We Have No Choice: Texas Latino Leaders Say Theyll Compromise On Immigration Reform
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By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times
President Obama's spokesman laughed off as "crazy" Wednesday reports that the Homeland Security Department is preparing for an increase in the number of immigrants living illegally in the country by ordering enough paper to print as many as 5 million "green" cards annually. Published October 22, 2014
Immigrant rights advocates unveiled a campaign billboard in North Carolina on Thursday attacking Democratic Sen. Kay R. Hagan for being too strict on illegal immigrants, raising questions of how Hispanic voters will approach this year's elections.
Illegal Pete's, a Colorado-based quick-service eatery known for its oversize burritos, came under fire Wednesday night at a public meeting in Fort Collins from about 30 critics who want the restaurant to remove the word "illegal" from its name.
By Associated Press
The New York City Council is passing legislation that would stop honoring detainment orders from U.S. immigration officials that don't come with a warrant from a federal judge.
President Obama said that while it's difficult for some Democratic candidates running in states he didn't carry to invite him to their states, they are nevertheless loyal allies and backers of his agenda in Congress.
Ground rules weren't a problem this time, but Republican Gov. Rick Scott and Democratic challenger Charlie Crist fanned the political flames late Tuesday over immigration, the minimum wage and in odd spurts which of them had been poorer as a child.
By Associated Press
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By Tim Kane
Published: October 26, 2014
Immigration is the definitive wedge issue in American politics, but it doesnt have to be. When the Senates Border Security, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Modernization Act failed to pass the House this year, it was the third such failure of comprehensive reform in a decade. Heres a good rule: Three strikes, youre out. Its time for a different approach. Congress should forget comprehensive reform and try for pragmatic and incremental change instead.
Skeptics will thunder that theres no room for compromise, the other party is unreasonable, the issue boils down to either amnesty or deportation and theres nothing in between that anyone can agree on.
Want to bet?
The Hoover Institution has been surveying immigration experts a 40-member working group of scholars from across the political spectrum to test that hypothesis. We have asked them to consider policy innovations that purposefully look at all aspects of immigration, not just the hypersensitive topic of illegal immigration.
Most recently we challenged our panel to think about work visas. The United States issues 60 million visas annually, but only 3 million are for work. Indeed, work visas in the U.S. are an excessively complex mixture of quotas, rules and bureaucracy.
How could work visas be improved? How would reforms affect the economy? And could liberal, conservative and independent wonks agree on any of it?
The answer is yes. Almost everyone surveyed (86 percent) thought that the bureaucratic thicket regulating temporary work visas should be reduced. There was strong consensus (79 percent) for eliminating the cap on non-agricultural H-2 visas (which cover seasonal jobs such as food servers or landscape crew members), for making the E-Verify program mandatory so that only legal workers could be hired (73 percent) and for unlimited visas for high-skilled STEM workers (66 percent). Sixty-one percent favored using visa pricing (61 percent) requiring employers to pay a fee when they hire guest workers which would provide an incentive for hiring the native-born and is a better way to allocate visas than the centrally planned and administered quotas in place today.
We also asked the scholars to judge nine components for a better temporary work visa system. One idea known as portability had overwhelming support, with 97 percent in favor. So if Congress could do just one thing related to immigration, this is it: Allow visa portability, so that guest workers can change employers and thus avoid exploitation.
Former homeland security secretary Janet Napolitano is supporting executive action by President Obama to change immigration policy if Congress fails to pass a broad overhaul, citing what she calls her successful 2012 push to delay deportations of many younger immigrants.
If Congress refuses to act and perform its duties, then I think its appropriate for the executive to step in and use his authorities based on law ... to take action in the immigration arena, Napolitano, a lawyer and former U.S. attorney in Arizona, said in an exclusive interview with The Washington Post.
Napolitano spoke ahead of a speech she is scheduled to give Monday in Georgia in which she will publicly detail for the first time the sometimes heated internal administration debate over the 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Begun by Obama over fierce objections from some conservatives, it has deferred the deportations of more than 580,000 young immigrants brought to the United States illegally as children.
In the speech, Napolitano describes a complicated and fraught 2012 debate inside the administration in which White House lawyers peppered her with tough questions and some Department of Homeland Security officials questioned whether the program would overwhelm the governments ability to implement it.
There were serious logistical concerns, Napolitano says in her prepared remarks, a copy of which was obtained by The Post. It would run the risk of appearing to make law and usurping Congress. ... Who knew how it all would turn out?
Napolitanos perspective is especially relevant as the administration debates whether to take further executive action on immigration, including a possible major expansion of the 2012 relief program. With a comprehensive immigration-law overhaul dead for now on Capitol Hill, Obama had promised to act on his own by summers end, and the administration had been preparing new measures that would potentially allow millions of illegal immigrants to remain in the United States without fear of deportation.
But last month, the administration bowed to political concerns and informed lawmakers and advocacy groups that Obama had delayed any action until after Novembers midterm elections.
Napolitano, who left the DHS last year and is president of the University of California system, declined to say in the interview what she thought of the presidents decision or to detail what executive decisions she thinks he should make without Congress. But should he choose to act, she said, the DACA program provides a good petri dish on how you set it up, the budget stuff, all of those nuts and bolts.
The 2012 decision was galvanized by Congresss failure two years earlier to pass the Dream Act, which would have given legal status and a path to citizenship to dreamers young immigrants brought to the country as children.
Initially, Napolitano says in her speech, to be delivered at the University of Georgia law school, she was unsure whether DHS a relatively new agency created after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 could handle the mechanics of an executive response by the administration. Meanwhile, she said, dreamers remained in limbo, ensnared within the sputtering debate over immigration reform.
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In the past few weeks, I have read reports bemoaning the decrease in work skills of the American workforce. Some reports state that the millennial generation lacks work ethics and soft skills. Other reports warn that the U.S. needs more young entrepreneurs who will create the technology and industries of the future.
On the heels of these reports comes the news story of Dario Guerrero, a Harvard junior who was brought illegally by his parents to the U.S. from Mexico at age of 2.
Dario was an exceptional student, and by 13 had earned a scholarship to Johns Hopkins University summer school. After finishing high school, he was accepted, as an undocumented person, to Harvard where he currently majors in Visual and Environmental Studies.
Under President Barack Obamas Dream Act, Dario was granted temporary reprieve from being deported. People participating in this program are restricted from leaving the U.S. while their case is being reviewed.
Last year, Darios mother began suffering the severe effects of kidney cancer. When the cancer treatments in the U.S. stopped working, he and his family, desperate for anything that might save his mother, took her to a clinic in Mexico for experimental treatment. Sadly, this did not work and she died last August in Mexico. Dario, who left the country contrary to the rules of the Dream Act, was denied re-entry to the U.S. and was forced to stay with his grandparents in Mexico City. After the press picked up the story of his plight, he was finally granted a visa a couple of weeks ago and allowed to come back to the U.S. He will resume studies at Harvard next semester.
Dario Guerrero stands on the rooftop of his grandparents home in the outskirts of Mexico City. Guerrero, a Harvard University junior, accompanied his dying mother to Mexico without government permission and until recently was unable to return to the United States. (The Associated Press)
I, like many people, am fatigued by the inability of the president and Congress to address immigration reform, and no concrete action or viable plans are being implemented. In reality, complexity is not what is delaying any progress on this issue, but rather politics. Like many other issues, immigration reform has become absorbed in the gridlock of Washington, D.C., politics a political football that can be punted to make the other side look bad. The Dream Act is a temporary patch that can serve to show the inadequacy of how the U.S. is addressing immigration reform, as the Dario case plainly demonstrates.
Isnt a student who is talented enough to be accepted to both Johns Hopkins University and Harvard precisely the type of intelligent and ambitious young person that the U.S. needs to keep our nation productive, successful and able to compete in the global market? We constantly hear employers complaining about the labor issues and economists complaining about the need for new entrepreneurial ventures. So, what is wrong with this picture?
The current law is the law, and it should be obeyed pertaining to illegal entry into the U.S. However, a 2-year-old child has no concept of right or wrong or the existence of a law. What does the U.S. do if kids are brought to the U.S. illegally by their parents, and then proceed to be upstanding elements of U.S. society, living in the shadows of the only country they really know?
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