Photo: CIS

Let’s clear up the hysteria surrounding this public charge rule.

It:

1. Doesn’t apply to those who have green cards
2. Doesn’t consider benefits received for US-born children
3. Is in fact centuries old
4. Exempts emergency medical care

“And contrary to the “attack on immigrant families” malarkey, the rule is narrower than it could be. It applies only to people applying for green cards, not to people who already have green cards and apply for citizenship. It doesn’t consider benefits received on behalf of U.S.–born children, or the school-lunch program, or the Earned Income Tax Credit, or emergency medical care, or disaster assistance. It also doesn’t necessarily apply to one-time receipt of a welfare benefit, but sets dollar-amount or duration thresholds, below which the public-charge rule wouldn’t apply. And refugees and asylum recipients, among others, are exempt altogether.”

Here, from CIS Executive Director Mark Krikorian, on NRO.

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3-month review shows how New York City’s failure to honor immigration detainers leads to hundreds of dangerous criminals released

Here.

photo: AJC

More immigrants live in the US (46m) than any other country. Germany, Russia, Saudi Arabia only others w/ 10m+

HERE

Bonus fact:  – Atlanta region added 80,000 people in the last year HERE.

Getty images:

• “The number of immigrants added to the labor force every year is of a magnitude not seen in this country for over a century.
• “If this huge influx of mostly low-skill workers provides some benefits to the economy as a whole—especially by keeping our workforce young, in contrast to an increasingly geriatric Europe and Japan—it also threatens to depress further the wages of blue-collar Americans and put strains on an already overburdened safety net.”
• “Native-born Americans suspect that it is they, and not the immigrant, who are being forced to adapt” to social changes caused by migration.
• “[T]here’s no denying that many blacks share the same anxieties as many whites about the wave of illegal immigration flooding our Southern border—a sense that what’s happening now is fundamentally different from what has gone on before…”

Barack Obama, 2006 HERE

“I have only one loyalty and that’s to the immigrant community. We cannot be a slave to the legislative process that’s what we’ve done, and it hasn’t served us very well.”

U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez. (D-IL)

On amnesty-again legislation, in Newsweek, “Keeping Obama to his word” – November 29, 2010
HERE

Fast Fact from PEW HISPANIC CENTER: 40% of illegal aliens arrived in the United States in the last five years. From the Pew Hispanic Center

Fast Fact: A strategy of attrition through enforcement could reduce the illegal population by as many as 1.5 million illegal aliens each year. Currently about 183,000 illegal aliens per year depart without the intervention of immigration officials, according to DHS statistics.

What is “attrition by enforcement”?

It is the concept that if we were to elect a government that would secure our borders and actually enforce our employment and immigration laws, illegal aliens would not be drawn to the U.S., would have a very difficult time entering our Republic illegally and would begin to self-deport… as Ceser Chavez realized, wages would begin to go up so that people in America could earn a living wage.

It is your basic “no-brainer”.

Read more here.

Enforcement works…as has been proven by all too few examples of recent enforcement.

We should remenber this: Real immigrants who are in the U.S. legally have no fear of work place enforcement and do not need fraudulaent documents to obtain a driver’s license or a job. Only illegal aliens do.

 

Chris Carr, Attorney General for Georgia. January 18 2016. Photo: Law.com

 

 

In a statement, Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr said he’d prefer to give the administration time.

“As Attorney General, I take seriously my duty to defend the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution and laws of the state of Georgia. We have continuously and clearly taken the position in ongoing legal cases that DACA does not confer legal status,” Carr said. “It is important to remember that it is properly the role of Congress to address immigration issues from a legislative perspective. I am aware that this is a complex and emotional issue, and I would prefer to give the new Administration — which has been vocal about this issue — appropriate time to consider any additional actions that should be taken.”

Georgians React To Uncertain Future Of DACA Program
ELLY YU • JUL 17, 2017

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DACA recipients are shown at a rally to demand in-state tuition in Georgia.

The future of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program is uncertain.
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The future of a program that protects young immigrants from deportation is uncertain. Last week, Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly told a group of lawmakers that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, will likely not stand up in the courts.

That has Jessica Colotl concerned about what’s next.

Earlier this year, Coltol, 29, briefly lost her deportation protection status. She later won in court and got her DACA reinstated, but the program itself is up in the air.

The program was created by President Barack Obama through executive action in 2012. If DACA ends, she worries she and others could face deportation.

“It’s scary,” she said. “It would basically paralyze the lives of Americans at heart. We’re talking about people who came to the United States as young as 2 or 3 months old.”

Jaime Rangel, 26, was brought to the U.S. when he was an infant. He agreed the uncertain future of DACA scared him, but he said he’s also hopeful of a more permanent solution for the nearly 800,000 immigrants in the United States protected by DACA. About 23,000 DACA recipients are in Georgia.

“We’ve got to see this as somewhat of an opportunity to try to pass bipartisan immigration reform because, at the end of the day, I think every DACA recipient in this country knew that sooner or later DACA would cease to exist,” he said.

The Trump administration has so far left the DACA program intact, and President Donald Trump has said he’d treat DACA “with heart.”

Meanwhile, attorneys general in 10 states, led by Texas’s attorney general, have sent a letter to the Trump administration saying they would sue the administration if it doesn’t end DACA. Georgia isn’t part of that letter.

In a statement, Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr said he’d prefer to give the administration time.

“As Attorney General, I take seriously my duty to defend the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution and laws of the state of Georgia. We have continuously and clearly taken the position in ongoing legal cases that DACA does not confer legal status,” Carr said. “It is important to remember that it is properly the role of Congress to address immigration issues from a legislative perspective. I am aware that this is a complex and emotional issue, and I would prefer to give the new Administration — which has been vocal about this issue — appropriate time to consider any additional actions that should be taken.” See here to read the rest of the WABA story.

Emiko Soltis – just to the right of the AJC’s immigration reporter, Jeremy Redmon. Image: Freedom University (FU) – location a secret

Nation states ‘should not exist,’ citizenship is ‘completely arbitrary’

Emiko Soltis
Here.

Image: NBC News

NBC News
March 26, 2019

Daily border crossings by undocumented migrants hit 13-year highs

Here.