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FAIR Take | March2023

Last week, Reuters news service reported that the Biden Administration has quietly begun flying illegal aliens apprehended at the Canadian border to Texas. According to Reuters, the Border Patrol this month placed about 100 migrants on two charter flights from Plattsburgh, New York, near the border with Canada, to the Texas cities of Harlingen and ElPaso.

As Reuters reports, the U.S. Border Patrolapprehendednearly 2,900 people crossing illegally from Canada into the United States in the five months since October, more than all of fiscal year 2022. About half of those were Mexicans, who do not need a visa to travel toCanada.

While the Biden Administration has done little to deter illegal immigration on the southern border, it is characterizing these flights from upstate New York to Texas a deterrent measure. A CBP official told Reuters that 48 migrants47 Mexicans and one Colombianwere flown from Plattsburgh to Harlingen on March 13 to be repatriated, calling it the consequence of crossingillegally.

Reuters also states a second flight from New York to El Paso took place on March 21. A Reuters witness saw about 50 migrants disembark from the plane, including men and women in shackles and three adults with a child and a baby. CBP, however, refused tocomment.

According to Brandon Judd, president of the National Border Patrol Council, a third flight was scheduled for next week, but may be canceled amid costconcerns.

Why El Paso was chosen as a destination is unknown. El Paso has suffered from the massive weight of illegal immigration under the Biden Administration. In FY 2023 to-date, the El Paso Sector has had more encounters of illegal aliens than any other sector on the southwest border: 238,417 (including Border Patrol and Office of Field Operations (OFO)). That is more than 2.5 times the number of encounters in the El Paso sector for all of FY2022.

The city of El Paso has borne the brunt of this massive influx. Over the past several months, multiple media outlets have reported how the city has witnessed increases in fentanyl deaths, overcrowded homeless shelters, and overwhelmed food banks. City officials have declared a state of emergency as the number of illegal aliens apprehended and released into El Paso has skyrocketed. And even CNN acknowledged that, with 2,500 illegal aliens entering El Paso each day, El Paso has become the focal point inthe growing humanitarian crisisat theborder.

Indeed, the huge numbers of illegal aliens showing up in El Paso led Mayor Oscar Leeser, a Democrat, to bus illegal aliens to New York City and Chicago using federal funds. In fact, as of last fall, the city had bussed more migrants out of city limits than Texas Governor Greg Abbott had transported out of Texas. Now it seems El Paso is getting more migrants back, courtesy of the BidenAdministration.

At this point, there is no clear understanding whether all of the illegal aliens transported from upstate New York to El Paso were released or expelled to Mexico. However, if the Biden Administration has now decided it will indeed put illegal aliens on flights, perhaps it will consider the new and novel policy of actually deporting them. That would be the ultimate deterrenceeffort.

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Border Patrol Flying Migrants from the Canadian Border to Texas? - Federation for American Immigration Reform

The roof leaks, the fence is broken, and the grass needs mowing. Spring is fix-it time and you need help, but how do you proceed ethically if youre concerned about illegal immigration? After all, with 15.5 million illegal aliens already in the U.S., and more than 200,000 entering monthly, its a good bet your local contractor hires them at local day-labor centers matching unscrupulous employers with those who have no legal right to be employed.

Its a problem foisted on thousands of communities nationwide by our governments failure to enforce immigration law. The consequence is that anyone selecting contractors can become complicit in this illicit labor scheme; just ask former presidential candidate Mitt Romney whose alleged use of illegal labor on his property became an embarrassing issue for him during the 2012 presidentialcampaign.

Yet as is often the case, knowledge and grassroots action are the keys, and there is an at-homeremedy.

The first step is to simply ask how your selected contractor verifies legal status. Many small firms answer this inquiry by robotically stating they, I-9 everyone, referring to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Employee Eligibility Verification process that requires new employees to provide documents proving they have the right to work. This sounds fine if there was not widespread counterfeiting of identity papers and theft of Social Security numbers, potentially affecting nearly 40 million Americans. Because of that, even honest employers who earnestly use the I-9 process dont have time, or the expertise, to adequately verify the authenticity of government-issued identification or work authorizationdocuments.

Thats why your second, more desired step, is to ask if the company uses E-Verify, and if not, why not? E-Verify is the real meat and potatoes of worksite authorization, offering an effective electronic alternative to the old paper-based I-9 system. Social Security numbers or alien identification numbers of new hires are checked against government records to weed out the duplicative andfraudulent.

Businesses (those who actually want to avoid hiring illegal workers) depend on E-Verify because its fast, easy, and free to use, and it means that theyre no longer expected to be document experts. When a company uses E-Verify, the liability of determining the legal status of an employee is placed on the U.S. government, not the employer. So if a mistake is made, the employer is off the hook provided it was usingE-Verify.

Should you want to provebeyond verbal assurancesthat a company is enrolled in E-Verify, its a simple matter of asking to see their Memorandum of Understanding Agreement. Its your right to scrutinize the hiring policies of those you deal with, and nothing prohibits a company from sharing this document. Youre asking for hiring policies, not personally identifyinginformation.

Remember, even if a company claims to comply with the law using the I-9 process, thats not a guarantee their employees have lawful status. But, to be fair, its a lot better than many small firms that do nothing. However, E-Verify is the gold standard for weeding out unauthorized workers in addition to being fast, simple, and free for hiringmanagers.

We know. It wont be easy, it takes some nerve to ask questions, and your contractor may twirl his mustache while he spins dubious claims about hiring standards. It may even turn out you dont know for certainbut at least you inquired.

If enough folks force the issue, businesses will get the message as they lose profits to others who understand Hiring Legally Authorized Workers Only is an appealing competitive advantage. The free market is funny that way, always responding rapidly towarddemand.

Be persistent, and just maybe in the process of getting things fixed around our homes, well be fixing our immigration crisis as well by shutting off the jobsmagnet.

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Backyard Activism: A Simple At-Home Tactic - Federation for American Immigration Reform

FAIR Take | March2023

Last week, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) quietly unveiled updates to the E-Verify program to improve the electronic employment verification process required by employers. The E-Verify system is a free, reliable, and proven program that helps employers ensure they are hiring a legal workforce. It does so by allowing employers to compare employees information submitted on their I-9 Forms with records at the DHS and the Social SecurityAdministration. In essence, it acts as a virtualwall.

According to USCIS, the new and improved E-Verify system, called E-Verify NextGen, is an upcoming evolution which aims to streamline the verification process for both employees andemployees.

Over the years, USCIS has continued to make updates to the system to give greater ownership and control to employers. This time, the agency is streamlining the Form I-9 process to reduce errors and improve efficiencies. In particular, it is creating an employer-facing portal which allows for direct input by an employee, and then creates a downloadable FormI-9.

In addition to releasing a video of E-Verify NextGen to explain the new features, USCIS has provided the public with the following chart to better explain the benefits to employees andemployers.

Today, there are more than one million users of E-Verify, and on average, more than 1,500 new employers sign up weekly. At the same time, there are 12 million or more illegal aliens in the country, many working unlawfully at the expense of American workers. More than 5.5 million people have illegally entered the country since President Biden tookoffice.

Employment is one of the largest drivers of illegal immigration, and the Biden Administrations policies to provide work authorization to those that have entered the U.S. has helped fuel todays border crisis. Additionally, too many Americans have become victims of identity fraud due to illegal immigration and the lack ofenforcement.

FAIR supports legislation that mandates that all employers use E-Verify when recruiting and hiring new employees. Legislation has been introduced in the House and Senate to mandate use of the program, repealing the paper-based I-9 system. Other bills also include increased penalties for noncompliance as well as new procedures for the government to suspend social security numbers to protect victims of identityfraud.

Please go to FAIRs website to learn more about H.R. 319, the Legal Workforce Act or S. 156, the Accountability Through Electronic Verification Act.

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E-Verify: Improvements Make Mandatory Use a No-Brainer - Federation for American Immigration Reform

I dont have a problem with people coming over here legally. But the illegal immigration has to stop. How many times have you heard that line from a Trump supporter? To hear them talk, they are fine with immigrants who come here legally just as they say their ancestors did. But are they really?

The United States is running well below the 2.1 babies per woman required to replenish our populations numbers by births alone. We are continuously growing older. Baby boomers have swelled the numbers of our retirees. We dont have enough workers to do the work Americans refuse to do in the fields and in our service sectors or enough skilled workers in tech industries to do the work that a sufficient number of Americans can do.

Among many other business groups, The United States Chamber of Commerce has been arguing for years that the United States needs more legal immigrants to sustain reasonable population growth here, support our large numbers of retirees, continue to grow our economy and compete with China. Immigrants are twice as likely to open a new business than the rest of our population. It is in our countrys best self-interest to increase the number of legal immigrants coming into the United States. It is hard to imagine a more America First policy than an enlightened, self-interested increase in legal immigration.

Nevertheless, during his presidency, former President Trump reduced the number of LEGAL immigrants allowed into the United States by 63%, suspended the entrance of highly skilled immigrants, and drastically reduced the number of family sponsored legal immigrants, most of whom come from Asia and South America. After all of the incessant hype about building a wall building a wall and controlling the border, according to the CATO Institute, former President Trump made absolutely no progress on reducing illegal immigration. Actually, deportations were the lowest as an absolute number and as a share of the illegal immigration population since ICE was created in 2003.

Still in 2020, 74 million Americans, about 10 million more than in 2016, voted for the former president without concern for the failure of these signature policies. Supporters insisted then that Trump was just against illegal immigration, not legal immigration. They still do. And they will continue to do so during the 2024 Presidential campaign.

TIM MANNELLO

Williamsport

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FAIR Take | March2023

The House Homeland Security Committee held a hearing last Thursday on the national security challenges facing our maritime borders. The hearing examined how President Bidens open border policies have resulted in mass illegal immigration and included many stories of tragedies of those taking to sea to enter the UnitedStates.

Among the witnesses present were Rear Admiral Jo-Ann F. Burdian (U.S. Coast Guard); Jonathan Miller, Executive Director for Operations, Air and Marine Operations (U.S. Customs and Border Protection); Brigadier General Sean T. Boyette (Florida National Guard), and Heather MacLeod (Government AccountabilityOffice).

In his opening statement, Subcommittee Chairman Carlos Gimenez (R-Fla.) said that he was intimately familiar with the migratory and illegal narcotics crisis on the open sea, and along our coasts. Since August 2022, nearly 11,000 migrants were repatriated to their home country after attempting to cross the Florida straights, stating the situation isuntenable.

The Chairman continued to say that since the start of the Biden Administration, the Presidents policies have caused unlawful migration to surge month after month, creating an unprecedented situation and that the drug crisis in our country is unsustainable and is a direct result of the failed policies this administration haspursued.

Conversely, the Democrat members argued that the hearing was political theater. Ranking Member Thanedar (D-Mich.) discussed how migrants are desperate to enter the U.S. and that a vast majority of migrants taking to the sea are coming from Haiti and Cuba. He suggested thatthe Republicans were more interested in blaming the Biden Administration than passinglegislation.

According to Mr. Miller, over the past three years, CBPs Air and Marine Operations division conducted approximately 293,000 flight hours and 221,000 float hours, resulting in the arrest of 3,152 suspects, the apprehension of more than 304,000 migrants, the seizure of nearly 3,200 weapons and $146.6 million in currency, and the interdiction of nearly two million pounds of illegal drugs, including 769,000 pounds ofcocaine.

Brigadier General Boyette discussed how Governor DeSantis issued an executive order to activate the National Guard to support interdiction efforts. To date, he stated, the cost of that effort has exceeded $50million.

In her testimony, Ms. MacLeod referenced a GAO report which found that the Coast Guard and CBP [have] experienced challenges with acquisition programs that support their law enforcement missions which include providing law enforcement and maritime security capabilities across a range of sea conditions and locations. The report added that these acquisition programs for law enforcement efforts currently face significant cost and scheduleconcerns.

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Congress Conducts Oversight on Maritime Border Crisis - Federation for American Immigration Reform