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1 Mar, 7 tweets, 2 min read
In the same breath, Sec @AliMayorkas denounces Trump's "cruel" remain in Mexico while telling those wanting to come to "wait in Mexico" or be forced back to wait. Naturally, "wait in Mexico" isn't "cruel" in his opinion c-span.org/video/?509417-…
He continues to cite the CDC's bogus border declaration with a straight face as being about COVID-19. Even though health experts say it is baseless. apnews.com/article/virus-…
He continues to act as if there is no overlap between his returning of families with kids and the number of unaccompanied kids who are coming. It's causing family separation and a major humanitarian crisis.
He also acts like CBP is totally passive in the processing of unaccompanied kids rather than making critical decisions about whether, for example, they can stay with adult family members or not. CBP says they cannot and separates them.
He also acts as if CBP has no role in the ORR placement process of children with sponsors. Yet CBP is often deporting back to the Wait in Mexico program the very adult family members who could act as sponsors, delaying their time in govt care.
He says that he is conveying the message "please don't come" by telling migrants that their well-being will be threated (BY HIS POLICIES) if they come. Yikes!
He says he doesn't know if the nonimmigrant visa ban will be rescinded, but he says he knows that it's not a high priority for the administration compared to the border

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1 Mar
New GAO report on 287(g): "four of five field offices... said they suspended state and local officers’ 287(g) authorizations for failure to complete training and due to complaints against a designated state and local officer" gao.gov/assets/720/711…
**Two-thirds** of 287(g) local law enforcement agencies had deficiencies or "areas of concern" when ICE sent inspectors to review their 287(g) agreement compliance.
-State and local officials failed to disseminate information, explain, or report complaints.
-failed to meet their annual training requirements to maintain their 287(g) authorization
-were not providing interpreter services during immigration screenings
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26 Feb
I suspect I differ with most/many advocates on:
-Naturalization timing & rules
-Noncitizen welfare/entitlement eligibility
-Guest workers
-Discriminatory labor rules
-Min wage
-Prioritizing those already here over those banned abroad
-I believe in a presumptive right to migrate
More or less the order of how strongly I feel about them.
-I don't have strong feelings about naturalization, but I strongly think noncitizens should get far more civil rights/due process/economic liberty immediately, while I lean toward it taking longer to become full citizens
-Welfare. No one is entitled to any taxpayer $. Limiting welfare would increase the economic benefits from immigration, which would increase political support for it. Very little evidence of net harm from restricting welfare. $ can directly & indirectly cause govts to restrict
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18 Feb
Most of what I said here based on the outline is true for the bill as well with one important exception: the bill bars all legal immigrants from the path to citizenship except for H-2As and those in "essential critical infrastructure labor or services"
There is a drafting error, but as it is actually written now, only A nonimmigrants (diplomats) are excluded, but that's clearly an error b/c the list after "other than" doesn't make sense. That means Dems will have to double down on this to remove legal immigrants from the bill ImageImage
The fact is that many Hs, Ls, Es, and other nonimmigrants will meet the definition of "‘essential critical infrastructure labor or services" but many will not. It's both better than being totally left out and bizarre to exclude those following the law cisa.gov/publication/gu…
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17 Feb
This is probably the best provision on legal immigration in the U.S. Citizenship Act (Biden bill). It would make family-sponsored immigration functional and realistic for the first time in many decades.
At the same time, it effectively increases the family-sponsored cap from the FB floor of 226,000 to the cap of 480,000 by ending the requirement to deduct immediate relatives from the cap.
It also increases the EB cap, though not by nearly as much😡, from 140K to 170K and recaptures the 225K unused EB green cards since 1992. That would help with backlog reduction, but not dramatically. Demand would still far exceed supply
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17 Feb
This makes, um, no sense at all. Also, most of the 11 million ARE Hispanics, and most did not come on planes and overstay. What is he trying to say and how is it even relevant to the question? newsweek.com/joe-biden-cnn-…
And it gets worse from there! He says you have to seek asylum from abroad. Well, you control the asylum system now. You can do something about that now! Open the ports. Let people apply. Do what you said you'd do.
Honestly, Trump made more sense than this. He says he wants 125,000 refugees. But he only raised the cap to 62,500. He's in charge of the refugee program. He doesn't need a Refugee Bill. And he says, "There is a reasonable path to citizenship"--for who exactly? Not relevant...
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16 Feb
My new long paper explains the H-2B visa—one of the most regulatory complex visa programs in America and how to improve it. Every year including 2020 and 2021, the #H2B visa cap (last updated in 1990) is filled, leaving thousands of jobs unfilled cato.org/publications/p…
Employers must undertake costly and lengthy recruitment efforts and offer inflated wages, but they almost never find U.S. workers to fill the positions. The program has helped greatly reduce illegal immigration from Mexico. Here are some major findings.
H2B mandated wages have risen at twice the rate of wages overall and DOL continues to certify as unfilled by U.S. workers and ever greater number of jobs each year
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