Friday, April 15, 2016
Saturday Politics : American Immigration Policy Must be Interest-based to Preserve America
Saturday Politics can be about US immigration. After the Civil War, with states passing immigration laws, the US Supreme Court ruled in 1875 that immigration is a federal function. Congress's first immigration law, the Page Act of 1875, outlawed Asian contract laborers, prostitutes, and convicts. In 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act capped Chinese descent immigrants for 10 years, with renewals in 1892 and 1902. Congress's 1907 Dillingham Commission reviewed the effects of US immigration, concluding it had shifted from central, northern, and western Europe to southern Europe and Russia. It was obvious -- 5.3 million Italians entered the US from 1880 to 1920, along with 2 to 4 million central European Catholics and Jews. The Polish became the largest central European ancestry group in the US after Germans. Lebanese and Syrians arrived in large numbers, the vast majority Christians, but some Jews, Moslems and Druze also, many settling in New York City and Boston. ~~~~~ Congress acted. The 1921 Emergency Quota Act and the 1924 Immigration Act restricted southern Europeans and Russians and set European quotas. The National Origins Formula of 1921/1924 enacted more restrictive immigration national-origin quotas, with preference for central, northern and western Europeans, while severely limiting Russians and southern Europeans and declaring all Asians ineligible. The Western Hemisphere had no quotas, so the 1920s ushered in 40 years of : European quotas; open entry from Mexico, the Caribbean and Central and South America; and case-by-case entry of Jewish refugees from pre-WWII Nazi Germany, Jewish Holocaust survivors, central Europeans fleeing Communism, Hungarian refugees after the 1956 uprising, and Cubans after the 1960 Castro takeover. ~~~~~ In 1950, with the Korean War came the Internal Security Act, barring Communists. The 1952 McCarran Walter Immigration Act affirmed the 1924 national-origins quota system, using immigration formulas that yielded 175,455 annual slots. Families of US citizens and people born in the Western Hemisphere were still exempt. In 1953, the Refugee Relief Act created refugee status for non-Europeans. In 1954, Operation Wetback deported illegal Mexican immigrants, whose numbers had increased 6,000% since 1944, with cheap labor, displaced US workers, and labor law violations that increased criminality, disease and illiteracy. The US Border Patrol, with local, county, state and federal authorities and the military, began a quasi-military sweep for all illegals, deporting more than a million Mexicans, while perhaps as many left the US voluntarily. ~~~~~ The President Johnson-backed 1965 Hart-Celler Act was intended to create racially equal immigration. What it did was unintentionally favor Asian, Middle Eastern and African immigrants. The racially-based quota system didn't, as Congress projected, produce "traditional" European results. Family-based and job skills categories led to a surge in Korean, Chinese, Indian, Philippino, Pakistani, and African entries. The 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) introduced penalties for employers hiring illegal immigrants. Congress also created IRCA amnesty for 1 million illegal immigrant workers. In practice, amnesty was granted to 3 million illegals, most from Mexico. ~~~~~ Dear readers, in the 20th century, Americans continued to favor restrictive immigration. That's who we were. Now, there's a stalemate -- Obama and his Democrat Progressives, wanting a wide open refugee door, loose borders and amnesty for 11 million illegals vs. Republicans, wanting only vetted non-terrorist refugee immigrants, controlled borders and an end to amnesty. There's no immigration policy reflecting "who we are" because we can't decide who we are. A political war rages over immigration. Vetted refugees and secure borders are common sense. The November election will resolve amnesty. If an American-interests-based immigration policy is not enacted, America will become a dumping ground, and 250 years of being "American" will vanish. We will never again know "who we are."
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The United States Immigration policy needs to have quotas, and the quotas need to be put into place based on the "needs of the United States". Not the needs of escaping immigrants from third world countries.
ReplyDeleteThese quotas need to be specific with no wiggle room. Candidates for immigration into the United States must be "vet-able." And the whole process should take a period of time, all of which stats with the migrant visiting the local Embassy or Consultant in their local country to start the process. Not falsely visiting the United States on a visitors Visa and after overstaying the Visa period applying for the right to stay. Those people have put a large question make on their foreheads by being "illegals" in our country.
Maybe the search for people who wish to immigrate into the United States should start with the United States making know its need for specific talents via advertisements in various countries - not the reverse.
We need what we need - not what talent less individuals need. Round pegs into round holes, not bent and twisted pegs into our nearly perfect (or as perfect that exists anyplace) round holes
Uncontrolled or uncontrollable immigration is a major problem in the securing of the United States in this age of Islamic terrorism attempt at world domination.
ReplyDeleteThough the United States is somewhat privileged to have the protection of the Atlantic & pacific Oceans, we are wide open on our Southern and somewhat on our Northern borders. And the real culprit on both these borders 1) too much distance to ever patrol except with a permanent, secured blockage except at guarded intermittent post, and 2) our mush misconstrued “BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP” loop hole.
Our Constitution does NOT grant citizenship to each and every child born her. The Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment provides: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.” Today’s debate turns on the six words, “and subject to the jurisdiction thereof.”
Much less than honorable couples (married or not) come to the United States legally or illegally when the woman of this of the pair is within weeks but more often days of delivering her child. The child is born in a hospital ER room at the expense of the citizens of the U.S. and here is how this deviant plan works out:
1. The child is named EXACTLY as the Mother of Father is named on theor Bith Certificate
2. After the child is born the first thing that the: mother and father” do is get a Social Security card for the child.
3. Now with that Social Security card bearing the identical name as either the mother or father, the parents use the child’s SS card to obtain a driver’s license, open a bank account, get a job that requires any of the afore mentioned identifications, they even pay local, state, and federal taxes to continue the ruse.
4. So within days of the child’s birth this couple has taken a huge step forward into having false, but uncontestable identification papers is stopped by local police for traffic violations, and papers that will circumvent ICE verification systems
All this is possible not as the Constitution says or even intended, but as the lawbreaking illegal immigrants opting to do vs the honorable and legal way of migrating into the United States.
And let’s not be fooled these people that choose the above method are not poor souls who simply want a better life (as the progressive socialists like Hillary Clinton make it out to be) – they are defiant lawbreakers who bring NOTHING to our country except lies, fraud, and their social habits from a the country they decided to bail out of for their own betterment.
The one fact that I forgot to add to this "immigration scam" is that the use of the newly born Social security card opens the doors to all the welfare entitlement (rent subsidies, food stamps,medical care, tax refunds even when they pay NO taxes via Child Care clause) programs and methodology of getting deeper into the American taxpayers pockets.
DeleteAbuse and security risk of our system has no bounds when the illegality of immigration is hatched in a far off third world country.
President Obama is simply the latest in a long line of plenipotentiary (invested with full power) presidents that have just slowly but gradually assuming powers far outside of the powers set forth by the Founders in the Constitution. Never did the Founding fathers ever mean for the president to operate unchecked or indiscriminately from the Constitution much less outside the Rule of Law.
ReplyDeleteBut that is exactly what Barrack Obama is planning of doing with his version of immigration before he leaves office.
Obama has at his own will ignored the wishes of the citizens of the United Sates many time, the most recent is the Nuclear Treaty with Iran that will as we speak bring us to the threshold of WW III over the Middle East.
We can defeat the terrorist armies of Islam – we cannot defeat an underhanded, dishonest, anti-American president, a president who openly sides with the game plan of terrorist that plan their assault on our soil by illegal immigration.
We discuss the probability that Hillary Clinton with her e-mail scandal committed “planned treason.” What we fail to do is call out the President of the United States for the same blatant activities.
Casey pops wonderful blog postings on “who we are” and immigration is a great historical reminder of “who we really are.” But our history as a free people could stop here and now if we don’t stop these plenipotentiary politicians that florish oin both sides of the political spectrum.
Is this what is in America’s best Interest … According to a report of the Center for Immigration Studies, of the 36,000 criminal aliens who, while awaiting deportation, were set free by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, 193 had been convicted of homicide, 426 of sexual assault, 303 of kidnaping, 1,075 of aggravated assault, 1,160 for stolen vehicles, 9,187 for possession or use of dangerous drugs, and 16,070 for driving drunk or drugged. Those 36,000 criminal aliens are roughly equivalent to three-and-a-half divisions of felons and social misfits released into our midst. And this does not include the 68,000 illegal aliens against whom ICE declined to press criminal charges last year, but turned loose…
ReplyDeleteOr is an Immigration policy that meets the needs of the United States. Immigrants that come to America, settle down raise a family, pay taxes, buy homes, and purchase items that drive manufacturing which in turns creates more jobs, and so on.
We have a legal immigration system that doesn’t work, we don’t have an effective system to enforce our immigration laws, and we have by some estimates as many as 11 million human beings living in the United States without the proper immigration documents in a state of de facto amnesty. It’s a problem that has serious political and economic ramifications on our nation.
ReplyDeleteOur technology sector creates roughly 120,000 computer engineering jobs a year, but our universities only graduate about 40,000 students a year in that field. The long term answer, of course, is to get more American students to graduate in this field. Another example would be agriculture, where a stable and affordable domestic supply of food is critical to our national security and our quality of life. Agriculture has always required a significant work force from abroad, but we do not have a system through which growers and dairies can bring a workforce legally into the U.S.
We certainly don’t have jobs that Americans won’t do – but we do have jobs that Americans will not do at a certain price point of wages. The problem is that, in a free market, the cost of production is always passed on to the consumer. That is one of the reasons why I object to tax increases – because the cost is always paid by workers and customers. The same is true for labor costs. There is a price point at which our farmers simply won’t do business because they will not be able to offer products at an affordable price.
Ideally we should be able to back to the Immigration reform of 1984 and correct all the mistakes that have garnished the problems in immigration we have today. IDEALLY! But life is not lived in the ideal traffic lane.
No amount of “band-aide” surgery will fix the current problem of immigration. We need to put a moratorium on ALL IMMIGRATION (just as Bush should have done immediately post 9/11), write a new applicable immigration law that fulfills our labor needs (both manual & professional), build a very high wall all across our southern border with Mexico, place succinct crossing areas on our northern border, and expect ready to pay for the round-up of all illegal immigrants already in the United States sending them home.
Immigration that Casey Pops alludes to in her wonderful 4 postings on the subject was in the most part a god-send for this country. But, today with terrorists wanting to rip the face off our country we need to be instantly pro-active in this matter with only our own welfare the guiding principal.
All nations in Western Europe would be well advised to respect the past value of immigration, but be knowledgeable about what immigration offers terrorism today.
A country without controlled borders and a clear immigration policy, is a country looking down the barrel of a loaded gun.
"If you always do, what you've always done- you'll always get what you've always got"
ReplyDeleteIf the Western world continues to approach immigration the way we did 200 or so years ago, we will bipe in great dire straights. We, and maybe mostly all of Western Europe, needs to seriously consider the implication that lay ahead if they continue to accept every migrant from the Muddle East and Northern Africa that comes knocking at their door.
Selective selection has to be the rule.
If you expect a lot, you receive a lot, contrary to that if you expect little, you get less.
ReplyDeleteAll countries need to start expecting more from their immigration programs. I can't think of a single country that needs any outside migrants to add to their welfare roles, their unemployment roles, their swelling medical free care roles. As a family that has specific needs, so do countries. But as a family doesn't take on unwanted baggage when filling their needs, neither should a country do so.
ReplyDeleteThe elected leaders of the United States and European countries are a sad lot.
We elected them to protect us, to defend our rights, our freedom (whatever they may be). They, one and all didn't see the evil that had been running rampant in the Middle East for the past 800 years. These elected leaders didn't understand the world conquest that the Islamic Terrorists started some 40 years ago in Munich, Germany.
They choose to ignore what they knew and what they didn't understand. They were and still are clueless to the enemy we are facing. An enemy that for the most part is using lax and ineffective immigration laws to move their soldiers into place, their cell organizers who will co-ordinate their soldiers movement and care, and their intermediators who co-ordinate with the financiers all jihad loyalists.