Posted on 07/12/2020 7:36:40 AM PDT by RideForever
President Trump has signaled he is planning to sign an executive order on immigration reform. He made the announcement on Friday during an interview with Spanish language network Telemundo.
He has said the order will focus on instituting a merit based immigration system. The president also stated he would introduce a path to normalizing the immigration status of DACA recipients, who were brought into the U.S. illegally as children and have remained in the country since.
“What I’m going to do is there going to be part of a much bigger bill on immigration. It’s going to be a very big bill, a very good bill, a merit based bill and it will include DACA. I think people are going to be very happy with it. …We’re going to have a road to citizenship.” – Donald Trump, 45th President of the United States
While details on the planned order have not yet been revealed, the White House issued a statement following the president’s interview. In it, officials stated that while a “path to citizenship” was being considered, no general amnesty would be granted.
This followed expressions of worry from several prominent conservatives, including Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas). He voiced concern over Twitter, where he said it would be a mistake to extend unconditional amnesty by executive fiat.
The White House’s clarification, however, hinted any path to citizenship would not be automatic, but instead contingent on the merits of individual applicants. This system would be in line with a more general shift to merit based immigration policy, which has been a long-fixed feature of President Trump’s views on the subject.
“We expect that those who seek to join our society will obey our laws, revere our Constitution, cherish our history, support themselves financially, embrace our American values and love our American flag,” the president stated. “We believe in an immigration system based on merit…(and) we need workers, but they have to come in where they can help our country.”
The transition to a merit based immigration has been a long-term goal of conservatives in the U.S. for decades. Some have claimed focusing on recruitment of highly skilled foreign workers would be more beneficial to the economy than the current system, which has been in place since the 1960s and prioritizes family ties over individual qualifications.
Proponents argued a merit based system would reduce overall immigration rates and prevent a high influx of low skill workers from pushing down wages in key industries. Moreover, highly skilled workers tend to be more financially secure and thus, according to advocates of merit based immigration reform, are less likely to rely on public assistance.
The president cited the recent Supreme Court decision on DACA, which determined that while the specific action under review could not be upheld due to procedural reasons, President Trump does have the authority to introduce modifications to the program.
“If you look at the Supreme Court ruling, they gave the president tremendous powers when they said that you could take in, in this case, 700,000 or so people,” he added. “So they gave powers, and based on the powers that they gave, I’m going to be doing an immigration bill.”
A specific timeline for the executive order was not issued, but the president did suggest it would be outlined “over the next few weeks.”
You forgot kick out the 40M+ illegals, including the DACA brats, as any reasonable “comprehensive” reform.
“We’re working out the legal complexities right now but I’m going to be signing a very major immigration bill as an executive order. I’m going to make DACA a part of it,” President Trump told Noticias Telemundo in an exclusive interview.
I'm confused.
Huge mistake if he does this. He can’t afford to lose any support from his base.
Coincidence we get this after Rove joins the campaign as an adviser?
Definitely seems like something Rove might come up with.
“what do you recommend the kids that grew up here do then?”
Forget what half assed English they learned, move home to Mexico, take their rotten parents with them.
They came here in violence and with hostility. For those of us who are from the Southwest, we know this all too well: the intimidation of us and our children, the puffed chest thuggism, “we belong here Greengo, ju don’t”, the endless crime - petty and major - and the destruction of the laws and all that was built after 1848: Do you think Xavier Becerra is an “American” in any way, shape or form?
NONE of them are. They only pretended to be when they were the minority. Now that California and Texas are majority Mexican (the “hispanic” thing is a joke; Mexicans are 95% of that linguistic group in the US), they plan REVENGE against the Americans who succeeded where they couldn’t. And that means ripping apart what the Evil White Man built.
In Mexican - Spaniard - culture, the Beeg Man is the one who is strong enough to TAKE. They don’t MAKE, that’s too hard.
A move like this will be interpreted with glee as weakness, and mercilessly exploited. There will be no surge of hispanics voting for casper white Republicans, including the Bad Orange Man.
Trump needs to win the white vote, period. He does that - in the upper midwest especially - he wins. Getting the Invader vote? He loses.
forget it Mr. President. incredibly bad idea.
And this is the result of a worthless bunch of money grubbing bastards in congress.
We now are run by a president-ANY president, who can issue law by executive orders.
See a problem with this?
I a few years, the next president gets in, they can reverse these EOs and issue anything they want.
Without those things its just amnesty. And amnesty it is. Beccause he has folks by the short hairs.
With the current Congress, an EO is his only avenue.
President Trump's experience has shown that only democrat presidents are permitted to rule by executive order. The swamp will not be denied.
You think it’s delusional but Trump does not. It’s a calculated move on his part.
Trump just lost the election.
Yup
“An Executive Order is insufficient”
According to the Supreme Court, an executive order regarding illegal immigration is the law.
However, I think Trump is trolling the Supreme Court, if not Congress.
Yep and it was a huge mistake.
Mr. President, do NOT do this.
This will anger your base, and you won't "gain" a single vote from your enemies!
Which means it will never see the light of day.
This sounds like something Rove would promote.
Bad idea.
“You think it’s delusional but Trump does not. It’s a calculated move on his part.”
And it will ensure his electoral failure.
Take that to the bank.
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