More draft immigration restrictions,ocusing on protecting U.S. jobs

Ianus · 08:00 PM

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...05d_story.html

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The Trump administration is considering a plan to weed out would-be immigrants who are likely to require public assistance, as well as to deport — when possible — immigrants already living in the United States who depend on taxpayer help, according to a draft executive order obtained by The Washington Post.

A second draft order under consideration calls for a substantial shake up in the system through which the United States administers immigrant and nonimmigrant visas overall, with the aim of tightly controlling who enters the country, and who can enter the workforce, and to reduce the social services burden on U.S. taxpayers.

The drafts are circulating among administration officials, and it is unclear whether President Trump has decided to move forward with them or when he might sign them if he does decide to put them in place. The White House would not confirm or deny the authenticity of the orders, and White House officials did not respond to requests for comment about the drafts on Monday and Tuesday.

If enacted, the executive orders would appear to significantly restrict all types of immigration and foreign travel to the United States, expanding bars on entry to the country that Trump ordered last week with his temporary ban on refugees and people from seven majority Muslim countries.

While Trump’s immigration ban last week focused on national security and preventing terrorism, the new draft orders would be focused on Trump’s campaign promises to protect American workers and to create jobs, immediately restricting the flow of immigrants and temporary laborers into the U.S. workforce. The administration has blamed immigrants who end up receiving U.S. social services for eating up federal resources, and it has said immigrant workers contribute to unemployment among Americans who were born in the United States.

“Our country’s immigration laws are designed to protect American taxpayers and promote immigrant self sufficiency. Yet households headed by aliens are much more likely than those headed by citizens to use Federal means-tested public benefits,” reads one draft order obtained by The Post, titled “Executive Order on Protecting Taxpayer Resources by Ensuring Our Immigration Laws Promote Accountability and Responsibility.” The draft order provides no evidence to support the claim that immigrant households are more likely to use welfare benefits, and there is no consensus among experts about immigration’s impact on such benefits or American jobs.

The administration would be seeking to “deny admission to any alien who is likely to become a public charge” and develop standards for “determining whether an alien is deportable ... for having become a public charge within five years of entry” — receiving a certain amount of public assistance, including Food Stamps, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and Medicaid.

The second order, titled “Executive Order on Protecting American Jobs and Workers by Strengthening the Integrity of Foreign Worker Visa Programs” calls for “eliminating” the “jobs magnet” that is driving illegal immigration to the United States, according to a copy obtained by The Post. The order would rescind any work visa provisions for foreign nationals found not to be in “the national interest” or in violation of U.S. immigration laws.

It weighs how to make America’s immigration program “more merit based,” calls for site visits at companies that employ foreign workers, and tasks the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with producing a report twice a year on the total number of foreign-born people — not just nonimmigrant visa holders — who are authorized to work in the United States.

It also instructs DHS and the State Department to submit a report on “the steps they are taking to combat the birth tourism phenomenon,” meaning instances in which noncitizens come to the United States to have children, who in turn gain citizenship, a popular conservative refrain but one that is dismissed by immigration experts as a relatively minor problem.

Together, the orders would aim to give U.S. citizens priority in the job market from top to bottom by preventing immigrants from taking jobs and pushing some immigrants out of jobs they currently have.

“The unlawful employment of aliens has had a devastating impact on the wages and jobs of American workers, especially low-skilled, teenage, and African American and Hispanic workers,” the draft order says.

Immigration advocates reacted with outrage to the draft documents, warning that if enacted the executive orders could harm the U.S. citizen children of undocumented immigrants whose parents could be stripped of public assistance.

“He’s loaded his anti-immigrant Uzi and is firing off another round,” said Angela Kelley, an immigration expert at the Center for American Progress. “This time he’s aiming at U.S. citizen kids who have an undocumented parent, and depending how broad the reach of his order, he could deport kids who have received reduced lunches in school. It’s stunning the depth of disruption and chaos he seems hell-bent on inflicting on our communities.”

Economists are divided on the extent to which illegal immigration impacts wages, but generally find that immigration is good for the economy, including the immigration of low-skilled workers.

“The overwhelming consensus in the economics academic literature is that immigrants add more to the economy than they take, they create more jobs for Americans, and they are a net benefit to the American economy,” said Alex Nowrasteh, an immigration policy analyst at the CATO Institute, a libertarian think tank.

Nor have studies shown immigrants to be a greater drain on federal benefits relative to their American counterparts, he said: “When you compare poor immigrants to poor natives, poor immigrants are less likely to use welfare, and when they do, the dollar value of the benefits they use is lower.”

That’s partly because under existing federal law, new permanent residents, or green-card holders, are unable to qualify for welfare and other public benefits during their first five years of residency. Immigrants who entered the United States illegally also are unable to obtain federal welfare benefits.

Refugees are an exception, and advocates note that while those fleeing war and strife at home tend to need assistance upon arrival, they generally begin contributing to the economy within a few years.

The Migration Policy Institute has found that public assistance dependence falls over time, and that “refugee men are employed at a higher rate than their U.S.-born peers.”

The associated executive orders can be read here.

MIdreamer · 01-31-2017, 05:26 PM

Jesus, how is it possible that DACA is still standing. This administration clearly hate ALL immigrants.

Sudo · 01-31-2017, 05:26 PM

I thought immigrants had to have a co-sponsor which he or she will take care of the immigrant and therefore avoiding the need of government assistance. Is this not the case?

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Originally Posted by MIdreamer

Jesus, how is it possible that DACA is still standing. This administration clearly hate ALL immigrants.

Because we are not leeching off the tax payers.

chessmaster05 · 01-31-2017, 05:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Sudo

I thought immigrants had to have a co-sponsor which he or she will take care of the immigrant and therefore avoiding the need of government assistance. Is this not the case?

Having recently filed for AOS, this is indeed a requirement. The purpose of form I-864 is to determine if you are likely to become a public charge. However, I am not sure is such requirement is required for other type of employment visas.

eva02 · 01-31-2017, 05:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Sudo

I thought immigrants had to have a co-sponsor which he or she will take care of the immigrant and therefore avoiding the need of government assistance. Is this not the case?

Because we are not leeching off the tax payers.

anyone with income can cosponser. Technically you are not supposed to become a public charge but I think people do it anyway. It's hardly enforced.

eva02 · 01-31-2017, 05:33 PM

Btw you can work and still get some form of public assistance. It's unfair to punish people for using these services to feed and care for their families.

chessmaster05 · 01-31-2017, 05:35 PM

I wonder what happens to those taxpayers that are undocumented? will trump give reimbursements?

Got_Daca · 01-31-2017, 05:38 PM

Sorry to say but Trump is kind of right on this.

US shouldn't let anyone who can't pull their own weight.

Pianoswithoutfaith · 01-31-2017, 05:52 PM

Aren't illegal aliens paying more into the system than taking out

Ianus · 01-31-2017, 06:07 PM

After reading the document on Page 10, some of the language seems broad enough to effect or modify DACA. Does anyone get the same interpretation after reading that page that....AP will be rescinded and that this review of work authorization for foreign nationals could effect DACA and talks about modifying or rescind if not in the national interest.

Executive orders in question can be read here.

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