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| Trump's New Guidance Calls for Vigorous Immigration Enforcement |
| 2017-02-22 |
| [National Review] The immigration-enforcement guidance issued by President Trump Tuesday morning patently aims to shift the presumption against deportation created by President Obama’s guidance. In 2014, under the guise of setting out "immigration enforcement priorities," Obama’s Department of Homeland Security established a three-tier system for deportation. This was quite advisedly done under the rubric of "prosecutorial discretion." Federal agents were instructed to apply prosecutorial discretion as early in the evaluation process as possible, mindful of how sparse were resources to arrest, detain, and deport removable aliens. The message was clear: If an alien does not fit into the top tier, do not even bother to stop and question him, much less to arrest and commence deportation proceedings. While Obama’s two lower tiers were referred to, in an Orwellian way, as "priorities" (i.e., enforcement "Priority 2" and "Priority 3"), the reality was more like immunity. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #2 Illegals would not be such a problem if Washington had the cojones in the past; instead they let the problem fester. Based on the NAS[National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine]data, illegal border-crossers create an average fiscal burden of approximately $74,722 during their lifetimes, excluding any costs for their U.S.-born children. If a border wall stopped between 160,000 and 200,000 illegal crossers — 9 to 12 percent of those expected to successfully cross in the next decade — the fiscal savings would equal the $12 to $15 billion cost of the wall. In addition to crossing the border surreptitiously, aliens join the illegal population primarily by overstaying a temporary visa. A southern border wall would not address this part of the illegal flow. So what is the true cost of illegals staying in the country? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2017-02-22 17:08 |
| #1 An idea so crazy that it just might work. |
| Posted by: Bigfoot Throluger1908 2017-02-22 14:23 |