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Comment by Bullheaded Texan on May 1, 2018 at 7:26pm

For the past decade, attempts at immigration reform have failed because open borders special interests in both parties have dominated the discussion. The framework laid out by the White House represents mainstream, common sense approach to immigration.
◾The U.S. cannot truly secure its borders without legislative reforms to close loopholes that prevent the prompt return of illegal aliens who do not have a legitimate claim for asylum.
ENDING EXTENDED-FAMILY CHAIN MIGRATION: President Trump wants to keep nuclear families together while reforming our current legal immigration system, so it no longer serves as a conduit for low-skilled immigration.
◾Under our current immigration system, more than 70 percent of immigrants entering the United States do so based on family ties rather than on skill or merit. ◾Our current law allows new immigrants to sponsor various members of their extended families for immigration to the United States.
◾Between 2005 and 2016, the U.S. admitted more than 70 percent of lawful immigrants based on family ties alone.

◾Chain migration has been a leading source of low-skilled immigration into the United States, hurting vulnerable American workers.
◾Our current immigration system puts a strain on federal resources and burdens American taxpayers. ◾Half of all immigrant-headed households receive benefits from at least one welfare program.

CANCELING THE VISA LOTTERY: President Trump has called for the cancelation of the visa lottery system, which selects applicants at random and has been subject to fraud and abuse.
◾Currently, about 50,000 immigrants enter the United States each year through the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program, commonly called the visa lottery or Green Card lottery.
◾Individuals are selected at random to apply for a visa that permits permanent residence in the United States, and the qualifying criteria are very low. ◾Eligible countries have low levels of immigration to the U.S. over the last 5 years.
◾The program requires participants to have only a high school education or two years of work experience.

◾Upon entering the United States, those who have received a Green Card may eventually gain U.S. citizenship through naturalization.
◾The visa lottery has been highly vulnerable to fraud and abuse. ◾A 2003 report by the State Department’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) found the visa lottery system is subject to widespread abuse.
◾A 2007 report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found the program was vulnerable to fraudulent activity.

PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR A DACA FIX THAT ENDS CHAIN MIGRATION, ELIMINATES THE VISA LOTTERY, AND SECURES THE BORDER: Recent polling shows Americans support turning the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy into a lawful policy in exchange for ending chain migration, the visa lottery, and border security.
◾According to a recent Harvard-Harris poll, 58 percent of those polled oppose shutting down the government over the DACA program.
◾65 percent of those polled would support an immigration deal that gives work permits and a path to citizenship to aliens brought to the U.S. by their parents in exchange for prioritizing merit-based immigration over family ties, ending the visa lottery, and providing border security funding.
◾More than three quarters of those polled, 79 percent, believe immigration policy should be based on a person’s ability to contribute to America rather than on family ties.
◾68% opposed the visa lottery system which randomly selects up to 50,000 foreign nationals to become permanent residents of the United States.

Comment by Bullheaded Texan on May 1, 2018 at 7:10pm

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Comment by Bullheaded Texan on May 1, 2018 at 6:58pm

The U.S, has a right to be a sovereign Nation;
to decide who/whom may come into this country legally. Illegal aliens face many dangers, one huge danger is Human Trafficking which happens to the youth, the unsuspecting, to the illiterate, the desperate as well as the greedy…guiled by Traffickers makes these people victims so easy.
And as for the Taxpayers of America and their families and friends, the ability for American citizens and legals to vie for jobs, decent pay, homes-whether owned or rent–costs continue to rise;
schools continue to be short of monies and problems with language as well as becoming food kitchens for students-not education,roads/highways/streets continue to deteriorate , just to name a few problems, even food and health become problems as many on welfare/food stamps and another-Life becomes cheap-killings through robberies, stealing-crime rises.
The economics of Illegal alien has never been addressed, time for it to be addressed, time for Truth to be told.
Canada has open borders and are seeing the problems that I have mentioned and probably more as they are Socialists.
So the Wall between Mexico and the U.S. needs to be built and secured by our Border Patrols with support by the U.S. Government. As well as the American citizen and taxpayers.

Comment by Bullheaded Texan on May 1, 2018 at 6:45pm

Loopholes Prevent Removal Of Dangerous Criminal Aliens, have created by judicial rulings have made it nearly impossible to remove many criminal aliens.
Apr/27/18
The costs from America’s porous immigration system continue to rise. At the end of April, news broke that between October 2016 and December 2017, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) was unable to locate nearly 1,500 of the 7,635 unaccompanied alien minors it attempted to reach—almost one-fifth of its file.
“I don’t care what you think about immigration policy, it’s wrong,” Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) said.
He’s right: A very small percentage of the unaccompanied alien children (UAC) who illegally enter the United States each year are ultimately removed, creating a major public safety challenge.
Loopholes in our immigration laws put both UACs and American citizens at risk. Most UACs are older teens (16-17 years old) from Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador.
Some are MS-13 gang members who use our immigration system to infiltrate the United States, but UACs who are not gang members are still at risk of harm from MS-13. This broken system is dangerous for everyone.
Under the obuma Administration, the Department of Health and Human Services documented that 80 percent of the 71,000 Central American children placed between February 2014 and September 2015 were released to sponsors who are in the United States illegally. Parents were more than half of the cases; many others were siblings, aunts, and uncles.
In drafting the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), Congress included that criminal aliens convicted of any number of serious offenses referred to as aggravated felonies should be subject to immigration consequences. Federal courts, however, have created loopholes that prevent some serious criminal convictions from qualifying as aggravated felonies under the INA. As a result, the government is often unable to use the only grounds available to remove many criminal aliens.
For example, in Mexifornia, a criminal alien found guilty of voluntary manslaughter, robbery, or child abuse would not necessarily be considered an aggravated felon.

Comment by Bullheaded Texan on May 1, 2018 at 6:45pm

In Texas, a criminal alien convicted of aggravated assault, deadly conduct, or causing injury to a child, elderly individual, or disabled individual would not necessarily qualify as an aggravated felon.
In Oklahoma, a criminal alien convicted of forcible sodomy or assault and battery on a police officer would not necessarily classify as an aggravated felon.
As the law currently stands, no burglary crimes in Mexifornia, Iowa, South Carolina, Oregon, Michigan, and Florida would qualify as an aggravated felony.
Due to these judicially-created loopholes, criminal aliens convicted of these egregious crimes could potentially remain in the country.
Efforts to remove criminal aliens were further hamstrung by a recent Supreme Court decision that found unconstitutional a legal provision that was used to define which “crimes of violence” constitute aggravated felonies.
In effect, the ruling invalidated a law that empowered Federal authorities to remove many violent felons from our communities.
WHY: Congress must take swift action to close loopholes in our immigration system that threaten the safety and security of American communities.
President Trump has repeatedly called on Congress to close the judicially-created loopholes in our immigration system, including the aggravated felony loophole, in order to help keep Americans safe!
In October 2017, the Administration released its immigration priorities which called on Congress to clarify the aggravated felony definition.
The Administration also endorsed a bipartisan proposal this Feb. which would have fixed the aggravated felony loophole.
Calls to fix to the aggravated felony definition have been further echoed by numerous Federal judges.
For example, a judge on the Ninth Circuit described the current system as “bizarre and arbitrary” and noted it allows criminals to “escape the consequences that Congress intended.”
Congress needs to act, plain and simple. Without a legislative fix, Federal authorities will remain unable to remove violent criminal aliens, jeopardizing the safety and security of our communities.

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