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Ever since Donald Trump nominated Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) to be the next Attorney General, all of us immigration reductionists have been wondering who could pick up his baton and truly lead the Senate fight AGAINST immigration expansionism and FOR less immigration.
Senate and House Judiciary Committee Chairmen Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., slammed the Obama Administration’s management of the U visa program following findings of fraud and a new parole policy that exceeds its authority. The U visa program allows foreign nationals who are victims or witnesses of crime in the United States to remain here while assisting in the crime’s investigation and prosecution. But the Administration allowed fraudulent applications to be processed and exceeded the numerical program limits Congress set.
The leaders of local-government “sanctuaries” asked President Obama to further shield illegal aliens before leaving office. Working under a group New York Mayor Bill de Blasio created, Cities for Action, the leaders asked Obama to front-load work permit extensions for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients, and to extend Temporary Protected Status for illegal aliens residing in the United States.
At the beginning of the month Congress renewed the EB-5 visa program, which was set to expire, for another four-and-a-half months when they passed their continuing resolution. This visa program has been impaired by fraud and abuse and while most of the lawmakers agree that the program needs to be reformed they could not agree on what type of reforms and so they punted the decision to the new incoming administration and Congress.
In a New York Times op-ed entitled “Fix Immigration. It’s What Voters Want” Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., argues President-elect Trump “has a clear mandate not only to stop illegal immigration, but also to finally cut the generation-long influx of low-skilled immigrants that undermines American workers.” He says the nation needs an immigration policy that focuses less on powerful special interests and more on everyone else.
For years, politicians have told the American people that the U.S. immigration system is “broken.” The fix pushed by Congressional leaders has been “comprehensive immigration reform,” a term co-opted by immigration expansionists in an attempt to sell the American people a false bill of goods.
There has been an increase in the number of DACA recipients who are seeking to leave the U.S. under advance parole in order to legally re-enter the U.S. and get on the fast track to citizenship.
Mercury News reports the State of California has issued driver’s licenses to about 806,000 illegal aliens in the two years since a state law took effect. The licenses facilitate their ability to remain in the United States and compete with citizens and legal residents for jobs.
Kellyanne Conway, the newly-named counselor to President-elect Donald Trump, said the incoming Administration will not develop policies triggering heightened security based on an individual’s religious affiliation. She said Mr. Trump’s policies will instead focus on heightened vetting for individuals from terrorism-producing countries.
The Federal Government issued 1,051,031 green cards in 2015 -- the most issued since 2011. The federal government has now issued legal permanent status, with lifetime work permits, to more than 1 million people in 10 of the last 11 years and more than 26 million green cards since the annual cap was raised in 1990.
Illegal aliens are filing false asylum claims with the federal government to delay deportation ahead of the more aggressive immigration enforcement policies that are expected to be part of the Trump administration. By applying for asylum, illegal aliens gain legal status until their case goes before a judge who will rule on their claim.