Mainstream Revolution <[link removed]> What does immigration reform look like? Peter Ohtaki America’s been built through immigration. My grandparents legally immigrated from Japan to Hawaii and the West Coast in the early 1900s. The Nisei generation including my father and uncles fought for America in World War II while their families were held in internment camps. They overcame discrimination by becoming prominent dentists, doctors, farmers, and businessmen to build a better life for their families. Americans are compassionate and are willing to share the American dream Americans want to allow those who seek a better life, like my grandparents, to enter this country through controlled, legal immigration. However the sheer numbers are now overwhelming our social safety net - nearly 300k in one month (Dec 2023). At least 3 million since the lifting of Rule 42 (required asylum seekers to wait outside the U.S due to the pandemic until their asylum hearing) and nearing 10 million since 2021. The uncontrolled border is now a humanitarian crisis How can we support the sheer volume of new migrants with housing and healthcare until they make a go of it? California provides MediCal to undocumented residents at a cost of over $700 million per year, while facing an $87 billion deficit. New York City spent $4.9 billion <[link removed]> in FY 2023 and 2024 on the migrant crisis. Border patrol is completely overwhelmed at current volumes of migrants. So it seems reasonable that we need to temporarily shut the border, while Congress and DHS gets their sh*t together. Comprehensive immigration reform is long overdue Reform the asylum request process, Hire more border patrol agents, Repair and extend the wall with surveillance technologies, Enforce a guest worker program so migrants will pay taxes to help pay for social safety net benefits, as proposed in 2007 by the Bush administration, a Z visa allowing temporary work in the U.S. And with Z visa IDs, we could identify criminals. Comprehensive immigration policy would stop the cartel’s human trafficking business. Migrants pay cartels about $15,000 to guide them to the gaps made in the border. Drug cartels control the border Drug cartels especially the Sinaloa cartel <[link removed]> must be prosecuted by Mexico, with American military assistance. In 1973, President Richard Nixon launched the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and the War on Drugs. We took down Pablo Escobar. The Sinaloa cartel began smuggling marijuana into the U.S. 113k Americans died of fentanyl last year according to NewsNation <[link removed]> . In August, the Mexican Navy apprehended 7 tons of cocaine destined for the U.S. As then Senator Kamala Harris said, “Wow, you’re saying we’ve lost the War on Drugs.” Right now the cartel is going through a war of succession <[link removed]> after the U.S. arrested both “El Chapo” Joaquin Guzman and “El Mayo” Zambada - an opportune time for the Mexican government to prosecute the Sinaloa cartel. Security risk of an uncontrolled border We also need to screen migrants from China, Venezuela, and Tajikistan. Tajikistan (neighbors Afghanistan) presents a terrorism risk. In June, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested 8 Tajiks who the FBI alerted had ties to ISIS-Khorasan (ISIS-K) - the ISIS affiliate killed 13 US soldiers and 170 Afghans at Kabul airport during our withdrawl 3 years ago on August 26, 2021. Nearly 5 million have left Maduro’s socialist Venezuela, and many have come here. Venezuelan gangs have expanded here, and the Treasury Dept sanctioned Tren De Aragua (TdA), a violent Venezuelan gang <[link removed]> took over several apartment complexes in Aurora, Colorado, and is suspected in more than 100 police investigations around the U.S. TdA members attacked New York City police officers in January, and murdered University of Georgia student Lakin Riley and 59-year-old Angel Samaniego in Stamford, CT. Chinese fentanyl pre-curser ingredient companies are setting up final additive operations in the U.S. Mass deportation is not the answer, but rather targeted deportation of criminals It’s impossible and inhumane to deport 30 million undocumented migrants, most working peacefully in this country. However, ICE reported to Congress as of July 2024, there are 425,431 <[link removed]> convicted criminal migrants – and 222,141 with pending criminal charges <[link removed]> who crossed the U.S. southern border illegally. Of these 425,431 convicted criminals, 62,231 have been convicted of assault, 14,301 convicted of burglary, 56,533 have drug convictions and 13,099 have been convicted of homicide. An additional 2,521 have kidnapping convictions and 15,811 have sexual assault convictions. These 425k must be deported. View original post <[link removed]> <[link removed]> 8 Politzer Drive, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA Powered by Squarespace <[link removed]> Unsubscribe <[link removed]>