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Bipartisan Struggle: The Stalled US Immigration Reform | National World News | bhpioneer.com - Black Hills Pioneer

Recalling her own immigration journey from India to the US at the age of 16, Indian American Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal has reiterated her call for immigration reform.

I navigated a complex immigration system, Jayapal said in a video posted on X joining #SpreadAAPILove campaign started by STOP AAPI Hate as part of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders (AANHPI) heritage month.

READ: Bridging Histories, Shaping Our Future theme for AANHPI Heritage Month (April 25, 2024)

Coming to the US with $5,000 given by her parents to sustain her American dream, it took her 17 years to navigate a complex immigration system to become a US citizen 20 years ago.

Emphasizing their belief in her potential and in the opportunities America could offer, she said, They (Jayapals parents) made the ultimate sacrifice of living on a different continent than their child.

Pointing out that many people today face an even more difficult journey, Jayapal reiterated her call for immigration reform.

Having gained US citizenship over two decades ago, she underscored her pride in representing her constituents and serving in Congress.

Today, more than two decades after I gained my citizenship, I speak to you as the first South Asian American woman ever elected to the House of Representatives, as one of only two dozen naturalized citizens to serve in the United States Congress, she said.

As the ranking member of the Immigration Subcommittee, I have fought to give back to immigrant communities and ensure that their rights are always protected, Jayapal stated.

Her efforts include promoting policies to improve AAPI health, protecting civil liberties, and advocating for a just and humane immigration system.

I am always going to work to help all those who want to achieve the American dream, the possibility of doing that, just like I had, she said with a call to action for solidarity and storytelling within the AAPI community.

Being an immigrant is part of who I am. Its something that I am incredibly proud of. America was built by immigrants, and without us, this country would come to a standstill, Jayapal asserted.

So lets all continue sharing our stories, standing together, and spreading AAPI love. Happy AANHPI Heritage Month.

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Talk about out-of-touch Washington. At a time when the unemployment rate is 7.6 percent and would be far higher had not millions of jobless Americans become discouraged and left the workforce the topic of debate among many Democratic and Republican lawmakers is how many guest workers should be allowed into the U.S. each year.

Should it be 20,000? Ten times that number? How much new labor, most of it unskilled, should come to a country where millions already cant find a job? Those are the issues on the table in the bipartisan Gang of Eights immigration reform proposal.

When debate over the plan begins in earnest, it will set off an intense argument over the economic consequences of reform. That argument will come despite reports the AFL-CIO and top business organizations have already agreed on guest workers. The unions, of course, represent fewer than 7 percent of private-sector workers in the U.S., and the Chamber of Commerce doesnt have a mandate to speak for all of American business.

It will be a debate in which the public hears doubts about the economic wisdom of reform from voices as disparate as Jeff Sessions, the conservative Republican senator from Alabama, and Paul Krugman, the liberal New York Times columnist.

The comprehensive immigration bill being drafted right now would provide nearly immediate work authorization to millions of illegal immigrants while substantially increasing the future flow of workers, Sessions said April 5, when the latest unemployment numbers were released. Our first priority must be to help American citizens, and current legal immigrants, find good employment. The alternative, Sessions argued, would be a system in which a large and growing share of our population is permanently unemployed while jobs are filled by a constant supply of foreign workers.

In recent days, with reform on the agenda of a Democratic president, Krugman has said positive things about immigration. But back in 2006, when Republican President George W. Bush was behind reform, Krugman expressed serious concerns.

A review of serious, nonpartisan research reveals some uncomfortable facts about the economics of modern immigration, and immigration from Mexico in particular, Krugman wrote at the time. Among those uncomfortable facts, he explained, were 1) the net benefits to the U.S. economy from immigration, aside from the large gains to the immigrants themselves, are small; 2) many of the worst-off native-born Americans are hurt by immigration; and 3) modern America is a welfare state and low-skill immigrants threaten to unravel that safety net.

When Krugman wrote those words, the unemployment rate was 4.7 percent. Now it is nearly three points higher. The economic concerns about immigration reform are more serious than ever.

Back in 2007, reform died in part because some Democrats, backed by unions, opposed it. This bill will flood the U.S. job market with millions of workers who will compete, at low wages, for jobs Americans are now doing, Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., wrote in 2007. I believe it will drive down American wages and living standards.

Dorgan is now gone from the Senate. Like Krugman, it was easier for him to oppose immigration reform in 06 and 07 because it was sponsored by a Republican president. This time, will any Democrats stand up to a president of their own party?

The question might be particularly acute for Democrats because of reforms expected effect on minority workers. Last week, three members of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights wrote to Ohio Democratic Rep. Marcia Fudge, chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, arguing that legalizing currently illegal immigrants will have far-reaching effects on African-Americans.

Such grant of legal status will likely disproportionately harm lower-skilled African-Americans by making it more difficult for them to obtain employment and depressing their wages when they do obtain employment, the commissioners wrote. The increased employment difficulties will likely have negative consequences that extend far beyond economics. Among those consequences, according to the commissioners: increased crime, incarceration, family breakdown, and more.

Finally, the issue extends beyond the impact of legalizing the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants already in the U.S. Recently the Los Angeles Times reported that one of the biggest immediate impacts of the reform proposal under consideration in Congress would be a sudden, large surge in legal migration.

The U.S. admits about 1 million legal immigrants per year, more than any other country, the newspaper reported. That number could jump by more than 50 percent over the next decade under the terms of the immigration reform bill.

That will have economic consequences. And the coming debate could be difficult for supporters of comprehensive immigration reform.

Byron York, The Washington Examiners chief political correspondent, can be contacted at [emailprotected]. His column appears on Tuesday and Friday, and his stories and blogposts appear on washingtonexaminer.com.

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Veronica Escobar Is a Voice for Border CommunitiesMJ Calixtro

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Since taking office five years ago, Congresswoman Veronica Escobar has gotten used to hearing migrants on the Texas-Mexico border being referred to in racist and xenophobic terms around Capitol Hill. To counter these mischaracterizations, Escobar has invited members of Congress to visit her hometown of El Paso, Texas. Shes brought 20 percent of the House (about 87 representatives) to her district for tours of federal immigration facilities, shelters, local government entities, and a public hospital that cares for migrants. I wanted to ensure that people understood the border, and understood how broken our immigration system is, she says.

In 2018, Escobara third-generation El Pasoan, whose family originally came from Chihuahua, Mexicobecame one of the first two Latinas from Texas elected to Congress. Her path to national office followed more than a decade serving on the governing body for El Paso County, first as a county commissioner and then as county judge. Her campaign centered on the positive: hope, promise, unity, and humane border reform. After winning a second term in 2022, Escobar teamed up with Florida Republican Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar to coauthor the groundbreaking Dignity Act of 2023, a bipartisan immigration reform bill that steers clear of harsh deterrence policies and instead emphasizes paths to citizenship, border security, and refocusing the spotlight on the migrants themselves. Weve got to get the undocumented out of the shadows, Escobar says. We have to demonstrate leadership in this difficult moment, and we have to do that while hanging onto our values. With the 2024 presidential election less than a year away, Escobar is working to turn out Latino voters, who are now the second-fastest-growing group of voting-age Americans.

The weight of the moment, and the responsibility of her representation on a national level, is not lost on her. It is so important to have womens voices at the leadership table, and even more important to have Latina voices, the congresswoman says. We are so underrepresented in positions of power and authority and leadership. I feel that responsibility to help other Latinas achieve their dreams and goals to serve in public office. I also feel a responsibility to ensure young women in my district know that this is absolutely an option for them, and it should be something that they pursue if its a goal of theirs. Im a big believer in, If you can see it, you can be it.

I feel a responsibility to ensure that more Latinas are able to run for and serve in Congress, and also in seats up and down the ballotwhether its school board, city council, or state representative. At the same time, I also feel a significant responsibility to spend time with young women in my district and ensure they know that this is absolutely an option for them, and it should be something that they pursue if its a goal of theirs. Im a big believer in, If you can see it, you can be it.

Its empowering and terrifying. Its empowering, because I feel like I have the ability to show young women that they can achieve their dreams, that they can one day walk the halls of Congress, that they can one day sit at the leadership table and serve their community in the United States Capitol. But it is intimidating and slightly terrifying, because I dont want to make a mistake. I dont want to disappoint people. I dont want to let anyone down, and I dont want young women to think its so hard that its out of bounds. So I try to be realistic when I speak, especially with young women, about the demands of the jobbut also about the satisfaction that comes with it, the joy that goes hand in hand with the hard work.

I hope at the end of all of [my time in Congress], that I can look back and be proud of the positive impact Ive made on the community. I also hope at the end of my career, I can look back and see a direct impact on immigration, womens rights, the climate crisis, and animal rights.

Compromise is critical to progress. When I first got into politics, I was so rigid in terms of what I saw as the solution, what I saw as the end goal. I was kind of a purist in that respect. Anything less than what I saw as the right thing was unacceptable. As Ive grown older, and as Ive spent more time in politics and seen how to create true progress, it all comes within the art of the compromise. Unfortunately, that doesnt happen often enough in this business, and it needs to happen more.

Im a workaholic. Something that I regret significantly is that I didnt say no to some things. I didnt do that early in my career when my kids were little, and I wish I had. As we try to be all things to everyone, especially women, many of the sacrifices we make are with our own family. I wish I had said no more often back then and treasured and savored some of those moments a whole lot more.

A lot of women in Congress, from the get-go, told me, You need to make time for yourself. The challenge for a lot of women is that we are a lot of things to a lot of people: As a mom, I try my best to be there for my kids and to help and support them. Same thing as a wife. Same thing with my mom, who is 84 years old. And then I have my constituents, my staff, my team, and my campaign folks. You are always running, running, running, working, working, working. Its easy to burn out. And you cant be an effective legislator or leader if youre exhausted.

I used to go hiking in El Paso, and I need to get back to it. Long walks for me are therapeutic, and breathing fresh air is really important to me. But also, Im a cat lover, so cat time is important to me. Theres nothing like snuggling with a kitty.

A version of this article appears in the April 2024 issue of ELLE.

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Rep. Veronica Escobar Approaches Immigration Reform With Hope, Promise, and Unity - AOL

Rep. Annie Kuster (D-N.H.) is touting her support for an immigration reform proposal from the New Democrat Coalition, the second-largest D.C. Democratic Party caucus which she serves as chair. As a longtime advocate for sensible immigration reform, there are some good points in the proposal I agree with.

My question is: Why is this proposal just now coming to the fore after millions upon millions of illegal aliens have already arrived in America over the past three years?

On the day Joe Biden became president, he signed executive orders incentivizing illegal immigration. He paused deportations, suspended Remain in Mexico for asylum seekers, and stopped border wall construction. Since those policy changes, more than eight million people have illegally entered our country, with more slipping past U.S. Border Patrol undetected.

These illegal aliens came with financial incentives from the Democratic administration in D.C. and an understanding that they would be granted sanctuary in states like New York and Massachusetts, offering free housing, food, cash benefits, and travel. As a direct result of these deliberate choices by the president and his party, our open borders have induced a humanitarian and national security crisis.

Rep. Kuster assures concerned Granite Staters that America is a country of immigrants and laws. But at every turn, she has supported the Biden administration and her party in choosing not to enforce the current laws on our books under the Immigration and Naturalization Act.

Now, she offers new government solutions to the border crisis problems they created and tries to normalize the situation by helping the illegal aliens they invited in with financial incentives to get legal status quickly.

If Rep. Kuster really wants to address New Hampshires workforce issues, as she claims, there are 5 million people in the world who have filed applications for legal entry to the U.S. with sponsors and have been waiting in line for years to be processed. Why did the Democrats not offer any solutions to let them in first?

My own brother waited in line for 13 years, did all the paperwork, and paid for background checks and health screenings. After coming to America, he and his family were not allowed to receive any welfare because the sponsors (my husband and I) were responsible for them.

He and his wife got jobs within the first six months of arriving here, though they spoke little English. They lived with us for two years until they were able to move out to their own place. After eight years, they are still not citizens, but they are now studying for the civics test to pass it and become U.S. citizens.

Allowing illegal aliens to cut to the front of the line is a slap in the face to the people who follow our laws.

At every turn, Rep. Kuster has made it clear that she supports this state of affairs. She endorses Bidens open border policies, ignores the current laws on the books, permits the abuse of our political asylum system, and willfully oversees the draining of resources from our communities. And to top it off, she voted no on the Laken Riley Act to deport illegal aliens who commit crimes.

The Biden administration has made efforts to remove the term illegal aliens from official communications and documents. Erasing the difference between legal and illegal immigrants is very insulting to all the people who came here the right way, including the political asylum seekers.

If Rep. Kuster really respects the rule of law in our country, she and her New Democrat Coalition should pressure President Biden to enforce our current immigration laws on the books, secure the southern and northern borders now, and streamline the process for the legals who are waiting for their entry and eager to work here to live their American Dream. Otherwise, what she said and proposed is entirely lacking in sincerity and credibility a push to legalize millions of illegal aliens so Democrats can gain voters on the backs of American taxpayers.

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