nation of laws and a nation of immigrants.
"I’m here because most Americans agree that it’s time to fix a system that’s been broken for way too long." President Obama said. "I’m here because business leaders, faith leaders, labor leaders, law enforcement, and leaders from both parties are coming together to say now is the time to find a better way to welcome the striving, hopeful immigrants who still see America as the land of opportunity. Now is the time to do this so we can strengthen our economy and strengthen our country’s future."
The good news, President Obama said, is that for the first time in many years, there is bipartisan support for comprehensive immigration reform. But action must follow.
"We can't allow immigration reform to get bogged down in an endless debate. We've been debating this a very long time," he explained. "As a consequence, to help move this process along, today I’m laying out my ideas for immigration reform."
President Obama's proposal for immigration reform has four parts. First, continue to strengthen our borders. Second, crack down on companies that hire undocumented workers. Third, hold undocumented immigrants accountable before they can earn their citizenship; this means requiring undocumented workers to pay their taxes and a penalty, move to the back of the line, learn English, and pass background checks. Fourth, streamline the legal immigration system for families, workers, and employers.
obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/01/29/fact-sheet-fixing-our-broken-immigration-system-so-everyone-plays-rules
You can watch the President's full remarks on this plan for common sense immigration reform below:
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Post by the Scribe on Jan 9, 2023 7:06:49 GMT
Why Immigration Reform Died in Congress
www.nbcnews.com/politics/first-read/why-immigration-reform-died-congress-n145276
Republicans saw no short-term benefit to working together on an immigration overhaul.
July 1, 2014, 6:09 AM MST
Why immigration reform died in Congress
Immigration reform couldn’t pass into law when Republicans controlled the White House and Congress (in 2005-2006). It couldn’t pass when a Republican was in the White House and Democrats controlled Congress (in 2007-2008). It couldn’t pass when Democrats controlled both the executive and legislative branches (in 2009-2010). And now we officially know this after yesterday: It isn’t going to pass with a Democrat in the White House, Democrats in charge of the Senate, and Republicans in charge of the House of Representatives (2011-2014). Back in 2008 or 2012, Republicans COULD argue that President Obama didn’t make immigration reform a priority, or that he took steps to stymie reform in when he was a senator. (And 2010, in particular, the one REAL moment of the Obama first term when immigration was possible, it was Senate Democratic leaders who weren’t ready to give up the politics of the issue. And the White House didn’t fight.) But now, no reasonable person can say that immigration’s death -- in 2013 and 2014 -- is anyone’s fault but House Republicans. Still, we also understand why they killed it: They saw no short-term benefit. Yes, the long-term politics (for 2016 and 2020) cry out for Republicans to remove immigration as an issue. But doing so would be so painful in the process (just see Eric Cantor’s primary defeat). All of that said, the longer Republicans wait on passing immigration reform, the longer the wounds with Latino voters will take to heal. We’ll simply quote from that RNC after-election autopsy report from March 2013: “[W]e must embrace and champion comprehensive immigration reform. If we do not, our party’s appeal will continue to shrink to its core constituencies only.”
Obama makes it official, Boehner responds that the American people don’t trust him to enforce the laws
President Obama officially announced on Monday immigration reform’s death. “I believe Speaker Boehner when he says he wants to pass an immigration bill,” Obama said from the White House. “But last week, he informed me that Republicans will continue to block a vote on immigration reform at least for the remainder of this year.” As a result, he added, the Obama administration will take executive action (wherever it can) on immigration policy. Boehner responded, "In our conversation last week, I told the president what I have been telling him for months: the American people and their elected officials don't trust him to enforce the law as written. Until that changes, it is going to be difficult to make progress on this issue.” But this argument is tough to defend since if this were a sincere reason for the House GOP, they could simply write the law in such a way that it wouldn’t take effect until Jan. 20, 2017, right?
A week later, the White House is loving the politics of Boehner’s lawsuit against Obama
Of course, yesterday’s back-and-forth over immigration comes just a week after Boehner announced that the House would vote later this month to authorize a lawsuit against President Obama’s executive actions. And here is something that shouldn’t be ignored: The White House LOVES the lawsuit. For one thing, it gives meaning to the White House’s various executive actions. Earlier this year during the State of the Union, many of us proclaimed them simply playing “small ball.” But given this lawsuit, Republicans certainly don’t see them being small. In addition, the lawsuit only emphasizes the contrast that one branch of government is doing SOMETHING while the other branch is doing NOTHING. Bottom line: The White House sees a political opportunity here -- an opportunity that Republicans might not have seen coming. Would it surprise many if House Republicans quietly decide before the August recess that this lawsuit gambit is actually too politically risky for them in an election year?
Contraception as a Democratic wedge issue
Turning from the White House and Congress to yesterday’s big Hobby Lobby decision at the Supreme Court, we observed that Democratic candidates seemed more excited to talk about the Hobby Lobby case than immigration. Of course, one of main reasons is that the Latino vote will only be a factor in one Senate contest THIS November: Colorado’s. But women -- whether they live in Arkansas, Iowa, Michigan, or Oregon -- are going to be the key voting bloc this year, and Democrats see the Hobby Lobby case and contraception in general as wedge issues with female voters. Indeed, back in our March 2014 NBC/WSJ poll, 48% of men said that employers should be able to be exempt from covering birth control on religious grounds, while 46% of them said they should NOT be exempt. By comparison, nearly six-in-10 women -- 59% -- said employers should NOT be exempt, versus 35% who said they should. Overall in that NBC/WSJ poll, 53% of all respondents said employers should not be exempt, and 41% said they should be exempt. It was in 2012 that Democrats first started capitalizing on the politics of contraception, and they continued that in last year’s gubernatorial contest in Virginia. If Democrats hold the Senate -- and we stress the word “IF” -- yesterday’s court decision could end up being one of the more important turning points. The party has been looking for a reason to rationalize a focus on contraception during this campaign year, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority gave it to them. Spend any time with your nose buried in crosstabs from today and 2010, and it is crystal clear this contraception issue has had a negative impact among women for the GOP.
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Post by the Scribe on May 21, 2023 1:16:10 GMT
If you want to control illegal immigration you need:
a comprehensive immigration policy
control the cartels who promote and profit from it
the USA needs to stop US arms dealers from shipping guns, arms, ammo south of the border
elect a filibuster proof Democratic congress as nothing will change if the RepubliGun Party has its way
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Post by Brian on Sept 15, 2023 21:09:33 GMT
I thought this was interesting
Although donald trump talked the fiercest nativist game about illegal immigration, it was Barack Obama who oversaw the removal of more undocumented immigrants from America during his presidency, earning him the nickname “deporter-in-chief”. During his first term, Mr Obama deported over 60% more people than Mr Trump (see chart). Now Joe Biden is breaking records in the opposite direction.
In April the us Immigration, Customs and Enforcement agency (ice), completed just 2,962 removals, the lowest number on record. Since February ice agents have averaged around 2,300 arrests per month, a fifth of the monthly average in 2019, before the epidemic began. The figures show how Mr Biden is trying to craft policies that treat immigrants living illegally in America more humanely than his predecessors, without giving his critics on the left and the right too much ammunition.
www.economist.com/united-states/2021/06/12/deportations-of-undocumented-immigrants-are-at-a-record-low
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Post by the Scribe on Jan 15, 2024 2:10:46 GMT
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Post by the Scribe on Feb 8, 2024 21:39:21 GMT
The U.S. border with Mexico is not “wide open” to everyone, as Republicans claim. It is open to unaccompanied minors and asylum seekers – some 25,000 whom Trump forced to wait in Mexico.
Most everyone else is being deported under a provision of the 1944 Public Health Act known as Title 42 that Trump invoked in March 2020 in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. That provision allowed the Trump and now the Biden administration to summarily expel everyone trying to enter the U.S. illegally without processing them.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection reports 317,590 expulsions under the Title 42 provision from the beginning of fiscal year in October 2020 through February 2021. Single adults and most families are being expelled, officials said.
“You support dumping these kids – these 10 and 11-year-olds – on the other side of the border, scared and alone and just leave them to die or to be forced into the arms of drug cartels or traffickers in northern Mexico?” Murphy asked.
Well, yes. That, apparently, is exactly what Republicans would rather do. Anyone with an ounce of humanity would be rushing to help the Biden administration handle the thousands of unaccompanied minors showing up at the U.S.-Mexico border instead of spewing venom and using them as a political football.
www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/elviadiaz/2021/03/26/biden-wrong-cage-migrant-kids-but-hes-no-donald-trump/7007422002/+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Is it ever OK to 'cage' migrant kids? Of course not. Let's talk about what Biden is doing
www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/elviadiaz/2021/03/26/biden-wrong-cage-migrant-kids-but-hes-no-donald-trump/7007422002/
Opinion: Is it ever OK to 'cage' migrant kids? No way. But at least President Biden is taking the kids, when Trump preferred to yank them from their parents.
Elvia Díaz
Arizona Republic
March 26, 2021
Why is it OK for President Biden to put “kids in cages” if it was so shameful when former President Trump did it?
“Where is your outrage, shock and horror of your buddy Biden keeping kids in cages?" asked a reader named Joseph Bacskay. “How about an article about that?"
Readers like Joseph have been inundating my mailbox with that question, which obviously deserves a straight answer. It’s never OK to cage kids.
Got it? Good. Now, let’s get something straight.
To Trump, they were a political football
Trump piled thousands of migrant kids in cages because he didn’t want them, yanked too many of them from their parents’ arms, deported the parents and never reunited them.
apnews.com/article/909c9dd0243244018ab8eab00e1d73b3
To Trump, the children, their parents and all the other asylum seekers were less than human. They didn’t deserve even a chance to make their case in a U.S. court. That’s why tens of thousands of asylum seekers got stuck waiting in Mexico.
President Joe Biden, on the other hand, believes America must remain a compassionate nation that never turns its back on the Central American children who risk a long, dangerous journey through Mexico for a shot at a better life – many for a shot at simply staying alive.
Why would I be furious with Biden for allowing the kids to be placed with sponsors, often their relatives, here in the United States?
Anyone with an ounce of humanity would be rushing to help the Biden administration handle the thousands of unaccompanied minors showing up at the U.S.-Mexico border instead of spewing venom and using them as a political football.
Border is not 'wide open' to everyone
The Republicans waging an all-out war on migrant children know that turning our backs on them is un-American. These kids and their families are fleeing extreme poverty and crime-ridden Central American countries.
Thank goodness Biden is choosing to reinstate the American value that we are a nation of immigrants, not Trump’s Make America White Again movement that so many Republicans are still fostering.
“Our border is WIDE OPEN and the cartels are in FULL CONTROL,” tweeted U.S. Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona, a member of the conservative Freedom Caucus in the House of Representatives.
That’s a lie.
The U.S. border with Mexico is not “wide open” to everyone, as Republicans claim. It is open to unaccompanied minors and asylum seekers – some 25,000 whom Trump forced to wait in Mexico.
www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/2021/02/12/immigration-us-allow-25-000-asylum-seekers-waiting-mexico/6729762002/
Most everyone else is being deported under a provision of the 1944 Public Health Act known as Title 42 that Trump invoked in March 2020 in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. That provision allowed the Trump and now the Biden administration to summarily expel everyone trying to enter the U.S. illegally without processing them.
www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/2021/03/18/child-migrants-us-mexico-border-what-happening-and-why/4721672001/
U.S. Customs and Border Protection reports 317,590 expulsions under the Title 42 provision from the beginning of fiscal year in October 2020 through February 2021. Single adults and most families are being expelled, officials said.
www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/cbp-enforcement-statistics/title-8-and-title-42-statistics
House them? Or deport them alone?
Now, why is the Biden administration scrambling to handle the unaccompanied minors? Because there are so many of them.
So, yes. Facilities are crowded and officials are using every available resource such as convention centers and even hotels to house them temporarily.
But what’s the alternative?
Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut put it best this week when he responded to the Republicans’ anti-migrant rhetoric.
Karrin Taylor Robson has finally turned against Trump
www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/philboas/2023/09/26/karrin-taylor-robson-turn-against-donald-trump-maga/70969521007/
Why the Biden/McCain friendship is a threat to MAGA
www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/ej-montini/2023/09/26/joe-biden-john-mccain-friendship-threat-trump-maga/70967722007/
Gov. Hobbs yanked her agency nominees. What's next?
www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/elviadiaz/2023/09/25/katie-hobbs-withdrew-director-nominees-senate-confirmation/70965528007/
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“You support dumping these kids – these 10 and 11-year-olds – on the other side of the border, scared and alone and just leave them to die or to be forced into the arms of drug cartels or traffickers in northern Mexico?” Murphy asked.
www.c-span.org/video/?c4954004/user-clip-sen-murphy-immigration
Well, yes. That, apparently, is exactly what Republicans would rather do.
Elvia Díaz is an editorial columnist for The Republic and azcentral. Reach her at 602-444-8606 or elvia.diaz@arizonarepublic.com. Follow her on Twitter, @elviadiaz1.
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