There have been scores of people on protected status who were respected members of communities who have been arbitrarily snatched up by ICE and have incited those very communities to speak and protest in outrage. Many with American born children.
Many of them have been taken at courthouses, where they were going to meet with authorities and attempting to further their attempts at full legal status. Scheduled appointments. Doing things the right way.
You are going to create a problem here, if folks are afraid of keeping their appointments because ICE is hanging out, waiting for them, will they still follow the rules? ICE is nabbing these people with no warrants, flying them out of the state they live in and holding them in facilities sometimes a thousand miles from home with no legal representation and no contact with family.
Don’t do that. That’s not a popular position so it’s done differently
As of right now all refugee programs except for one have been suspended. The only way legal immigration is currently allowed is through the investment program.
Before 1900, practically everywhere was a craphole by today’s standards. Philadelphia had a yellow fever epidemic in 1793 and multiple typhoid outbreaks throughout the 19th century.
Turning American cities into giant homeless encampments is not a step forward.
everyone simmer down. DJT got the reins and has seen the light.
“Our great Farmers and people in the Hotel and Leisure business have been stating that our very aggressive policy on immigration is taking very good, long time workers away from them, with those jobs being almost impossible to replace. In many cases the Criminals allowed into our Country by the VERY Stupid Biden Open Borders Policy are applying for those jobs. This is not good. We must protect our Farmers, but get the CRIMINALS OUT OF THE USA. Changes are coming!”
You are talking about people who were given temporary status by the Biden administration when they crossed the border, instead of having expedited removal applied. They were given hearing dates. Those hearing dates are cancelled when they show up. When that happens, they no longer have any status and expedited removal is applied. Expedited removal is a process enacted in the 1990s and has been accepted since then.
If they don’t show up for their hearing, temporary status is ended and a removal order is issued.
They have gotten their due process. What some don’t like is that the end result of due process for someone who enters the country illegally is that they be sent back home. I have seen people say “but they followed all the rules”. Ok, but the rules say you go home.
Yeah. None of this would have been a big issue if the prior administration hadn’t opened the flood gates. Now those who would probably been left alone with jobs they had held for years are being caught up and there is no law around to,exempt them from deportation.
So what are those changes that are coming? A new law, executive order or policy? And what will it look like?
It’d be a good opportunity for the admin to bring a comprehensive immigration bill forward that includes a healthy temporary worker policy but I don’t see that happening. In the meantime DJT can waver back and forth depending on who has his ear at the moment.
Trump proposed an immigration reform bill in his first term that was rejected by Democrats. It moved largely from chain migration to allowing immigration based on the country’s economic needs, and legalized and expanded DACA. Perhaps it is time to submit a similar bill.
The Gang of Eight bill in 2013 got overwhelming Senate support with a vote of 68–32 but it died in the House. The political environment has changed so much since then so its probably not possible and Trump is not the Nixonian politician to do that anyway.
The 2017 Raise bill had some good elements: the points system is a good idea and a version of it needs to be brought into a future bill but the low cap on green cards and restrictions on chain migration to Green cards meant it never had a chance even among Republicans of that era.
We already have legal means for these types of workers:
In other words, there’s no need for so-called “comprehensive immigration reform,” when likely all that is needed is to tweak the laws already in place.
Adding to Scardina’s annoyance, the men had valid work permits and pending asylum applications, according to their attorney Regilucia Smith. “They are legally here,” she said. “Valid work permit, not even close to expired… again, no criminal records—not here, not in Nicaragua.”
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why are we deporting people with valid work permits?
