The three core principles of Donald J. Trump's
immigration plan
When politicians talk
about “immigration reform” they mean: amnesty, cheap labor and open borders.
The Schumer-Rubio immigration bill was nothing more than a giveaway to the
corporate patrons who run both parties.
Real immigration
reform puts the needs of working people first – not wealthy globetrotting
donors. We are the only country in the world whose immigration system puts the
needs of other nations ahead of our own. That must change. Here are the three
core principles of real immigration reform:
1. A nation without borders is not a nation. There must be a wall across the southern
border.
2. A nation without laws is not a nation. Laws passed in accordance with our Constitutional system of
government must be enforced.
3. A nation that does not serve its own citizens is not a nation. Any immigration plan must improve jobs, wages
and security for all Americans.
Make Mexico Pay For The Wall
For many years,
Mexico’s leaders have been taking advantage of the United States by using
illegal immigration to export the crime and poverty in their own country (as
well as in other Latin American countries). They have even published pamphlets on how to illegally immigrate to the United States. The costs
for the United States have been extraordinary: U.S. taxpayers have been asked
to pick up hundreds of billions in healthcare costs, housing costs, education
costs, welfare costs, etc. Indeed, the annual cost of free tax credits alone
paid to illegal immigrants quadrupled to $4.2 billion in 2011. The effects on
jobseekers have also been disastrous, and black Americans have been particularly harmed.
The impact in terms of
crime has been tragic. In recent weeks, the headlines have been covered with
cases of criminals who crossed our border illegally only to go on to commit
horrific crimes against Americans. Most recently, an illegal immigrant from
Mexico, with a long arrest record, is charged with breaking into a 64 year-old
women’s home, crushing her skull and eye sockets with a hammer, raping her, and
murdering her. The Police Chief in Santa Maria says the “blood trail” leads straight to Washington.
In 2011, the
Government Accountability Office found that there were a shocking 3 million arrests attached to the incarcerated alien population, including tens
of thousands of violent beatings, rapes and murders.
Meanwhile, Mexico
continues to make billions on not only our bad trade deals but also relies
heavily on the billions of dollars in remittances sent from illegal immigrants
in the United States back to Mexico ($22 billion in 2013 alone).
In short, the Mexican
government has taken the United States to the cleaners. They are responsible
for this problem, and they must help pay to clean it up.
The cost of building a
permanent border wall pales mightily in comparison to what American taxpayers
spend every single year on dealing with the fallout of illegal immigration on
their communities, schools and unemployment offices.
Mexico must pay for
the wall and, until they do, the United States will, among other things:
impound all remittance payments derived from illegal wages; increase fees on
all temporary visas issued to Mexican CEOs and diplomats (and if necessary
cancel them); increase fees on all border crossing cards – of which we issue
about 1 million to Mexican nationals each year (a major source of visa overstays);
increase fees on all NAFTA worker visas from Mexico (another major source of
overstays); and increase fees at ports of entry to the United States from
Mexico [Tariffs and foreign aid cuts are also options]. We will not be
taken advantage of anymore.
Defend The Laws And Constitution Of The United States
America will only be
great as long as America remains a nation of laws that lives according to the
Constitution. No one is above the law. The following steps will return to the
American people the safety of their laws, which politicians have stolen from
them:
Triple the number of ICE officers. As the President of the ICE Officers’ Council explained in
Congressional testimony: “Only approximately 5,000 officers and agents within
ICE perform the lion’s share of ICE’s immigration mission…Compare that to the
Los Angeles Police Department at approximately 10,000 officers. Approximately
5,000 officers in ICE cover 50 states, Puerto Rico and Guam, and are attempting
to enforce immigration law against 11 million illegal aliens already in the
interior of the United States. Since 9-11, the U.S. Border Patrol has tripled
in size, while ICE’s immigration enforcement arm, Enforcement and Removal
Operations (ERO), has remained at relatively the same size.” This will be
funded by accepting the recommendation of the Inspector General for Tax Administration and eliminating
tax credit payments to illegal immigrants.
Nationwide e-verify.
This simple measure will protect jobs for unemployed Americans.
Mandatory return of all criminal aliens. The Obama Administration has released 76,000 aliens from its
custody with criminal convictions since 2013 alone. All criminal aliens must be
returned to their home countries, a process which can be aided by canceling any
visas to foreign countries which will not accept their own criminals, and
making it a separate and additional crime to commit an offense while here
illegally.
Detention—not catch-and-release. Illegal aliens apprehended crossing the border must be detained
until they are sent home, no more catch-and-release.
Defund sanctuary cities. Cut-off
federal grants to any city which refuses to cooperate with federal law
enforcement.
Enhanced penalties for overstaying a visa. Millions of people come to the United States on temporary visas
but refuse to leave, without consequence. This is a threat to national
security. Individuals who refuse to leave at the time their visa expires should
be subject to criminal penalties; this will also help give local jurisdictions
the power to hold visa overstays until federal authorities arrive. Completion
of a visa tracking system – required by law but blocked by lobbyists – will be
necessary as well.
Cooperate with local gang task forces. ICE officers should accompany local police departments
conducting raids of violent street gangs like MS-13
and the 18th street gang, which have terrorized the country. All illegal aliens in gangs
should be apprehended and deported. Again, quoting Chris Crane: “ICE Officers
and Agents are forced to apply the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
(DACA) Directive, not to children in schools, but to adult inmates in jails. If
an illegal-alien inmate simply claims eligibility, ICE is forced to release the
alien back into the community. This includes serious criminals who have
committed felonies, who have assaulted officers, and who prey on children…ICE officers
should be required to place detainers on every illegal alien they encounter in
jails and prisons, since these aliens not only violated immigration laws, but
then went on to engage in activities that led to their arrest by police; ICE
officers should be required to issue Notices to Appear to all illegal aliens
with criminal convictions, DUI convictions, or a gang affiliation; ICE should
be working with any state or local drug or gang task force that asks for such
assistance.”
End birthright citizenship. This remains the biggest magnet for illegal immigration. By a 2:1 margin, voters say it’s the wrong policy, including Harry Reid who
said “no sane country” would give automatic citizenship to the children of
illegal immigrants.
Put American Workers First
Decades of disastrous
trade deals and immigration policies have destroyed our middle class. Today, nearly 40% of black teenagers are
unemployed. Nearly 30% of Hispanic teenagers are unemployed. For black
Americans without high school diplomas, the bottom has fallen out: more than
70% were employed in 1960, compared to less than 40% in 2000. Across the
economy, the percentage of adults in the labor force has collapsed to a level
not experienced in generations. As CBS news wrote in a piece entitled “America’s incredible shrinking middle class”: “If the
middle-class is the economic backbone of America, then the country is
developing osteoporosis.”
The influx of foreign
workers holds down salaries, keeps unemployment high, and makes it difficult
for poor and working class Americans – including immigrants themselves and
their children – to earn a middle class wage. Nearly half of all immigrants and
their US-born children currently live in or near poverty, including more than 60 percent of Hispanic immigrants. Every
year, we voluntarily admit another 2 million new immigrants, guest workers,
refugees, and dependents, growing our existing all-time historic record
population of 42 million immigrants. We need to control the admission of new
low-earning workers in order to: help wages grow, get teenagers back to work,
aid minorities’ rise into the middle class, help schools and communities
falling behind, and to ensure our immigrant members of the national family
become part of the American dream.
Additionally, we need
to stop giving legal immigrant visas to people bent on causing us harm. From
the 9/11 hijackers, to the Boston Bombers, and many others, our immigration
system is being used to attack us. The President of the immigration caseworkers
union declared in a statement on ISIS: “We've become the visa clearinghouse for the world.”
Here are some
additional specific policy proposals for long-term reform:
Increase prevailing wage for H-1Bs. We graduate two times more Americans with STEM degrees each year than find STEM jobs, yet as much as
two-thirds of entry-level hiring for IT jobs is accomplished through the H-1B
program. More than half of H-1B visas are issued for the program's lowest
allowable wage level, and more than eighty percent for its bottom two. Raising
the prevailing wage paid to H-1Bs will force companies to give these coveted
entry-level jobs to the existing domestic pool of unemployed native and
immigrant workers in the U.S., instead of flying in cheaper workers from
overseas. This will improve the number of black, Hispanic and female workers in
Silicon Valley who have been passed over in favor of the H-1B program. Mark
Zuckerberg’s personal Senator, Marco Rubio, has a bill to triple H-1Bs that
would decimate women and minorities.
Requirement to hire American workers first. Too many visas, like the H-1B, have no such requirement. In the year 2015, with 92 million
Americans outside the workforce and incomes collapsing, we need to companies to hire from the domestic pool of
unemployed. Petitions for workers should be mailed to the unemployment office,
not USCIS.
End welfare abuse. Applicants for entry
to the United States should be required to certify that they can pay for their
own housing, healthcare and other needs before coming to the U.S.
Jobs program for inner city youth. The J-1 visa jobs program for foreign youth will be terminated and replaced with a resume
bank for inner city youth provided to all corporate subscribers to the J-1 visa
program.
Refugee program for American children. Increase standards for the admission of refugees and
asylum-seekers to crack down on abuses. Use the monies saved on expensive refugee programs to help place American children without
parents in safer homes and communities, and to improve community safety
in high crime neighborhoods in the United States.
Immigration moderation.
Before any new green cards are issued to foreign workers abroad, there will be
a pause where employers will have to hire from the domestic pool of unemployed
immigrant and native workers. This will help reverse women's plummeting workplace
participation rate, grow wages, and
allow record immigration levels to subside to more moderate historical averages.
https://www.donaldjtrump.com/positions/immigration-reform
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