Immigration News

President Trump has unveiled a 70-point plan to reform immigration policy. The White House said these steps must accompany any legislative action to give permanent legal status to illegal aliens in the DACA category. As reported by The Washington Times, the plan would "ensure major changes to border security, interior enforcement, and the legal immigration system." A senior White House official stated that "Anything that is done addressing the status of DACA recipients needs to include these three reforms and solve these three problems. If you don't solve these problems then you're not going to have a secure border, you're not going to have a lawful immigration system, and you're not going to be able to protect American workers."

Politico, a publication which covers Capital Hill, says that the Trump Administration will demand substantial cuts in legal immigration in exchange for a DACA amnesty for illegal aliens. Spearheading this proposal, according to Politico, is the administration's top immigration advisor Stephen Miller.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is increasing enforcement in so-called "sanctuaries" for illegal aliens, those jurisdictions where officials refuse to cooperate with its efforts. ICE officials say that this increased focus is necessary to compensate for the absence of cooperation. 

The Department of Justice announced that it will sue Crop Production Services, Inc. for discriminating against American workers by using H-1B visas to hire foreign workers. In a statement announcing the lawsuit, Attorney General Jeff Sessions declared "In the spirit of President Trump's Executive Order on Buy American and Hire American, the Justice Department will not tolerate employers who discriminate against U.S. workers because of a desire to hire temporary visa holders. "The Justice Department will enforce the Immigration and Nationality Act in order to protect U.S. workers as they are the very backbone of our communities and our economy. Where there is a job available, U.S. workers should have a chance at it before we bring in workers from abroad."

The bill passed by California's Legislature making that state a sanctuary state, violates federal authority over immigration policy, says a recent article from the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS). Along with preventing cooperation between public agencies and federal law enforcement, the bill also imposes legally questionable restrictions on private employers. California Gov. Jerry Brown has not yet signed the measure into law, but he is expected to do so. 

Billionaires Rupert Murdoch and former New York Mayor Michel Bloomberg have endorsed the amnesty legislation proposed by Sen.James Lankford (R-OK) and Sen. Thom Tillis...

Chain migration is the policy that pushes mass immigration. Under it, family connections rather than skills are the basis for most immigrants coming to the United States. An immigrant who comes to the U.S. can petition to bring in his extended family members who in turn can bring in their extended family -- and on and on in a seemingly unending chain. A study by the Center for Immigration Studies found that each legal immigrant, on average, sponsors three additional immigrants. Mexican immigrants, on average, sponsor six. If Congress passes an amnesty for illegal aliens in the DACA category, they will be able to initiate chains of immigration. Passage of the RAISE Act, sponsored by Sen Tom Cotton (R-AR), would mitigate this reward for their lawbreaking by sharply cutting the migration chains.  

President Trump's Domestic Policy Council has drafted a pro-American immigration reform strategy, but it is already being undermined by cheap labor Republicans -- some...

President Trump has decided to limit admissions of refugees to the U.S. next year to no more than 45,000. This will be the lowest level of refugee admissions since 1980. Immigration reformers say that this reduction is long overdue. Among other reasons, it is much more cost effective to resettle refugees in countries near their homelands than bringing them to the United States.   

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce sent a letter to the Trump Administration demanding speedy passage of amnesty for the 800,000 illegal aliens in the DACA category. The letter makes no mention of reform to prevent those amnestied aliens from bringing in chains of their relatives. Nor does it endorse measures to prevent illegal immigration in the future. The Chamber commonly lobbies on behalf of businesses seeking cheap labor.