8 Immigration Policy Changes For A New Congress And President

Frontpagemagazine ^ | 11-8-16 | Ian Smith

[SJackson]

8 Immigration Policy Changes For A New Congress And President

No matter who wins, immigration lawlessness will take a Herculean effort to reform.

No matter the outcome of the election, the work required to reform immigration policy will be prodigious. The following policy-change suggestions could’ve easily been numbered 80 instead of 8, given the damage done in just the last decade alone. These particular policy changes, however, are highly sensible, easy to comprehend and implement, and would go very far in repairing what’s become the most frequently abused and manipulated system in the world.  

1. Section 101(a)(15)(B) of the Immigration and Nationality Act defines legal entrants as those having a residence in a foreign country which he or she “has no intention of abandoning and who is visiting the United States temporarily for business or temporarily for pleasure” (emphasis mine).Non-immigrant visitors or their sponsors should put up a Surety Bond to be refunded upon recorded exit from the US whereupon they should also affirm that they did not work or use taxpayer-funded benefits during their stay. 
2. The permitted maximum stay for each ‘temporary’ visitor’s visa should be reduced to 3 months. Currently, the system entails consular officers issuing 10-year multiple-entry visas to foreigners who claim they’re entering the US, for example, to visit Disney World. This system encourages would-be economic migrants to apply for these visas since it allows them to stay for up to 6 months at a time. But how many people can stay in the country without working for 6 months? These figures, surely in the millions, are not counted toward the illegal-alien population figures. And being allowed to reside here for that long means the visitor is using enough public assets that should require them to pay taxes or some sort of fees.  
3. The Commerce Department has admitted that they do not count, let alone estimate, the amount of annual remittances sent abroad from the 12 million illegal aliens residing in the US. Information on monies earned here but leaving the country is crucial in understanding the “benefits” that so many open-borders advocates attribute to this population as well as to immigrants in general. If the figure’s large, the argument that immigration is a clear-cut benefit falls flat. And it does appear large. Mexico-based U.S. journalist, Robert Joe Stout, estimates Mexican aliens send 30 percent of their earnings back home; that’s money which could have stayed here, but which Stout says is propping up Mexico’s failed system and corrupt leadership.  
4. While in their former Senate and House seats, Senator Lloyd Bentsen and Representative Henry Gonzalez, both Democrats from Texas, pushed the idea of creating a development fund that with the cooperation of the Mexican government would establish job-producing industries in that country. The proposal never became law, but some form of effective aid to Mexico has to be put in place. Not only to stop that country’s never-ending out-migration and its undercutting effects on American labor, but also to keep the people of Mexico to stay where they are so they can put pressure on their corrupted leaders; pressure which currently escapes through our porous borders.   
5. A 2007 study ordered by commissioners in Harris County, Texas, which includes Houston, found around 20 percent of its health care patients were illegal aliens. The jump represented a 44 percent increase compared to the three years previous and accounted for around 14 percent of the health care system’s total operating costs. These sorts of studies are crucial in fully measuring the effects of illegal immigration, but they’re never done by the executive. Same goes for illegal-alien crime-data. My organization, the Immigration Reform Law Institute, has recently partnered with Don Rosenberg, a man whose son was killed by an illegal alien, in filing a lawsuit against the Department of Justice demanding such data. This shouldn’t have been necessary. Americans deserve to know.
6. The prohibition against illegal alien-hiring is probably the most violated law in the country. This has to end. America cannot be considered a law and order-society while allowing this to persist. We need to bring back initiatives like President Reagan’s “Project Jobs” program which authorized our immigration authorities to seek out this sort of lawbreaking at commercial farms and workplaces. That policy’s been slowly gutted over time and it was finally ended when President Obama entered the White House. Apprehending illegal aliens at their place of employment is important as it provides our immigration officials with a source of testimony regarding the hiring practices of their employers. Since this policy was ended, all DHS does now is randomly inspect employers’ I-9 forms; no direct contact is ever made. We have to do much more than this.
7. Tucked away on the Labor Department’s website are statistics showing the amount of civil monetary penalties H-1B employers have incurred for violations going back to FY2010. The numbers are pitiful. For FY2015, DOL found violations regarding underpayment claims in 176 cases involving 690 employees. The penalties the companies faced in aggregate was a mere $297,275. That’s $1,689 per case and $431 per employee harmed. Such pathetic amounts go well beyond the old line about low penalties simply becoming “the cost of doing business” for serial violators. No wonder these employers love H-1Bs so much when underpaying their salaries essentially has no consequences. DOL’s site also shows every company that was hit with civil monetary penalties and orders for backwages. One finds that very few of the violators were actually barred from the program. This also has to end.
8. We need to establish a treaty with Mexico and Central America setting out their obligations to us in terms of keeping their would-be economic migrants out of our labor market. This would be an important step in establish the responsibilities our southern neighbors have in committing to good relations and orderly regional affairs. For years, China has been under constant threat from an impending flood of North Korean economic migrants into its poor northeastern provinces. Taking such wage-crushing effects seriously, China has put in place, and North Korea has signed, the Mutual Cooperation Protocol for the Work of Maintaining National Security and Social Order in the Border Areas between China and North Korea. According to the treaty, both countries agree to “mutually cooperate on the work of preventing illegal border crossing of residents.” We must seek similar guarantees from Latin America.

Working to implement these and the other much needed policy reforms, such as e-Verify, will take Herculean effort, but it’s exactly what’s needed to make America normal again. 

[SJackson]

No matter who wins, immigration lawlessness will take a Herculean effort to reform.

Hardly no matter. Under Hillary lawlessness will continue. How about a 14 day voting visa. If you're here, you can vote.

[EagleUSA]

What a joke. President Hillary will be packing in the illegals...like Jerry Brown in Taxifornia. Welcoming wagon always open and handing out DemocRat registration forms. Who is kidding who here???

[Buckeye McFrog]

9) End the INSANE Green Card Lottery.

This scam was initiated by Teddy Kennedy in 1965. Citizens in most countries can go to the US Embassy to throw their name in the hat and become the lucky winner of one American Green Card.

This even includes citizens in terrorist hellhole countries like Yemen. I once talked to a guy from Ireland who won one because his buddies egged him into applying as a BAR BET!

Conversely economically productive immigrants from India and Mexico are not eligible, due to the huge numbers coming from those countries. They go to the back of a ten-year line if they wish to come legally.

[Aetius]

It’s a pretty good list, but not close to being enough. He doesn’t really touch on mass legal immigration, which must end. The following should be a part of any decent reform;

1. End chain migration by eliminating the adult-sibling category for family based visas. Do not reallocate cut visas from this category to any other.

2. Abolish the absurd Diversity Visa Lottery. Do not reallocate cut visas from this category to any other.

3. Drastically reduce refugee/asylum visas. As President, Trump could do this all on his own.

The goal should be to arrive at annual legal immigration of no more than 300,000 each year. If, as some claim, that wouldn’t allow for enough workers, and if the resulting tight labor market doesn’t bid up wages enough to solve the problem, and if automation can’t solve the problem, then implement a limited guest worker program made up of actual guest workers. That means they can’t bring family with them, they eventually go home and have no path to stay, unless that path is counted against the annual cap of legal immigrants.

Of course if Hillary wins and/or the GOP loses the Senate, none of this would happen. It’s doubtful it would happen even with Trump, McConnell, and Ryan in charge.

[Aetius]

The Diversity Lottery Visas? Yeah, that is a particularly absurd category dreamed up by the loathsome Ted Kennedy.

But I think it was implemented with the Immigration Act of 1990, signed into law by the first Bush (so W was just carrying on the family tradition of being terrible on immigration). This bill further increased mass immigration that was reignited by the 1965 Hart-Cellar bill. Part of the way it did this was by giving out 50,000 of these ridiculous lottery visas each year.

[Wolfie]

Amen, no more cheap labor H1-B’s brought in to drive down wages and take American jobs.

[grobdriver]

Reform or not, all it’ll take for a big improvement is an administration that enforces current law.

[qaz123]

Actually, not a bad list. But I think these might work better and a little quicker:

Biometrics for every single person entering, if you overstay a VISA we come looking for you, once caught-immediately deported with a “Never to Return” logged into the system. If you’re visiting family that has entered the country via immigration, they go with you

Deport every illegal alien and send back every refugee that has come to this country since Oct 1993...Australia isn’t even letting them hit dry land. They’re put in camps on surrounding islands.

Absolutely no benefits, of any kind, to anyone...just like New Zealand, prove that you can pay your way.

Your kid isn’t a citizen just because he/she was born here and you have to prove that you can pay the bill.

E-Verify...if illegals found working, instant deportation and business owner fined

Border wall, on both sides, with a 2 mile, foliage free buffer zone on the southern border, with shoot to kill orders for any and all security forces on said border. If the “Do Gooders” want to help, they’ll be allowed to set up field hospitals on the Mexican side and do their business, with absolutely no help from US forces or security personnel. So, if the cartels take them hostage...oh effin’ well.

[Mr. K]

Your 5th option i the most important one

There would be no illegals in this country if they were not being paid. How do companies get away with paying someone who is illegally here?

FINE THE COMPANY OWNERS THAT ARE HIRING ILLEGALS.

[qaz123]

1. Excellent

2. Excellent

3. How about we take a break from taking in the world, let the dust settle, figure some shit out and then talk numbers down the road. I’m thinking about a 20 year hiatus, before we even think of taking anymore in.

[qaz123]

I could be wrong, but I think that is what is supposed to happen. Not here though. The builders, factory owners, farmers and developers, give too much money to the pol’s

[Aetius]

I’d be fine with taking in zero refugees/asylum seekers. Considering that we’ve taken in so many over the last 40 years, and that we aren’t morally obligated to take any, I’d be totally okay with that.

[beachn4fun]

America cannot be considered a law and order-society while allowing this to persist.

As long as our government allows people from other countries to slip in illegally, we will never be considered a law and order society. The government is encouraging lawlessness by ignoring the problem.

IMO, if we keep allowing them to get away with it, guess what? Those same people, once granted amnesty and become "citizens", will one day vote, or hold high office.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Even worse than the H1B program IMHO is the F1 Student Visa program.

This allows stampedes of foreign students into the country. Basically anyone who can scrape-up the tuition to a struggling fly-by-night school gets in. The schools essentially have power to issue the visas delegated by the State Department.

Once they graduate the students then get a work visa for “practical training” (good for three years in some cases). Most of them get hired on the basis of incredibly fake resumes. Get a little time under their belt, find an H1B sponsor, start a green card, and most of them never go home.

Applicants for an H1B at least have to show up at the consulate and prove that they have some minimal qualifications. Not so for the F1, and the numbers obtaining them dwarf H1B’s.

[qaz123]

I think the worst thing about the immigration debate is, that it has been totally annihilated. Especially with what Kennedy and the Dems did to Reagan in ‘86. I could care less if someone wants to come here and be an “American”. As long as they do, which I’m sure we both agree, everything they need to do to become one.

If he wins and follows thru with his campaign promises, while it won’t be an easy ride, it’ll be one worth taking.

If she wins, it’s over unless that South, Midwest and Mountain states band together, pull out of refugee resettlement programs and push back very, very hard. Because, I don’t think she’ll make it very long in the WH. She’s too sick and feeble. During the campaign, they were able to hide her. She can’t go to her daughters apartment to cool off when she has a summit meeting or state dinner to be at.

[Aetius]

Unfortunately Kaine would be as bad or worse than Hillary.

[qaz123]

But I believe that he plays right into “our” hands. He’s so insane, worse, evil, incompetent, radical, that he’d be ignored. And, he’d have nothing to go to, to challenge the opposition. No race card. No sexist card. He’s just a rich, old, white liberal. Or, both of their policies could bring an abrupt end to the country as we know it.