Donald Trump releases MASSIVE immigration reform plan

[Lion Heart 15,041]

Some key highlights: 

1. Make Mexico Pay For The Wall

In 2011, the Government Accountability Office found that there were a shocking 3 million arrests attached to the incarcerated alien population, including tens of thousands of violent beatings, rapes and murders.

Meanwhile, Mexico continues to make billions on not only our bad trade deals but also relies heavily on the billions of dollars in remittances sent from illegal immigrants in the United States back to Mexico ($22 billion in 2013 alone). The cost of building a permanent border wall pales mightily in comparison to what American taxpayers spend every single year on dealing with the fallout of illegal immigration on their communities, schools and unemployment offices.

Mexico must pay for the wall and, until they do, the United States will, among other things: impound all remittance payments derived from illegal wages; increase fees on all temporary visas issued to Mexican CEOs and diplomats (and if necessary cancel them); increase fees on all border crossing cards – of which we issue about 1 million to Mexican nationals each year (a major source of visa overstays); increase fees on all NAFTA worker visas from Mexico (another major source of overstays); and increase fees at ports of entry to the United States from Mexico [Tariffs and foreign aid cuts are also options].  We will not be taken advantage of anymore.

2. Triple the number of ICE officers.

3. Nationwide e-verify.

4. Mandatory return of all criminal aliens. The Obama Administration has released 76,000 aliens from its custody with criminal convictions since 2013 alone. All criminal aliens must be returned to their home countries, a process which can be aided by canceling any visas to foreign countries which will not accept their own criminals, and making it a separate and additional crime to commit an offense while here illegally.

5. Detention—not catch-and-release.

6. Defund sanctuary cities. 

7. Enhanced penalties for overstaying a visa.

8. Cooperate with local gang task forces. ICE officers should accompany local police departments conducting raids of violent street gangs like MS-13 and the 18th street gang, which have terrorized the country. All illegal aliens in gangs should be apprehended and deported. Again, quoting Chris Crane: “ICE Officers and Agents are forced to apply the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) Directive, not to children in schools, but to adult inmates in jails. If an illegal-alien inmate simply claims eligibility, ICE is forced to release the alien back into the community. This includes serious criminals who have committed felonies, who have assaulted officers, and who prey on children..ICE officers should be required to place detainers on every illegal alien they encounter in jails and prisons, since these aliens not only violated immigration laws, but then went on to engage in activities that led to their arrest by police; ICE officers should be required to issue Notices to Appear to all illegal aliens with criminal convictions, DUI convictions, or a gang affiliation; ICE should be working with any state or local d--g or gang task force that asks for such assistance.”

9. End birthright citizenship.

10. Put American Workers First. Decades of disastrous trade deals and immigration policies have destroyed our middle class. Today, nearly 40% of black teenagers are unemployed. Nearly 30% of Hispanic teenagers are unemployed...The influx of foreign workers holds down salaries, keeps unemployment high, and makes it difficult for poor and working class Americans – including immigrants themselves and their children – to earn a middle class wage. Nearly half of all immigrants and their US-born children currently live in or near poverty, including more than 60 percent of Hispanic immigrants. Every year, we voluntarily admit another 2 million new immigrants, guest workers, refugees, and dependents, growing our existing all-time historic record population of 42 million immigrants. We need to control the admission of new low-earning workers in order to: help wages grow, get teenagers back to work, aid minorities’ rise into the middle class, help schools and communities falling behind, and to ensure our immigrant members of the national family become part of the American dream.

11. Increase prevailing wage for H-1Bs. We graduate two times more Americans with STEM degrees each year than find STEM jobs, yet as much as two-thirds of entry-level hiring for IT jobs is accomplished through the H-1B program. More than half of H-1B visas are issued for the program's lowest allowable wage level, and more than eighty percent for its bottom two. Raising the prevailing wage paid to H-1Bs will force companies to give these coveted entry-level jobs to the existing domestic pool of unemployed native and immigrant workers in the U.S., instead of flying in cheaper workers from overseas. This will improve the number of black, Hispanic and female workers in Silicon Valley who have been passed over in favor of the H-1B program. Mark Zuckerberg’s personal Senator, Marco Rubio, has a bill to triple H-1Bs that would decimate women and minorities.

12. Requirement to hire American workers first. 

13. End welfare abuse.

14. Jobs program for inner city youth. The J-1 visa jobs program for foreign youth will be terminated and replaced with a resume bank for inner city youth provided to all corporate subscribers to the J-1 visa program.

15. Refugee program for American children. 

16. Immigration moderation.

 

**Read the entire thing here: https://www.donaldjtrump.com/positions/immigration-reform

What do y'all think? I brought up what I thought were the most important points, but there's a lot more to read. 

[Kermit 15,807]

 

[HighwayGuy 1,498]

FFS immigrants are not an 'alien population' 

I hate trump so much 

Americans are all technically immigrants anyway who took the country for their own 

Vote Bernie

[andy232000 13,286]

the "Aliens"? WTF

[PartySick 174,651]

I'm opposed to so much of this but I don't know whether it's because I think it's stupid we're getting up in arms about an imaginary border that our society created or because it's literally a stupid plan. 

Make Mexico pay for the wall? What? How about don't build a freaking wall?

Hire American workers first? How about make it easier to become an American.

Ugh  

I'm really attached to this issue because a good portion of my family went through Hell to become American citizens just to face racism and threats of deportation. This is so not right. Down with the wall, down with the stronger ICE, border patrol, down with the racial profiling, down with the GOP.

Thanks for sharing, though, Maze Runner.

[Better Day 5,766]

He is worse than David Cameron and that is saying something. 

[Noah Fatale 72]

all i could focus on was your nouis icon, my brotp

[Morphine Prince 109,998]

Not surprised. This is actually what a lot of people seem to want if you read conservative news articles......

It is very unrealistic though. There's not way this is happening if he becomes president anyway. 

The most concerning part for me is the birthright citizenship part. WHY should children born IN the US not be citizens? That is ****ing stupid. Just because your parents are illegal aliens doesn't mean you don't have the right to citizenship  

 

[Goosey 3,017]

FFS immigrants are not an 'alien population' 

"alien, noun: a foreigner, especially one who is not a naturalized citizen of the country where they are living."

Illegal immigrants are aliens.

 

[Goosey 3,017]

(and extraterrestrials are also aliens)

[Sizzily 14,574]

#****trump

[Cupcakeboy2 131]

Mexico isnt paying for ****. lol Bernie 2016!!

[Chic 20,830]

Not surprised. This is actually what a lot of people seem to want if you read conservative news articles......

It is very unrealistic though. There's not way this is happening if he becomes president anyway. 

The most concerning part for me is the birthright citizenship part. WHY should children born IN the US not be citizens? That is ****ing stupid. Just because your parents are illegal aliens doesn't mean you don't have the right to citizenship  

 

And where do you draw the line in terms of citizenship? Is it only third generation children born in the U.S.? It's such a ridiculously ineffective and flawed plan, even if you totally skip past how immoral it is.

[HighwayGuy 1,498]

"alien, noun: a foreigner, especially one who is not a naturalized citizen of the country where they are living."

Illegal immigrants are aliens.

 

It doesn't matter if technically they could be called aliens, its the use of the word 'alien' which demonises ordinary people and causes them to suffer discrimination and abuse 

 

[JGD 12,101]

I admire how he's taking action for immigration reform, but I have to disagree with the direction he's taking.  Why make Mexico pay when it's HIS problem, hence making it America's problem as well.