White House Sends Congress Plans for Immigration Enforcement

godsavethequeen · 10-08-2017, 07:45 PM

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WASHINGTON—The White House is sending Congress an expansive set of principles that would sharply increase immigration enforcement at the border and inside the U.S. and would limit new legal arrivals.

The document arrives as lawmakers are considering whether to legalize young people brought to the U.S. illegally as children, often called “Dreamers.’’ It sets out the policies that the White House wants to be part of any immigration deal.

It was unclear whether President Donald Trump would insist that these policies be included in such legislation.

“The Trump administration is ready to work with Congress,” a document summarizing the goals says. The documents were viewed by The Wall Street Journal ahead of a White House call in which the principles are expected to be outlined.

Among the principles is a call for funding sufficient to “complete construction” of a Southern border wall. The administration also would detain asylum applicants while their cases are being considered. In most cases applicants currently aren’t detained.

The administration wants to punish jurisdictions that don’t cooperate with federal immigration enforcement—so-called “sanctuary cities”—by withholding federal grant money.

The White House also wants Congress to mandate the use of E-Verify by employers to check the immigration status of prospective workers. The system is currently voluntary.

Democrats are opposed to almost all of these ideas unless they are part of a comprehensive package that includes a path to citizenship for almost all of the estimated 11 million people living in the U.S. illegally.

None of these goals is surprising in and of itself, with the president and his aides having articulated most if not all of them in the past, sometimes at length. One question is whether Mr. Trump will insist on this package as part of a deal to help the Dreamers, young people who have been protected by an Obama-era program that Mr. Trump is phasing out.

The principles also lay out changes to the legal immigration system that Mr. Trump has already endorsed, including large cuts to green cards issued for family members and shifting existing employment-based green cards to a skills-based system.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/white-h...ent-1507505814

bad.bunny · 10-08-2017, 07:52 PM

pure poison bills. this will kill a compromise

n3lson2017 · 10-08-2017, 07:53 PM

Good luck with all those wish-list principles. Miller is a POS nazi!

SurfyB · 10-08-2017, 08:03 PM

It's starting to look like we won't get shit cause this Miller asshole is still in the white house and is asking for ridiculous shit.

It was fun while it lasted.

Swim19 · 10-08-2017, 08:08 PM

Let's keep discussion to one thread. continue here:

http://dreamact.info/forum/showthread.php?t=78862

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