Immigration News

Attorney General Jeff Sessions has ordered immigration judges to grant asylum only when claims for it accord with "long-standing principles of immigration law." Specifically this means that asylum is granted when people face "a reasonable fear of persecution" because of their race, religion, nationality, political views or membership in a particular social group.  In recent years, the definition has expanded to include such threats as domestic abuse and gang violence. The attorney general observed that "The mere fact that a country may have problems effectively policing certain crimes -- such as domestic violence or gang violence -- or that certain populations are more likely to be victims of crime, cannot itself establish an asylum claim. . . . [A]sylum was never meant to alleviate all problems--even serious problems--that people face everyday all over the world."

A CBS News YouGov Poll asked Americans if immigration had changed their place where they lived. Of those who said yes, the majority said it was for the worse. Fifty-seven percent made that assessment, while 17 percent said better, and 27 percent said neither.

An investigation by the Daily Caller News Foundation found that the tech platforms Facebook. Amazon, Google and Twitter solicit advice from the radical left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) on policing "hate speech."  This typically is speech that left-wing extremists hate. The SPLC maintains that almost all immigration control groups are either "hate groups" or are linked to "haters." The SPLC supports mass immigration in pursuit of its Cultural Marxist agenda: destabilize  America with "diversity" so that left-wing radicals can seize power.  

A number of wealthy Republican donors say they will withhold contributions to Republicans if they do not pass the DACA amnesty for illegal aliens. The leader of the group is Florida billionaire Mike Fernandez who stated that "Over the last 10 years the Republican Party has received $47 million from me, in state, gubernatorial and party contributions. I'm not writing one penny to any of them anymore."  These wealthy donors, critics change, believe that they are entitled to an endless stream of cheap illegal labor. A DACA amnesty without significant steps to increase immigration law enforcement will encourage more illegal immigration.

The May 2018 Jobs Report reveals that the employment of foreign-born workers in the U.S. grew twice as fast as that of U.S. natives. The foreign-born rate was three percent, compared with 1.5 percent for natives.  The foreign-born population in the U.S. continues to increase as the result of mass immigration. Legal and illegal immigrants are now about 14 percent of the U.S. population, or one in eight residents. 

Many Democrats and some Republicans want to pass an amnesty for illegal aliens in the DACA category without ending chain migration. If this happens, it means a sharp increase increase in legal immigration because the amnestied DACA illegal aliens will be able to bring in a chain of their relatives. According to Research by the Migration Policy Institute, amnesty for 3.5 million people in the DACA category (the high end estimate) would open the doors for nine million more foreign nationals to enter the U.S. 

Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, says a tight labor market is good news, despite claims by cheap labor interests. "The unemployment rate is down," Krikorian noted, "and employers are howling for more immigration because they say they can’t get enough workers. Their howling should be music to our ears. . . . [A] tight labor market means that our fellow citizens who are the least attractive to employers — and on whose support we collectively spend billions — suddenly become a lot more attractive. "In other words, a tight labor market is the best social policy. America wins when employers have to exert themselves to recruit and retain workers. The result is higher wages for less-skilled workers and more people drawn into the productive world of work."

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Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke has endorsed President Trump's proposal to build a wall on the Mexican border. Said Zinke, "I absolutely agree with [the president]--a nation without borders can't exist. We need to secure our borders. It's a national security issue, a national defense issue, it's a humanitarian crisis, and . . . it's an environmental crisis. . . . We are going to make sure the [illegal] crossings come to an immediate halt.