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April 12, 2024
Immigration

Senate Dems Demand Work Permits for Illegals to Boost Profits.

Senate Democrats have reintroduced legislation that could further exacerbate the immigration crisis at the southern border by granting illegal immigrants working in the agricultural sector a pathway to legal status. First introduced in 2022, the Affordable and Secure Food Act — backed by Sens. Michael Bennet (D-CO) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) — would provide a 10-year process for illegals working in agriculture to become legal immigrants with work visas. The legislation would also expand H-2A visas to include non-seasonal employment.

The legislation’s Democrat proponents point to the ongoing surge in food prices as the impetus for the changes. They contend that flooding the American agricultural sector with cheap, immigrant labor will alleviate grocery costs and stymie ongoing farm closures. However, some experts have argued that mass illegal immigration actually threatens the food supply.

The National Pulse previously reported that the expansive reliance on immigrant labor has suppressed American wages and artificially boosted the labor market. Labor force participation among native-born Americans has yet to recover to pre-pandemic levels.

One significant provision of the act is the establishment of a Certified Agricultural Worker status. This would grant illegal immigrant workers legal rights to employment in America and authorize them to travel internationally with a guarantee of re-entry. Immediate family members would also be given legal status, further incentivizing illegal immigration and the abuse of chain migration.

Sens. Bennet and Gillibrand aren’t the only Democrats pushing for granting potentially millions of illegal immigrants legal status. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is urging the Biden government to authorize work permits for over half a million illegal immigrants currently residing in Illinois — arguing the move would help alleviate the strain they’ve placed on public assistance programs.

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Senate Democrats have reintroduced legislation that could further exacerbate the immigration crisis at the southern border by granting illegal immigrants working in the agricultural sector a pathway to legal status. First introduced in 2022, the Affordable and Secure Food Act — backed by Sens. Michael Bennet (D-CO) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) — would provide a 10-year process for illegals working in agriculture to become legal immigrants with work visas. The legislation would also expand H-2A visas to include non-seasonal employment. show more
April 1, 2024
Immigration

This U.S. Immigration Quirk May be About to Change… For The Worse.

The U.S. Supreme Court is preparing to hear a case that has the potential to weaken a critical component of federal immigration law dramatically. At the center of the case is the doctrine of “consular nonreviewability.” The legal doctrine states that a consular official’s decision to refuse a visa to a foreign individual cannot be subjected to judicial review.

Proponents of the doctrine argue that the legal doctrine is essential to the smooth operation of our immigration system. Open borders advocates, meanwhile, contend that the doctrine should be relaxed on constitutional grounds and in favor of family unity.

DEPARTMENT OF STATE v. MUNOZ.

The case began when U.S. citizen Sandra Munoz contested the denial of an immigration visa for her Salvadoran husband, Luis Asencio-Cordero, who had been living in the U.S. illegally. A consular officer denied Asencio-Cordero’s visa, citing his gang tattoos as evidence that he was a member of MS-13.

In July of last year, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit overturned a previous district court ruling in favor of the federal government. The judges argued that the application of the consular nonreviewability doctrine violated the Due Process Clause of the U.S. Constitution. The 9th Circuit ruled that Ms. Munoz had “a fundamental liberty interest in their marriage” and “a liberty interest in residing in their country of citizenship.”

‘AN ADMINISTRATIVE NIGHTMARE.’

In a dissenting opinion, 9th Circuit Appellate Judge Patrick Bumatay noted that the “speedy-notice requirement will be an administrative nightmare. Now consular officers will have to sift through countless visa applications to determine who is entitled to the heightened notice by relation to some citizen.”

The government’s appeal of the 9th Circuit decision in Department of State v. Munoz will be heard by the Supreme Court on April 23.

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The U.S. Supreme Court is preparing to hear a case that has the potential to weaken a critical component of federal immigration law dramatically. At the center of the case is the doctrine of "consular nonreviewability." The legal doctrine states that a consular official’s decision to refuse a visa to a foreign individual cannot be subjected to judicial review. show more
March 20, 2024
Crime
Immigration

Here’s How Gangs Exploit America’s Visa System to Burglarize U.S. Homes.

U.S. authorities are cautioning against a growing burglary trend in which foreign culprits — primarily from Chile — are exploiting a State Department travel program to plan to execute robberies in upscale American neighborhoods. The U.S. Visa Waiver Program permits tourists and business travelers from Chile to enter the States for a maximum of 90 days without requiring a visa or a thorough vetting process.

These criminals utilize sophisticated techniques to perpetrate burglaries in upscale neighborhoods. Some methods and technology deployed by the criminal burglary rings include cellphone-jamming equipment to bypass security systems, Wi-Fi networks, and ghillie suits to go incognito, lurking and awaiting opportune moments to break into houses. They frequently gain access through less-guarded second-floor entrance points and later dispose of the stolen goods domestically or internationally. The stolen items are quickly fenced, and the ill-gotten monetary gains are returned to Chile.

According to Orange County D.A. Todd Spitzer, these burglaries are well-orchestrated assaults undermining the domestic security of American households. Incidents of thievery, reported from Michigan, New Jersey, and New York to Alaska and Southern California, have incited a public outcry for officials to put an end to the heists. Police in  Los Angeles have launched a special task force to apprehend the burglars.

Under the Visa Waiver Program, Chile is obligated to conduct criminal background checks and share results with the U.S. This agreement hasn’t been successfully executed, Spitzer’s office alleges. This lapse has resulted in hardened criminals appearing only as first-time offenders when apprehended in the U.S., underscoring the critical need for policy reassessment. Consequently, Spitzer’s office and top law enforcement sources have urged the State Department and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to reconsider Chile’s participation in the Visa Waiver Program.

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U.S. authorities are cautioning against a growing burglary trend in which foreign culprits — primarily from Chile — are exploiting a State Department travel program to plan to execute robberies in upscale American neighborhoods. The U.S. Visa Waiver Program permits tourists and business travelers from Chile to enter the States for a maximum of 90 days without requiring a visa or a thorough vetting process. show more
biden orban
August 30, 2023
William Upton
Immigration
News
World

Joe Biden’s State Dept is Picking a Fight With Orban’s Hungary Over Ukraine.

Joe Biden’s State Department appears to be punishing the European nation of Hungary for its democratically elected government’s policies, implementing bizarre new rules for a visa waiver program, and causing a diplomatic row in requiring the country to submits swathes of additional data about its citizens.

Bence Rétvári, the Hungarian Secretary of State stressed that Hungary has worked in active cooperation with U.S. authorities to prosecute any individual who has obtained false Hungarian citizenship or other documentation, while insisting that the U.S. data request regarding Hungarian citizens is more about geopolitics – especially Ukraine – than U.S. immigration policy.

The Hungarian government is most concerned that the handing over detailed information on 900,000 Hungarians to the U.S. could endanger Hungarian citizens living abroad. One particular sticking point is Hungarian-Ukrainian relations. Zoltan Kovacs, a spokesman for the Hungarian government stressed, “…the U.S. provided no guarantee that the data of Hungarians from Transcarpathia would not be disclosed to Ukraine which would have grave consequences for Hungarians there due to the ban on dual citizenship in Ukraine.”

In a dig at President Joe Biden’s inability to secure the U.S.’s own southern border, Balázs Orbán, Political Director for Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, posted on X (formerly Twitter) a quote from a story in The National Interest: “The security of the United States is not threatened by Hungarian ESTA holders, but by the millions of unchecked illegal immigrants who have been arriving in the territory of the United States.”

 

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Joe Biden's State Department appears to be punishing the European nation of Hungary for its democratically elected government's policies, implementing bizarre new rules for a visa waiver program, and causing a diplomatic row in requiring the country to submits swathes of additional data about its citizens. show more
trump immigration plan
August 22, 2023
William Upton
News
Politics

Trump Immigration Plan Declares Cartels ‘Enemy Combatants’. 

Former President Trump has unveiled a new plan declaring Mexican drug cartels as “unlawful enemy combatants”, as well as taking aim at loopholes in the American visa and asylum systems, ending birthright citizenship, and finishing his infamous border wall.

The cartel designation means the U.S. military could be used to deal with America’s ongoing, and worsening border crisis, while the overhauls to the visa system would reinstate “Remain in Mexico” – a system that prevents asylum seekers from waiting in the U.S. for their court dates.

Stephen Miller, a former senior advisor in the Trump White House, called the proposal “pure bliss”.

The plan will enforce laws that, while still in effect, have been ignored by prior presidential administrations; including reviving the McCarran Internal Security Act’s ideological restrictions barring Marxists, fascists, and other subversives from obtaining U.S. citizenship. The plan lays out the case for using statutory authority under the Alien and Sedition Acts to expedite the deportation of illegal migrants who have criminal records, or are gang members.

During the previous Trump presidency, his administration increased scrutiny of H-1B “specialty skill” visa applicants in order to protect American workers from being replaced with cheaper H-!B immigrant labor. In 2017, Trump signed the ‘Buy American, Hire American’ executive order that required U.S. immigration officials to conduct more thorough investigations of visa applicants and asylum-seekers. Challenges to H-1B requests rose by 45 percent after the executive order was implemented.

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Former President Trump has unveiled a new plan declaring Mexican drug cartels as “unlawful enemy combatants”, as well as taking aim at loopholes in the American visa and asylum systems, ending birthright citizenship, and finishing his infamous border wall. show more