Immigration Trump Card [A serious look at his proposed plan]

National Review ^ | 08/17/2015 | Mark Krikorian

[moehoward]

"Mexico is indeed obstructionist in many areas, but it has been induced to be helpful in others (for instance, by interdicting many of the Central American illegals headed north)."

I would like to see any evidence of this.

[9YearLurker]

Wow—and I don’t dispute it, either.

[mkjessup]

Correct as always Jim, regarding Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, the saying of "know them by their enemies" could not be more true, the Lamestream Ministry of Media Information, the leftist fools and tools and their liberal fellow travelers, their combined rage against two of the most pro-America patriots to be involved in the political process in ages, that all tells me that Trump and Cruz are certainly doing something right.

The inverse is also true, the candidates out there like Jebuardo Boooooosh, who get softball questions and fawning praise from the liberal-RINO establishment, that only confirms what we already know, those clowns have no business being anywhere near the White House, unless it's on the traditional Sunday morning tour.

[Parmenio]

Krikorian is a well respected hawk on immigration law enforcement:

“Mark Krikorian, a nationally recognized expert on immigration issues, has served as Executive Director of the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) since 1995. The Center, an independent, non-partisan research organization in Washington, D.C.”

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/author/mark-krikorian

So tell us gil, why are you qualified to comment on immigration?

[magna carta]

CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES
THINK TANK DEDICATED TO IMMIGRATION REDUCTION/ENFORCEMENT

[moehoward]

Mark Krikorian is no idiot. He’s head of the CIS and the formost authority on the subject.

[alloysteel]

For sure, The Donald does not have to answer to his donors, as he is largely self-financing his campaign thus far.

Follow the money? The Donald IS the money. And his money is on clamping down on the border and eliminating the presence of illegal and undocumented immigrants. Then a sane and reasonable immigration policy, that eliminates “birthright” anchor babies, will go far to take one of the drivers of this illegal immigration off the books.

[oldbrowser]

Arguing over policies is like arguing over the chairs on the Titanic. Our whole government is dysfunctional.

We have Obama, Clinton, and Lois Lerner types in high level positions making decisions. We have not heeded George Washington's warning.

“Government is not reason, it is not eloquence — it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.”

[grania]

Do we need to start a Draft Jeff Sessions movement

We need a movement to convince Jeff Sessions to serve another term as US Senator. President Trump is going to need him to mentor the younger conservative wannabees and keep them on the conservative path.

It's real encouraging that Sen. Session had a lot to do with Trump's immigration plan.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: I would like to see any evidence of this.

SEE HERE:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/04/23/central-american-migrants/26242165/

Mexican authorities also have made “major efforts” to make it more difficult for migrants to catch freight trains, collectively known as la bestia, heading north, he said.

“It doesn’t mean that people don’t jump on down the line, but it’s much diminished,” Olson said.

Mexico apprehended 120,000 migrants in 2014, nearly 50% more than in fiscal 2013. Mexico is on track to apprehend even more Central Americans this year with detentions doubling during the first two months of 2015 compared with the period a year earlier.

AND HERE:

http://www.businessinsider.com/mexico-is-facing-a-cental-americans-migrant-crisis-2015-6

According to TeleSur, Mexico’s national immigration institute has found that kidnapping of migrants in Mexico increased by 800% between 2012 and 2014. In the first 11 months of 2014, 130 US citizens were kidnapped and 85 were killed in Mexico, according to the US Embassy.

A year ago, the sheer number of migrants, including unaccompanied minors, pouring into the southern US raised alarm among authorities and the public. Through joint US-Mexican efforts that tide has eased. Mexico’s Southern Border Program, approaching its first anniversary, has helped the Latin American country surpass the US in the number of Central American migrants detained.

[ASA Vet]

President Trump’s Cabinet

Jefferson Sessions as Vice President

Department of State , (Return INS.) – John Bolton
Department of Justice - Trey Gowdy (Suggested by The Donald)
Department of Treasury, (includes HHS Customs) – Carl Icahn (Offered and Accepted)
Department of War, (change the name back, include VA function.) - LTC. Allen West
Department of Interior, (includes former Agriculture, Transportation, HHS Border Patrol, and Energy legitimate functions) – Gov. Palin

Department of Labor and Commerce – ELIMINATE
Department of Health and Human Services - ELIMINATE
Department of Homeland Security – ELIMINATE
Department of Education - ELIMINATE
Department of Housing and Urban Development – ELIMINATE

[SeekAndFind]

[SeekAndFind]

RE: This guy is an idiot.

Which part of his article do you disagree with?

[joshua c]

Mexico has not been behaving like an ally for decades. They should not be treated as one until they change their ways.

[Tucker39]

Don’t believe a word out of the “me toos” who will be popping soon. They’ll lie and say anything to cover their butts. They don’t mean any of it, because they don’t have permission from their donors to say it.

[LS]

Well, I’m not with you on that. Kirkorian wrote a book called “The New Case Against Immigration.” He’s in Trump’s camp. I think he wishes someone else would have said this-—but that’s the point. No one else CAN. They are either hornswoggled by the notion that Republicans “need Hispanic votes” or they’ll lose, or they are beholden to the Chamber of Commerce.

[conservativejoy]

I would add only one thing to Trump’s immigration plan. To give incentive to illegals to self deport, make a precondition that if they self deport, they can apply for legal re entry. If we have to deport them, they forfeit any right to becoming citizens in the future.

[Jane Long]

Good idea :D

[moehoward]

Oh I know they do everything they can to keep ‘migration’ into Mexico at zero.

But what I suspect is they make sure none get off those north bound trains.

[oldbill]

Krirkorian and CIS have done yeoman work on controlling illegal immigration, but there are also areas where they are somewhat mushy and irresolute.

They are not so tough on the H-1B visa disaster that is putting the scientists and engineers who put a man on the moon and gave us the Internet (the Google guys exploited it - they didn’t create it) and freed the working man with mass production into the unemployment lines to maximize Bill Gates profits.

CIS is also responsible, along with Pew, for the fiction that there are only 11 million illegal aliens when the actual number is much much more. If there were only 11 million illegals, how come no proposals (like the Gang of Eight Amnesty Bill) limit amnesty to just 11 million illegals?

Krikorian methinks is perhaps a little jealous of Trump’s ability to do what CIS couldn’t - make illegal immigration the main issue in out national debate.