This Issue: Congress returns to deal with border crisis; Biden Admin. pauses asylum rule

Fri, Apr. 14^th

Congress returns next week from its two-week recess, and the House Judiciary Committee is expected to begin marking up a legislative package of as many as eight bills that would deal with the ongoing border crisis.

Since the markup hasn't been formally announced, we don't know for sure what legislation will be included. We're hopeful that Rep. Ken Calvert's bipartisan Legal Workforce Act, H.R. 319, will be included. The legislation would require most employers to use E-Verify within 2 years and increase penalties for employers who knowingly hire illegal aliens.

We also expect Rep. Chip Roy's Border Safety and Security Act (H.R. 29) to be included. The legislation would force the Department of Homeland Security to follow existing law, and either detain asylum seekers or make them wait in Mexico until their court hearing. It would also give DHS the power to suspend all entries in order to gain operational control of the border.

We're hopeful that the legislative package will also address asylum fraud and the Biden Administration's abuse of parole. Both issues are major drivers of the ongoing crisis and were included in the GOP's border security plan last fall.

We've posted new actions on your Action Board this week, urging Members of Congress and the House Judiciary Committee to support the package.

BIDEN PAUSES ASYLUM RULE

Despite the Covid-era Title 42 border policy expiring in just a few weeks, the Biden Administration has hit the pause button on one of its proposed rules aimed at dealing with the expected surge once the policy ends.

The administration announced this week that it's shelving a plan ... for now ... that would allow asylum officers to make asylum determinations at the border for those who enter illegally, bypassing the immigration courts. In other words, D.C. bureaucrats would be making asylum decisions instead of trained judges with deep knowledge of the law.

The rule was meant to ease the burden on the growing backlog of immigration court cases, but in reality, it would result in more asylum fraud and a quicker path to taxpayer benefits and a work permit for many illegal border crossers.

The Biden Administration said that it delayed the rule so DHS can focus more attention on the expected uptick in illegal border crossings once Title 42 officially ends.

ChRIS CHMIELENSKI

Breitbart: Breitbart reported on NumbersUSA's CEO James Massa testifying before the Texas State Legislature in support of mandatory E-Verify legislation.

NumbersUSA's James Massa testified before the legislature's Senate Business and Commerce Committee, calling mandatory E-Verify "the most effective and most cost-effective method that the state of Texas can implement to be able to stem the flow of illegal immigrants," among other things.

"[Mandatory E-Verify] ensure[s] that U.S. citizens and those that have valid work permits in the state of Texas are the ones who get the jobs in this economy of this great state,"

"E-Verify also ensures that illegal workers are not working at subpar wages or that their children are not working in unsafe conditions."...

For decades, across red states, big business interests have fought tirelessly to stop mandatory E-Verify as their wide profit margins rely on hiring cheap, illegal labor against the interests of working and middle-class residents.

The result, Massa said, is that taxpayers are left footing the bill.

"Businesses that hire people for unfair lower wages reap the profit and the rest of society pays for the costs of those people to be in society," Massa said.

Rasmussen Reports: Rasmussen highlighted new polling sponsored by NumbersUSA, showing that Texans want to slow immigration-driven population growth.

Nearly half (46%) of Texas voters want local and state governments in Texas to make it more difficult for people to move to Texas from other states by restricting development, while 57% favor reducing immigration.

"Texas likely voters are surprisingly willing to slow down -- or even stop -- growth and development in order to secure a future quality of life that involves less congestion, traffic, and crowding," said Jeremy Beck, director of NumbersUSA's Sustainability Initiative....

"Texans place a high value on the Lone Star State's natural and open spaces," NumbersUSA's Beck said, "and strong majorities would rather see limited water resources be left in rivers, lakes, and streams than be diverted to accommodate additional population growth."

Biden Admin. Seeks to Expand Obamacare to DACA Recipients

Thu, Apr. 13^th

The Biden administration is expected to announce its plan to expand eligibility for Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act's health insurance exchanges to hundreds of thousands of aliens brought to the U.S. as minors.

"No housing is illegal!"

ANDREW GOOD

Wed, Apr. 12^th

The Despots for Housing Supply are also Drivers of Housing Demand.

CIS: The Impact of Immigration on Social Security and Medicare

Thu, Apr. 13^th

The Center for Immigration Studies recently examined the impact of immigration policy on the solvency of the Social Security and Medicare programs in a new analysis.

Air yet another reason to pass E-Verify

jeremy Beck

Mon, Apr. 10^th

Most members of Congress are likely unaware of how high levels of immigration impact quality of life. Please urge them to support H.R. 319, the Legal Workforce Act, which establishes a mandatory E-Verify system that can lead to substantial reductions in illegal immigration. E-Verify is popular, effective, and the logical place to start moving immigration policy back into balance.

Class Action Alleges Forced Labor Through the H-2A Program

Jared Culver

Mon, Apr. 10^th

Another day, another story of slavery in the American immigration system. Here, MBR Farms is alleged by class plaintiffs to have been using the legal H-2A program for agricultural workers as their personal trafficking pipeline.