I think this law could work going forward. Not sure it could be retroactive
Also Congress is better than an EO but I get the frustration. I'm o the thought that those here who work hard and stay out of trouble basically won the lottery because the optics of deporting millions is not going to happen
Secure the border. Stop birth tourism. End chain immigration. Deport the criminals and we'll talk about one last final amnesty. Reagan got rolled by the democrats.
Americans prepared to protest against his family separation policy this summer, a US immigration agency quietly shared a memo that set off alarms for immigration activists and attorneys.
The memo was wonky and complicated. The policy it announced wouldn’t come into effect for months.
And while it represented a fundamental change in how a key immigration agency operates, it slipped past most people’s radar, joining a flurry of quiet policy changes that have made legal and illegal immigration to the US more difficult without many noticing.
“It is breathtaking, how sweeping and deep the policy and legal changes are that this administration has ushered in within a period of just two years,” Gregory Chen, director of government relations for the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), told the Guardian
These changes hit every angle of the immigration system, from assailing humanitarian protections with the family separation policy to restricting workers travelling on the so-called “high-skilled” H-1B visa with a plan to revoke their spouses’ work permits.
“While the border wall is what this president talks about so much to the media, behind the scenes his administration is constructing all sorts of policies that are erecting an invisible wall,” Chen said.
To glimpse the sheer scale of these efforts, consider the final week of November.
The US government closed the busiest land border crossing in the world for five hours after dozens of Central Americans rushed the border. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) asked the military to keep troops at the border through January, after the military had already spent $72m to send nearly 6,000 to the border. DHS also asked civilian police to be sent to the border. A federal judge refused the US government’s request to enforce an asylum ban he said the government had not proved was legal. Another judge ruled the US government could not force states and cities known as “sanctuary cities” to cooperate with federal immigration authorities to receive federal funding. Trump tweeted a lie about the federal assistance undocumented immigrants receive. Baltimore sued the Trump administration over a proposed immigration rule. The US health department’s internal watchdog said it was concerned staff at a teen migrant shelter had not been adequately vetted. Outside of Trump administration rumblings in courts and the Capitol, a Pew Research report released that week showed the number of undocumented immigrants in the US was at the lowest level since 2004. And a nurse deported to Mexico in 2017 returned to the US after getting a visa to enter the US legally.
Americans prepared to protest against his family separation policy this summer, a US immigration agency quietly shared a memo that set off alarms for immigration activists and attorneys.
The memo was wonky and complicated. The policy it announced wouldn’t come into effect for months.
And while it represented a fundamental change in how a key immigration agency operates, it slipped past most people’s radar, joining a flurry of quiet policy changes that have made legal and illegal immigration to the US more difficult without many noticing.
“It is breathtaking, how sweeping and deep the policy and legal changes are that this administration has ushered in within a period of just two years,” Gregory Chen, director of government relations for the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), told the Guardian
These changes hit every angle of the immigration system, from assailing humanitarian protections with the family separation policy to restricting workers travelling on the so-called “high-skilled” H-1B visa with a plan to revoke their spouses’ work permits.
“While the border wall is what this president talks about so much to the media, behind the scenes his administration is constructing all sorts of policies that are erecting an invisible wall,” Chen said.
To glimpse the sheer scale of these efforts, consider the final week of November.
The US government closed the busiest land border crossing in the world for five hours after dozens of Central Americans rushed the border. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) asked the military to keep troops at the border through January, after the military had already spent $72m to send nearly 6,000 to the border. DHS also asked civilian police to be sent to the border. A federal judge refused the US government’s request to enforce an asylum ban he said the government had not proved was legal. Another judge ruled the US government could not force states and cities known as “sanctuary cities” to cooperate with federal immigration authorities to receive federal funding. Trump tweeted a lie about the federal assistance undocumented immigrants receive. Baltimore sued the Trump administration over a proposed immigration rule. The US health department’s internal watchdog said it was concerned staff at a teen migrant shelter had not been adequately vetted. Outside of Trump administration rumblings in courts and the Capitol, a Pew Research report released that week showed the number of undocumented immigrants in the US was at the lowest level since 2004. And a nurse deported to Mexico in 2017 returned to the US after getting a visa to enter the US legally.
Why didn't he do anything?
He still didn't do the citizenship thing is my point.
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Also Congress is better than an EO but I get the frustration. I'm o the thought that those here who work hard and stay out of trouble basically won the lottery because the optics of deporting millions is not going to happen
Secure the border. Stop birth tourism. End chain immigration. Deport the criminals and we'll talk about one last final amnesty. Reagan got rolled by the democrats.
Then he got impeached 7 times
Americans prepared to protest against his family separation policy this summer, a US immigration agency quietly shared a memo that set off alarms for immigration activists and attorneys.
The memo was wonky and complicated. The policy it announced wouldn’t come into effect for months.
And while it represented a fundamental change in how a key immigration agency operates, it slipped past most people’s radar, joining a flurry of quiet policy changes that have made legal and illegal immigration to the US more difficult without many noticing.
“It is breathtaking, how sweeping and deep the policy and legal changes are that this administration has ushered in within a period of just two years,” Gregory Chen, director of government relations for the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), told the Guardian
These changes hit every angle of the immigration system, from assailing humanitarian protections with the family separation policy to restricting workers travelling on the so-called “high-skilled” H-1B visa with a plan to revoke their spouses’ work permits.
“While the border wall is what this president talks about so much to the media, behind the scenes his administration is constructing all sorts of policies that are erecting an invisible wall,” Chen said.
To glimpse the sheer scale of these efforts, consider the final week of November.
The US government closed the busiest land border crossing in the world for five hours after dozens of Central Americans rushed the border.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) asked the military to keep troops at the border through January, after the military had already spent $72m to send nearly 6,000 to the border.
DHS also asked civilian police to be sent to the border.
A federal judge refused the US government’s request to enforce an asylum ban he said the government had not proved was legal.
Another judge ruled the US government could not force states and cities known as “sanctuary cities” to cooperate with federal immigration authorities to receive federal funding.
Trump tweeted a lie about the federal assistance undocumented immigrants receive.
Baltimore sued the Trump administration over a proposed immigration rule.
The US health department’s internal watchdog said it was concerned staff at a teen migrant shelter had not been adequately vetted.
Outside of Trump administration rumblings in courts and the Capitol, a Pew Research report released that week showed the number of undocumented immigrants in the US was at the lowest level since 2004.
And a nurse deported to Mexico in 2017 returned to the US after getting a visa to enter the US legally.
Why didn't he do anything?