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Texas Governor Greg Abbott is praising the efforts of the men and women who are guarding the border with Mexico.Guardsmen from Florida and Idaho will be arriving on the Texas border in the next few days, and the governor says they'll be staying a few weeks to help in the effort to turn back illegal border crossers.The numbers have gone from 27-hundred daily encounters down to about 20 a day in Texas.On top of the razor wire being strung, Governor Abbott vowed to continue building a border wall.

Im here in Brownsville today to thank the hardworking men women who are defending our border for their bravery and courage, said Governor Abbott. "These men and women in uniform here today, they're considered to be heroes by their fellow Americans. They should be proud of what they've done. I'm proud of what they've done."

Since the launch of Operation Lone Star, the multi-agency effort has led to over 376,000 illegal immigrant apprehensions and more than 28,000 criminal arrests, with more than 25,000 felony charges reported. In the fight against fentanyl, Texas law enforcement has seized over 416 million lethal doses of fentanyl during this border mission.

Texas has also bused more than 9,400 migrants to our nation's capital since April 2022, over 6,700 migrants to New York City since August 5, more than 1,900 migrants to Chicago since August 31, more than 1,000 migrants to Philadelphia since November 15, and 40 migrants to Denver on the first bus that departed this week.

Abbott said, "Operation Lone Star continues to fill the dangerous gaps left by the Biden Administration's refusal to secure the border."

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Freshly inaugurated Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson says Chicago is a welcoming place for illegal immigrants, but he also says that helping illegal immigrants reach his sanctuary city is cruel and evil.

Chicago is a sanctuary city, which is why Texas has been busing illegal immigrants to it while trying to relieve the strain on smaller border towns. But Johnson finds this despicable, claiming, Its wicked. Its unconscionable. But as you all know, the city of Chicago is coming together to make sure that people who wish to find real comfort here in the city of Chicago, that we provide that.

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Here is what Johnsons campaign website said about immigration and Chicagos sanctuary city status: Chicago must lead with and live by the promise to be a sanctuary city and welcome immigrants and refugees, and treat them with dignity and respect. This sanctuary promise must extend to everyone who needs it in our city, and residents both old and new.

How are these two quotes not contradictory? Why would it be wicked to help illegal immigrants travel to a city that promises to treat them with dignity and respect? Why would it be unconscionable to help illegal immigrants reach a city that extends its sanctuary promise to everyone who needs it, including residents both old and new? In this case, is Texas not doing those illegal immigrants a favor by sending them to such an accepting sanctuary city, free of charge?

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In reality, this is Johnson trying to do the same dance that New York City and Washington, D.C., have been doing. He has to continue to posture that this is no big deal, even though outgoing mayor Lori Lightfoot already declared that Chicago reached a breaking point with illegal immigrant arrivals. He wants to try and shame Texas into stopping the practice because he cant admit that his sanctuary promise must extend to everyone who needs it was a performative sham.

Johnson already telegraphed that he would be completely out of his depth when he said that violent rioters assaulting people in the streets were just being silly like middle school children. He is nothing more than the personification of shallow progressive talking points, and he already cant get those points in concert with illegal immigration and his sanctuary promise.

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A sweeping immigration law signed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis earlier this month seeking to stamp out illegal workers from the Sunshine State could disrupt the construction industry by making it harder to hire low-wage workers and is sure to drive up the cost of development, experts say.

There are plenty of nervous people. Ive gotten [a lot] of calls on this issue, said Peter Dyga, president and CEO of the Associated Builders and Contractors Florida East Coast Chapter trade association. Is it going to have an impact on the labor market? Of course, it is.

The legislation, formally known as SB 1718, is the latest in Gov. DeSantiss right-wing agenda as the Republican mounts a presidential run, which hes expected to announce later this month.

The main provision causing angst among Florida construction executives is a mandate for businesses with 25 or more employees to use the federal governments E-Verify system to confirm workers immigration status.

While its always been illegal to hire undocumented workers, employers have typically been able to turn a blind eye. Prospective workers are required to fill out an I-9 employment eligibility verification form and provide documentation to prove their identity, such as a passport or drivers license. Employers were free to hire those applicants if their certificates appeared legitimate.

As long as it looks kosher, companies could take them without fear of repercussions. Hey, we did our job The documentation looked real; the photo looked like the person who presented it to me. It was valid on its face, said Scott Bettridge, chair of the law firm Cozen OConnors immigration practice, who represents construction companies.

Some employers dont want to know, the attorney added.

Finding people to fill low-paying, labor-intensive jobs, such as work on construction sites, has long been a headache for construction companies. Undocumented workers who account for 5.2 percent of Floridas workforce, according to a 2020 Center For American Progress report often filled that void. Employers faced few consequences for taking advantage of that workforce. Punishment typically came in the form of a fine, which contractors accepted as the cost of doing business.

But the calculus is likely to change. In addition to paying a fine, which could be as much as $1,000 a day, first-time violators of the newly enacted legislation could be put on one-year probation. Repeat offenders could have their Florida state contractors license suspended or revoked, representing existential threats to construction companies.

The penalties are some of the strongest in the country, according to Bettridge. Texas also requires employers to use the E-Verify system, but the sanctions are not as stringent. In addition, Florida counts the agricultural and hospitality sectors as two of its major industries, which also rely the most heavily on undocumented workers. All three industries employ the highest share of illegal workers, according to a 2016 Pew Research report.

The law does not go into effect until July 1, but it already appears to be warding off undocumented workers. Videos on Twitter and TikTok have gone viral, purporting to show once-busy construction sites now empty. One video shows a worker at a Wynwood construction site warning his colleagues in Spanish about the impending new law: Its going to be impossible for you to work without papers.

These changes are sure to hike up costs for developers. There are a lot of factors contributing to the inflationary costs and tight labor markets. Will this further tighten it? Yes, Dyga said. Then itll be up to the developers to figure out if financially doing that product is worthwhile.

Higher-cost labor would represent another blow to the real estate industry, which is already battling skyrocketing prices due to overall inflation and interest rate hikes. While the lending market has slowed nationwide, South Florida remains resilient, a region where developers still nab sizable loans to move projects forward. But the newly enacted legislation could potentially slow the pace of development.

Despite lobbying for the measure and signing the bill into law, not everyone blames DeSantis. Dyga faults the federal government for not giving the record number of undocumented immigrants crossing the southern border work permits as their cases move through the court system.

Still, the new legislation is intended to cast out illegal immigrants from Florida by making it inhospitable for them. Beyond the requirement for companies, the law requires hospitals that accept Medicaid to collect the immigration status of patients and report the health care cost of illegal immigrants to the state. It also prevents Florida from issuing IDs and drivers licenses to undocumented people and voids those issued by other states.

So far, developers are staying mum about the new law. Commercial Observer reached out to dozens based in South Florida, but none agreed to comment.

Julia Echikson can be reached at jechikson@commercialobserver.com.

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Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries are being urged to collaborate and develop model legislation and a regional migration policy to protect citizens from illegal migration practices.

Making the call, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Security, Hon. Dr. Horace Chang, said illegal migration practices have increased exponentially across the Americas since the COVID-19 pandemic, which has resulted in Caribbean nationals exposing themselves to dangerous situations.

He was addressing the 26th meeting of the CARICOM Standing Committees of Chiefs of Immigration and Comptrollers of Customs (CICC) conference, held at the Montego Bay Convention Centre, St. James, on Tuesday (May 16).

Dr. Chang explained that the harsh economic conditions that followed the halting of international travel is one of the main drivers influencing migration of people from the Caribbean.

Against that background, he said increased dialogue and cooperation is critical to strengthen CARICOMS capacity to manage migration challenges.

Given the obvious and immediate danger that these illegal migration practices pose to our population, we must develop model legislation and a regional migration policy as a matter of priority, in order to help give the governance framework for regional migration more structure, Dr. Chang said.

He informed that Jamaica has moved to take action in this regard with the development of its first National Visa Policy.

The Minister noted that the policy was established out of a broad-based consultative process and is now at its final stages of development.

In addition, work is underway to amend our immigration laws to support this strengthened regime, he informed.

Meanwhile, the Minister encouraged the chiefs of immigration and comptrollers of customs from the different CARICOM nations to use the meeting to advance specific security initiatives, which set the conditions for attaining deeper levels of Caribbean unity, strengthened community governance, and strengthened global influence.

The three-day meeting, which ends on Thursday (May 18), brings together regional border security officials to review the immigration processes, determine the status of regional security structures and assess the need for modification, in view of new and emerging trends.

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The open-borders lobby is no stranger to bad-faith reform proposals, abusing the language of fairness as they try to scrap all migration controls entirely. Unfortunately for American citizens, bad ideas frequently come from unusual suspects. Even while acknowledging our Southwestern border crisis, two Republican governors are now among those advocating for a potentially disastrous plan that would wreak havoc on our legal immigrationpolicies.

Governors Eric Holcomb of Indiana and Spencer Cox of Utah endorsed state-sponsored visas in The Washington Post in February, strengthening more recent pushes for this flawed and destructive policy. Their proposal would allow states to sponsor visas (which only the federal government can grant) specifically for immigrants to fill entry-level, low-skill roles in that state. The governors inexplicably present this plan as a solution to both our border crisis and supposed local labor shortages, and business groups hungry for cheap labor to undercut Americans have joined their cause in Newsweek.

The basic premise of this proposal is fatally flawed because states do not exist in isolation and travel between them is unrestricted. Allowing sanctuary states like California to unilaterally admit immigrants into the U.S. undermines the most basic structure of federalism by usurping the federal responsibility to control and regulate immigration. No effective controls exist that would keep those admitted from moving wherever they want in the country, and the proposal would not extend to states the ability to refuse these immigrants. There are no solutions to state-level shortages addressed here because immigration is by its nature not something that can be restricted to one place. State-sponsored admission of low-skill foreign workers could become a backdoor for a few states to flood the rest with un-asked-for competition and crowd out Americancitizens.

In fact, that crowding actually seems to be the desired effect. The American Business Immigration Coalitions use of the nonsense term parole visas in their Newsweek piecebetrays the open-borders cheap labor lobbys true intentions. Immigration parole, intended for very limited uses, is currently being grossly abused without oversight to bring hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens into the U.S. every year (a number the piece incredibly calls very limited) with work authorization. If 360,000 illegal aliens ushered into the U.S. annually by the federal government is a very limited number to the cheap labor lobby, imagine how many millions would be admitted if the parole abuses of the White House extended to state capitols across the country. Cheap illegal alien workers are a huge net drain on the economy, not a benefit, and these governors proposals would actively hurt their American constituents who would be replaced by lower-paid foreign workers.

Bad policies that make U.S. immigration law look weak create a self-perpetuating cycle of illegal immigration, as weve seen throughout the Biden administration. Inadequate enforcement and poorly conceived handouts like this proposal draw, rather than deter, ever more migration to the U.S. and strengthen the pull to the border, while American citizens pay for the incredible expense that these migrants create in our schools and hospitals. American jobs should not be a free-for-all for the lowest bidder, but proposals like this show that the cheap-labor lobby and many politicians would be happy to put American citizens last inline.

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