Posted on 08/16/2015 3:45:58 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
IMMIGRATION REFORM THAT WILL MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN
The three core principles of Donald J. Trump’s immigration plan
When politicians talk about “immigration reform” they mean: amnesty, cheap labor and open borders. The Schumer-Rubio immigration bill was nothing more than a giveaway to the corporate patrons who run both parties.
Real immigration reform puts the needs of working people first – not wealthy globetrotting donors. We are the only country in the world whose immigration system puts the needs of other nations ahead of our own. That must change. Here are the three core principles of real immigration reform:
1. A nation without borders is not a nation. There must be a wall across the southern border.
2. A nation without laws is not a nation. Laws passed in accordance with our Constitutional system of government must be enforced.
3. A nation that does not serve its own citizens is not a nation. Any immigration plan must improve jobs, wages and security for all Americans.
Make Mexico Pay For The Wall
For many years, Mexico’s leaders have been taking advantage of the United States by using illegal immigration to export the crime and poverty in their own country (as well as in other Latin American countries). They have even published pamphlets on how to illegally immigrate to the United States. The costs for the United States have been extraordinary: U.S. taxpayers have been asked to pick up hundreds of billions in healthcare costs, housing costs, education costs, welfare costs, etc. Indeed, the annual cost of free tax credits alone paid to illegal immigrants quadrupled to $4.2 billion in 2011. The effects on jobseekers have also been disastrous, and black Americans have been particularly harmed.
The impact in terms of crime has been tragic. In recent weeks, the headlines have been covered with cases of criminals who crossed our border illegally only to go on to commit horrific crimes against Americans. Most recently, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, with a long arrest record, is charged with breaking into a 64 year-old women’s home, crushing her skull and eye sockets with a hammer, raping her, and murdering her. The Police Chief in Santa Maria says the “blood trail” leads straight to Washington.
In 2011, the Government Accountability Office found that there were a shocking 3 million arrests attached to the incarcerated alien population, including tens of thousands of violent beatings, rapes and murders.
Meanwhile, Mexico continues to make billions on not only our bad trade deals but also relies heavily on the billions of dollars in remittances sent from illegal immigrants in the United States back to Mexico ($22 billion in 2013 alone).
In short, the Mexican government has taken the United States to the cleaners. They are responsible for this problem, and they must help pay to clean it up.
The cost of building a permanent border wall pales mightily in comparison to what American taxpayers spend every single year on dealing with the fallout of illegal immigration on their communities, schools and unemployment offices.
Mexico must pay for the wall and, until they do, the United States will, among other things: impound all remittance payments derived from illegal wages; increase fees on all temporary visas issued to Mexican CEOs and diplomats (and if necessary cancel them); increase fees on all border crossing cards – of which we issue about 1 million to Mexican nationals each year (a major source of visa overstays); increase fees on all NAFTA worker visas from Mexico (another major source of overstays); and increase fees at ports of entry to the United States from Mexico [Tariffs and foreign aid cuts are also options]. We will not be taken advantage of anymore.
Defend The Laws And Constitution Of The United States
America will only be great as long as America remains a nation of laws that lives according to the Constitution. No one is above the law. The following steps will return to the American people the safety of their laws, which politicians have stolen from them:
Triple the number of ICE officers. As the President of the ICE Officers’ Council explained in Congressional testimony: “Only approximately 5,000 officers and agents within ICE perform the lion’s share of ICE’s immigration mission…Compare that to the Los Angeles Police Department at approximately 10,000 officers. Approximately 5,000 officers in ICE cover 50 states, Puerto Rico and Guam, and are attempting to enforce immigration law against 11 million illegal aliens already in the interior of the United States. Since 9-11, the U.S. Border Patrol has tripled in size, while ICE’s immigration enforcement arm, Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO), has remained at relatively the same size.” This will be funded by accepting the recommendation of the Inspector General for Tax Administration and eliminating tax credit payments to illegal immigrants.
Nationwide e-verify. This simple measure will protect jobs for unemployed Americans.
Mandatory return of all criminal aliens. The Obama Administration has released 76,000 aliens from its custody with criminal convictions since 2013 alone. All criminal aliens must be returned to their home countries, a process which can be aided by canceling any visas to foreign countries which will not accept their own criminals, and making it a separate and additional crime to commit an offense while here illegally.
Detention—not catch-and-release. Illegal aliens apprehended crossing the border must be detained until they are sent home, no more catch-and-release.
Defund sanctuary cities. Cut-off federal grants to any city which refuses to cooperate with federal law enforcement.
Enhanced penalties for overstaying a visa. Millions of people come to the United States on temporary visas but refuse to leave, without consequence. This is a threat to national security. Individuals who refuse to leave at the time their visa expires should be subject to criminal penalties; this will also help give local jurisdictions the power to hold visa overstays until federal authorities arrive. Completion of a visa tracking system – required by law but blocked by lobbyists – will be necessary as well.
Cooperate with local gang task forces. ICE officers should accompany local police departments conducting raids of violent street gangs like MS-13 and the 18th street gang, which have terrorized the country. All illegal aliens in gangs should be apprehended and deported. Again, quoting Chris Crane: “ICE Officers and Agents are forced to apply the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) Directive, not to children in schools, but to adult inmates in jails. If an illegal-alien inmate simply claims eligibility, ICE is forced to release the alien back into the community. This includes serious criminals who have committed felonies, who have assaulted officers, and who prey on children…ICE officers should be required to place detainers on every illegal alien they encounter in jails and prisons, since these aliens not only violated immigration laws, but then went on to engage in activities that led to their arrest by police; ICE officers should be required to issue Notices to Appear to all illegal aliens with criminal convictions, DUI convictions, or a gang affiliation; ICE should be working with any state or local drug or gang task force that asks for such assistance.”
End birthright citizenship. This remains the biggest magnet for illegal immigration. By a 2:1 margin, voters say it’s the wrong policy, including Harry Reid who said “no sane country” would give automatic citizenship to the children of illegal immigrants.
Put American Workers First
Decades of disastrous trade deals and immigration policies have destroyed our middle class. Today, nearly 40% of black teenagers are unemployed. Nearly 30% of Hispanic teenagers are unemployed. For black Americans without high school diplomas, the bottom has fallen out: more than 70% were employed in 1960, compared to less than 40% in 2000. Across the economy, the percentage of adults in the labor force has collapsed to a level not experienced in generations. As CBS news wrote in a piece entitled “America’s incredible shrinking middle class”: “If the middle-class is the economic backbone of America, then the country is developing osteoporosis.”
The influx of foreign workers holds down salaries, keeps unemployment high, and makes it difficult for poor and working class Americans – including immigrants themselves and their children – to earn a middle class wage. Nearly half of all immigrants and their US-born children currently live in or near poverty, including more than 60 percent of Hispanic immigrants. Every year, we voluntarily admit another 2 million new immigrants, guest workers, refugees, and dependents, growing our existing all-time historic record population of 42 million immigrants. We need to control the admission of new low-earning workers in order to: help wages grow, get teenagers back to work, aid minorities’ rise into the middle class, help schools and communities falling behind, and to ensure our immigrant members of the national family become part of the American dream.
Additionally, we need to stop giving legal immigrant visas to people bent on causing us harm. From the 9/11 hijackers, to the Boston Bombers, and many others, our immigration system is being used to attack us. The President of the immigration caseworkers union declared in a statement on ISIS: “We’ve become the visa clearinghouse for the world.”
Here are some additional specific policy proposals for long-term reform:
Increase prevailing wage for H-1Bs. We graduate two times more Americans with STEM degrees each year than find STEM jobs, yet as much as two-thirds of entry-level hiring for IT jobs is accomplished through the H-1B program. More than half of H-1B visas are issued for the program’s lowest allowable wage level, and more than eighty percent for its bottom two. Raising the prevailing wage paid to H-1Bs will force companies to give these coveted entry-level jobs to the existing domestic pool of unemployed native and immigrant workers in the U.S., instead of flying in cheaper workers from overseas. This will improve the number of black, Hispanic and female workers in Silicon Valley who have been passed over in favor of the H-1B program. Mark Zuckerberg’s personal Senator, Marco Rubio, has a bill to triple H-1Bs that would decimate women and minorities.
Requirement to hire American workers first. Too many visas, like the H-1B, have no such requirement. In the year 2015, with 92 million Americans outside the workforce and incomes collapsing, we need to companies to hire from the domestic pool of unemployed. Petitions for workers should be mailed to the unemployment office, not USCIS.
End welfare abuse. Applicants for entry to the United States should be required to certify that they can pay for their own housing, healthcare and other needs before coming to the U.S.
Jobs program for inner city youth. The J-1 visa jobs program for foreign youth will be terminated and replaced with a resume bank for inner city youth provided to all corporate subscribers to the J-1 visa program.
Refugee program for American children. Increase standards for the admission of refugees and asylum-seekers to crack down on abuses. Use the monies saved on expensive refugee programs to help place American children without parents in safer homes and communities, and to improve community safety in high crime neighborhoods in the United States.
Immigration moderation. Before any new green cards are issued to foreign workers abroad, there will be a pause where employers will have to hire from the domestic pool of unemployed immigrant and native workers. This will help reverse women’s plummeting workplace participation rate, grow wages, and allow record immigration levels to subside to more moderate historical averages.
A. You forgot the /s tag at the end of your rant.
B. You must have read a different paper - I did not read anything of what you just wrote directly stated or even implied in Trumps immigration manifesto.
I tend to agree with your analysis ... But how else to accomplish the goal? How about making several hundred very public examples? You catch those who have obviously knowingly hired an illegal alien ... You immediately shut down their business, confiscate their assets, auction off all their business property, and then put them in jail for 10 years w/o any chance for parole. This would strike such a deep fear into the cheap labor movement that none of its practitioners or proponents would dare risk hiring an illegal.
Yes, I realize that the effect would be that no Mexican or other Hispanic would be able to find work ... But the way around that is to give employers a way to verify a HOLOGRAPHIC BIRTH CERTIFICATE - a document that is impossible to forge. And if any agent of the Mexican government is ever caught making the attempt - we close the border to all commerce from Mexico for 1 year.
Are you familiar with the term “ZOT!” ... I suspect you soon will be given an up-close and personal demonstration.
WHY?.. because I think Donald Trump is a malefactor?..
Not worthy of being President but worthy of being on the cabinet where he can be WATCHED?.. Controlled?.. Monitored?.. for leftist activities?..
I doubt that... I’m a proven conservative...
Reasonable coherent.. but very very very suspicious.. of Republicans in name ONLY..
And quite proud of it... Whats yer ‘stick Skippy?..
Trump—>> Fool we’re talking about Fools.... and it starts with F and ends in an L.. we got trouble in River City.. right HERE..
The boy is doing Robert Preston and Buddy Hacket to a tee... brilliant rendition as a republican Music man, con man..
very nice act... The democrats must be getting a charge out this.... republicans are totally FooLed..
Anyone thats been watching knows the next President will be elected by VOTER FRAUD.....
you know like the last “ FEW”.. except voter fraud on an enormous scale.. like last time..
ONLY BIGGER..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI_Oe-jtgdI
It would still be a bargain at 250 billion.
Bribing illegals to not be illegal.. What a concept..
You know that could catch on in America’s Prisons..
Not a bribe. Path of least resistance to get rid of them and get them off the welfare rolls. As have many other landlords, I have paid deadbeat tenants to leave rather than spend more money and time going through the eviction process. I didn’t like doing it, but it solved the problem.
Not a bribe.
YES.. it is.. might be a (fairly) wise business-wise but still is a bribe.. it is what it is..
You’re caught in the WEB of bribery.. it’s contagious..
You realize Trump has zero problems with bribery don’t you?..
he does it all of time.. to make deals.. get what he wants.. “Grease”..
Bribery is dishonest on it’s face.. foolish... evil..
NOT honest straight-forward clean simple righteous...
If common practice is EVIL, then Evil is common...
A crossroad... left is Evil, right is Honest..
A choice always..
I appreciate your position. But in looking at the numbers, we are going to pay welfare benefits for many, many years in an amount many times that which I have suggested we explore. It is sickening to even have to discuss how we have lost our sovereignty. We start, of course, by denying them the ability to work here. Then what? How do we get them to leave? They will not all self-deport.
http://www.cruz.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=137
Why? How much unemployment of US citizens will be enough for him? Why did he promise the Chamber of Commerce that he would get them this, “to help Americans?”
America is in a demographic death spiral, as is most of the Western World.
We have a huge number of retiring baby boomers who are about to exit the work force and depend upon Social Security for 20-30 years.
GW Bush tried hard to reform Social Security but got cut off at the knees for his troubles.
Our only real solution to the demographic problems we face is to open up the country to immigration.
We need to recruit the most educated, successful, skilled and ambitious people we can from around the world.
In effect, America is poaching on the worlds talent pool with the H1B visa program.
There are millions of highly talented people from Europe, Asia, South and Central America and Africa who would love to come to the United States and who could make a huge contribution to our country. The only region I have reservations about recruiting from is Africa because they need all the home grown talent they can get.
Eastern and Western Europe have a huge population of young talent that has no future in the moribund Socialist economies and Asia has a huge crop of talented and entrepreneurial
Ted Cruz's plan is vital to making sure that we have a steady inflow of skilled talent to our country and restore dynamism to our economy.
The H1B visa program is currently being abused badly by large corporations to import low wage employees to replace higher wage American workers. This must be stopped and the programs restored to their original intent of recruiting the best and brightest from around the world to come to America .
Actually, its more like STAY in America because in the past, the H1B visa program was used to allow very highly educated foreign students graduating from American Universities to stay in America and get a job here. Sure there are a lot of Americans graduating from American Universities, but a large fraction of these graduates are foreign students and a huge fraction of the graduates from our graduate level studies programs at the Masters and PhD level are foreign students.
It makes good sense to try to keep these US educated, foreign born students in the United States.
We need to get back to the countries original immigration policy where new immigrants were probationary residents of the country who needed to learn our system, assimilate into our culture and hold a job to contribute to society and not burden it by enrolling in welfare.
Cruz seems to be committed to an immigration policy that actually helps America grow it's economy to provide more opportunity for all Americans.
Immigration was a wonderful thing for the country until the Democrats found they could import illegal alien voters and buy their votes with government welfare hand outs and special privileges.
Legal immigrants to this day are deported from the country if they cannot support themselves and try to apply for welfare.
Doug; we’re doing nothing until Obama’s given the curly salute..
NOTHING... talking of what should be is looking for Unicorns..
You have a problem... actually we all have the same problem
Obama and the GOPe.. wild goose chases will not produce Geese..
If Cruz does not get selected and RUNS.. we’re screwed..
Trump is known quantity.. liberal, socialist, democrat and corrupt..
Corrupt?.. Well he was a democrat for years and proud of it as well...
How can you be a democrat and NOT be corrupt.?. It’s impossible..
The democrat party is all about corruption.. it’s what they are.. Do and promote..
Legal immigrants to this day are deported from the country if they cannot support themselves and try to apply for welfare.
WRONG,,,
WRONG,,,
You are correct, I was wrong on this.
I stand corrected.
In the past, immigrants were barred from welfare. In some instances, past immigrants needed a sponsor who agreed to provide support if the immigrant could not support themselves.
While there are still significant restrictions on government handouts to immigrants, I was a bit stunned at how the past requirements of self support and not becoming a burden on society for new legal immigrants has been eroded over the past 20 years.
This has to change because you simply cannot allow immigrants into the country and then allow them free access to the social welfare system.
Our country desperately needs Immigration Reform to eliminate the massive abuses of the system, and reinstating self sufficiency and “not placing a burden on society” clauses and restricting access to government handouts for immigrants is number one on the list.
The following post hit the numbers really well (I am guessing you didn't see it). You see, 51.8% of all “legal immigrants” take welfare, versus 38.7% of US citizens:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3325471/posts?page=106#106
Do you want to further apologize? You see, you state, “While there are still significant restrictions on government handouts to immigrants.” It would appear legal immigrants get almost 40% more welfare per capita.
I think you don't know what you are talking about.
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