Biden border restrictions bring sharp drop in illegal crossings

[Tom Paris]

15 Myths About Immigration Debunked | Immigration | Carnegie Corporation of New York

Alex Nowrasteh of the Cato Institute offers nonpartisan facts in response to common myths about immigration

www.carnegie.org

Just leaving this here since so many right wingers are terrified of immigrants.

 

[binsfeldcyhawk2]

It's Congress' responsibility.

He negotiated in good faith and GOP cogressional leadership reneged under orders from Trump.

True.

It's also true Joe had the power to do what he's doing now 3 years ago.

 

[FAUlty Gator]

15 Myths About Immigration Debunked | Immigration | Carnegie Corporation of New York

Alex Nowrasteh of the Cato Institute offers nonpartisan facts in response to common myths about immigration

www.carnegie.org

Just leaving this here since so many right wingers are terrified of immigrants.

With the exception of a couple (7 and 8 namely) I’ve never heard anyone espousing these fantasy myths this guy is arguing against. 13 strawmen in one article is tough to beat.

And even the ones you do hear people saying he’s using a dumb approach to arguing. Who gives a shit about the odds of a terrorist being illegal or not. The simple fact you have 14 million extra unvettted people here increases the odds. Period. It only takes ONE major attack to have a 20 year negative affect.

And his #12 FACT is completely idiotic.

MYTH #1: “Immigrants will take American jobs, lower wages, and especially hurt the poor.”

MYTH #2: “It is easy to immigrate here legally. Why don’t illegal immigrants just get in line?”

MYTH #3: “Immigrants abuse the welfare state.”

MYTH #4: “Immigrants increase the budget deficit and government debt.”

MYTH #5: “Immigrants increase economic inequality.”

MYTH #6: “Today’s immigrants don’t assimilate as immigrants from previous eras did.”

MYTH #9: “The United States has the most open immigration policy in the world.”

MYTH #10: “Amnesty or a failure to enforce our immigration laws will destroy the Rule of Law in the United States.”

MYTH #11: “Illegal immigration or expanding legal immigration will destroy American national sovereignty.”


MYTH #12: “Immigrants won’t vote for the Republican Party — look at what happened to California.”

FACT: Republican immigration policies pushed immigrants away, not the other way around. THIS IS WRONG AND STUPID. Take a look at how the Hispanic numbers are trending BECAUSE of how Dems handle immigration.

MYTH #13: “Immigrants bring with them bad cultures, ideas, or other factors that will undermine and destroy our economic and political institutions. The resultant weakening in economic growth means that immigrants will destroy more wealth than they will create over the long run.”

MYTH #14: “The brain drain of smart immigrants to the United States impoverishes other countries.”

MYTH #15: “Immigrants will increase crowding, harm the environment, and [insert misanthropic statement here].”

 

[torbee]

True.

It's also true Joe had the power to do what he's doing now 3 years ago.

Why would you enact an EO if you are of the belief Congress is negotiating in good faith?

 

[binsfeldcyhawk2]

Why would you enact an EO if you are of the belief Congress is negotiating in good faith?

Ummm...D's had control of congress Joe's first 2 years. Obviously wasn't a priority.

Your argument is Joe waited 3 and half years to do anything because he was waiting on congress? Good luck with that.

 

[Rifler]

Why would you enact an EO if you are of the belief Congress is negotiating in good faith?

Who would ever believe that Congress was even remotely close to addressing border legislation?,... Biden disabled all of Trump's EO patches and then sat back and watched the border explode,.. This is Joe's making.

 

[torbee]

Ummm...D's had control of congress Joe's first 2 years. Obviously wasn't a priority.

Your argument is Joe waited 3 and half years to do anything because he was waiting on congress? Good luck with that.

That is untrue.

He sent a bill to Congress in 2021. Guess who voted it down?

Fact Sheet: President Biden Sends Immigration Bill to Congress as Part of His Commitment to Modernize our Immigration System​

1. HOME
2. BRIEFING ROOM
3. STATEMENTS AND RELEASES

The U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021 establishes a new system to responsibly manage and secure our border, keep our families and communities safe, and better manage migration across the Hemisphere
President Biden is sending a bill to Congress on day one to restore humanity and American values to our immigration system. The bill provides hardworking people who enrich our communities every day and who have lived here for years, in some cases for decades, an opportunity to earn citizenship. The legislation modernizes our immigration system, and prioritizes keeping families together, growing our economy, responsibly managing the border with smart investments, addressing the root causes of migration from Central America, and ensuring that the United States remains a refuge for those fleeing persecution. The bill will stimulate our economy while ensuring that every worker is protected. The bill creates an earned path to citizenship for our immigrant neighbors, colleagues, parishioners, community leaders, friends, and loved ones—including Dreamers and the essential workers who have risked their lives to serve and protect American communities.
The U.S. Citizenship Act will:
PROVIDE PATHWAYS TO CITIZENSHIP & STRENGTHEN LABOR PROTECTIONS

• Create an earned roadmap to citizenship for undocumented individuals. The bill allows undocumented individuals to apply for temporary legal status, with the ability to apply for green cards after five years if they pass criminal and national security background checks and pay their taxes. Dreamers, TPS holders, and immigrant farmworkers who meet specific requirements are eligible for green cards immediately under the legislation. After three years, all green card holders who pass additional background checks and demonstrate knowledge of English and U.S. civics can apply to become citizens. Applicants must be physically present in the United States on or before January 1, 2021. The Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) may waive the presence requirement for those deported on or after January 20, 2017 who were physically present for at least three years prior to removal for family unity and other humanitarian purposes. Lastly, the bill further recognizes America as a nation of immigrants by changing the word “alien” to “noncitizen” in our immigration laws.
• Keep families together. The bill reforms the family-based immigration system by clearing backlogs, recapturing unused visas, eliminating lengthy wait times, and increasing per-country visa caps. It also eliminates the so-called “3 and 10-year bars,” and other provisions that keep families apart. The bill further supports familes by more explicitly including permanent partnerships and eliminating discrimination facing LGBTQ+ families. It also provides protections for orphans, widows, children, and Filipino veterans who fought alongside the United States in World War II. Lastly, the bill allows immigrants with approved family-sponsorship petitions to join family in the United States on a temporary basis while they wait for green cards to become available.
• otections for foreign nationals assisting U.S. troops.

 

[torbee]

• Embrace diversity. The bill includes the NO BAN Act that prohibits discrimination based on religion and limits presidential authority to issue future bans. The bill also increases Diversity Visas to 80,000 from 55,000.
• Promote immigrant and refugee integration and citizenship. The bill provides new funding to state and local governments, private organizations, educational institutions, community-based organizations, and not-for-profit organizations to expand programs to promote integration and inclusion, increase English-language instruction, and provide assistance to individuals seeking to become citizens.
• Grow our economy. This bill clears employment-based visa backlogs, recaptures unused visas, reduces lengthy wait times, and eliminates per-country visa caps. The bill makes it easier for graduates of U.S. universities with advanced STEM degrees to stay in the United States; improves access to green cards for workers in lower-wage sectors; and eliminates other unnecessary hurdles for employment-based green cards. The bill provides dependents of H-1B visa holders work authorization, and children are prevented from “aging out” of the system. The bill also creates a pilot program to stimulate regional economic development, gives DHS the authority to adjust green cards based on macroeconomic conditions, and incentivizes higher wages for non-immigrant, high-skilled visas to prevent unfair competition with American workers.
• Protect workers from exploitation and improve the employment verification process. The bill requires that DHS and the Department of Labor establish a commission involving labor, employer, and civil rights organizations to make recommendations for improving the employment verification process. Workers who suffer serious labor violations and cooperate with worker protection agencies will be granted greater access to U visa relief. The bill protects workers who are victims of workplace retaliation from deportation in order to allow labor agencies to interview these workers. It also protects migrant and seasonal workers, and increases penalties for employers who violate labor laws.

PRIORITIZE SMART BORDER CONTROLS

• Supplement existing border resources with technology and infrastructure. The legislation builds on record budget allocations for immigration enforcement by authorizing additional funding for the Secretary of DHS to develop and implement a plan to deploy technology to expedite screening and enhance the ability to identify narcotics and other contraband at every land, air, and sea port of entry. This includes high-throughput scanning technologies to ensure that all commercial and passenger vehicles and freight rail traffic entering the United States at land ports of entry and rail-border crossings along the border undergo pre-primary scanning. It also authorizes and provides funding for plans to improve infrastructure at ports of entry to enhance the ability to process asylum seekers and detect, interdict, disrupt and prevent narcotics from entering the United States. It authorizes the DHS Secretary to develop and implement a strategy to manage and secure the southern border between ports of entry that focuses on flexible solutions and technologies that expand the ability to detect illicit activity, evaluate the effectiveness of border security operations, and be easily relocated and broken out by Border Patrol Sector. To protect privacy, the DHS Inspector General is authorized to conduct oversight to ensure that employed technology effectively serves legitimate agency purposes.
• Manage the border and protect border communities. The bill provides funding for training and continuing education to promote agent and officer safety and professionalism. It also creates a Border Community Stakeholder Advisory Committee, provides more special agents at the DHS Office of Professional Responsibility to investigate criminal and administrative misconduct, and requires the issuance of department-wide policies governing the use of force. The bill directs the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to study the impact of DHS’s authority to waive environmental and state and federal laws to expedite the construction of barriers and roads near U.S. borders and provides for additional rescue beacons to prevent needless deaths along the border. The bill authorizes and provides funding for DHS, in coordination with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and nongovernmental experts, to develop guidelines and protocols for standards of care for individuals, families, and children in CBP custody.
• Crack down on criminal organizations. The bill enhances the ability to prosecute individuals involved in smuggling and trafficking networks who are responsible for the exploitation of migrants. It also expands investigations, intelligence collection and analysis pursuant to the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act to increase sanctions against foreign narcotics traffickers, their organizations and networks. The bill also requires the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and DHS, in coordination with the Secretary of State, to improve and expand transnational anti-gang task forces in Central America.

ADDRESS ROOT CAUSES OF MIGRATION

• Start from the source. The bill codifies and funds the President’s $4 billion four-year inter-agency plan to address the underlying causes of migration in the region, including by increasing assistance to El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, conditioned on their ability to reduce the endemic corruption, violence, and poverty that causes people to flee their home countries. It also creates safe and legal channels for people to seek protection, including by establishing Designated Processing Centers throughout Central America to register and process displaced persons for refugee resettlement and other lawful migration avenues—either to the United States or other partner countries. The bill also re-institutes the Central American Minors program to reunite children with U.S. relatives and creates a Central American Family Reunification Parole Program to more quickly unite families with approved family sponsorship petitions.
• Improve the immigration courts and protect vulnerable individuals. The bill expands family case management programs, reduces immigration court backlogs, expands training for immigration judges, and improves technology for immigration courts. The bill also restores fairness and balance to our immigration system by providing judges and adjudicators with discretion to review cases and grant relief to deserving individuals. Funding is authorized for legal orientation programs and counsel for children, vulnerable individuals, and others when necessary to ensure the fair and efficient resolution of their claims. The bill also provides funding for school districts educating unaccompanied children, while clarifying sponsor responsibilities for such children.
• Support asylum seekers and other vulnerable populations. The bill eliminates the one-year deadline for filing asylum claims and provides funding to reduce asylum application backlogs. It also increases protections for U visa, T visa, and VAWA applicants, including by raising the cap on U visas from 10,000 to 30,000. The bill also expands pr

 

[torbee]

And if you are interested on how long Congress has been kicking this can, this sums it up well:

Congress has failed over 20 years to reform immigration: here's a timeline

The outlook for any meaningful immigration reform in the new Congress is bleak.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[binsfeldcyhawk2]

That is untrue.

He sent a bill to Congress in 2021. Guess who voted it down?

Fact Sheet: President Biden Sends Immigration Bill to Congress as Part of His Commitment to Modernize our Immigration System​

1. HOME
2. BRIEFING ROOM
3. STATEMENTS AND RELEASES

The U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021 establishes a new system to responsibly manage and secure our border, keep our families and communities safe, and better manage migration across the Hemisphere
President Biden is sending a bill to Congress on day one to restore humanity and American values to our immigration system. The bill provides hardworking people who enrich our communities every day and who have lived here for years, in some cases for decades, an opportunity to earn citizenship. The legislation modernizes our immigration system, and prioritizes keeping families together, growing our economy, responsibly managing the border with smart investments, addressing the root causes of migration from Central America, and ensuring that the United States remains a refuge for those fleeing persecution. The bill will stimulate our economy while ensuring that every worker is protected. The bill creates an earned path to citizenship for our immigrant neighbors, colleagues, parishioners, community leaders, friends, and loved ones—including Dreamers and the essential workers who have risked their lives to serve and protect American communities.
The U.S. Citizenship Act will:
PROVIDE PATHWAYS TO CITIZENSHIP & STRENGTHEN LABOR PROTECTIONS

• Create an earned roadmap to citizenship for undocumented individuals. The bill allows undocumented individuals to apply for temporary legal status, with the ability to apply for green cards after five years if they pass criminal and national security background checks and pay their taxes. Dreamers, TPS holders, and immigrant farmworkers who meet specific requirements are eligible for green cards immediately under the legislation. After three years, all green card holders who pass additional background checks and demonstrate knowledge of English and U.S. civics can apply to become citizens. Applicants must be physically present in the United States on or before January 1, 2021. The Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) may waive the presence requirement for those deported on or after January 20, 2017 who were physically present for at least three years prior to removal for family unity and other humanitarian purposes. Lastly, the bill further recognizes America as a nation of immigrants by changing the word “alien” to “noncitizen” in our immigration laws.
• Keep families together. The bill reforms the family-based immigration system by clearing backlogs, recapturing unused visas, eliminating lengthy wait times, and increasing per-country visa caps. It also eliminates the so-called “3 and 10-year bars,” and other provisions that keep families apart. The bill further supports familes by more explicitly including permanent partnerships and eliminating discrimination facing LGBTQ+ families. It also provides protections for orphans, widows, children, and Filipino veterans who fought alongside the United States in World War II. Lastly, the bill allows immigrants with approved family-sponsorship petitions to join family in the United States on a temporary basis while they wait for green cards to become available.
• otections for foreign nationals assisting U.S. troops.

So R's voted against an amnesty bill?

Once again, why did Joe wait till now to take action? It's not like he's shy about issuing EO's. Heck, he tries to forgive student loan debt through them.

 

[Scruddy]

Lol 9 million too late

 

[torbee]

So R's voted against an amnesty bill?

Once again, why did Joe wait till now to take action? It's not like he's shy about issuing EO's. Heck, he tries to forgive student loan debt through them.

Again, you may not LIKE the immigration reform Biden has attempted - but it’s a bald faced and easily refuted LIE that he “did nothing.”

So stop repeating it if you don’t want to be proven either dumb or a liar. (Two things I don’t think you are)

 

[Scruddy]

So R's voted against an amnesty bill?

Once again, why did Joe wait till now to take action? It's not like he's shy about issuing EO's. Heck, he tries to forgive student loan debt through them.

Why did he and his administration pretend it wasn't an issue for years after ending trump's executive orders then lie and blame it on congress only to sign some executive orders anyways? Amazing that the cult will lap this BS up as quick as they can.

 

[Scruddy]

Again, you may not LIKE the immigration reform Biden has attempted - but it’s a bald faced and easily refuted LIE that he “did nothing.”

So stop repeating it if you don’t want to be proven either dumb or a liar. (Two things I don’t think you are)

Worse than nothing, his actions made things worse!

 

[binsfeldcyhawk2]

Again, you may not LIKE the immigration reform Biden has attempted - but it’s a bald faced and easily refuted LIE that he “did nothing.”

So stop repeating it if you don’t want to be proven either dumb or a liar. (Two things I don’t think you are)

Stop pretending Joe couldn't have taken the very same actions he's taken now 3 years ago and we have a deal.

 

[torbee]

Stop pretending Joe couldn't have taken the very same actions he's taken now 3 years ago and we have a deal.

I never said he couldn't.

I said his interest at the time was working with Congress, which it was.

 

[Kinnick.At.Night]

I know I say this to these people constantly. I will continue to do so with the hope that one day it will make one of them actually think about how gross that is. “I’m casting my vote for a serial sexual assaulter, a con, and a convicted felon. What’s wrong with me?”

I think a lot or people see Trump as simply being the guy who isn’t liberal. The hatred is so strong right now, that the Republican candidate could be Charles Manson and he’d get millions of votes.

 

[RollingBallofButcherKnives]

Neither did Trump. He also grifted money meant for his big, beautiful wall.

That Mexico was going to pay for.

 

[Rifler]

I said his interest at the time was working with Congress...

His interest was turning the border into a shit show in hopes that Congress would be forced to act,.. Congress is inept and Biden is the owner of this fiasco...

 

[Scruddy]

I never said he couldn't.

I said his interest at the time was working with Congress, which it was.

Lolol "tried" to work with congress in 2024. What happened the three years prior where nothing was done other than undoing trump executive orders effectively causing the surge? Pure cope.

 

[abby97]

It's Congress' responsibility.

He negotiated in good faith and GOP cogressional leadership reneged under orders from Trump.

You've completely lost the very little amount of credibility you once had. Please stop, you have become a caricature of a liberal nut.

 

[torbee]

His interest was turning the border into a shit show in hopes that Congress would be forced to act,.. Congress is inept and Biden is the owner of this fiasco...

Sent a bill to Congress in 2021.

 

[torbee]

You've completely lost the very little amount of credibility you once had. Please stop, you have become a caricature of a liberal nut.

True or false?

President Joe Biden sent the U.S. Citizenship Act to Congress in February of 2021.

 

[Scruddy]

True or false?

President Joe Biden sent the U.S. Citizenship Act to Congress in February of 2021.

"He tried giving citizenship to 11 million illegal aliens guys!! He's trying so hard but the evil Republicans are evil!!!!"

 

[Rifler]

Sent a bill to Congress in 2021.

Otherwise referred to as his ransom demands...

 

[torbee]

Otherwise referred to as his ransom demands...

For the (I think) fourth/fifth time - just because it was legislation you did not favor does not make it "doing nothing."

This is a hilariously non-complicated thing to understand, yet you and several others seem determined to remain duncified.

 

[Rifler]

For the (I think) fourth/fifth time - just because it was legislation you did not favor does not make it "doing nothing."

This is a hilariously non-complicated thing to understand, yet you and several others seem determined to remain duncified.

Had he actually "done nothing" we wouldn't be where we are,.. He opened the border, sent a bill to Congress, and then sat back and watched it burn, all the while declaring that the borer was secure,... The guy is a phucking clown.

 

[binsfeldcyhawk2]

I never said he couldn't.

I said his interest at the time was working with Congress, which it was.

fair enough

 

[ottumwan in tx]

This is absolutely 100% false here in Texas ...if anything they have increased. They're wanting to get across before Trump gets in

 

[Tom Paris]

With the exception of a couple (7 and 8 namely) I’ve never heard anyone espousing these fantasy myths this guy is arguing against. 13 strawmen in one article is tough to beat.

And even the ones you do hear people saying he’s using a dumb approach to arguing. Who gives a shit about the odds of a terrorist being illegal or not. The simple fact you have 14 million extra unvettted people here increases the odds. Period. It only takes ONE major attack to have a 20 year negative affect.

And his #12 FACT is completely idiotic.

MYTH #1: “Immigrants will take American jobs, lower wages, and especially hurt the poor.”

MYTH #2: “It is easy to immigrate here legally. Why don’t illegal immigrants just get in line?”

MYTH #3: “Immigrants abuse the welfare state.”

MYTH #4: “Immigrants increase the budget deficit and government debt.”

MYTH #5: “Immigrants increase economic inequality.”

MYTH #6: “Today’s immigrants don’t assimilate as immigrants from previous eras did.”

MYTH #9: “The United States has the most open immigration policy in the world.”

MYTH #10: “Amnesty or a failure to enforce our immigration laws will destroy the Rule of Law in the United States.”

MYTH #11: “Illegal immigration or expanding legal immigration will destroy American national sovereignty.”


MYTH #12: “Immigrants won’t vote for the Republican Party — look at what happened to California.”

FACT: Republican immigration policies pushed immigrants away, not the other way around. THIS IS WRONG AND STUPID. Take a look at how the Hispanic numbers are trending BECAUSE of how Dems handle immigration.

MYTH #13: “Immigrants bring with them bad cultures, ideas, or other factors that will undermine and destroy our economic and political institutions. The resultant weakening in economic growth means that immigrants will destroy more wealth than they will create over the long run.”

MYTH #14: “The brain drain of smart immigrants to the United States impoverishes other countries.”

MYTH #15: “Immigrants will increase crowding, harm the environment, and [insert misanthropic statement here].”

Lol. You’re lying if you haven’t heard these as arguments from Republicans. Over half have been espoused on this board. I know you’re afraid of brown skinned people coming across the border but maybe you should own what your party members say.

 

[Tom Paris]

Who would ever believe that Congress was even remotely close to addressing border legislation?,... Biden disabled all of Trump's EO patches and then sat back and watched the border explode,.. This is Joe's making.

900,000 border encounters in 2019 and you never said an effing word.

 

[Scruddy]

900,000 border encounters in 2019 and you never said an effing word.

900,000 < 2,000,000. Math is hard for you, I know.

 

[Tom Paris]

• Embrace diversity. The bill includes the NO BAN Act that prohibits discrimination based on religion and limits presidential authority to issue future bans. The bill also increases Diversity Visas to 80,000 from 55,000.
• Promote immigrant and refugee integration and citizenship. The bill provides new funding to state and local governments, private organizations, educational institutions, community-based organizations, and not-for-profit organizations to expand programs to promote integration and inclusion, increase English-language instruction, and provide assistance to individuals seeking to become citizens.
• Grow our economy. This bill clears employment-based visa backlogs, recaptures unused visas, reduces lengthy wait times, and eliminates per-country visa caps. The bill makes it easier for graduates of U.S. universities with advanced STEM degrees to stay in the United States; improves access to green cards for workers in lower-wage sectors; and eliminates other unnecessary hurdles for employment-based green cards. The bill provides dependents of H-1B visa holders work authorization, and children are prevented from “aging out” of the system. The bill also creates a pilot program to stimulate regional economic development, gives DHS the authority to adjust green cards based on macroeconomic conditions, and incentivizes higher wages for non-immigrant, high-skilled visas to prevent unfair competition with American workers.
• Protect workers from exploitation and improve the employment verification process. The bill requires that DHS and the Department of Labor establish a commission involving labor, employer, and civil rights organizations to make recommendations for improving the employment verification process. Workers who suffer serious labor violations and cooperate with worker protection agencies will be granted greater access to U visa relief. The bill protects workers who are victims of workplace retaliation from deportation in order to allow labor agencies to interview these workers. It also protects migrant and seasonal workers, and increases penalties for employers who violate labor laws.

PRIORITIZE SMART BORDER CONTROLS

• Supplement existing border resources with technology and infrastructure. The legislation builds on record budget allocations for immigration enforcement by authorizing additional funding for the Secretary of DHS to develop and implement a plan to deploy technology to expedite screening and enhance the ability to identify narcotics and other contraband at every land, air, and sea port of entry. This includes high-throughput scanning technologies to ensure that all commercial and passenger vehicles and freight rail traffic entering the United States at land ports of entry and rail-border crossings along the border undergo pre-primary scanning. It also authorizes and provides funding for plans to improve infrastructure at ports of entry to enhance the ability to process asylum seekers and detect, interdict, disrupt and prevent narcotics from entering the United States. It authorizes the DHS Secretary to develop and implement a strategy to manage and secure the southern border between ports of entry that focuses on flexible solutions and technologies that expand the ability to detect illicit activity, evaluate the effectiveness of border security operations, and be easily relocated and broken out by Border Patrol Sector. To protect privacy, the DHS Inspector General is authorized to conduct oversight to ensure that employed technology effectively serves legitimate agency purposes.
• Manage the border and protect border communities. The bill provides funding for training and continuing education to promote agent and officer safety and professionalism. It also creates a Border Community Stakeholder Advisory Committee, provides more special agents at the DHS Office of Professional Responsibility to investigate criminal and administrative misconduct, and requires the issuance of department-wide policies governing the use of force. The bill directs the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to study the impact of DHS’s authority to waive environmental and state and federal laws to expedite the construction of barriers and roads near U.S. borders and provides for additional rescue beacons to prevent needless deaths along the border. The bill authorizes and provides funding for DHS, in coordination with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and nongovernmental experts, to develop guidelines and protocols for standards of care for individuals, families, and children in CBP custody.
• Crack down on criminal organizations. The bill enhances the ability to prosecute individuals involved in smuggling and trafficking networks who are responsible for the exploitation of migrants. It also expands investigations, intelligence collection and analysis pursuant to the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act to increase sanctions against foreign narcotics traffickers, their organizations and networks. The bill also requires the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and DHS, in coordination with the Secretary of State, to improve and expand transnational anti-gang task forces in Central America.

ADDRESS ROOT CAUSES OF MIGRATION

• Start from the source. The bill codifies and funds the President’s $4 billion four-year inter-agency plan to address the underlying causes of migration in the region, including by increasing assistance to El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, conditioned on their ability to reduce the endemic corruption, violence, and poverty that causes people to flee their home countries. It also creates safe and legal channels for people to seek protection, including by establishing Designated Processing Centers throughout Central America to register and process displaced persons for refugee resettlement and other lawful migration avenues—either to the United States or other partner countries. The bill also re-institutes the Central American Minors program to reunite children with U.S. relatives and creates a Central American Family Reunification Parole Program to more quickly unite families with approved family sponsorship petitions.
• Improve the immigration courts and protect vulnerable individuals. The bill expands family case management programs, reduces immigration court backlogs, expands training for immigration judges, and improves technology for immigration courts. The bill also restores fairness and balance to our immigration system by providing judges and adjudicators with discretion to review cases and grant relief to deserving individuals. Funding is authorized for legal orientation programs and counsel for children, vulnerable individuals, and others when necessary to ensure the fair and efficient resolution of their claims. The bill also provides funding for school districts educating unaccompanied children, while clarifying sponsor responsibilities for such children.
• Support asylum seekers and other vulnerable populations. The bill eliminates the one-year deadline for filing asylum claims and provides funding to reduce asylum application backlogs. It also increases protections for U visa, T visa, and VAWA applicants, including by raising the cap on U visas from 10,000 to 30,000. The bill also expands pr

People like bins and faulty will probably ignore all of this. MAGAs absolutely will.

 

[Tom Paris]

I think a lot or people see Trump as simply being the guy who isn’t liberal. The hatred is so strong right now, that the Republican candidate could be Charles Manson and he’d get millions of votes.

100%. We’ve said that for years and years. Alabama voted in a completely piece of shit human, Tuberville, over a good man, Doug Jones, because of the mostly created narrative that Democrats are their enemy.

 

[Tom Paris]

Had he actually "done nothing" we wouldn't be where we are,.. He opened the border, sent a bill to Congress, and then sat back and watched it burn, all the while declaring that the borer was secure,... The guy is a phucking clown.

What does “open the border” mean to you? It’s the same BS that Republicans use when they say Democrats are for “partial birth abortions”…but you guys believe it. You think Biden ordered gates to be opened and millions could flood through like people going into a Target on Black Friday.

 

[Rifler]

900,000 border encounters in 2019 and you never said an effing word.

I have been bitching about the border since W's failed attempts to address it...

 

[BGHAWK]

If it’s on Congress why did he sign an EO within hours of his inauguration?

Probably so screaming babies wouldn't be ripped from their mother's arms. That policy didn't seem to bother you repubs.

 

[fsu1jreed]

It's Congress' responsibility.

He negotiated in good faith and GOP cogressional leadership reneged under orders from Trump.

Exactly

 

[ButtersHawk]

I know I say this to these people constantly. I will continue to do so with the hope that one day it will make one of them actually think about how gross that is. “I’m casting my vote for a serial sexual assaulter, a con, and a convicted felon. What’s wrong with me?”

You aren't wrong but people vote for what they care about and some really don't care about his convictions.
Jenna Jameson could run as a Dem on the
promise of reestablishing Roe V Wade and people would vote for her.

EDIT: People are selfish and don't care unless it harms them. His money handling didn't hurt them and he didn't sexually assault them so they will justify their vote for him

 

[TornadoHawk93]

This is VERY scary!!!!

Link - 50 subjects of concern have come through the board via Isis network.