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Legal immigration is *impossible* for nearly all immigrants wishing to immigrate to the U.S. legally.
You can’t just “get in line.” That’s a fiction perpetuated by those who want to keep immigration illegal.
My latest report explains why. Here’s the summary in 1 pic... 🧵
You can’t just “get in line.” That’s a fiction perpetuated by those who want to keep immigration illegal.
My latest report explains why. Here’s the summary in 1 pic... 🧵
U.S. immigration law's basic premise is that all immigrants are *guilty* until proven innocent.
Immigration is ILLEGAL unless you prove you fall into a narrow eligible category.
The result is that over 99% of people who want to immigrate legally cannot do so.
Immigration is ILLEGAL unless you prove you fall into a narrow eligible category.
The result is that over 99% of people who want to immigrate legally cannot do so.
No one outside the U.S. is eligible for a green card unless they fall into one of five narrow exceptions...
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First Option: America’s Refugee Program—Accepts about 1 in 5,000 displaced people around the world, and the percentage accepted keeps dropping year after year.
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First Option: America’s Refugee Program—Accepts about 1 in 5,000 displaced people around the world, and the percentage accepted keeps dropping year after year.
No, @RepMTG, we are not the Border Patrol, but we do have the data
90% of fentanyl from Mexico was seized at legal entry points or interior checkpoints, not illegal crossing routes
~0.02% of those arrested by Border Patrol possessed any fentanyl at all
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90% of fentanyl from Mexico was seized at legal entry points or interior checkpoints, not illegal crossing routes
~0.02% of those arrested by Border Patrol possessed any fentanyl at all
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86.3% of fentanyl trafficking convictions were of U.S. citizens, not illegal immigrants.
If it were easier to transport fentanyl by crossing illegally, U.S. citizens wouldn’t be hired for smuggling jobs
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If it were easier to transport fentanyl by crossing illegally, U.S. citizens wouldn’t be hired for smuggling jobs
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This is in keeping with the larger trend: immigrants—regardless of their legal status—are less likely to commit crimes than native‐ born Americans
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THREAD: A new @CatoInstitute national survey seeks to explore and examine why Americans support or oppose a more open immigration regime. cato.org/survey-reports… #CatoPolls #CatoImmigration
Support for more immigration has tripled from the mid‐1990s when about 10% of the public supported more immigration and two‐thirds wanted less. Today 29% of Americans want more, 38% want to maintain current levels, and 33% want less. #CatoPolls
Democrats’ views largely account for this shift. Starting around 2008–2010, Democratic support for more immigration rose from about 20% to 47% today. #CatoPolls
My latest #CatoImmigration policy analysis published today is the first to detail how the *average* wait time for legal immigrants applying for green cards under the quotas has changed, finding that they doubled since the last update came into effect cato.org/publications/p…
For green card applicants *who got to apply*, time spent waiting for a green card to become available in the family-sponsored and employment-based categories doubled from an average of 2 years and 10 months in 1991—when the last update went into effect—to 5 years and 8 months
And that’s just the average! The share of quota applicants applying who waited more than a decade increased from 3% to 28%--more than 100K immigrants—some more than 20 years. On the other extreme, 31% had no wait due to quotas in 1991, compared to just 2% in 2018
PSA: Trump reportedly offered to extend DACA for 3 years. But that is NOT what McConnell’s bill does. It replaces DACA with an entirely new program that is far more restrictive than DACA, excluding Dreamers who would be, or are already, eligible for or even in DACA now
Start here. P. 1235 makes it much more difficult for Dreamers to prove eligibility. As USCIS says, the “clear & convincing” standard is now rarely used and for applicants who the government has reasons to be suspicious of (eg a prior fraudulent marriage). This is a BIG change
In addition to all of the fees for DACA, the bill imposes what it calls a “security fee” (i.e. a penalty)—which would essentially double the cost of the application. According to @MigrationPolicy, cost is the number 1 barrier to Dreamers getting DACA
In 2018, the @CatoInstitute’s @AlexNowrasteh and I published a tremendous quantity of original research about U.S. immigration policy #CatoImmigration.
Alex published the first report of its kind comparing illegal and legal immigrant arrest and conviction rates in Texas to U.S.-born Americans, showing that illegal immigrants have much lower conviction and arrest rates including for homicides cato.org/publications/i…
I published the first ever estimate of terrorism vetting failures, showing that since 9/11, the rate of vetting failure has declined 84 percent, permitting the entry of just 1 radicalized terrorist for every 29 million approvals since 9/11 cato.org/publications/p…
