This Issue: RSC budget calls for immigration policy that prioritizes American workers and protects national security and public safety

Fri, Jun. 10^th

The House Republican Study Committee's (RSC) new budget calls for mandatory E-Verify and ending chain migration, the visa lottery, and birthright citizenship. It also calls for actions that would close the loopholes that drive border surges and eliminate most unnecessary foreign workers.

The RSC, led by Rep. Jim Banks of Indiana, boasts a membership of 157 Members, making it one of the largest and most powerful voting blocks in the House of Representatives. To compare, the House Democrat's Progressive Caucus has 99 Members. This makes the RSC budget a significant marker for House Republicans, especially if they wrangle control of the House after the mid-term elections this fall.

Roy issued the following statement championing the proposed budget:

The RSC Budget contains a sweeping but practical blueprint for immigration policies that would provide a fairer playing field for American wage-earners and would begin to narrow current economic disparities that are destabilizing our society.

The greatest beneficiaries would be Americans of all races and ethnicities in the economic underclass. The many specific line items truly justify the authors' claim to "prioritize American workers, help grow our middle class, raise wages, and enhance economic opportunity for all lawful residents."

Adoption of the budget proposals would create conditions that should result in bringing back into the job market millions of Americans who have abandoned it, or been abandoned by it. And they would remove barriers to the aspirations of American students in many careers.

Most of the provisions are not speculative in that they either have been proven effective in the past or have been recommended by a succession of federal commissions over the last half-century. They would greatly reduce the illegal foreign worker competition by eliminating the major incentives for foreign citizens to enter the country illegally or to overstay their visas. And the budget provisions, if implemented by a President, would end the chaos at our borders.

If adopted in full, the immigration budget items would be one of the greatest steps ever taken by Congress for a more equitable and harmonious society.

The RSC explained its philosophy on U.S. immigration policy:

"Immigration policy should protect our national security by protecting the American people from terrorism, cartels, and other threats to their safety."
"Immigration policy should prioritize American workers, help grow our middle class, raise wages, and enhance economic opportunity for all lawful residents."
"Immigration policy should respect the rule of law, along with immigrants that honor our legal immigration processes, rather than incentivize law-breaking."
"Immigration policy should aim to assimilate legal immigrants into the American family so they too can take pride in our values, history, and heritage."

Specifically, the RSC budget calls for:

Ending the visa lottery
Ending non-nuclear family chain migration
Ending birthright citizenship
Reducing visa overstay rates
Mandating E-Verify

Additionally, the RSC budget calls for passage of Rep. Banks' H.R. 6206, the American Tech Workforce Act, which is also one of NumbersUSA's "6 Great Solutions." The legislation would establish a wage floor for H-1B visas eliminating Big Tech's reliance on the visa program as a source of cheap labor. It would also end the Optional Practical Training (OPT) program that serves as a bridge to U.S. jobs for foreign students who earn degrees in a STEM field.

If you have a Republican U.S. Representative, check your action board for new actions. We've posted thank you messages to the 157 Members of the RSC as well as messages for the remaining House GOP Members urging them to support the RSC budget.

CHRIS Chmielenski
NumbersUSA Deputy Director

CNN: Chris commented on DHS' plan to use cell phones to track illegal border crossers who are released into the interior.

"When you start handing out cell phones and say, 'We'll buzz you when we need to get in touch with you,' and then they let them go on their merry way into the interior of the United States, that's just going to encourage more and more people to come," says Chris Chmielenski, deputy director of NumbersUSA, an organization that advocates for less immigration.

Breitbart: NumbersUSA Director of Government Relations Rosemary Jenks commented on a proposal to recruit foreign cyber security experts.

"It's offensive for someone to say that Americans cannot defend our own nation," countered Rosemary Jenks, government relations director at NumbersUSA. "We have always had plenty of hardworking patriotic men and women serve in our military," she said, adding:

"We have prosecutions ongoing of Chinese nationals who have stolen our technology -- Why on earth would we put any foreigners in positions where they can do that? ...It's the reason that people don't trust Zoom -- we've seen Chinese cut into [zoom] calls."

Newsmax: Chris commented on the new migrant caravan making its way to the U.S./Mexico border.

Chris Chmielenski, vice president of NumbersUSA, told Newsmax that the No. 1 priority for Biden and lawmakers should be reinstating the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), known as "Remain in Mexico," that was in place under Trump.

MPP resulted in migrants who arrived at the southern border being sent back to Mexico while their immigration proceedings played out.

"[MPP] had the single largest effect when Trump was dealing with a migrant surge similar to what we're seeing today but not nearly at the numerical levels we're seeing today," Chmielenski told Newsmax.

"Most of the them are claiming asylum but most don't qualify for asylum under U.S. law. But once they cross the border and claim asylum, they get to stay here. And in many cases, they get a work permit and they get assistance from these non-governmental organizations that are helping the government relocate them."

WHO ARE COUNTRY'S "TRUE REFORMERS"

NumbersUSA awards the True Reformer label to candidates who promise to support all or nearly all of NumbersUSA's top priorities in 12 categories.

You can view every one of the nation's True Reformer candidates here.

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