Immigration News

The House recently passed legislation to grant amnesty to illegal aliens. Now Democrat Senators are urging the Senate to pass a companion bill. Among them Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Ben Cardin (D-MD), and Tim Kaine (D-VA). Cardin endorsed this step saying, "We need to stand up for the American values of compassion and diversity. " An American value he didn't mention was the rule of law.  Read more at breitbart.com

By  a margin of 236 to 187, the House passed a bill granting amnesty to illegal aliens and permanent residence status to individuals now covered by Temporary Protected Status. Those covered, a total of 2.1 million, would have a pathway to become citizens. All House Democrats voted and seven Republicans voted for this legislation. An opponent of the bill, Rep. Mike Rogers (R-AL), stated that "[It] does nothing to address our [border] crisis. Instead, it tells an entire generation of illegal immigrants that breaking our laws is rewarded.” Read more at news.yahoo.com  By  a margin of 236 to 187, the House passed a bill granting amnesty to illegal aliens and permanent residence status to individuals now covered by Temporary Protected Status. Those covered, a total of 2.1 million, would have a pathway to become citizens. All House Democrats voted and seven Republicans voted for this legislation. An opponent of the bill, Rep. Mike Rogers (R-AL), stated that "[It] does nothing to address our [border] crisis. Instead, it tells an entire generation of illegal immigrants that breaking our laws is rewarded.” Read more at news.yahoo.com 

The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) interviewed Monica Maple, an investigator for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), for one of its reports.  The report stated:  "Mapel said human smugglers or brokers in home countries cut package deals where a parent provides a child (especially if parents have more than one) to a child-less migrant for a fee or an in-kind reduction in the real parent's own smuggling fee. Such packages can reach $7,000 for transportation, food, doctored birth certificates, and the child. 'If you have children to spare during your trip to the U.S., your trip is not as expensive,' she explained. "The child, real parent, unrelated adult client, and smuggler often make the trip together. Only at the border is the child and bogus birth certificate given over to the paying migrant, who is expected to return the child days or weeks later once everyone is inside the United States." Thanks to a loophole in U.S. law, migrants know that bringing children with them increases the likelihood that they will be able to stay in the U.S. after making asylum claims.  Read more at cis.org 

In 1986 Congress enacted a compromise immigration bill. For advocates of border control it provided criminal penalties for employers who knowingly hired illegal aliens. For illegal alien advocates, it gave legal status and a path to citizenship for millions of illegal aliens.  The "compromise" proved to  be one sided. Prosecution of employers who hire illegals has been rare. Since passage of the bill, the annual number of employer prosecutions has seldom exceeded 15 a year.  From April 2018 to March 2019, only 11 individuals were charged.  Read more at trac.syr.edu

President Trump announced that the United States would impose a series of rising tariffs on Mexican goods until illegal immigration across the Mexican border subsides. He stated that "On June 10th, the United States will impose a five percent tariff on all goods coming into our country from Mexico, until such time as illegal migrants coming through Mexico, and into our country, stop. The tariff will gradually increase until the Illegal Immigration problem is remedied, . . . at which time the tariffs will be removed." Read more at foxnews.com

Failed candidate for governor of Georgia Stacey Abrams says that the changing demographics brought about by mass immigration will change conservative red sates, like Georgia, to liberal blue states. Other prominent Democrats such as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton have expressed similar hopes. Read more at breitbart.com 

Hundreds of migrant protesters occupied Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris, demanding that all illegal residents of France receive legal papers. One of the protesters who spoke proclaimed over a loudspeaker that “France does not belong to the French! Everyone has a right to be here!” Read more at rt.com 

Kevin McAleenan, the acting secretary of DHS, says that "100 percent" of migrant families are now being released into the U.S., pending their asylum claims, thanks to current restrains on enforcement. While they are here they receive work permits. McAleenan called this situation "advertising" for smugglers. Read more at ijr.com

President Trump has signed a memorandum which requires  sponsors of immigrants to reimburse the government if those immigrants use public services. This memorandum upholds a law signed by President Bill Clinton in 1996.  Read more at dailymail.co.uk 

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), head of the Senate Homeland Defense Committee, disagrees with the claim that the recent surge of illegal illegal immigration, particularly so-called family units, is the result of high crime rates and other bad conditions in Central America. The real reasons, he maintains, that the Flores court order accepted by the Obama Administration. It prevents the holding of children, brought by illegal aliens who claim asylum, for more than 20 days. This has had the practical consequence of forcing U.S. authorities to release both the adults and children in the U.S. with the promises of the adults that they will show up for asylum hearings. Commonly they don't.  Sen. Johnson maintains that this situation has given people in Central America  a powerful incentive to come to the U.S. with children, many times not their own, and make bogus asylum claims. The senator produced a chart showing that this kind of illegal immigration rose dramatically after the Obama Administration allowed the Flores ruling to stand.      Read more at breitbart.com