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Post by the Scribe on Apr 21, 2020 10:11:28 GMT
Is it a Crime to Enter The U.S. Illegally?Illegal entry (or "improper entry") to the US carries criminal penalties (fines and jail or prison time), in addition to civil penalties and immigration consequences (deportation and bars from future entry). By Ilona Bray, J.D.
Whether it’s by crossing the U.S. border with a "coyote" or buying a fake U.S. passport, a foreign national who enters the U.S. illegally can be both convicted of a crime and held responsible for a civil violation under the U.S. immigration laws. Illegal entry also carries consequences for anyone who might later attempt to apply for a green card or other immigration benefit.
The penalties and consequences get progressively more severe if a person enters illegally more than once, or enters illegally after an order of removal (deportation) or having been convicted of an aggravated felony.
What Is Illegal Entry? The immigration law actually uses the term "improper entry," which has a broad meaning. It’s more than just slipping across the U.S. border at an unguarded point. Improper entry can include:
entering or attempting to enter the United States at any time or place other than one designated by U.S. immigration officers (in other words, away from a border inspection point or other port of entry) eluding examination or inspection by U.S. immigration officers (people have tried everything from digging tunnels to hiding in the trunk of a friend’s car) attempting to enter or obtain entry to the United States by a willfully false or misleading representation or willful concealment of a material fact (which might include, for example, lying on a visa application or buying a false green card or other entry document). (See Title 8, Section 1325 of the U.S. Code (U.S.C.), or Section 275 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (I.N.A.) for the exact statutory language - www.uscis.gov/laws/immigration-and-nationality-act.)
Criminal Penalties For the first improper entry offense, the person can be fined (as a criminal penalty), or imprisoned for up to six months, or both. For a subsequent offense, the person can be fined or imprisoned for up to two years, or both. (See 8 U.S.C. Section 1325, I.N.A. Section 275.)
But just in case that isn’t enough to deter illegal entrants, a separate section of the law adds penalties for reentry (or attempted reentry) in cases where the person had been convicted of certain types of crimes and thus removed (deported) from the U.S., as follows:
(1) People removed for a conviction of three or more misdemeanors involving drugs, crimes against the person, or both, or a felony (other than an aggravated felony), shall be fined, imprisoned for up to ten years, or both.
(2) People removed for a conviction of an aggravated felony shall be fined, imprisoned for up to 20 years, or both.
(3) People who were excluded or removed from the United States for security reasons shall be fined, and imprisoned for up to ten years, which sentence shall not run concurrently with any other sentence.
(4) Nonviolent offenders who were removed from the United States before their prison sentence was up shall be fined, imprisoned for up to ten years, or both.
What’s more, someone deported before a prison sentence was complete may be incarcerated for the remainder of the sentence of imprisonment, without any reduction for parole or supervised release.
(See 8 U.S.C. Section 1326, I.N.A. Section 276.)
Civil Penalties Entry (or attempted entry) at a place other than one designated by immigration officers carries additional civil penalties. The amount is at least $50 and not more than $250 for each such entry (or attempted entry); or twice that amount if the illegal entrant has been previously fined a civil penalty for the same violation. (See 8 U.S.C. Section 1325, I.N.A. Section 275.)
Immigration Consequences of an Improper Entry A person who comes to the US without permission of the immigration authorities is inadmissible. To learn more about inadmissibility, see Who Can't Get Into The United States?
In practice, that usually means that if the person became eligible for a green card or other immigration status, he or she would be ineligible to adjust status within the United States. By leaving the U.S. and applying from overseas, the inadmissibility problem could be solved – unless the person had already stayed in the U.S. for six months or more without a right to be there. In that case, he or she would run into a separate ground of inadmissibility, based on "unlawful presence" in the United States. (For more on how that affects your possibilities of obtaining a green card, see Legal Options for an Undocumented Immigrant to Stay in the U.S.)
If a person was removed from the U.S. (deported) on the basis of a conviction for an aggravated felony (other than illegal entry or reentry), then the improper entry itself is considered to be an aggravated felony. (See 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(43)(O).) Having one of more aggravated felonies on one’s record is a huge problem, because aggravated felonies bar a person from virtually all immigration benefits, and are a grounds of deportability (under 8 U.S.C. 1227, I.N.A. Section 237).
See an Expert This article can help acquaint you with the laws affecting illegal entry. However, if you have entered the U.S. illegally, and are hoping to apply for a green card or other immigration benefit, you should absolutely see an immigration attorney for a personal analysis of your situation. You may benefit from exceptions not described here.
www.alllaw.com/articles/nolo/us-immigration/crime-enter-illegally.htmlThe sad reality: Illegal Immigration? We Asked Native Americans About It Immigration ManBUT FIRST SOME HISTORY
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Animated map shows the history of immigration to the US History Of Latin America, European Immigration to America, Full DocumentaryLook to history to see the ugliness of what is happening, except now it is happening for Hispanics and Muslims in a rising tide of Republican, conservative and Christian based hatred.
Jared Kushner's Grandmother Jared Kushner’s grandmother on life as a refugee: ‘Nobody wanted us’Gabby Kaufman Staff Writer
As the Trump administration faces continued blowback over the executive order barring citizens of seven predominantly Muslim countries from entering the country, an interview with the late Rae Kushner, a Holocaust survivor and the grandmother of Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, has resurfaced.
The interview, given in 1982 to the Kean College of New Jersey Holocaust Resource Center, is now part of the archives at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
In it, Kushner describes atrocities in Nazi-occupied Novogrudok, Poland, and laments America’s refusal to admit Jewish refugees. Her experiences echo those of refugees from Syria and the six other nations seeking safety in the United States.
“We felt the anti-Semitism,” Kushner recalled. “We felt something was coming, but we couldn’t help ourselves. The doors of the world were closed to us.”
Of her parents and three siblings, only Kushner, her father, and one sister survived. They escaped the ghetto through an underground tunnel and lived in the woods for nine months. Eventually Kushner boarded a train to Czechoslovakia by concealing her Jewish identity and walked through Austria and Hungary to Italy, where she lived with her husband for 3 1/2 years in a camp for displaced persons before being allowed into the United States.
Kushner said the Italian camp was “like being in the ghetto again” and described her desperation to leave Europe.
“We wanted to go to Africa, to Australia, to Israel,” she said. “We would go anywhere where we could live in freedom but nobody wanted us.” (What is now Israel was at that time part of the Palestine Mandate, under the control of Great Britain, which excluded most Jewish refugees.)
“Nobody opened their doors to us. Nobody wanted to take us in. So for three and a half years, we waited until we finally got a visa to come to the United States.”
Kushner also specifically invoked the St. Louis, a ship of German Jewish refugees that was turned away by Cuba and the United States in 1939. The day Trump signed the travel ban (also Holocaust Remembrance Day), a Twitter account under the handle @stl_Manifest started posting the names of those passengers who were later killed in the Holocaust.
“For the Jews, the doors were closed,” Kushner said. “We never understood that.”
“Even President Roosevelt kept the doors closed. Why? The boat, St. Louis, was turned back. What was the world afraid of? I don’t understand.”
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum website explains that ‘Public opinion in the United States, although ostensibly sympathetic to the plight of refugees and critical of Hitler’s policies, continued to favor immigration restrictions.’
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Post by the Scribe on Apr 21, 2020 10:12:01 GMT
The good, bad and ugly....NYT Excerpt: The Economics Of Illegal Immigration February 13, 2013 1:13 PM
In his New York Times Magazine column this week, Adam Davidson writes about illegal immigration. Here's an excerpt. As Congress debates the contours of immigration reform, many arguments have been made on economic grounds. Undocumented workers, some suggest, undercut wages and take jobs that would otherwise go to Americans. Worse, the argument goes, many use social programs, like hospitals and schools, that cost taxpayers and add to our $16 trillion national debt. Would deporting Pedro Chan and the other 11 million or so undocumented workers mean more jobs, lower taxes and a stronger economy? ... There are many ways to debate immigration, but when it comes to economics, there isn't much of a debate at all. Nearly all economists, of all political persuasions, agree that immigrants — those here legally or not — benefit the overall economy. "That is not controversial," Heidi Shierholz, an economist at the Economic Policy Institute, told me. Shierholz also said that "there is a consensus that, on average, the incomes of families in this country are increased by a small, but clearly positive amount, because of immigration."
Do Illegal Immigrants Actually Hurt the U.S. Economy?
Earlier this month I met Pedro Chan at his small apartment above an evangelical church in Brooklyn’s Sunset Park neighborhood. Chan, who shares the place with three others, is short and muscular. He has a quiet voice and a patient demeanor that seems to have served him well on his journey to New York. In 2002, he left his Guatemalan village for a long trip through Mexico and, with the help of a smuggler, across the Texas border. In 2004, he made it to Brooklyn, where his uncle helped him find work on small construction crews.
Deep thoughts this week:
1. Illegal workers do undercut the salaries of millions of Americans.
2. But they boost the income of nearly everyone else.
3. Why don’t people know this already?
4. Oh, yeah: politics.
It’s the Economy Adam Davidson translates often confusing and sometimes terrifying economic and financial news.
These days, Chan helps skilled (and fully documented) carpenters, electricians and stucco installers do their jobs by carrying heavy things and cleaning the work site. For this, he earns up to $25,000 a year, which is considerably less than the average entry wage for New York City’s 100,000 or so documented construction workers. Chan’s boss, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said that unless he learned a specialized skill, Chan would never be able to move up the income ladder. As long as there are thousands of undocumented workers competing for low-end jobs, salaries are more likely to fall than to rise.
As Congress debates the contours of immigration reform, many arguments have been made on economic grounds. Undocumented workers, some suggest, undercut wages and take jobs that would otherwise go to Americans. Worse, the argument goes, many use social programs, like hospitals and schools, that cost taxpayers and add to our $16 trillion national debt. Would deporting Pedro Chan and the other 11 million or so undocumented workers mean more jobs, lower taxes and a stronger economy?
Illegal immigration does have some undeniably negative economic effects. Similarly skilled native-born workers are faced with a choice of either accepting lower pay or not working in the field at all. Labor economists have concluded that undocumented workers have lowered the wages of U.S. adults without a high-school diploma — 25 million of them — by anywhere between 0.4 to 7.4 percent.
The impact on everyone else, though, is surprisingly positive. Giovanni Peri, an economist at the University of California, Davis, has written a series of influential papers comparing the labor markets in states with high immigration levels to those with low ones. He concluded that undocumented workers do not compete with skilled laborers — instead, they complement them. Economies, as Adam Smith argued in “Wealth of Nations,” work best when workers become specialized and divide up tasks among themselves. Pedro Chan’s ability to take care of routine tasks on a work site allows carpenters and electricians to focus on what they do best. In states with more undocumented immigrants, Peri said, skilled workers made more money and worked more hours; the economy’s productivity grew. From 1990 to 2007, undocumented workers increased legal workers’ pay in complementary jobs by up to 10 percent.
I saw this in action when Chan took me to his current work site, a two-story office building on Coney Island Avenue. The skilled workers had already installed wood flooring in a lawyer’s office and were off to the next job site. That left Chan to clean up the debris and to install a new toilet. As I looked around, I could see how we were on one end of an economic chain reaction. Chan’s boss no longer had to pay a highly skilled worker to perform basic tasks. That lowered the overall cost of construction, increasing the number of jobs the company could book, which meant more customers and more money. It reminded me of how so many restaurants operate. Without undocumented labor performing routine tasks, meals, which factor labor costs into the price, would be more expensive. There would also be fewer jobs for waiters and chefs.
Earlier that day, I was reminded of another seldom-discussed fact about immigrant life in the United States. Immigrants spend most of the money they make. Chan had broken down his monthly expenses: $400 a month in rent, another $30 or so for gas, electric and Internet. He sends some money home and tries to save a few thousand a year in his Citibank account, but he ends up spending more than $10,000 annually. That includes the $1,400 or so he pays the I.R.S. so that he can have a taxpayer I.D. number, which allows him to have a credit score so that he can rent an apartment or lease a car.
There are many ways to debate immigration, but when it comes to economics, there isn’t much of a debate at all. Nearly all economists, of all political persuasions, agree that immigrants — those here legally or not — benefit the overall economy. “That is not controversial,” Heidi Shierholz, an economist at the Economic Policy Institute, told me. Shierholz also said that “there is a consensus that, on average, the incomes of families in this country are increased by a small, but clearly positive amount, because of immigration.”
The benefit multiplies over the long haul. As the baby boomers retire, the post-boom generation’s burden to finance their retirement is greatly alleviated by undocumented immigrants. Stephen Goss, chief actuary for the Social Security Administration, told me that undocumented workers contribute about $15 billion a year to Social Security through payroll taxes. They only take out $1 billion (very few undocumented workers are eligible to receive benefits). Over the years, undocumented workers have contributed up to $300 billion, or nearly 10 percent, of the $2.7 trillion Social Security Trust Fund.
The problem, though, is that undocumented workers are not evenly distributed. In areas like southern Texas and Arizona and even parts of Brooklyn, undocumented immigrants impose a substantial net cost to local and state governments, Shierholz says. Immigrants use public assistance, medical care and schools. Some immigrant neighborhoods have particularly high crime rates. Jared Bernstein, a fellow at the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, told me that these are also areas in which low-educated workers are most likely to face stiff competition from immigrants. It’s no wonder why so much political furor comes from these regions.
Undocumented workers represent a classic economic challenge with a fairly straightforward solution. Immigrants bring diffuse and hard-to-see benefits to average Americans while imposing more tangible costs on a few, Shierholz says. The dollar value of the benefits far outweigh the costs, so the government could just transfer extra funds to those local populations that need more help. One common proposal would grant amnesty to undocumented workers, which would create a sudden increase in tax payments. Simultaneously, the federal government could apply a percentage of those increased revenues to local governments.
But that, of course, seems politically improbable. Immigration is one of many problems — like another economic no-brainer: eliminating farm subsidies — in which broad economic benefits battle against a smaller, concentrated cost in one area. As immigration reform seems more likely than at any time in recent memory, it’s important to remember that it is not the economic realities that have changed. It’s the political ones.
Adam Davidson is co-founder of NPR’s “Planet Money,” a podcast and blog.
www.nytimes.com/2013/02/17/magazine/do-illegal-immigrants-actually-hurt-the-us-economy.html?ref=economy&_r=1&pagewanted=all&
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Post by the Scribe on Apr 21, 2020 10:12:45 GMT
The good, bad and ugly....NYT Excerpt: The Economics Of Illegal Immigration February 13, 2013 1:13 PM
In his New York Times Magazine column this week, Adam Davidson writes about illegal immigration. Here's an excerpt. As Congress debates the contours of immigration reform, many arguments have been made on economic grounds. Undocumented workers, some suggest, undercut wages and take jobs that would otherwise go to Americans. Worse, the argument goes, many use social programs, like hospitals and schools, that cost taxpayers and add to our $16 trillion national debt. Would deporting Pedro Chan and the other 11 million or so undocumented workers mean more jobs, lower taxes and a stronger economy? ... There are many ways to debate immigration, but when it comes to economics, there isn't much of a debate at all. Nearly all economists, of all political persuasions, agree that immigrants — those here legally or not — benefit the overall economy. "That is not controversial," Heidi Shierholz, an economist at the Economic Policy Institute, told me. Shierholz also said that "there is a consensus that, on average, the incomes of families in this country are increased by a small, but clearly positive amount, because of immigration."
Do Illegal Immigrants Actually Hurt the U.S. Economy?
Earlier this month I met Pedro Chan at his small apartment above an evangelical church in Brooklyn’s Sunset Park neighborhood. Chan, who shares the place with three others, is short and muscular. He has a quiet voice and a patient demeanor that seems to have served him well on his journey to New York. In 2002, he left his Guatemalan village for a long trip through Mexico and, with the help of a smuggler, across the Texas border. In 2004, he made it to Brooklyn, where his uncle helped him find work on small construction crews.
Deep thoughts this week:
1. Illegal workers do undercut the salaries of millions of Americans.
2. But they boost the income of nearly everyone else.
3. Why don’t people know this already?
4. Oh, yeah: politics.
It’s the Economy Adam Davidson translates often confusing and sometimes terrifying economic and financial news.
These days, Chan helps skilled (and fully documented) carpenters, electricians and stucco installers do their jobs by carrying heavy things and cleaning the work site. For this, he earns up to $25,000 a year, which is considerably less than the average entry wage for New York City’s 100,000 or so documented construction workers. Chan’s boss, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said that unless he learned a specialized skill, Chan would never be able to move up the income ladder. As long as there are thousands of undocumented workers competing for low-end jobs, salaries are more likely to fall than to rise.
As Congress debates the contours of immigration reform, many arguments have been made on economic grounds. Undocumented workers, some suggest, undercut wages and take jobs that would otherwise go to Americans. Worse, the argument goes, many use social programs, like hospitals and schools, that cost taxpayers and add to our $16 trillion national debt. Would deporting Pedro Chan and the other 11 million or so undocumented workers mean more jobs, lower taxes and a stronger economy?
Illegal immigration does have some undeniably negative economic effects. Similarly skilled native-born workers are faced with a choice of either accepting lower pay or not working in the field at all. Labor economists have concluded that undocumented workers have lowered the wages of U.S. adults without a high-school diploma — 25 million of them — by anywhere between 0.4 to 7.4 percent.
The impact on everyone else, though, is surprisingly positive. Giovanni Peri, an economist at the University of California, Davis, has written a series of influential papers comparing the labor markets in states with high immigration levels to those with low ones. He concluded that undocumented workers do not compete with skilled laborers — instead, they complement them. Economies, as Adam Smith argued in “Wealth of Nations,” work best when workers become specialized and divide up tasks among themselves. Pedro Chan’s ability to take care of routine tasks on a work site allows carpenters and electricians to focus on what they do best. In states with more undocumented immigrants, Peri said, skilled workers made more money and worked more hours; the economy’s productivity grew. From 1990 to 2007, undocumented workers increased legal workers’ pay in complementary jobs by up to 10 percent.
I saw this in action when Chan took me to his current work site, a two-story office building on Coney Island Avenue. The skilled workers had already installed wood flooring in a lawyer’s office and were off to the next job site. That left Chan to clean up the debris and to install a new toilet. As I looked around, I could see how we were on one end of an economic chain reaction. Chan’s boss no longer had to pay a highly skilled worker to perform basic tasks. That lowered the overall cost of construction, increasing the number of jobs the company could book, which meant more customers and more money. It reminded me of how so many restaurants operate. Without undocumented labor performing routine tasks, meals, which factor labor costs into the price, would be more expensive. There would also be fewer jobs for waiters and chefs.
Earlier that day, I was reminded of another seldom-discussed fact about immigrant life in the United States. Immigrants spend most of the money they make. Chan had broken down his monthly expenses: $400 a month in rent, another $30 or so for gas, electric and Internet. He sends some money home and tries to save a few thousand a year in his Citibank account, but he ends up spending more than $10,000 annually. That includes the $1,400 or so he pays the I.R.S. so that he can have a taxpayer I.D. number, which allows him to have a credit score so that he can rent an apartment or lease a car.
There are many ways to debate immigration, but when it comes to economics, there isn’t much of a debate at all. Nearly all economists, of all political persuasions, agree that immigrants — those here legally or not — benefit the overall economy. “That is not controversial,” Heidi Shierholz, an economist at the Economic Policy Institute, told me. Shierholz also said that “there is a consensus that, on average, the incomes of families in this country are increased by a small, but clearly positive amount, because of immigration.”
The benefit multiplies over the long haul. As the baby boomers retire, the post-boom generation’s burden to finance their retirement is greatly alleviated by undocumented immigrants. Stephen Goss, chief actuary for the Social Security Administration, told me that undocumented workers contribute about $15 billion a year to Social Security through payroll taxes. They only take out $1 billion (very few undocumented workers are eligible to receive benefits). Over the years, undocumented workers have contributed up to $300 billion, or nearly 10 percent, of the $2.7 trillion Social Security Trust Fund.
The problem, though, is that undocumented workers are not evenly distributed. In areas like southern Texas and Arizona and even parts of Brooklyn, undocumented immigrants impose a substantial net cost to local and state governments, Shierholz says. Immigrants use public assistance, medical care and schools. Some immigrant neighborhoods have particularly high crime rates. Jared Bernstein, a fellow at the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, told me that these are also areas in which low-educated workers are most likely to face stiff competition from immigrants. It’s no wonder why so much political furor comes from these regions.
Undocumented workers represent a classic economic challenge with a fairly straightforward solution. Immigrants bring diffuse and hard-to-see benefits to average Americans while imposing more tangible costs on a few, Shierholz says. The dollar value of the benefits far outweigh the costs, so the government could just transfer extra funds to those local populations that need more help. One common proposal would grant amnesty to undocumented workers, which would create a sudden increase in tax payments. Simultaneously, the federal government could apply a percentage of those increased revenues to local governments.
But that, of course, seems politically improbable. Immigration is one of many problems — like another economic no-brainer: eliminating farm subsidies — in which broad economic benefits battle against a smaller, concentrated cost in one area. As immigration reform seems more likely than at any time in recent memory, it’s important to remember that it is not the economic realities that have changed. It’s the political ones.
Adam Davidson is co-founder of NPR’s “Planet Money,” a podcast and blog.
www.nytimes.com/2013/02/17/magazine/do-illegal-immigrants-actually-hurt-the-us-economy.html?ref=economy&_r=1&pagewanted=all&
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Post by the Scribe on Apr 21, 2020 10:13:17 GMT
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Post by the Scribe on Apr 21, 2020 10:13:36 GMT
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Post by the Scribe on Apr 21, 2020 10:13:57 GMT
Quote by philly: ...you must remember that this is an administration that doesn't give a damn, and that thinks any news that is anti-them (which is the vast majority, by the way) is "fake news".
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Post by the Scribe on Apr 21, 2020 10:14:18 GMT
Republicans, conservatives and the alt right will figure out a way to get rid of these kids.White House has found ways to end protection for Dreamers while shielding Trump from blowback Los Angeles Times Sat, Feb 18 3:43 PM PST .
While President Trump wavered Thursday on whether he will stop shielding from deportation people who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children, his aides have identified at least two ways to quietly end their protections without his fingerprints. An executive order has already been drafted to end the program, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals , that allows hundreds of thousands of the immigrants to live and work openly in the U.S. Trump used that legal mechanism to great fanfare to expand deportation authority and restrict entry to the U.S. But with the president showing less willingness to sign such an order, advisors have begun to explore alternatives. Senior Trump aides have examined ...
Read more www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-daca-20170216-story.html
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Post by the Scribe on Apr 21, 2020 10:14:46 GMT
MAKING AMERICA WHITE AGAIN is what this is all about. Republicans are breaking records in trying to get as much of their awful agenda through while they can because the orange menace will sign anything racist and libertarian. This may be their last chance once the backlash hits them in the butts.Emboldened by Trump, Republicans aim to halve legal immigration Liz Goodwin 5 hours ago . Sens. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., left, and David Perdue, R-Ga., speak to the media during a news conference on Capitol Hill Feb. 7. Cotton and Perdue unveiled immigration legislation that they say is aimed at cutting by half the number of green cards issued annually by the U.S. (Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
While much of the media has been focused on the administration’s campaign against illegal immigration, a rising star among Senate Republicans, Tom Cotton of Arkansas, has been pursuing a parallel agenda: a bill to cut legal immigration in half, an idea long considered toxic in Washington but whose time may be coming around.
Perhaps no one in Washington was happier to hear the news than Roy Beck, a cheerful 68-year-old former reporter who founded the anti-immigration group NumbersUSA, and has been waiting for a moment like this for 20 years. Curtailing legal immigration has long been an untouchable subject in politics — an idea pushed by a handful of groups like Beck’s but largely ignored on the Hill by members of both parties. Now the environment has drastically changed, with Cotton, who enjoys access to Donald Trump’s White House, championing the cause, and a president who seems open to the idea.
In 1996, Beck was crushed when a Republican-controlled Congress pulled back from a bipartisan plan to enact sweeping restrictions on both legal and illegal immigration. He can still narrate the ins and outs of the congressional defeat in vivid detail. Beck, who voted for Barack Obama in 2008, says he came to his position not out of ethnic nativism but out of concern about the environmental and economic impacts of population growth, founded his organization the next year. But he realized it might take another decade for a risk-averse Congress to tackle such a hot-button issue again.
“Unfortunately, it wasn’t once a decade; it was once every two decades,” Beck said last week in NumbersUSA’s Arlington, Va., office. Beck put his dreams of restricting legal immigration on hold as he instead directed his energies toward stopping congressional efforts to offer a path to legalization for undocumented immigrants in 2006 and 2007, and again with the “Gang of Eight” talks in 2013. In 2007, Beck marshaled his grassroots supporters to flood senators’ offices with more than a million faxes, helping to kill the immigration bill.
Then, suddenly, the winds of the immigration debate shifted. Republican candidates for the presidency — from Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker to former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush — began to talk about the need to limit legal immigration. And Trump’s candidacy, which often focused on the supposed dangers of immigrants from Mexico and Muslim-majority countries, began to take off. In a policy paper, Trump called for a total “pause” on employment-based visas — something virtually no member of Congress would have advocated before.
“It was very heartening all of the last two years … as one candidate after another began to talk about how there needs to be some trimming [of legal immigration],” Beck said. Trump’s victory seemed to prove that many more Americans than D.C. politicians shared Beck’s concerns.
Beck saw his organization’s Facebook membership grow from under 1.5 million at the end of 2015 to 6 million this year. When he first started NumbersUSA, Beck worked for nativist John Tanton, who warned of a “Latin onslaught” in immigration and compared immigrants to bacteria, the Southern Poverty Law Center reported. But Beck has disavowed Tanton’s views and says the country should not discriminate against immigrants based on their race or nationality. He proudly pointed at the 6 million number, printed out and pasted to the glass wall of his office’s glass conference room, last week.
“I guess immigration was in the news,” he joked.
Cotton’s bill delivers on several of Beck’s longtime key policy wishes, such as eliminating the visa diversity lottery, which gives 50,000 green cards to people in nations without significant immigration levels to the U.S., and capping refugee levels at 50,000 per year. But the majority of the bill’s legal immigration reduction comes from revoking U.S. citizens’ right to sponsor their siblings, parents and adult children for a green card. (Some elderly parents will still be allowed in on temporary renewable visas if citizens need to care for them.)
MORE www.yahoo.com/news/emboldened-by-trump-republicans-aim-to-halve-legal-immigration-160727871.html
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Post by the Scribe on Apr 21, 2020 10:15:13 GMT
Pro-Trump town riled up after immigration officials arrest popular restaurant managerFox News 19 hours ago . WEST FRANKFORT, Ill. – A southern Illinois community that solidly backed President Donald Trump has rallied behind a Mexican restaurant manager who doesn't have legal permission to live in the U.S. and has been detained by immigration officials. Letters of support for Juan Carlos Hernandez Pacheco have poured in from West Frankfort's mayor, police chief, high school athletic director and the county prosecutor. They describe Hernandez as a role model and praise his robust civil involvement, including funding school scholarships, benefit dinners for families in need and hosting a law enforcement appreciation event. Hernandez, 38, came to the U.S. in the 1990s but didn't obtain legal status, according ...
Read more www.foxnews.com/us/2017/02/27/pro-trump-town-riled-up-after-immigration-officials-arrest-popular-restaurant-manager.html
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Post by the Scribe on Apr 21, 2020 10:15:39 GMT
I know there are arguments on both sides but here are some good ones for immigration reform to allow more people to call the USA home:President Trump (and Bannon): Immigration boosts our economy.In spite of the anti-immigration propaganda promoted by the likes of Breitbart News and Steve Bannon, our economy benefits when immigrants choose to make North America their new home. Too often immigrants are not given the credit they deserve for the contribution they make to our economy, and for creating job opportunities for Americans and Canadians. For at least a century and a half a continuous inflow of immigrants to North America has been responsible in no small way for the standard of living we enjoy.
Did you know:
• More than 40% of Fortune 500 companies were founded by immigrants or their children. • Immigrants were either the founders or co-founders of Dow Chemicals, DuPont, Pfizer, Procter and Gamble, Colgate, Carnegie Steel (later US Steel), Carnival Cruises, Google, Yahoo, Intel, Tesla Motors, PayPal, YouTube, ebay, LinkedIn, Sun Microsystems, Magna International and thousands of other companies? • Today’s immigrants are nearly twice as likely as non-immigrants to launch a business? • Immigrant founders are behind more than half of the high-tech startups in Silicon Valley? • Nearly 70% of the men and women who entered the fields of science and engineering in North America from 1995 to 2006 were immigrants? • Immigrants have become more likely than native born Americans to earn an advanced degree, to invent something and to be awarded a patent?
Harvard Business School Professor, Michael Porter, “examined the economies of 100 distressed inner cities and their fortunes between 1995 and 2003. Time after time, he found that immigrants were catalysts to economic growth. Where immigrants settled, businesses sprang up and jobs appeared. Where immigrants were absent, nothing changed.”
Immigration lawyer Richard T. Herman, and journalist Robert L. Smith describe the contribution immigrants make to America in their book, Immigrant Inc.: Why Immigrant Entrepreneurs Are Driving The New Economy (and how they will save the American worker). The authors quote from the President’s Commission on Immigration and Naturalization:
“The richest regions are those with the highest proportion of immigrants. Their industry, their skills, and their expertise were major factors in the economic development that made these regions prosperous ones.”
The authors of this inspiring book write that “immigrants are dreamers and fighters.” Most important is the immigrant mindset. “Immigrant, Inc. is a culture of entrepreneurship and self-reliance built around a set of simple, powerful concepts: relentless preparation, lifelong learning, constant vigilance and exploration of opportunity (no matter how remote), a willingness to take risks, and a deep love and respect for American ideals like thrift and earnestness.”
Contrary to the negative bias expressed by the right wing media, let’s not close the door to those people who are most likely to contribute to fixing problems in today’s economy. America (and Canada) needs immigrants in order to grow and prosper. Herman and Smith write, “Immigrant power is the stimulus the country needs if not craves.” For those of us born here they suggest that we should “think and act like an immigrant” as we pursue our own entrepreneurial and professional goals.
Follow the link below to view a list of sixteen iconic companies that were founded by immigrants.
www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/22/american-companies-founded-by-immigrants_n_3116172.html?slideshow=true#gallery/292963/0
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Post by the Scribe on Apr 21, 2020 10:16:07 GMT
This seems over the top to me.U.S. California pastor caught in immigration enforcement netCNN 8 hours ago .
"I've never been arrested by police," he says. "I'm a minister. I have my American citizen wife, being married for 14 years. I have two kids. I support the economy of this country and I paying my taxes. I never commit crime in this country." Carias is one of the undocumented immigrants the administration of former President Barack Obama considered less of a priority, as ICE officers focused on deporting felons. Under President Donald Trump, the policy has shifted. ICE guidelines now direct officers to "take enforcement action against all removable aliens." ICE has reported that in the first 100 days after President Trump signed executive orders on immigration enforcement, arrests of undocumented ... Read more
Leave a comment Post Top Latest My Comments Avatar Rob 0 seconds ago
He is married to an American citizen, has two American citizen children, a good job and pays taxes. Yes, let's hang the criminal so we taxpayers can support the wife and two kids because of all the bugs up conservatives hateful a*sses. Frodo Speaks! 4 hours ago Violin sales will be at an all-time high this year. Show replies (12) Reply 190 12 bordenn 4 hours ago ARE YOU KIDDING ME? How can you be teaching the congregation to respect and obey authority yet you do not? Show replies (7) Reply 175 6 barbara 4 hours ago OMG he is a pastor. He thinks its ok to come here illegally and preach against criminal practices. OMG he is a liar and thief passing himself off as a pastor of God. DEPORT HIM IMMEDIATELY. Show replies (6) Reply 150 11
Frodo Speaks! 4 hours ago Sounds like a liar if he states he never committed a crime. Show replies (1) Reply 120 5 nick 7 hours ago Deport him!!! How do you be a pastor if you are a criminal, practicing criminal!!! Lock him up, get rid of all anchor babies and all illegals. Come to the country legally, then no issues. These illegals have destroyed california. it is worse than a 5th world country. Despicable! Show replies (10) Reply 133 12 scott m 4 hours ago If law enforcement spends their time looking over debatable points of every illegal immigrant case, no one will be deported. You have to deport, and then let these marginal cases reapply based on their merit from their country of origin. Show replies (5) Reply 92 2 JuAnHunDred 4 hours ago The law does not care where you stand in society, stop with the sob stories. Maybe responsibility and accountability should be a the for the front. Get your paperwork in order. Show replies (1) Reply 2 0
Will 4 hours ago Yeah, ministers hide behind that "do gooder" personality all the time. You know how many "men of god" people I have seen that were really terrible human beings? Show replies (3) Reply 67 3 ExecutiveMilf 5 hours ago Bye bye PARASITE.
demodude 4 hours ago Didn't he pray to God to not be deported? Hmm, either there is no God, God doesn't hear very well, or God doesn't care, or perhaps the good pastor didn't even have the faith of a mustard seed which supposedly can move mountains. No, a mustard seed is very small, hard to believe he didn't even have that much faith. Joke.
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Post by the Scribe on Apr 21, 2020 10:16:42 GMT
No surprise here. The way global warming is going we all may just consider a move to cooler places with a sane government.Moving to canada
The Trump administration is driving Americans to seek asylum in Canada
Conditions in the United States are driving more people than ever to seek refugee status in Canada, Reuters reports. More than 15,000 people have crossed the border illegally this year alone, Reuters says, citing data through late October. That's in comparison to a total of 10,370 asylum claims made in Canada during the entirety of 2013.
Interestingly, many of those asylum-seekers told Reuters that they had been living in the U.S. legally, and would have considered staying if not for the Trump administration's recent immigration crackdown and forceful rhetoric. A transcript of one asylum hearing from January, in which a Syrian refugee expressed fears about the new U.S. government, showed a tribunal member saying, "That seems to be playing out as you have feared, and today on the news I know that President Trump has suspended the Syrian refugee program. You have provided, in my view, a reasonable explanation of your failure to claim in the U.S."
Lawyers working the refugee cases told Reuters that members of the tribunals who interview asylum-seekers have "grown more sympathetic toward people who have spent time in the United States." Sixty-nine percent of the claims filed by border-crossers that were processed between March and September of this year were accepted by the Immigration and Refugee Board, higher than the overall acceptance rate for all types of refugee claims in Canada last year.
Much of the recent influx is said to be taking place at the Quebec/New York crossing, and the Canadian military has set up a temporary tent encampment in response. Right-wing, anti-migrant Canadian groups, however, are staging rallies against upticks in immigration, prompting Canadians to worry that such displays "set back the cause of tolerance a couple of years." Watch scenes from one such rally below, or read more at Reuters. —The Week Staff
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Post by the Scribe on Apr 21, 2020 10:17:13 GMT
a bit of hypocrisy here, to say the least....plus two immigrant wives.... this sounds like chain migration to me....
White House Refuses To Discuss Immigration Status Of Melania’s Family
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Post by the Scribe on Apr 21, 2020 10:17:40 GMT
Insert sound of clucking chickens here, because apparently Trump is too chicken(s***) to discuss his old lady's "status".
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Post by the Scribe on Apr 21, 2020 10:18:14 GMT
Insert sound of clucking chickens here, because apparently Trump is too chicken(s***) to discuss his old lady's "status". ChickenTrump
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