MAGA Republicans Already Have Atrocious Migration Bill

  

The Maga Republicans Already Have a migration bill.

 

The discussion in January is about the Senate Bill.  Maga Republicans see the proposals  as too generous.

 

https://www.dsanorthstar.org/blog/the-maga-republicans-already-have-a-migration-bill

 

The Republicans already  have a migration bill. It is HR-2. 

 

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/2

 

But, the Republicans already have a bill passed in the House. HR 2. On May 11, 2023 

This is what the House will start from. 

Introduced in House (05/02/2023) This bill addresses issues regarding immigration and border security, including by imposing limits to asylum eligibility. requires DHS to create an electronic employment eligibility confirmation system modeled after the E-Verify system and requires all employers to use the system. Passed on May 11, 2023. 

 

 

It includes endless negative proposals such as building the wall plus  including the following.

 

DIVISION B--IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS

TITLE I--ASYLUM REFORM AND BORDER PROTECTION

This title imposes additional requirements for asylum eligibility. 

(Sec. 101) This section expands provisions that bar certain individuals from applying for asylum.

Currently, an individual may not apply for asylum if that individual may be removed to a third country (i.e., a country that is not the applicant's country of nationality or last habitual residence) if that third country has (1) a full and fair asylum process that the individual could use, and (2) an agreement with the United States allowing for such removals. This section expands this provision by authorizing removal to third countries that do not have an agreement with the United States.

This section also bars an individual from applying for asylum if the individual traveled through at least one third country before arriving in the United States, with certain exceptions (e.g., the individual applied for and was denied asylum in that third country). 

 

The Speaker of the House Johnson  says  today that these are the minimums to achieve progress on resolving the enforcement at the border. 

 

Border policy

 

Congressman Casar on the border crisis.

 

http://antiracismdsa.blogspot.com/2024/01/policy-on-migrant-crisis.html

 

Lets not be Stupid.

 

https://www.dsanorthstar.org/blog/let-us-not-be-stupid-about-immigration

 

 

 

https://www.dsanorthstar.org/blog/let-us-not-be-stupid-about-immigration

2023 

 

 

2018. Steps toward a labor informed policy on immigration.

 

https://www.dsanorthstar.org/blog/steps-toward-a-labor-informed-position-on-immigration

2018..

 

The U.S. needs to develop new policies about immigration. The Congress has failed to come to a compromise for over 30 years.  In response to the current economic crises in Latin America, Africa, and Asia and the world wide environmental crisis, the migration crises continues to grow.

 

It is not sufficient to develop and repeat slogans. 

 

Here is the resolution written by members of the IMWG, and adopted by the convention. It provides a good start for consideration of the many interactive  issues.

 

https://www.dsanorthstar.org/blog/us-faces-migration-crisis

 

What can we do?  Recommendations from Robert Reich

All good reasons to be outraged. 

But do me a favor right this moment. Take a deep breath and consider what you’re doing with your outrage.

Outrage on its own is exhausting (take this from someone who’s spent the better part of the last 77 years feeling outraged about one thing or another). 

It can also lead to two disempowering states: despair and cynicism. 

I know many who are in despair about the possibility of another Trump presidency. Their despair follows them around during the day and wakes them at night. It is robbing them of most joy in their lives. 

I know others who have sunk into deep cynicism. The system is rotten to the core, they tell themselves. Why even worry about Trump? Nothing can be done in any event. They’ve stopped listening to or reading the news. Why bother?

Maybe you fall into one of these camps. I don’t mean to criticize you. I understand completely. Hell, I’ve been there myself.

But despair and cynicism can be self-fulfilling prophesies. They can stop you from taking political action. As such, they make it more likely that Trump will become president — and that neofascism will prevail. 

Outrage can be a positive force if it fuels activism — if it gets people off their butts to do any number of things that individually don’t seem like much but taken together can have a big impact.

What sort of things? Forgive me if I’ve suggested this before, but for example: 

1. Becoming even more politically active. For some of us, this will mean taking more time out of our normal lives — up to and including getting out the vote in critical swing states. For others, it will mean phone banking, making political contributions, writing letters to editors, and calling friends and relations in key states.

2. Starting now to organize. Even if you cannot take much time out of your normal life for direct politics, you will need to organize, mobilize, and energize your friends, colleagues, and neighbors. A number of effective groups can help you (I’ve added their names and web addresses at the end). 

3. Countering lies with truth. When you hear someone repeating a Trump Republican lie, correct it. This will require that you prepare yourself with facts, logic, analysis, and sources.

4. Not tolerating bigotry and hate. When you come across it, call it out. Stand up to it. Denounce it. Demand that others denounce it, too.

5. Not resorting to name-calling, bullying, intimidation, violence, or any of the other tactics that Trump followers may be using. We cannot save democracy through anti-democratic means

posted by Duane Campbell 

 

 

Warning of Violence Along the Border by MAGA supporters

  

 

Nation's Oldest and Largest Latino Civil Rights Organization Issues Historic Warning of Looming Trouble Over Razor Wire at U.S. – Mexico Border

On our blog.

https://www.dsanorthstar.org/blog/lulac-issues-historic-warning-of-looming-trouble-over-razor-wire-at-us-mexico-border

LULAC ALERT: TEXAS GOVERNOR ABBOTT IS ENCOURAGING CRIMINAL WHITE EXTREMISTS WITH A HATE AGENDA TO COME TO THE STATE

Washington, DC - LULAC, the League of United Latin American Citizens, is issuing an immediate National Alert, only the second in the organization's nearly 100-year history.

"Abbott and his supporters are creating a media circus for political gain and to raise money. LULAC abhorrently condemns hate speech, actions, and lies that hurt human life, especially those coming to the United States to survive deplorable conditions and seek refuge. Let's see immigration for the good it provides our country rather than calling it a threat to divide and weaken us as a nation," says Garcia.

 

 

Humanitarian Crisis at the Border

Party Opposed to Immigration Changes Opposes Immigration Changes

Party Opposed to Immigration Changes Opposes Immigration Changes: The inevitable outcome of Republican anti-immigration sentiment

Policy on the Migrant "Crisis"

 Immigration has been all over the news lately, and a lot of people are wondering why. Fixing our broken immigration system is an issue I care deeply about – so I figured I would explain directly.

The ongoing humanitarian crisis in the Western Hemisphere can’t be ignored. Asylum seekers fleeing desperate conditions and violence are coming to our border looking for safety, work, and family. 

But instead of working with Democrats to help asylum seekers, and to ensure our system is orderly, legal, and humane, Republican officials have used this humanitarian crisis to fearmonger — all to score political points against President Biden. 

Instead of recognizing the humanity of families and children seeking asylum in our country, these top Republicans choose to incite hate and use words like “invasion.” In Texas, Greg Abbott has used the crisis to attack immigrants and border communities. He signed blatantly unconstitutional “show me your papers” legislation, weaponized state law enforcement to terrorize border communities, and wasted BILLIONS of taxpayer dollars on his failed “Operation Lone Star.”

What happened to, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free”? 

In Washington, Republicans are demanding sweeping policy changes to remake our immigration system in Donald Trump’s image. Reforming our broken immigration system should be a top priority, but Trump-era policy like separating families and ending asylum is not right, and it does not work to solve the problem. In fact, such policies only empower criminal organizations, endanger migrant families, and create disorder.

Here’s the truth: Republican officials want our immigration system to be broken. Instead of adding more immigration judges and administrative staff, or setting up safe, orderly pathways to migration, they would rather stoke fear and make the situation worse.

What Republican officials have floated wouldn’t even improve conditions at the border. Policies like Title 42, Remain in Mexico, mandatory detention, and mass deportations won’t fix the underlying problems. In fact, they’ll make them much, much more chaotic and dysfunctional. We know this because they’ve been tried before. It’s just more soundbites for FOX News.

We cannot allow immigrants to be the scapegoat in right wing legislators’ political games. We cannot abandon our nation’s long commitment to asylum. And we cannot pass legislation that would empower a future Trump presidency with unlimited power to inflict harm on immigrants and asylum seekers.

Immigrants make our country better. That’s always been and will always be true. All families deserve to live dignified lives free from fear of being separated, deported, or discriminated against. 

You can rest assured that I’ll keep fighting for real immigration reform that lives up to our nation’s values. If you want to support Team Casar in that fight, consider chipping in here to support our work.

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Thank you,

-Greg

Greg Casar
Congressman 
Texas Congressional District 35

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5 Biggest Lies Trump Tells about Immigration

 Trump and his GOP lackeys are fueling dangerous nativism 

Robert Reich, 

Some of you ask why I spend so much time and effort writing to you, the “converted,” rather than aim at people who disagree with us. My answer is that we are engaged in the fight of our lifetimes to uphold the fundamental ideals upon which this nation is based. Many of you can make use of data and arguments to reaffirm those ideals and help convince others who are wavering or still reachable. 

Take immigration, which is being demagogued by Trump and his Republican sycophants. 

Here are Trump Republicans’ five biggest lies about immigration, and the truth. 

1. They claim Biden doesn’t want to stem illegal immigration and has created an “open border.”

Rubbish. Since he took office, Biden has consistently asked for additional funding for border control. 

Republicans have just as consistently refused. They’re voting to cut Customs and Border Protection funding in spending bills and blocking passage of Biden’s $106 billion national security supplemental that includes border funding. 

2. They blame the drug crisis on illegal immigration.

Last Wednesday, at the southern border in Texas, Republican House Speaker Michael Johnson claimed “America is at a breaking point with record levels of illegal immigration. We have lethal drugs that are pouring into our country at record levels.”

Rubbish. While large amounts of fentanyl and other deadly drugs have been flowing into the United States from Mexico, 90% arrives through official ports of entry, not via immigrants illegally crossing the border. In fact, research by the conservative Cato Institute found that more than 86% of the people convicted of trafficking fentanyl across the border in 2021 were U.S. citizens.

3. They claim that undocumented immigrants are terrorists.

Johnson also charged that “312 suspects on the terrorist watch list that have been apprehended — we have no idea how many terrorists have come into the country and set up terrorism cells across the nation.”

Baloney. America’s southern border has not been an entry point for terrorists. For almost a half-century, no American has been killed or injured in a terrorist attack in the United States that involved someone who crossed the border illegally. 

Johnson’s number comes from government data showing that from October 2020 to November 2023, 312 migrants — out of more than 6.2 million who crossed the southern border during these years — matched names on the terrorist watch list. It’s unclear how many were actual matches and whether the FBI considered them national security threats (the watch list includes family relations of terrorist suspects, many of whom are not considered to be involved in terrorist activity).

Republican Representative Mark Green, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, said that FBI “Director Wray admitted before my committee the other day … that with the border wide open and a war in Israel, Hamas can just walk right in. That’s the director of the FBI. He fears for his own agents. It’s clear this is intentional.”

Alarmist rubbish. At that November 15 hearing, after Green asked Wray whether people on the terrorism watch list could be among those who entered the country without detection, Wray replied that there was no way to know. When Green then asked whether Wray could guarantee that Hamas wasn’t among them, Wray said, “What I can tell you is that our 56 joint terrorism task forces are working their tails off to make sure that they suss out and identify potential terrorist suspects, whether they’re on the watch list or not.”