Immigration News

Cable News Network (CNN) reports that President Trump has drafted a proclamation to declare  a national emergency. According to CNN, the draft states, “The massive amount of aliens who unlawfully enter the United States each day is a direct threat to the safety and security of our nation and constitutes a national emergency.” Under this emergency, says the CNN report, the president would allocate $7 billion to build a border wall.  Most of that total would come from military funding.  Read more at breitbart.com

A new Rasmussen Reports survey found that nearly half of likely voters (48 percent) believe that the government is not doing enough to stop illegal immigration. Twenty-eight said the government is doing too much to stop it, and 17 percent said that the government's present efforts are adequate. Read more at rasmussenreports.com   

Democrats rejected President Trump's proposed compromise to end the partial shutdown of the government. The president proposed $5.8 billion for a border wall--in exchange for extended legal residence for illegal aliens in the DACA category and for foreigners allowed to stay in the U.S. temporarily following disasters in their countries. Many in the latter category should have gone home already because the disasters that prompted them to leave are long over. The Democrats said Trump's proposal didn't go far enough. We want want the people covered to have permanent residence and a path to citizenship. Many of the president's supporters felt that the compromise went too far by offering extended residence for no more concessions than wall funding.  Read more at chicagotribune.com 

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Fox News host Tucker Carlson  noted that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi thinks a border wall is "immoral" even though she and other opponents of a border wall have walls around their personal properties. Said Carlson, "We contacted Speaker Pelosi to find out [if she thinks personal walls should come down]. She didn’t reply. Neither did the other Democrats we called. It turns out they have no plans to eliminate anyone else’s walls, and certainly not their own. They just don’t want a wall to protect America. They don’t think our country deserves that." Read more at foxnews.com

Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) charged that the "Democrat strategy" is to import an underclass of foreign-born voters in order to enhance Democratic political power. He stated, "The Democrats have seen how [mass immigration] affects political power, regardless of [immigrants'] ability to support themselves in our country. Hopefully from [their] vantage point, [immigrants] will be dependent on welfare . . . as soon as they can be registered to vote, [which will turn them] into a dependable Democrat voter. And they hope to do the same thing they've done in California to the rest of the country.  Read more at breitbart.com  '

A  Quinnipiac University Poll found that 54 percent of Americans believe that illegal immigration and drug trafficking have created a "security crisis" on our southern border.  Read more at breitbart.com  

Former Arizona Governor Jan Brewer endorsed President Trump's proposal for a border wall. She stated, "I often used to say, a country with a border secured is like a house without walls, it collapses. You have to have your houses protected or it will collapse. And if you don’t have a wall on the border, our country is going to collapse. It’s as simple as that. And it doesn’t seem to be something that’s very hard to understand. . . . The Democrats, the left-leaning liberal Democrats just want open borders. I think that’s very plain. "

President Trump tweeted that changes to the H-1B program are coming "soon." One is granting foreign workers holding H-1B visas a potential pathway to citizenship. Many Americans have complained that companies' use of H-1B visas prevents qualified Americans from getting jobs, particularly in high tech fields.   Read more at dailymail.co.uk

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