From the White House website:
Creating an Immigration System for the 21st Century
Our nation’s immigration system is broken. Fixing it is an economic and national security imperative. That’s why President Obama is working to pass a common sense, comprehensive set of reforms that ensures everyone plays by the same rules.
Yeah sure thing White House. And then there is an associated video promoted by the White House:
Barack Obama has touted in recent weeks his assertion that he will proceed within all his presidential power executive action in spite of Congress. Sure there is a Senate bill that the House never took up and there were many reasons most of which it did not secure the border in advance to stop the illegal insurgency.
So the Obama 10 point plan that he threatens to sign before the end of the year includes:
The plan reportedly contains 10 initiatives that include everything from boosting border security to improving pay for immigration officers. The most controversial pertain to the millions who could get a deportation reprieve under what is known as “deferred action.”
Deferred action will include illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children, as well as parents of U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents. The latter could allow upwards of 4.5 million illegal immigrant adults with U.S.-born children to lawfully remain.
Senators who oppose deferred action say those who benefit from it will receive work authorization in the United States, Social Security numbers and government-issued IDs.
Sure to cause consternation among anti-“amnesty” lawmakers is a plan to expand deferred action for young people. Obama created such a program for illegal immigrants in June of 2012. For those who came to the U.S. as children, entered before June 2007 and were under 31 as of June 2012. The change would expand that to cover anyone who entered before they were 16, and change the cut-off from June 2007 to January 1, 2010, making nearly 300,000 illegal immigrants eligible.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers also would see a pay raise in order to “increase morale” within the ICE workforce.
DHS also is planning to “promote” the new naturalization process by giving a 50 percent discount on the first 10,000 applicants who come forward, with the exception of those who have income levels above 200 percent of the poverty level.
Tech jobs though a State Department immigrant visa program would offer another half-million immigrants a path to citizenship, including their spouses as well.
Obama has vowed to act in the absence of congressional action and has claimed that congressional action could still supersede his executive steps.
Just in case you need to understand what is in process already, this is a need to know and it is chilling as it is going on presently in the background.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government will launch a program in December to grant refugee status to some people under the age of 21 who live in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador and whose parents legally reside in the United States.
U.S. officials say parents can ask authorities free of charge for refugee status for their children in the Central American countries, which are plagued by poverty and vicious gang violence. The program does not apply to minors who have arrived in the U.S. illegally.
Vice President Joe Biden announced the program Friday at the Inter-American Development Bank, where the presidents of the three Central American countries will present a plan to stem child migration from their countries.
U.S. officials said that children deemed refugees will be able to work immediately upon arrival in the U.S., opt for permanent residency the following year and for naturalization five years later. They did not say how long the process of receiving refugee status will take.
Central American children who meet the requirements will be part of a quota of 4,000 people from Latin America receiving refugee status each fiscal year, officials said. The U.S. quota of Latin America refugees currently consists of Cubans and Colombians.
Applicants who don’t meet the requirements will be evaluated to see if they can be admitted conditionally under a non-permanent migratory status that allows them to work temporarily in the U.S.
Biden’s announcement comes as President Barack Obama is poised to unveil a series of executive actions on immigration that will shield possibly around 5 million immigrants living in the country illegally from deportation, according to advocates in touch with the White House.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., criticized the plan, which he described as “government-sanctioned border surge” if Obama acts as expected.
“The policy announced today could open Pandora’s box, allowing potentially even more people to come to the United States. This is bad policy and undermines the integrity of our immigration system,” Goodlatte said in a news release.
The program aims to be a legal and safe alternative to the long and dangerous journey some Central American children take north to reach the U.S. and to reunite with their parents in the U.S. Tens of thousands of unaccompanied child and teenage migrants showed up at the U.S. border earlier this year.
On Wednesday, Salvadoran Foreign Minister Hugo Martinez said the plan includes measures to stimulate economic growth, improve public safety, improve government agencies and provide better education and training opportunities.
Heritage Foundation has their own 10 point measure and it does make huge sense.
Consider this, how much money does it really cost taxpayers, the economic landscape, the government, the education system, the healthcare and the culture to accommodate and financially support illegals? No study has been ordered for such a financial review, but whatever it may be, it is far larger than going in fact to Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador and building a infrastructure in those countries to keep people there with great success. This is yet another platform where USAID and the State Department foreign affairs has failed.
In closing, President Reagan worked with Congress and Congress authorized amnesty, yet Barack Obama is NOT using Congress.
