Immigration News

Former White House Chief strategist Steve Bannon addressed the Remembrance Project, an organization of American families who have lost loved ones because of crimes committed by illegal aliens. During his speech he expressed his view as to why illegal immigration goes on and on. Said Bannon, "[It] is not some random law of the universe . . . this not physics, okay. This is an act of commission. The elites in this country, the economic, political, and the media elites allow this to happen because they want it to happen. "The multicultural globalist corporations want cheap labor, and the progressive Left wants cheap votes. This is not a conspiracy. And you are not wing-nuts. This is broad daylight."

The so-called Diversity Visa Lottery has come under public scrutiny following the truck attack in New York City allegedly by a suspect who came to the U.S. under this program.  Each year the Diversity Visa Lottery randomly admits fifty thousand people to the U.S. as immigrants based only on their luck to win the lottery selection. During the past five years about 30 percent of Visa Lottery recipients have come from countries that Immigration and Customs Enforcement has listed as terrorist sponsors.

President Trump in an interview with Fox News said that chain migration must end. Essentially it is the system by which immigrants are allowed to petition for their extended families to come to the U.S., and those family members in turn can petition for their relatives to come in a seemingly endless chain of immigration. Chain migration helps to drive our current high level of legal immigration, more than a million immigrants a year. It also places the family connections of immigrants above other concerns of national interest in setting immigration policy. The president said that if Democrats want passage of an amnesty for illegal aliens in the DACA category, they must accept an end to chain migration. Said Trump, "Yes it will be part of a DACA deal. I don't think any Republican would vote for anything having to do with leaving chain migration. Chain migration is a disaster for this country, and it's horrible."

Terrorist suspect Sayfullo Saipov allegedly rammed his truck into pedestrians in New York City, killing eight and injuring 11 more. Witness said he shouted...

The House Judiciary Committee passed legislation to make the E-Verify system mandatory, by a margin of 20 to 10, with all Republicans on the committee voting for it and all Democrats against it. This vote clears the way for the full House to consider the measure.  House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) affirmed that "one way to make sure sure we discourage illegal immigration in the future is to prevent unlawful immigrants from getting jobs in the U.S. Requiring the use of E-Verify by all employers across the country will help do just that. The web-based program is reliable and fast way for employers to electronically check the work eligibility of newly-hired employees. "

American "progressives" see mass immigration as a way to relieve world poverty, says Harvard economist George Borjas. But they don't seem to care what this "poverty program" does to working Americans, particularly those who are law-skilled and poor Said Borjas, "The largest drop is probably the wage drop suffered by the workers who now face more competition in the labor market. It is not a huge drop, but it is certainly not zero. And we should find particularly worrisome when this wage drop is imposed on workers who can least afford it. And this obviously tends to aggravate the the forces that lead to greater inequality in our economy. "The other big loss that we need to think about in terms of low-skill immigration is the increased cost of government services we provide them. According to the latest National Academy report, this number could easily exceed over 50 billion a year."

Last year, according to the Census Bureau, a record number of 65.5 million U.S. residents over five years of age spoke a language other than English at home. This is nearly twice the total of this category in 1990 and almost three times the total of 1980. The Center for Immigration Studies noted that "The largest percentage increases since 2010 among languages with more than 400,000 speakers were for Arabic, Hindi, Urdu, Chinese, Persian, Haitian, and Gujarati. Hindi and Gujarati are spoken in India; Urdu is spoken in Pakistan."

A group of key Republican senators, most of whom are partial to cheap labor interests, are working on amnesty legislation for illegal aliens in the DACA category.  According to Politico, a publication which reports on Congress, they are not planning to demand significant concessions from the Democrats to pass the legislation.  One example is that they have "all but ruled out" seeking legislation to make the E-Verify system mandatory. E-Verify enables employers to determine the legal status of people they hire by accessing federal data bases.  Making the system mandatory would do much to stop employment illegal aliens and thereby discourage illegal immigration. 

South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster says he will seek to require cities in his state to prove that they are not sanctuary cities for illegal aliens. The governor said that he was not aware of any cities that are now embrace this status. Nevertheless, he stated, What we are doing here is to make clear that such an announcement will  not be accepted. We want people of this state to know that law enforcement is doing its job in South Carolina." An estimated 85,000 illegal aliens live in the state.

Lawsuits are seeking to uphold the DACA amnesty that President Trump rescinded. They claim that the president did not go through the necessary procedures to repeal it. Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach affirms that these lawsuits are baseless. An authority on immigration law, Kobach notes that President Obama went through none of these procedures when he unilaterally proclaimed DACA in defiance of the Constitution.  "In other words," said Kobach, "the plantiffs are claiming that even though President Obama did not jump over the necessary procedural hurdles to create DACA (which makes it null and void), President Trump still has to jump over those hurdles in order to end it."