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You and the majority of Americans want to reduce immigration (see Harvard-Harris poll, page 68) and The Goodlatte bill (H.R. 4760) is the only proposal that promises to do so within a year.
Media Roundup:
Senators John McCain and Chris Coons are introducing a bill today that, according to reports, is very similar to the terrible Hurd bill in the House (H.R. 4796, details here).
CNN reports just how bad McCain/Coons is:
A White House official rebuffed the effort, telling CNN that it takes "a lot of effort" to write up a bill worse than the Graham-Durbin immigration bill, but somehow "this one is worse."
Politico reports that Congress is considering a "punt" on DACA - i.e. a one-year legislative extension of President Obama's executive amnesty - and quotes President Trump as saying he wants to make a deal.
The Wall Street Journal reports that Trump's latest public demand doesn't include ending Chain Migration or the visa lottery:
"Any deal on DACA that does not include STRONG border security and the desperately needed WALL is a total waste of time," he wrote on Twitter on Monday. "March 5th is rapidly approaching and the Dems seem not to care about DACA. Make a deal!" (Politico notes that there is no hard March 5th deadline "after a federal court ordered the administration to accept DACA renewals".)
Trump's tweet today was different from his tweet from December...
"The Democrats have been told, and fully understand, that there can be no DACA without the desperately needed WALL at the Southern Border and an END to the horrible Chain Migration & ridiculous Lottery System of Immigration etc. We must protect our Country at all cost!"
...and from the White House's recent statement:
"President Trump has repeatedly stated that Congress must end Chain Migration as part of any legislative deal on DACA."
The Washington Examiner reports that officials within DHS are concerned that the White House's immigration proposal does not crack down on sanctuary cities:
"The more {potential illegal aliens} hear about sanctuary cities, the more they're saying, 'Look, if we get into the country illegally, get by the Border Patrol, or even get caught by the Border Patrol,'" {ICE Director Thomas Homan} said. "When you're going to your proceedings, you get released from your detention, the thought of getting to a sanctuary city, like get to San Francisco, you can even get arrested for committing a crime and they're not going to work with ICE and they're going to help shield you from federal law enforcement. That's a huge selling factor for someone who wants to come to this country illegally."
The Washington Times reports that the ICE union als sees "gaping holes" in Trump's proposal:
House Republicans appear to be of the same mind as {ICE union chief Chris} Crane. Conservatives are backing a bill written by Rep. Bob Goodlatte, Virginia Republican and chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, that would crack down on sanctuary cities, impose mandatory E-Verify on businesses, make it a crime to overstay a visitor's visa and protect communities that cooperate in deportations.
Reminder: The Goodlatte bill is the only proposal that cracks down on sanctuary cities, mandates E-Verify and ends Chain Migration within one year.
Today's best commentaries to read and share:
Jen Kerns writes about the Harvard-Harris poll in The Hill:
A stunning 65 percent of Americans support a DACA deal that ends chain migration, eliminates the random visa lottery and secures the border with a wall. Only 35 percent of Americans did not agree.
Jeremy Carl writes that any further concessions from Trump on a DACA deal would be "electorally devastating" for his party:
According to a recently-released Harvard-Harris Poll of registered voters, Trump's framework encompasses the popular position on every major immigration issue. Democrats and open-borders Republicans are stuck with the political losers -- and that's likely even more true in the ten states that voted for Trump but have Democratic senators up for election in 2018. Amnesty for illegal aliens with no real border security or legal-immigration reform may gather a lot of sympathy in New York and California news rooms, but it is not going to win elections in Montana, West Virginia, or Missouri. Finally, John B. Judis, author of "The Emerging Democratic Majority"agrees with the conservative writers above that the Democratic Party is out of step with voters on immigration:
Democrats believe, of course, that in downplaying illegal immigration and insisting that immigration benefits everyone, they are standing up for their own constituents. They think that working-class Americans who backed Trump on this issue failed to understand their own interests. But Democrats are wrong in this case. While many American businesses and the well-to-do have clearly benefited from the massive influx of unskilled immigrants, many middle- and working-class Americans, including such key Democratic constituents as African Americans, have not.
More from Judis:
Politico/Morning Consult ran an extensive poll last August to gauge the public's reaction to the Cotton-Perdue bill. The poll found significant support among Hispanics for some of its provisions. For instance, 42 percent of Hispanics thought the United States allowed too many "low-skilled workers" to immigrate, and only 21 percent thought the number was "about right." Hispanics thought job skills should be a higher priority than family reunification by 49 percent to 33 percent, and by 50 percent to 37 percent thought that English proficiency should be a factor in immigration decisions. In other words, Hispanic voters were favorably inclined toward a proposal that aimed to change the priorities in our immigration policy.
Hispanic preferences were roughly the same as those of all registered voters. One of the few groups in the poll that was evenly divided on whether there are too many or just the right number of low-skilled immigrants were people who make more than $100,000. A plurality of the other income groups thought there are too many low-skilled immigrants coming into the country. In sum, the Democratic stance on these issues is not only unpopular with most voters, but with many Hispanics as well. Except as a response to Trump's xenophobia, the Democrats' response makes no political sense, and is not benefiting their own working-class constituents.
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