That is completely bigoted and racist against those in need that come to the USA border for asylum from slavery, life threatening danger including climate refugees and/or complete impoverishment due to political constraints in another country. Venezuela, under Chavez, used to send his young people to be educated in the USA at the college level. When they were finished they were encouraged to remain in the USA by the Venezuelan government rather than returning to the country and improving the quality of life there. That is a reason to revoke a visa or otherwise, but, the people coming to the borders of the USA today are families with children.
Office of the Citizenship and Immigration Services Ombudsman (click here) just have their hands full long about now.
The immigration offices of the USA can't simply throw out an application because it has the wrong publication and printing date. The correct date is at the bottom of the form.
This is outrageous. The immigration offices are CAUSING a backlog and prolonging immigration and asylum. Immigration is at the very heart of the history of a strong country and economy. The USA thrives because of immigration.
Controlling immigration was due to the fact companies seeking wealth were bringing foreign citizens to the USA for cheap labor. The work was dangerous and the lives of the foreign citizens were never valued and certainly they didn't carry the brevity of the vote. But, controlling immigration has become more or less an political act to satisfy cronies, such as the Kushners (click here).
1. Early American Immigration Policies (click here) Americans encouraged relatively free and open immigration during the 18th and early 19th centuries, and rarely
questioned that policy until the late 1800s. After certain states passed immigration laws following the Civil War,
the Supreme Court in 1875 declared regulation of immigration a federal responsibility. Thus, as the number of
immigrants rose in the 1880s and economic conditions in some areas worsened, Congress began to pass
immigration legislation.
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and Alien Contract Labor laws of 1885 and 1887 prohibited certain laborers
from immigrating to the United States. The general Immigration Act of 1882 levied a head tax of fifty cents on each
immigrant and blocked (or excluded) the entry of idiots, lunatics, convicts, and persons likely to become a public
charge.
These national immigration laws created the need for new federal enforcement authorities. In the 1880s, state
boards or commissions enforced immigration law with direction from U.S. Treasury Department officials. At the
Federal level, U.S. Customs Collectors at each port of entry collected the head tax from immigrants while "Chinese
Inspectors" enforced the Chinese Exclusion Act.
But, the sincere immigration of people in need is historical and makes for a far stronger country when those that come here work hard to make their lives and the lives of their family better.
Trump made the issue of immigration a fear tactic, when in fact, immigration is necessary if an economy is in need of workers. At the time Trump was mocking immigration to enforce fear there were cities in the USA that wanted immigrates. I don't think those needs have been filed yet and the idea that sending immigrants into USA courts to fight for their lives is completely counter productive.
...All of which has some Republicans in Michigan (click here) scratching their heads about why the national conservative discussion on immigration is being forced on Michigan. “We have a city like Detroit that needs human capital, we have agricultural interests that need people to harvest their crops and we have the largest Arab community in the country,” says Republican attorney Richard McLellan, who served in the Ford administration, both Bush administrations, and worked for Michigan Republican governors William Milliken and John Engler. “From my perspective, anti-immigrant issues don’t really exist very much in Michigan.”...
Immigration in the USA needs to be fixed. It needs to be reidentified as a good and benevolent act. What is happening in Texas is anti-American, anti-economy and anti-Constitutional law as the federal borders do not belong to the Texas Governor to reek havoc. It is all the toxic, racist and bigoted Texas politics that is causing harm to human beings seeking to live a little longer due to climate, poverty and harsh governments.
by Uriel J. Garcia and Alex Nguyen
El Paso - National Guard members and state troopers (click here) formed a line on the banks of the Rio Grande on Tuesday and blocked dozens of migrants who had already crossed the river from surrendering to nearby Border Patrol agents.
About 75 men, women and children stood on a narrow strip of concrete between the river and the guard members, facing coils of razor wire, seven National Guard members holding rifles and two state troopers as a National Guard member holding a bullhorn told them in Spanish that they would not be able to enter the country here and directed them to a port of entry.
Border Patrol agents positioned behind the National Guard and state troopers watched the standoff. A Border Patrol spokesperson on site said Border Patrol agents would not process the migrants....
The Pentagon needs to review the reasons the Texas National Guard is being used by the Texas Governor.
The immigration courts need to rule on the constantly changing forms and reforming of lines for cases. The immigration courts are embarrassingly slow to move the cases forward because of all the ever changing regulations both state and federal.
Enough already. These people have real reasons to show up at the border and it isn't because they wanted to just take a chance a dangerous walk would win a lottery for them. They are looking for humanitarian relief from the lives they left behind. They are looking for work. It is called civilization.
