7 STEPS TRUMP CAN TAKE TO SOLVE THE BORDER CRISES, By Steven Ahle, 4/11/19.
Jessica
Vaughan, director of policy studies at the Center for Immigration studies has
made seven suggestions that she says will help him take control of the border.
The emergency on the border is
getting worse by the day and President Trump has taken the first couple of
steps in alleviating it by replacing Kirstjen Nielsen and some others and I
figure he isn’t done yet. He needs to surround himself with people as tough as
he is and who aren’t afraid to enforce the laws. No matter what they do, the
NYT and the WaPo will never love them.
1 – TAKE ON REMITTANCES
Given the billions of dollars sent
annually to Mexico and other countries south of the border from aliens working
illegally in the country, Vaughan advised the Trump administration to consider
options against this outflow of money. She speculated that this would offer the
Trump administration leverage in pressuring Mexico and other Central and South
American countries to assist in halting the flow of migration to the United
States.
“[Migrants] are sending money home to
help support their families that they separated themselves from,” said Vaughan.
Vaughan said, “One of the main reasons
that these other countries — Mexico included, but also Central America — have
really not lifted a finger to interfere with this movement of people to the
United States is because they send so much money home, billions a year. Some of
it from legal immigrants, but a lot of this money is, frankly, ill-gotten gains
of illegal workers, and money and wages that have been denied to American
workers and money that is flowing out of our economy and circulating through it
to boost our economy.”
Vaughan added, “This is a substitute for
an economic policy in some of these countries, and it’s a lame economic policy.
Let your citizens go to another country to work so they can send money back.
iIt doesn’t help the countries, ultimately, and it’s just a poor excuse for
true economic development and improving the quality of life for their own
people. Unless we put some pressure on them to try to slow down these
remittances, they’re not going to change. They’re not going to lift a finger to
stop it. They have no incentive to.”
“We also need to make it Mexico’s
problem to the extent that we possibly can, forcing Mexico to deal with this,”
continued Vaughan. “They can no longer just look the other way as people stream
north, and Mexico never cared. I’ve been told this by Mexican immigration officials
before. They don’t care as long as they know the final destination of these
migrants is the United States. So we’ve got to make them care. Putting some
pressure on remittances is one way.”
2 – FORCE MEXICO TO SIGN A SAFE THIRD
COUNTRY AGREEMENT
Vaughan explained in April of 2018 how the Safe
Third Country Agreement — a Canada-U.S. treaty — allows America to return
asylum-seeking migrants to Canada who entered the country via Canada:
The agreement
we have with Canada, it’s called the Safe Third Country Agreement. People can’t
asylum shop. We’ll return people that are trying to gain asylum and were turned
down in another country. People can’t come through Canada to get to the United
States. We’re allowed to send them back to Canada. If somebody from Pakistan
tries to come to the United States via Canada, claiming asylum, we can return
them to Canada and vice versa. We do need that kind of arrangement with Mexico.
… If they come to the legal port of entry, we do not have to grant them
admission. We can give them a fair hearing, but if we determine that their
claim is not credible, then we’re under no obligation to let them into the
country.
Vaughan recommended seeking avenues of
political pressure to incentivize Mexico to sign a treaty similar to the
aforementioned agreement.
“It’s just a matter of finding the right
leverage,” said Vaughan, “and if that is tariffs, go for it. If that is
squeezing remittances, go for it. If there are some other levers that we have
with Mexico, we should use them. It’s that important to our country at this
point in time to stop this and change the dynamic.”
3 – HIRE OFFICIALS UNAFRAID OF LEFT-WING
MEDIA
“I think [Donald Trump] does have the
tools [to implement his immigration and border security agendas],” determined
Vaughan. “I think he needs to get people in place who are going to use them,
and not be afraid of what the New
York Times writes
about them.”
Vaughan’s comments came in the context
of a discussion about former Secretary of Homeland
Security Kirstjen Nielsen’s Saturday resignation. Nielsen, determined
Vaughan, was “actively working against the presiden,t” along with her
closest staffers who were similarly “trying to undermine” Trump’s immigration
and border security agendas.
In October of 2018, Vaughan also advised Trump against worrying about political pressure from
left-wing and partisan news media outlets: “The president is going to have to
do what is necessary, and not worry about what the New York Times thinks.”
4 – MAKE E-VERIFY MANDATORY FOR EMPLOYERS
Vaughan said, “E-Verify is growing every
single week with more and more employers enrolling in it. I think it’s growing
by about a 1,000 employers signing up every single week. It’s a great system,
It’s free. It’s effective. It’s not perfect by itself, but it really does a
good job at helping employers avoid hiring illegal workers and detecting
illegal workers. It also has a deterrent effect when illegal workers know that
an employer uses E-Verify. A lot of time they just don’t even apply there. They
try to find somewhere else. It works, but it’s never going to work up to its
potential unless it’s mandatory for all employers to use it.”
Vaughan added, “There’s some debate as
to whether this can be implemented by executive action because of the authority
the president has to set up a system of verification of authorization to work,
or whether it would require congressional action. If the president can’t
require everyone to use it, he can certainly require an expansion of the number
of employers that have to use it, and that should be done.”
5 – STOP ISSUING WORK PERMITS TO MIGRANTS
WITH PENDING ASYLUM APPLICATIONS
Vaughan explained how migrants with
pending asylum applications are often issued work permits.
“All these people who lie — they say
they have a fear of return and then just join the illegal population, never
submit an asylum application, and never show up at their hearing — are working
illegally,” stated Vaughan. “A lot of these asylum applicants get a work
permit. Once their asylum application has been pending for 180 days, they’re
entitled to apply for a work permit, and most of them get it.”
Vaughan remarked, “Half of them will
pursue an asylum application because they know they can get a work permit. The
work permits are the shadow immigration system. It is one huge back window into
[America]. It’s not legal status, but it gives you the ability to live here as
if you’re here illegally because you have the work permit. Once you have the
work permit, you get the Social Security number, and then, at that point,
you’re home free, because the Social Security number, that unlocks everything.”
6 – KEEP DETAINED FAMILIES TOGETHER TO
PREVENT ABSCONDING
Vaughan said Trump should issue a
directive to DHS to keep detained migrant families together in order to comply
with a a federal court order prohibiting separation of migrants claiming
familial relations.
Trump should further deploy military
resources to provide accommodation for detained migrants who have exceeded
detention facilities’ holding capacities, advised Vaughan. She noted how the
“catch and release” policy is partly a function of overloaded detention
facilities for migrants.
“First, dust off the mass migration plan
and get the tents from the Army and set it up on the border,” stated Vaughan.
“Second, issue the regulation that is somewhere stuck in the bowels of DHS that
gives the administration the ability to detain families with their children to
get around this judge’s ruling that says they can’t.”
Vaughan added, “All they need to do is
issue this regulation that says, ‘We’re not going to separate families. We’re
going to detain families together while their asylum applications are pending,
because otherwise we know they’re going to abscond.’”
7 – Start Removing Illegal Aliens
Vaughan deduced that removing illegal
aliens — returning them to either their home countries or a safe alternative —
will serve as a deterrent to foreigners aspiring to illegally enter the country
or falsely claim asylum.
Vaughan advised, “Start removing some of
the thousands and thousands of people who have absconded on their proceedings,
who never filed their asylum applications, or they failed to appear in
immigration court, or they failed to show up for removal so that anyone
thinking about coming sees that those who got away with it for a little while
are no longer getting away with it and they’re being sent home.”
Vaughan went on, “There are all kinds of
grounds for removal that you would have to get rid of these individuals who got
away with it for awhile, whether it’s failing to appear in court, which is a
felony, whether it’s using some kind of identity theft to get a job.”
Vaughan continued, “I understand
from talking to some of the contractors to ICE that a lot of them have been
arrested for shoplifting or ID theft or driving without a license or all manner
of petty crimes that haven’t caught up with them yet, or even just because
they’re here illegally. Imagine that.”
“Start removing people, and that’s
going to starting getting people to think differently about this,” concluded
Vaughan.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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