Tag: Immigration

New study from Steve Camarota and Karen Zeigler of the Center for Immigration Studies lloks at the changing face of the United States. #Tucker

The White House’s hardline enforcement demands have altered the immigration debate on Capitol Hill, raising real questions about the prospects of a bipartisan deal to protect hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants brought to the country as children. But the White House also asked for a drastic reduction in legal migration and changes to asylum law that could have would-be asylum seekers returned to their home countries without staking their claim. Members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC), which House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) has tasked with "taking the lead" on immigration, said the values reflected in the policy document were those of senior White House Advisor Stephen Miller, a hardliner on immigration policy who has long opposed the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. The proposal puts at risk Democratic cooperation with Trump on any number of issues, including a spending bill due in December. The White House document contains many policies enshrined in Goodlatte's Davis-Oliver act, a sweeping immigration proposal, parts of which have been passed by the House, including Kate's Law and the No Sanctuary for Criminals Act. Schumer and Pelosi made clear they would reject any package that included new funding to expand Trump’s promised border wall. It all points to a hard-fought battle over the future of the DACA population, a fight that will likely accompany December’s debate over must-pass budget legislation. A number of Hispanic Democrats were up in arms last month after Pelosi forged a budget deal with Trump that excluded any help for the DACA population.

Rep. Luis Gutiérrez (D-Ill.) is blasting President Trump's new immigration proposals, calling them an "extension of the white supremacist agenda." “I warned Democrats not to negotiate, to say that what we wanted was a clean Dream Act,” Gutiérrez said in an interview with The Washington Post. “It’s a slippery slope — I never understood why everybody wanted to sit down and negotiate." Gutiérrez said no new ground has been broken in negotiations for the past 20 years. "They’re throwing everything and the kitchen sink in terms of enforcement. I just never understood it," he said. "I never understood — I just never got it, how you go from Charlottesville and white supremacists to reaching an agreement with him,” he added. The White House on Sunday said it would seek more funds from Congress to finance building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, as well as more resources to hire thousands more immigration officers. The new demands would have to be met for Trump to agree to legislation that would protect from deportation young immigrants who entered the country illegally as children.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks out on 'Fox & Friends' about punishments for illegal immigrants.

Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies discusses the legislation being considered.

Mother of woman killed by an illegal immigrant speaks out after another woman loses her husband, son and daughter.

President Trump campaigned on a strictimmigration crackdown and a desire to limit mass refugee immigration. TheTrump administration is planning on reducing overall annual refugeeadmissions to, at most, 45,000 annually. The cap has not been this low since 2006. In response to problems with mass immigration, porous borders began to close. After continual attempts to justify her decision to accept thousands of refugees, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, finally admitted the failure of refugees to assimilate into German society. After five years of increasing numbers, Chancellor Merkel allowed 1.5 million refugees into Germany in 2015. He complained that migrants were “fed up” with the “angry” German people who “insult and agitate” and are “unemployed racists.” He continued, “We refugees…do not want to live in the same country as you. You can, and I think you should, leave Germany.

'Mega TV' host Elvira Salazar and Fox News contributor Steve Cortes debate the issue.

President Trump Has Decided to Terminate the DACA Immigration Program, Report Says. (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump is expected to announce that he will end protections for young immigrants who were brought into the country illegally as children, but with a six-month delay, people familiar with the plans said Sunday. The delay in the formal dismantling of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program would be intended to give Congress time to decide whether it wants to address the status of the so-called Dreamers in legislation, according to two people familiar with the president's thinking. Trump has been wrestling for months with what to do with the Obama-era DACA program, which has given nearly 800,000 young immigrants a reprieve from deportation and the ability to work legally in the form of two-year, renewable work permits. It would be up to congressional lawmakers to pass a measure to protect those who have been covered under the program. "These are kids who know no other country, who are brought here by their parents and don't know another home. The Obama administration created the DACA program in 2012 as a stopgap to protect some young immigrants from deportation as they pushed unsuccessfully for a broader immigration overhaul in Congress. It mimicked versions of the so-called DREAM Act, which would have provided legal status for young immigrants but was never passed by Congress. The House under Democratic control passed a Dream Act in 2010 but it died in the Senate. But since Republicans retook control of the House in late 2010, it has grown increasingly hardline on immigration, killing the Senate's comprehensive immigration bill in 2013 and failing to even take up a GOP border security bill two years later because of objections from conservatives.

Those Who Were Barred From U.S. During Trump's First Travel Ban Can Reapply for Visas. Under the terms of the settlement, the government agreed to notify an unspecified number of people overseas who were banned that they can reapply for visas with the help of a Department of Justice liaison for a three-month period. In return, the plaintiffs said they would drop all their claims. Gerlent said it's unclear how many people will benefit from the settlement because the government has refused to disclose the total. A DOJ statement read, "Although this case has been moot since March, when the president rescinded the original executive order and issued a new one that does not restrict the entry of Iraqi nationals, the U.S. government has elected to settle this case on favorable terms." The ACLU, along with the National Immigration Law Center and the International Refugee Assistance Project, sued on behalf of two Iraqui nationals after the Trump administration implemented a policy Jan. 27 that barred entry of visa-holders from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. One of the plaintiffs was Hameed Khalid Darweesh, a translator who has done work for the U.S. military, who was detained at John F. Kennedy International Airport. A federal judge blocked the ban eight days later in a ruling upheld by a circuit court. Rather than pursue an appeal, the administration said it would revise the policy. In June, the Supreme Court found that the narrower order could be enforced if those visitors lack a "credible claim of a bona fide relationship with a person or entity in the United States."