Quick Summary:

This lack of a unified US immigration policy is another good example of Congress inability to practice common sense governance – instead of bombast and self-aggrandizement. The American voter is – once again – without representation in Congress and outraged at the left and right extremists.

Since the immigration issue has many components, and is intertwined with the economy, the Centrists demand a national comprehensive “Immigration Infrastructure” policy to address and control the various elements, or else the country will very soon dissolve into warring tribes.  Very soon.

On April 30, 2021, the Biden administration introduced the American Families United Act in the House as HR 2920, where it referred to the House Judiciary Committee. The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship passed the bill on July 27, 2022, and referred it to the Senate. However, due to the upcoming November election, the Republicans in the House have shown no interest in bringing the bill to a vote. More Republican stonewalling.

Full Report:

There has been no significant immigration legislation passed by the US Congress since the Reagan Administration.  The last comprehensive legislation discussion occurred during the Bush administration.

Centrist voters believe that immigration is now out of control with human waves invading our borders at their pleasure. Over 2 million being intercepted just in the past year at the Mexican border. This is an INVASION and population replacement. The liberal excuses of granting ‘asylum’ to everybody is not a sustainable policy as there is no limit. Why not 10 million a year, or how about 1 billion? No country can maintain its identity and stable governance with such numbers – which are nothing less than a global INVASION.

Immigration Infrastructure Policy

A Gallup poll report on August 8, 2022, concluded that US immigration opinions remain mixed and highly partisan.  27% of Americans want immigration increased, 38% want it decreased, and 31% want it to stay at its present level.  In regard to our political ‘tribes’, approximately two-thirds of Republicans want immigration reduced versus 17% of Democrats.

Western Europe has been repeatedly invaded from the east throughout its history. What happened to the Roman Empire?  The Huns invaded and pushed the Goths out of their homeland, who in turn migrated (invaded) into the Roman empire en masse and sacked Rome in AD 420, followed by the Vandals in AD 455.  What was left became the reduced Byzantine Empire in eastern Greece – which also eventually collapsed from eastern Muslim and northern Russ invasions.

This lack of a unified US immigration policy is another good example of Congress inability to practice common sense governance – instead of bombast and self-aggrandizement. The American voter is – once again – without representation in Congress and outraged at the left and right extremists.

Since the immigration issue has many components, and is intertwined with the economy, the Centrists demand a national comprehensive “Immigration Infrastructure” policy to address and control the various elements, or else the country will very soon dissolve into warring tribes.  Very soon.

No Permanent Reform by Trump

The Trump administration tried various aggressive policies to reduce immigration and they were assisted by the Covid epidemic, such as limiting the Muslim immigration. In May, 2017, Steve Bannon enumerated several potential immigration changes: end several Obama Executive Orders, cancel federal funding to sanctuary cities, build the border wall and make Mexico pay for it, revise our visa laws, install the biometric entry-exit visa tracking system, and pass the Davis-Oliver bill giving local law enforcement the authority to enforce federal immigration laws.

In August, 2017, the Trump administration introduced the Reforming American Immigration for Strong Employment (RAISE) Act. The plan would reduce the number of legal immigrants entering the United States in half by 2027, limit the number of refugees, and eliminate the “diversity visa lottery”. However, it never attained the needed votes to get out of the Senate. However, after much bluster and media attention, the wall was never built and no permanent Trump reform was enacted by the Congress.

Build the Wall Bullshit and Con

President Trump and his robot administration loudly trumpeted ‘Build The Wall’ in a frantic effort to close the border to the invasion. In 2017 he put Steve Bannon in charge who formed a company and quickly took in millions of MAGA donations. Only later did the public find out that serious charges of embezzlement surrounded Bannon and his partners. The wall was never built. Trump had to pardon Bannon for his ‘Build the Wall’ crimes to save him from prison – and restitution. In so doing – Trump defrauded his MAGA base out of their money!!!

Although the DOJ prosecution was thwarted, the New York Attorney General has filed criminal charges against Bannon and his cronies. Trump cannot pardon a state crime!!

First Day of Biden Administration

On the first day of his administration, President Biden sent an immigration reform bill to the 117^th Congress. It was introduced February 18, 2021, in the House as HR 1177 – the US Citizenship Act of 2021, and on February 22, 2021, in the Senate as S 348. But the Republicans, smarting from the Trump impeachment debacles and his January 6, 2021, attempted coup, did their usual revenge stonewalling. There is no indication on the record that the bill ever came out of Committee in either chamber.

Subsequently, the Biden administration took a different track and had separate bills introduced with slim-downed objectives. On March 20, 2021, the House passed (1) The Dream and Promise Act of 2021 (HR 6), and (2) The Farm Workforce Modernization Act of 2021 (HR 1603). But HR 6 had its last Senate committee hearing on September 21, 2021. There is no further record of any Senate hearings on HR 1603.  Republican stonewalling again.

American Families United Act

On April 30, 2021, the Biden administration introduced the American Families United Act in the House as HR 2920, where it referred to the House Judiciary Committee. The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship passed the bill on July 27, 2022.  We are currently waiting for the House to vote on the bill, and then to refer it to the Senate. However, due to the upcoming November election, the Republicans in the House have shown no interest in bringing the bill to a vote. More stonewalling.

1. American Families United Act – Introduced in the House (04/30/2021)
   1. This bill authorizes the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) or the Department of Justice (DOJ) to exercise discretion in certain immigration cases. The bill also removes certain requirements related to birthright citizenship.
   2. Under this bill, DOJ or DHS may, on a case-by-case basis, exercise discretion by declining to remove an alien or bar an alien from entering the United States to prevent hardship for the alien’s U.S. citizen spouse, parent, or child. However, DOJ or DHS may not exercise this discretion if the alien is removable or inadmissible due to certain grounds, including specified crime- and security-related grounds.
   3. The bill also removes certain requirements related to birthright citizenship for a child born outside of the United States to one U.S. citizen parent and one alien parent. Specifically, the bill removes a provision that requires the U.S. citizen parent to be physically present in the United States for at least five years before the child’s birth in order for the child to acquire U.S. citizenship at birth.
   4. [See Congress.gov HR 2920 – American Families United Act]
2. The Dream and Promise Act of 2021
   1. pending
3. The Farm Workforce Modernization Act of 2021
   1. pending

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