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Focus On the Issues: Border Security And Immigration Reform
Newsweek: Boost for Kamala Harris As Illegal Immigrant Crossings Drop 70 Percent
https://www.newsweek.com/kamala-harris-illegal-immigrants-report-1955563
NBC News: The number of migrants in border towns and some big U.S. cities has plunged, shelter operators say
Fact check: New Trump ad uses edited quote to attack nonexistent Harris immigration proposal | CNN Politics
https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/31/politics/fact-check-trump-ad-harris-immigration/index.html
Comment: "A new television ad from former President Donald Trump’s campaign piles deception upon deception to attack Vice President Kamala Harris on immigration. The ad uses an edited quote to attack Harris over a supposed proposal that she hasn’t actually made."
More lies and deceptions from the Trump campaign. How can you believe anything the man says?
Cato Institute: There Are Not 13,099 Illegal Immigrant Murderers Roaming Free on American Streets
Comment: "Commentators focused on the letter’s claim that ICE did not detain 13,099 migrants convicted of homicide, but they tended to misunderstand the data. Even former President Trump distorted the evidence by claiming that the criminals all entered during the Biden administration. Those commentators and former President Trump are making several untrue claims about the new ICE data. The following will correct the record."
"The first untrue claim about the data is that the 13,099 non-detained migrants convicted of homicide are free to roam the United States. That is not true. Migrants incarcerated for homicide are considered 'non-detained' by ICE when they are in state or federal prisons. When ICE uses the term 'non-detained,' they mean not currently detained by ICE. In other words, the migrant murderers included in the letter are overwhelmingly in prison serving their sentences. After they serve their sentences, the government transfers them onto ICE’s docket for removal from the United States."
"The second untrue claim is that the small number of migrant murderers who are not in prison were released willy-nilly. This claim has been commonly leveled against President Biden and DHS Secretary Mayorkas. However, releases of criminal migrants fell after Biden took office compared to the Trump administration. U.S. law requires migrants who are convicted of homicide to be detained pending their deportation, but there are exceptions. The major one is for migrants who were convicted, served their time in prison, and are unable to be deported because there is no repatriation agreement with their countries of origin or they routinely violate those agreements. The U.S. does not have agreements or has limited agreements with Iran, Cuba, China, Vietnam, Laos, and more."
"The third untrue claim is that these 13,099 migrants convicted of homicide committed their crimes recently. Those migrant criminal convictions go back over 40 years or more. Confusion over the period covered by a dataset afflicts the interpretation of other criminal datasets too. If there really were 13,099 migrants convicted for domestic homicides in 2023, then they would have accounted for about 99 percent of all homicide convictions in the US last year despite being about 4 percent of the population. That is obviously not the case because no group of people is criminally overrepresented by a factor of 25 above their share of the population."
Republicans call Harris a failed border czar. The facts tell a different story
Comment: "Harris was never given the portfolio of border czar, said Alan Bersin, who embraced the label as a special representative for border affairs under Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton. 'This was not the job assigned to VP Harris,' he said." "Instead, Biden asked Harris to lead diplomatic efforts to reduce poverty, violence and corruption in Central America's Northern Triangle countries of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, as well as engage with Mexico on the issue."
'Litigation is a certainty': Trump's call to end birthright citizenship would face a mountain of opposition
Warren pushes congressional Republicans for deal on immigration
Comment: Democrats are still trying to come up with Bipartisan solution after GOP killed other efforts, for political purposes.
Border encounters down 25 percent after Biden asylum restrictions announced
Comment: Although a Bipartisan Border deal (defeated by the GOP) would have been a better and more permanent solution, President Biden's executive order limiting border asylum requests has resulted in a 25% reduction in border encounters.
CNN: Schumer announces Senate to vote this week on previously blocked bipartisan border bill
https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/19/politics/senate-bipartisan-border-bill-vote-schumer/index.html
Comment: Democratic Senate Leader Chuck Schumer is trying to once again pass bipartisan border deal that Trump and Republicans rejected earlier this year so that they could have a campaign issue. See articles below to review history of earlier attempt.
Senate negotiators reach bipartisan deal on border policy : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2024/02/04/1226427234/senate-border-deal-reached
Comment: Step 1 – Senate negotiated bipartisan deal. Deal had support of Senate GOP leadership.
Statement from President Joe Biden on Bipartisan Senate National Security Agreement | The White House
Comment: Step 2 – President Biden agreed to support bipartisan compromise deal
McConnell dealt blow by Trump on border bill | The Hill
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4451977-mcconnell-dealt-blow-by-trump-on-border-bill/
Comment: Step 3 – After Trump criticized deal (even before seeing bill text), House leadership declared deal “dead on arrival” when it gets to the House of Representatives. Senate Republican leadership (Mitch McConnell) saw Senate Republican support start to crumble.
Senate blocks bipartisan $118bn bill on US-Mexico border and Ukraine | US immigration | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/07/us-senate-vote-bipartisan-border-bill
Comment: Step 4 – With dwindling support from GOP senators, the bipartisan agreement previously negotiated failed passage in the Senate, meaning that the bill never even got over to the House of Representatives.
Border Patrol Supports Immigration Reform Bill. Republicans Don’t Care
The GOP tapped him to negotiate a border bill, only to tear him apart
Comment: Summarizes the failure to pass bipartisan border legislation and the attacks on the chief GOP Senate negotiator James Lankford.
Republican Congressman Says Quiet Part Out Loud on Doomed Border Deal | The New Republic
https://newrepublic.com/post/178639/republican-congressman-troy-nehls-border-deal
Comment: Texas Congressman Troy Nehls admitted that he would rather try and hurt Joe Biden politically rather than solve the border crisis. He believes an ongoing border crisis will help Donald Trump in his 2024 campaign against Biden.
Undocumented+immigrants'+payments+into+Social+Security+detailed+in+report
https://www.newsweek.com/undocumented-immigrants-social-security-payments-report-1931990
Comment: For those concerned about the economic cost of undocumented immigrants, please consider the following: "Research organizations and experts have found that illegal immigration benefits the Social Security system by adding money to its funding pots from workers that are not eligible to collect retirement, disability or survivor benefits."
"Altogether, undocumented people paid a total of $96.7 billion in taxes in 2022, with $59.4 billion paid to the federal government and the remaining $37.3 billion paid to state and local authorities. In 40 states, undocumented immigrants were found to pay higher state and local tax rates than the top 1 percent of households living in the same state."
Study says undocumented immigrants paid almost $100 billion in taxes • Alabama Reflector
MAGA Claim That Migrants Smuggle the Fentanyl Is Junk
https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-claim-that-migrants-smuggle-the-fentanyl-is-junk
Comment: "In fact, nearly 90 percent of those arrested for trafficking in fentanyl are Americans—roughly the same percentage of interceptions at legal crossing points such as Paso Del Norte. Virtually none of the asylum seekers detained at the border are found with the drug."