Obama's Immigration Reform is in Need of Reforming

PARIS -- As a chronic immigrant, I'm loath to support immigration policies that might make life difficult for anyone seeking to legitimately integrate into and contribute to an adoptive nation. Nonetheless, as the Obama administration attempts to reform U.S. immigration policies, there needs to be some standard of selection for immigrants. That standard should be nothing more or less than meritocracy.

The common argument against meritocracy is the well-worn image of the hard-working illegal immigrant who lives in a dive and toils away in the underground economy to send money to his family back home -- who he hopes will one day join him in America. While that type of immigrant is wholeheartedly deserving of sympathy, imagine if such a person represented the acceptable immigration standard. It would defeat the purpose of having any kind of policy at all.

Certainly this person deserves an opportunity at a better life -- which is why America and its allies contribute billions of dollars every year to foreign-aid programs and often intervene militarily under humanitarian pretext. It's not like he can't work for Western companies abroad. They're everywhere, particularly in emerging markets. And once you get your foot in the door and prove yourself at one of these companies, you have the opportunity to work your way up to a visa that will legitimately allow you to work in America. Merit-based immigration would eventually favor this person as well.

Will Republicans have the courage to straighten their backbones and defend the principle of merit-based immigration? Or will they ultimately engage President Obama and the Democrats in a race to sell out America for votes? Granted, the immigrants affected by these policies don't even vote, but many of their families and friends do. So do those influenced by the various lobbying groups advocating on behalf of groups of immigrants on the basis of race rather than merit (which is actually pretty racist unto itself).

Obama recently instructed Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson to review deportation policies. There are already so many candidates for deportation that more than 36,000 convicted criminals residing in America illegally were released from detention last year while awaiting deportation proceedings, according to the Center for Immigration Studies.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is apparently having trouble determining which non-citizens convicted of criminal offenses on U.S. soil should face deportation. Here's a tip to help speed things up: Deport all of them. That's an inherent part of the deal. The assumed risk that one takes when entering a country illegally is that you play the game knowing full well that that one day you might get pulled over by a traffic cop who runs your ID and ends your streak of good luck.

As a legal immigrant, I've always been conscious of the possibility that merely running afoul of the host country's bureaucracy might result in visa-renewal problems -- let alone committing any sort of crime. A non-naturalized immigrant's basic right is refugee status, assuming it's warranted -- period. Anything more is a privilege.

One Obama proposal recommends raising the family-sponsored immigration cap from 7 percent to 15 percent. The last thing that America needs is more nepotism -- this time, enshrined as official policy.

The president wants to introduce, according to a White House press release, "a new visa category for a limited number of highly-skilled and specialized immigrants to work in federal science and technology laboratories on critical national security needs." No. Just no. Can you imagine Russia doing this? Or China? Who cares how "rigorous" the national security and background checks are. Bureaucrats are still conducting them, and we know how well that worked on the guys who managed to get into America on visas to ultimately fly planes into buildings on September 11, 2001.

Yet another proposal "streamlines immigration law to better protect vulnerable immigrants, including those who are victims of crime and domestic violence." Presumably, because some non-citizens have chosen to jump the queue and do things illegally, they're now afraid to call the police for fear of deportation. Sounds to me like one of the few incentives that still exists to go to the trouble of immigrating legally.

The administration wants to "expand the pool of individuals who can travel without a visa, and get people into trusted traveler programs so they don't have to wait in line when they arrive." By all means, let's get people "trusted" and let them bypass as much bureaucracy as possible, because that won't be open to exploitation by terrorist groups or anything.

Forget all this counterproductive nonsense. The immigration reform that America needs is simple: Make legal immigration more cost-effective and less cumbersome for those who have earned it.

The Senate amnesty bill is dangerously flawed, and its glaring omissions WRT protecting US ntl security, cannot ever serve as the basis for useful legislation.

By legalizing illegal aliens w/out shoring up law enforcement, we hand an engraved invitation to global Third Worlders----all of 'em salivating to ride the US gravy train.....each seperatist group conniving to achieve its hidden agenda.

Amnesty recklessly opens the door wide for illiterate, low-skilled aliens, born and bred in savage cultures, here to suck up US benefits and take jobs away from Americans.

Third Worlders may, in fact, contribute their labor to the US, but their loyalties are elsewhere----they have no intention of becoming Americanized....of participating as equals in American culture, revering our vast history, or preserving American values.

The Senate amnesty bill is a blueprint----it amply demonstrates that illegal separatist populations intend to usurp the US political system to advance their own hidden agenda.

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Immigration “reform” includes two “slush funds” amounting to $150,000,000 that may be supplemented with additional taxpayer dollars for years to come, earmarked for non-profit organizations such as the blood-thirsty La Raza.

LA RAZA TEACHING HATE-AMERICA WITH OUR TAX DOLLARS La Raza Studies do not even try to sugar-coat its anti-America agenda and its bloodthirsty plans to kill off Americans: Raza Studies textbook “Occupied America,” by Rodolfo Acuña, includes a violent and blood-curdling speech given by university professor Jose Angel Gutierrez: “We have got to eliminate the gringo, and what I mean by that is, if the worst comes to the worst, we have got to kill him,” (pg. 323).

The following is taken directly from La Raza's Occupied America (pg. 167): “.......execute all white males over age 16,” (AKA the Plan of San Diego).

America-hating Raza Studies teach (1) violence, (2) undermining US ntl security, and, (3) the need for Mexico to "re-take seven states in the Southwest...in order to make the SW a Chicano nation. "

SCHOOL BOARD NUT CASES Adelita Grijalva is the woman on the Arizona school board pimping La Raza indoctrination programs in Tuscon schools. Adelita is all up in arms about Raza Studies getting tossed via the AZ state legislature's action...she is the daughter of Raul Grijalva (D-AZ-7).

Cong Raul Grijalva is one of Mexico’s most productive and loyal Fifth Column in the US Congress....aiding and abetting the latino criminal underworld, colluding to take back the SW, and loot and pillage the US treasury.

Raul and friend.

THIS JUST IN---US Supreme Court Allows Nebraska City's Illegal Aliens Housing Ban to Stand
Top Right News ^ | 05-08-2014 | Brian Hayes / FR Posted by montag813

As yefragetuwrabrumuy helpfully posted......the real zinger in the USSC housing decision is that it nails illegals for “identity theft”......if they use a fake ID, and falsely claim they are citizens. And if they “do so for gain”, the crime can’t just be brushed off.

This zinger most assuredly can impact:

<><> getting in-state college tuition,using stolen SS nos and multiple id's

<><> getting a raft of govt checks, using stolen SS nos and multiple id's

<><> getting multiple EITC refunds, using stolen SS nos and multiple id's,

<><> voter fraud using fake ids, etc, etc, etc.

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Illegals known for using stolen SS nos and fake ID's for these:

<><> pocketing welfare, food stamps, EITC refunds, SSI, free medical care, Section 8 housing, UI, Workmen's comp under several identities?

<><> receiving hefty SS checks by claiming "asylum"

<><> falsifying apps to get fraudulent sub-prime mortgages,

<><> making false claims on IRS forms in order to get multiple EITC refunds?

<><> using illegal driver's license,

<><> wire-transferring money back to Mexico; the Third World,

<><> having offshore accounts under multiple identities,

<><> illegals as paid agents of foreign governments,

<><> cashing multiple govt checks under several identities in these categories:

UI, SSI, Workmen's Comp,

TANF (temporary assistance to needy families),

WICS (food assistance),

subsidized Section 8 shelter,

ObamaPhone subsidies,

Utility Assistance subsidies,

School breakfasts/lunches/snacks subsidies,

$5000 a year EITC checks per identity.

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Better add this in, too:

<><> A Miami paper reported that cargo flights carried millions of US greenbacks in suitcases, port cargo containers, and money bags, from Mexico to Texas, and then to Miami Intl Airport, on a routine schedule.

From there, authorities say, the money was laundered by two Mexican businessmen through a Miami-Dade check-cashing company that used the dollars to cash the payroll checks of undocumented workers at local supermarkets.

It was all part of a Mexican-Miami bulk-cash network that federal agents say may be funded by drug profits south of the US border.

The culprits--Martin Diaz and Enrique Guerra--arrested earlier this month, appeared before a federal magistrate on charges of conspiring to launder US dollars for the purpose of “harboring illegal aliens’’ in this country. (Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...

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