Congress needs to review all immigration laws to determine what changes are needed to put an end to the Illegal Immigration debate. There is a case to be made to repeal all US Amnesty Laws. Mission creep has corrupted US Immigration laws that were drafted by the UN in 1951 as an International Agreement.
Amnesty is narrowly defined. Filing for amnesty is only available to political or religious asylees with no criminal record.
Life threatening religious discrimination was obvious in Nazi Germany in the 1930s. Life threatening political discrimination was also obvious in Soviet Russia after 1918.
The US did resist allowing entry to Jews fleeing from Nazi Germany in the 1930s. There were some “White Russians” who were accepted in the US who were legitimate political asylees.
The German and Russian cultures at the time were Judeo-Christian and no threat to US Assimilation. They may have been denied entry to the US in an attempt to avoid importing spies who found their way in anyhow.
There is little justification for the US to have Amnesty Laws today.
The first major U.S. asylum laws were established with the Refugee Act of 1980, which codified and expanded upon international agreements like the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and the 1967 Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees. While the U.S. had been addressing refugee situations on an ad-hoc basis for decades, the 1980 Act provided the first statutory basis for asylum within U.S. law.
U.S. asylum law is derived from international agreements written after World War II which provide protection to people fearing or fleeing from persecution. The first agreement, the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, was drafted by the United Nations in response to the large migrations of people in the aftermath of the Second World War. The United Nations attempted to set forth an internationally agreed upon standard for who will be considered a refugee. The 1951 Convention, however, only applied to people who were refugees on the basis of events occurring before January 1, 1951. The United Nations incorporated the definition of refugee set forth in the 1951 Convention but expanded it to include future refugees in the 1967 U.N. Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees. The United States acceded to the 1967 Protocol in 1968. In order to bring U.S. law into compliance with its obligations under the Protocol, the United States enacted the Refugee Act of 1980, adopting essentially the same definition of refugee as set forth by the Convention.
A refugee is defined as:“any person who is outside any country of such person’s nationality or, in the case of a person having no nationality, is outside any country in which such person last habitually resided, and who is unable or unwilling to return to, and is unable or unwilling to avail himself or herself of the protection of that country because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.”
https://immigrationequality.org/asylum/asylum-manual/asylum-law-
The wording in the refugee definition above includes any foreign nationals who don’t want to live in their countries, but want to come to the US. The US Refugee Act of 1980 needs to be repealed and replaced.
Changes should require that all Amnesty Requests are filed by foreign nationals at the nearest US Embassy. Judges would be added to Embassies to conduct “hearings” and make final determinations based on Merit and Assimilation to our Judeo-Christian founding.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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