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 Im going to do is there going to be part of a much bigger bill on immigration. Its 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. Were 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 presidents 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 Houses 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 Trumps 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, Im 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.
If they were ever welfare recipients, that should result in immediate deportation. Likewise illegal voting.
Actually, I'm past the point of being tired of executive orders. Pass a law, or there is no legal requirement to comply.
No we don't - we need corporate globalist employers to pay American wages to American workers.
So you won’t vote for him?
Remember Trump also promised filthy lying cheating H1B Indians a path to citizenship as well in several of his tweets.
The American middle class needs to be very afraid.
I don't know who all these people are. Personally, I'd be a lot happier with a moratorium on immigration for say, 20 years.
“Well Mariner, what do you recommend the kids that grew up here do then?”
And if the President can’t find a way to put a ‘no chain migration whatsoever’ and ‘you must matriculate as a citizen within 7 years, or be deported’ clause, he’ll lose his base. That entails surrendering allegiance to any other country, and command of English language and American history (which they likely have already).
If they don’t acquire the tools to assimilate, they are a detriment to our nation. It’s that simple. Remember, the Democrats already received their ‘One Time Amnesty’. We wouldn’t want to make them out to be liars, now, would we? /S
Most of the left will hate whatever he does, except for the rare intellectually honest left-wingers. People on the right could hate some things he does for good reasons, so I disagree with your conclusion.
All of your suggestions are good. Unfortunately few politicians support them.
Trump is following through on earned amnesty. No surprise here. The next President will just update the EO to remove the “earned” portion and turn it into free for all amnesty.
“Hispanics rewarded Trump’s effort by turning out in record numbers, voting 69% for Democrat Congressional candidates, and flipping the House to a Democrat majority.”
What a way to spin it.
More that likely it was:
“Against all expectations, Trump gathered a large portion of the latino vote, 31% rewarding him with their vote and thus crushing the widely expected ‘blue tsunami’s and thus retaining the senate, while the House was flipped by a smaller margin than expected”
We? I love you Donald but this is total BS. We have enough US workers and do not need to import one more for many decades. THIS KIND OF TONE DEAFNESS LOSES ELECTIONS.
It’s not the DACA part that college educated workers care about rather it’s the “merit based” immigration. All we hear is H-1b visa....
Hear, hear!!!!
Just stay home.
Not me, FRiend.
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