POTUS to pursue an aggressive executive crackdown on immigration

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https://www.trumpwall.construction/
Trump Wall
Miles Built: 89
Miles to be Built: 509+

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India’s prime minister accused of “interfering” in the next US presidential election

Temporary relief to Indians in US! Work ban on H-1B visa holders' spouses pushed back till 2020

A 2015 rule issued by Barack Obama allowed work permits for certain categories of H-4 visa holders (dependent family members - spouse and children - of the H-1B visa holders), who otherwise could not be employed

September 19, 2019

Speaking in Texas, Modi repeated to rapturous applause the borrowed Trump campaign slogan: ‘Abki baar Trump sarkar (This time, [a] Trump government)’
September 23, 2019

Narendra Modi, India’s prime minister, has been accused of “interfering” in the next US presidential election after he gave a speech in Texas that critics say tacitly endorsed Donald Trump for re-election in 2020.
Mr Modi made the comments as he appeared onstage alongside the US president during a rally in Houston on Sunday, which was attended by more than 50,000 members of the Indian diaspora.

Related

Trump: I want to scrap all H1B visas
10-02-2018

Not clear if related to MH1BGA:

Despite stricter scrutiny, US approves more H-1B visas this year

Oct 14, 2019, 10:10 IST
Highlights

• US has approved a higher number of H-1B applications this year
• 3.89 lakh applications were approved for the fiscal 2019, up from last year's 3.35 lakh
• In past years, more than 70% of the aggregate H-1B visa applications for new jobs and visa extensions given to those born in India

MUMBAI: The US has approved a higher number of H-1B applications (both for initial visas and visa extensions for continued employment) this year, showing that the demand for these work visas continues unabated. This is a relief to Indians, who are the dominant holders of H-1B visas, especially after processing regulations got more stringent post-2015 .

timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/more-scrutiny-but-more-h-1b-visas-okd/articleshow/71572241.cms



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Trump reiterates claim that he wants more legal immigration

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The Trump administration’s decision to reduce this year’s refugee cap to a record-low 18,000 people is just one step in its broader plan to shrink the program and make it harder for any future administration to quickly resume accepting refugees

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The Trump administration has launched a pilot program that expedites the time it takes to process and deport asylum seekers at the U.S-Mexico border.
Migrants arriving at the border in El Paso, Texas, can receive a decision regarding their asylum claims in 10 days or less, rather than undergo an asylum process that could take months or years, according to a report from the Washington Post. The new program, known as Prompt Asylum Claim Review, aims to deter illegal immigration and keep asylum seekers out of the U.S.
The program just launched in October and is being conducted in the El Paso area only.
Under Prompt Asylum Claim Review, migrants who have been apprehended in the El Paso area are transferred to a 1,500-bed Border Patrol facility. They are then given one day to phone a lawyer or family member, and then they are interviewed by an asylum officer to determine if their asylum claims are credible, according to Customs and Border Protection officials who spoke with the Washington Post.
In a statement to The Daily Caller News Foundation, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) confirmed the existence of the program.


“It should come as no surprise that the President is doing exactly what he said he would do. DHS has partnered with DOJ to conduct a pilot program to expedite the processing of aliens while providing protections and due process for all,” a DHS spokesperson said Thursday to TheDCNF.
Prompt Asylum Claim Review appears to be the latest attempt by the Trump administration to clamp down on the wave of illegal aliens arriving at the U.S. southern border.

More at: https://www.infowars.com/trump-admin...at-the-border/

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Tyranny is really insidious. Commies and Nazis say Spain, North Korea, and the USSR were calm paradises under tyranny, but who wants to live in a prison?


Americans used to be taught to love morality, freedom, balanced budgets, and peace.


Now Americans are told to be immoral, and embrace tyranny, debt, and war.


People give up in police states.


Everything is illegal.


Why obey the law if the government and illegal immigrants don't?


The US is not a democracy.


Why try if the government has taken away your right to speak, protest, go to church, own a gun, have privacy, have property, be free from TSA groping, be free from extrajudicial assassination, be free torture, and be free from indefinite detention without trial?


You are just a slave now. Your life is over.


Why have free college if the government can just take everything you have?


When your life is a crime, who wouldn't embrace terrorism? Why not just destroy government property and kill government workers?


More destruction will lead to more repression and higher taxes. More tyranny and higher taxes will lead to more resistance until there is total war.


There are no other options.

[tod evans]

Why not just destroy government property and kill government workers?

Far be it from me to stand in your way.

[Swordsmyth]

Trump to double down on immigration in 2020, ‘Dial it up to the maximum.’

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The White House has found a way to bypass a federal statute that dictates who can fill secretary positions, potentially allowing President Donald Trump to choose whomever he wants to lead the Department of Homeland Security, according to an administration official. The route may run through an office established to counter weapons of mass destruction.The Trump administration has encountered legal and personnel challenges in its search for a candidate who is aligned enough with Trump to carry out his hard-line immigration agenda and satisfy the legal credentials to be the acting secretary of a department riddled with vacancies.
After Kevin K. McAleenan, the acting secretary who had a tumultuous relationship with the White House, announced this month that he would resign, it was widely believed in the administration that Trump would tap someone who would not question his more extreme policies. McAleenan has said he will step down Thursday.
But officials leading agencies in homeland security who echo Trump’s fiery language on immigration were initially deemed ineligible under the federal Vacancies Act. The law states that acting officials who take over Cabinet-level positions must be next in the line of succession, have the approval of the Senate or have served 90 days under the previous secretary.
The White House, however, is exploring a loophole in the law, according to an administration official. Under this route, the White House would tap someone to be the assistant secretary of the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office, which is vacant, and then elevate that person to be the acting secretary of homeland security.
The chief of that office is known as an “inferior officer,” and under an exception in the laws governing appointments, such officials can be appointed to acting positions with the sole approval of the president, the official said.


This year the Trump administration has purged, installed and transferred leaders in the department, sowing chaos among its ranks and creating a legal maze on personnel matters. The latest dubious workaround would mean that Trump has found a way to use the many holes in the department to fill a void.
It would also allow the White House to choose a hard-liner previously believed to be ineligible for the position.
Mark Morgan and Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II, who both joined the department in recent months in an acting capacity, were thought to be out of the running for the job after the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel advised that their appointment would violate the Vacancies Act. Neither Morgan, the acting commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, nor Cuccinelli, the acting director of the agency overseeing legal immigration, was confirmed by the Senate or served for at least 90 days under the last Senate-confirmed homeland security secretary, Kirstjen Nielsen.
Cuccinelli, who would face a difficult road to nomination, was widely thought to be a top contender for the position after the acting White House chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, said that Cuccinelli “would be good at the job.”
But Cuccinelli has a tumultuous relationship with Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Senate majority leader. McConnell previously voiced his disappointment to the White House over Cuccinelli’s appointment to the Department of Homeland Security. Cuccinelli endorsed an effort by hard-line conservatives to force McConnell to step down and backed McConnell’s primary challenger in 2014.

More at: https://news.yahoo.com/white-house-f...122153951.html

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Thousands of migrants returned to Mexico under the Trump administration’s “Remain in Mexico” policy have given up their asylum claims, with many of them returning home, according to statistics included in a new assessment of the policy released this week by the Department of Homeland Security.
The policy, known formally as the Migrant Protection Protocols, sends migrants seeking asylum at the southern border back to Mexico for the duration of immigration proceedings. It is a cornerstone of the administration’s efforts to end “catch and release,” by which migrants are released into the U.S. while their cases are heard.

So far, the administration has returned more than 55,000 migrants to Mexico. The assessment describes the policy as an “indispensable tool in addressing the ongoing crisis at the southern border and restoring integrity to the immigration system.”

The new assessment, significantly, cites estimates from Customs and Border Protection (CBP) that approximately 20,000 migrants are currently being sheltered in Mexico near the U.S. border as they still seek entry to the U.S. The assessment says that number, though, suggests “a significant proportion of the 55,000+ MPP returnees have chosen to abandon their claims.”

MPP was initially set up in January, but was expanded over the summer amid a new agreement with the Mexican government established in June. The U.S. has been seeking to continue to expand the policy since then.

This week, DHS announced that it had also begun processing migrants under MPP in Eagle Pass, Texas -- bringing to six the total number of ports of entry where MPP is underway.

More at: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mig...-asylum-claims

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Thanks to Trump, the U.S. hasn't admitted a single refugee since September

https://news.yahoo.com/thanks-to-tru...001006863.html

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Brazilian federal police said they have arrested Saifullah Al-Mamun, born in Bangladesh and considered by authorities one of the world's most prolific human traffickers.In an operation conducted on Thursday after collaboration with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Brazilian police arrested members of a group allegedly implicated in a large scheme of smuggling people into the United States.
Several arrests were made in Sao Paulo, where Al-Mamun was living, and in three other Brazilian cities. The police also froze 42 bank accounts it says were used by the group to finance their activities.
Al-Mamun entered Brazil six years ago as a refugee, and was living in Bras, a diverse neighborhood in Sao Paulo that is home to immigrants from around the world.
He has been indicted on U.S. charges. According to the United States Department of Justice, Al-Mamun is alleged to have housed people coming from Southeast Asia in São Paulo and arranged for their travel through a network of smugglers operating in Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala and Mexico.
According to Brazilian police, he and his group were smuggling into Brazil, and then to the United States, people from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan.
They were sent to Brazil's northern Acre state to start a long and dangerous trip through Central America all the way to the Mexican border, to cross into the United States.

More at: https://news.yahoo.com/brazil-police...222227557.html

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President Trump on Friday set a cap for the U.S. to accept just 18,000 refugees this fiscal year, marking the lowest number since the modern refugee system was created nearly 40 years ago.
The president also announced major changes to the way the refugee program runs, creating a set-aside of 5,000 slots for refugees fleeing religious persecution, 4,000 for Iraqis and 1,500 for key Central American partner countries. Those all count against the 18,000 cap.
The number, which the administration had signaled in late September but was made official by Trump’s determination, has been criticized by both Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill, who said the U.S. has an obligation to accept more refugees.
Administration officials, though, argue that the U.S. already has a massive asylum backlog that it needs to work through. Refugees are those who are awarded humanitarian protections while they are outside the U.S. Asylees are those who make it to U.S. soil and then request protection from their home countries.
But Homeland Security officials say the same adjudicators work both types of cases, and they have been overwhelmed by the surge of asylum-seekers at the border, so cutting the number of refugee cases is justified in order to give the officers a chance to eat into the backlog.

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“The admission of up to 18,000 refugees to the United States during Fiscal Year 2020 is justified by humanitarian concerns or is otherwise in the national interest,” Mr. Trump said in announcing the new number.
At 18,000, the cap is 12,000 lower than Mr. Trump set for fiscal year 2019, and it’s a major reduction from the 110,000 refugee target the Obama administration tried to set for 2017.

More at: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news...ugee-cap-ever/

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The horrific murders in northern Mexico this week by drug-cartel gunmen are a stark reminder that the United States and our southern neighbor still face significant security challenges. Yet the violence overshadows a policy success story on border security: the Trump administration’s effort to curb the flow of would-be migrants at the border, preventing our border-security infrastructure from being totally overwhelmed and cutting down on opportunities for human rights abuses of migrants and human trafficking by criminal gangs.
The reason you don’t see breathless hyperbole about “children in cages” dominating news cycles anymore is because between May and August, border officials report a sharp decrease in migrants attempting to cross the US border, with apprehensions falling by 62% and total enforcement actions dropping by 70%.
In September, there were some 40,000 arrests, the lowest month this fiscal year and down from nearly 133,000 apprehensions in May.
The reason? Determination and sustained pressure by the Trump administration — including, yes, threats of tariffs — to convince the government of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to do its part to stop the flow of migrants, mostly from Central America traversing Mexican territory.


To crack down on the migrant routes, Mexico agreed to send a newly created National Guard to its borders and to dismantle human smuggling networks. Thousands of troops are deployed to Mexico’s northern border, where they’ve established 20 checkpoints. On the southern border with Guatemala, 12,000 troops are deployed, with 21 checkpoints.
Moreover, military helicopters have been deployed on both borders for aerial surveillance.
President Trump has expressed his gratitude for the Mexican response. In his speech in September at the UN General Assembly, he said, “I would like to thank President López Obrador of Mexico for the great cooperation we are receiving, and for right now putting 27,000 troops on our southern border. Mexico is showing us great respect, and I respect them in return.”
Naturally, not all are happy with what the Mexican government is doing. Media personality and open-borders advocate Jorge Ramos, in a recent New York Times op-ed, wrote, “President Trump is using Mexico. And, against all logic, Mexico is letting him get away with it. This has to change.”
But López Obrador doesn’t deserve Ramos’ scorn. The Mexican president evidently understands what Ramos does not. Given the deep, integrated ties between the Mexican and United States economies, Mexico cannot simply afford a contentious relationship with any American president.
In a recent press conference, López Obrador defended his position, “We represent our country with dignity, and we have nothing to be ashamed of. The sovereignty of Mexico is defended. At the same time, we do not want confrontation … We are especially interested in a good relationship with the United States.”
It doesn’t hurt that he has on his side a sizable body of public opinion. Polls show that many Mexicans are tired of being a waystation for increased migration through the country, seeing it as a drain on Mexico’s economy and services.
It’s not surprising that Trump’s critics remain unmollified. They wanted the border infrastructure to buckle under the weight of the migration onslaught and overwhelm immigration courts, resulting in tens of thousands of migrants entering the US with scant oversight. But the Trump administration held firm and was able to defuse the crisis.

More at: https://nypost.com/2019/11/07/trumps...order-success/

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State Department tried mightily to bamboozle Trump into letting 400,000 migrants stay in the US legally, but Trump ignored them and did what he promised to his base

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The Trump administration rolled out a proposal Friday to hike application fees for immigrants seeking to remain in the U.S. — including a first-ever charge for those seeking refuge. It's the administration's latest move to restrict pathways for obtaining asylum and immigration benefits like U.S. citizenship.U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the agency in charge of administering immigration benefits, unveiled a proposed rule that would significantly increase petition fees for immigrants seeking U.S. citizenship, for young undocumented immigrants looking to renew protections from deportation and for victims of crimes who are seeking to stay in the country through their assistance to law enforcement.
The proposal would impose a $50 application fee for affirmative asylum applications and a $490 work permit fee for all asylum seekers. Fees for citizenship petitions would also increase from $750 to $1,170, and the amount could be higher for some immigrants.


Ken Cuccinelli, an immigration hawk who was tapped to lead USCIS on an acting basis in June, defended the proposal, noting that his agency is funded by fees, unlike most federal government agencies.
"USCIS is required to examine incoming and outgoing expenditures, just like a business, and make adjustments based on that analysis," Cuccinelli said in a statement. "This proposed adjustment in fees would ensure more applicants cover the true cost of their applications and minimizes subsidies from an already over-extended system."
Under the proposal, recipients of the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program would have to pay substantially more to renew their protections, with their petition fee increasing from $495 to $765. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments on the several legal challenges to the administration's efforts to dismantle the program, which shields more than 700,000 undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children from deportation.
The fee for a form typically filed by petitioners of so-called U visas, a congressionally-mandated protection available to victims of crimes who can prove they helped or are willing to help the U.S. government investigate criminal activity, would also increase from $585 to $1,415 for some. The relief, if granted, allows recipients to eventually seek green cards and subsequent citizenship.
According to the proposed rule, some of the revenue raised by the fee hikes would be used to fund a $207 million transfer to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the agency in charge of deporting and detaining immigrants. ICE would look to use the USCIS funds for worksite enforcement, a crackdown on visa overstays, a denaturalization campaign and investigations of potential immigration fraud.

More at: https://news.yahoo.com/u-seeks-charg...065954765.html

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Thanks to Trump, the U.S. hasn't admitted a single refugee since September

Granted Iraq/Iran war lobbies/Trump's Israeli globalist neocon donor's supported mideast interventions are unlike WWI/II... but hypothetically if Trump was POTUS then and ships carrying holocaust refugees from Poland/Germany etc tried to seek refuge in the US , would he have refused or let them in?
If he had refused, would you have shared that news as MAGA success story also or not?

Do you support or oppose bringing Islamic arab/afghan translators and their families to US if their lives are endangered as a result of working with US military in those countries?


The Iraq war: The root of Europe's refugee crisis

9 Sept 2015
Thousands have crossed continents and have ended up in Europe seeking that same respite. By and large it's taken Europe by surprise. Opinions vary on how to deal with the crisis. Some say Europe and the US should step up. Others say the rich Gulf states should use their enormous wealth to help.
What no one talks about is the invasion and occupation of Iraq.
March 2003 was the pivotal point. Based on controversial evidence that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction (WMD), the war drums beat loudly.
The WMD claim was eventually publicly discredited by the CIA's own Iraq survey group report . That report proved whispers and intelligence community doubts from the time that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
But it wasn't just those who questioned the evidence. Mass opposition from the British and American public concluded in marches in various Western capitals opposing the war.
Those voices went ignored and in March 2003, the then US president and the British prime minister met in the Azores, Portugal, with the Spanish prime minister, and set into motion events that now include the dead body of three-year-old Aylan Kurdi that washed up on a Turkish beach.



In 2002, Donald Trump Said He Supported Invading Iraq
In the interview, which took place on Sept. 11, 2002, Stern asked Trump directly if he was for invading Iraq.
“Yeah, I guess so,” Trump responded. “I wish the first time it was done correctly.”

Trump wrote WMDs in Iraq were a threat a YEAR before Bush was prez!
From his book The America we deserve
Consider Iraq. After each pounding from U.S . warplanes, Iraq has dusted itself off and gone right back to work developing a nuclear arsenal. Six years of tough talk and U.S. fireworks in Baghdad have done little to slow Iraq’s crash program to become a nuclear power. They’ve got missiles capable of flying nine hundred kilometers—more than enough to reach Tel Aviv. They’ve got enriched uranium. All they need is the material for nuclear fission to complete the job, and, according to the Rumsfeld report, we don’t even know for sure if they’ve laid their hands on that yet. That’s what our last aerial assault on Iraq in 1999 was about. Saddam Hussein wouldn’t let UN weapons inspectors examine certain sites where that material might be stored. The result when our bombing was over? We still don’t know what Iraq is up to or whether it has the material to build nuclear weapons. I’m no warmonger. But the fact is, if we decide a strike against Iraq is necessary, it is madness not to carry the mission to its conclusion. When we don’t, we have the worst of all worlds: Iraq remains a threat, and now has more incentive than ever to attack us.


Iraq Lies Redux: Trump Admin Claims Iran/al-Qaeda Alliance

Trump supports Iraq war 3.

Trump to expand presence in Iraq!

October 6, 2019
US, Israeli efforts put Iraq’s stability on the line ; 104 killed in Iraq unrest, 6000 wounded
Bit surprised this is not being reported as a major headline in non-controlled MSM, Iraq is supposed to be the model democracy after sacrifice of thousands of US lives and trillions of taxpayers dollars expenditure by globalist neoconservatives (excluding GOP-Adeson's current top donor).
Iraq invasion architect Elliott Abrams quietly slips into Trump administration


US, Israeli efforts to contain Iran put Iraq’s stability on the line

Alleged IDF airstrikes targeting Iranian-backed paramilitaries have heightened divisions between the Shiite groups and Iraqi government20 September 2019
BAGHDAD (AP) — As the United States and Israel escalate their push to contain Iranian influence in the Middle East, countries in Tehran’s orbit are feeling the heat.
Nowhere is that being felt more than in Iraq. It is wedged between Saudi Arabia to the south and Iran to the east and hosts thousands of US troops on its soil. At the same time, powerful Shiite paramilitary forces linked to Iran pose a growing challenge to the authority of the central government.
The divisions among Iran’s Shiite allies in Iraq have been spurred by a spate of airstrikes blamed on Israel that have hit weapons depots and bases belonging to the Iran-backed militias, known collectively as the Popular Mobilization Forces, or PMF.
There have been at least nine strikes since July both inside Iraq and across the border in Syria, sparking outrage among PMF leaders. They blame Israel and by extension its US ally, which maintains more than 5,000 troops in Iraq.

Civilian Casualties Soared in Iraq and Syria in 2017. Was Trump’s Bloodthirsty Rhetoric to Blame?

Iraqi PM says Israel is responsible for attacks on Iraqi militias
2 Min Read
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi has accused Israel of being behind attacks on Iranian-backed militia positions in Iraq, the first time Baghdad has directly blamed Israel, Al Jazeera television reported on Monday. “Investigations into the targeting of some Popular Mobilisation Forces positions indicate that Israel carried it out,” Al Jazeera quoted Abdul Mahdi as telling it.
reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security/iraqi-pm-says-israel-is-responsible-for-attacks-on-iraqi-militias-al-jazeera-idUSKBN1WF1E5



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May 14, 2018
Mega-donor Adelson, with access and influence, scores two pro- Israel victories
These are heady days for casino billionaire and megadonor Sheldon Adelson.
A passionate and hawkish advocate for Israel with close ties to its prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, Adelson was in Jerusalem today for a celebration of the U.S. embassy’s relocation to that city, a longstanding priority for the mogul. Similarly, Adelson had pushed hard for President Donald Trump to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal, which happened last week.
And the day after that announcement, Adelson quietly slipped into the White House for a private meeting with Trump and three top administration officials: Vice President Mike Pence, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and an Adelson favorite, National Security Adviser John Bolton, according to two conservative sources familiar with the previously unreported private event.

#1 GOP Cash Bundler, Sheldon Adelson, Calls For US to Bomb Iran w/Nuclear Weapons


Sheldon Adelson Photo: Reuters

NEW YORK – During a panel at Yeshiva University on Tuesday evening, Sheldon Adelson, noted businessman and owner of the newspaper Israel Hayom, suggested that the US should use nuclear weapons on Iran to impose its demands from a position of strength.
Asked by moderator Rabbi Shmuley Boteach whether the US should negotiate with Iran if it were to cease its uranium enrichment program, Adelson retorted, “What are we going to negotiate about?”

“So a tremendous demonstration of American strength?” Boteach clarified. “So that they would get the message?”

“It’s the only thing they understand,” Adelson said.

“And do you see the current negotiations as a sign of weakness?” Boteach asked.

“Absolutely,” Adelson said.

Adelson, who donated tens of millions of dollars to defeated Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney during the most recent campaign, criticized the Obama administration's willingness to engage the Iranians diplomatically.

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Granted Iraq/Iran war lobbies/Trump's Israeli globalist neocon donor's supported mideast interventions are unlike WWI/II... but hypothetically if Trump was POTUS then and ships carrying holocaust refugees from Poland/Germany etc tried to seek refuge in the US , would he have refused or let them in?
If he had refused, would you have shared that news as MAGA success story also or not?

Yes, American immigration policy should serve Americans.
We can't afford to give refuge to those who would destroy us deliberately or through cultural incompatibility. (particularly those with anti-liberty cultures)

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Jun 4, 2019
A Ship of Jewish Refugees Was Refused U.S. Landing in 1939. This Was Their Fate
The more than 900 passengers of the M.S. St. Louis were denied entry by immigration authorities in multiple countries in the lead-up to the Holocaust.
As the M.S. St. Louis cruised off the coast of Miami in June 1939, its passengers could see the lights of the city glimmering. But the United States hadn’t been on the ship’s original itinerary, and its passengers didn’t have permission to disembark in Florida. As the more than 900 Jewish passengers looked longingly at the twinkling lights, they hoped against hope that they could land.
Those hopes would soon be dashed by immigration authorities, sending the ship back to Europe. And then, nearly a third of the passengers on the St. Louis were murdered.
Most of the ship’s 937 passengers were Jews trying to escape Nazi Germany.
https://www.history.com/news/wwii-je...-st-louis-1939

Pompeo says God may have sent Trump to save Israel from Iran

Granted Iraq/Iran war lobbies/Trump's Israeli globalist neocon donor's supported mideast interventions are unlike WWI/II... but hypothetically if Trump was POTUS then and ships carrying holocaust refugees from Poland/Germany etc tried to seek refuge in the US , would he have refused or let them in?
If he had refused, would you have shared that news as MAGA success story also or not?

Yes, American immigration policy should serve Americans.
We can't afford to give refuge to those who would destroy us deliberately or through cultural incompatibility. (particularly those with anti-liberty cultures)

EM.

To make sure your views are understood correctly, are you saying that Trump would have returned the ship carrying jewish refugees seeking refuge from holocaust in Nazi Germany and that would have been the right decision in your view?


Did you support or oppose his following policies?

US approves more H-1B visas this year
Oct 14, 2019

• US has approved a higher number of H-1B applications this year
• 3.89 lakh applications were approved for the fiscal 2019, up from last year's 3.35 lakh
• In past years, more than 70% of the aggregate H-1B visa applications for new jobs and visa extensions given to those born in India

Also, you missed this other important presenet day question:

Q. "Do you support or oppose bringing Islamic arab/afghan translators and their families to US if their lives are endangered as a result of working with US military in those countries?"



Q. Do you think Trump and all those who added any support to Iraq invasion/US interventions in mideast/taxpayers funded occupations in places like Palestine have any responsibility to help refugees seeking safety for their families made homeless or in danger in such war zones/neocons destabilized regions like Iraq/Gaza/West Bank/Libya/Syria/Afghanistan etc?

The Iraq war: The root of Europe's refugee crisis
In 2002, Donald Trump Said He Supported Invading Iraq
Trump wrote WMDs in Iraq were a threat a YEAR before Bush was prez!
Iraq Lies Redux: Trump Admin Claims Iran/al-Qaeda Alliance
Trump supports Iraq war 3.
Trump to expand presence in Iraq!

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Bump

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The Trump administration is proposing a new rule that, if implemented, would make asylum seekers ineligible for work permits if they entered the U.S. illegally.
United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the federal agency tasked with managing the country’s immigration system, is introducing new employment rules for migrants. Namely, the agency is aiming to bar work permits for asylum applicants who crossed the border illegally, and also applicants who have committed a felony or a number of misdemeanors, including driving under the influence.
The proposal is intended to force asylum seekers, who currently make up the bulk of migrants arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border, to arrive in a legal port of entry instead of crossing the border illegally.
In addition to denying work authorization to illegal aliens and those with serious criminal records, USCIS is proposing to lengthen the time it takes for eligible applicants to secure a work permit. Currently, asylum applicants must wait roughly five months to become qualified and able to apply for a permit. The agency wishes to extend this five-month period to a year.
The chief of USCIS says the reforms are needed to stop asylum seekers from taking advantage of the U.S. immigration system.


The move is the latest by the Trump administration to manage the illegal immigration crisis at the southern border by eliminating a key incentive. For a long period of time, migrants were able to enter U.S. territory quickly by simply crossing the border illegally, where they would then immediately lodge an asylum claim. They were then able to work, sending remittances back to their families living abroad, while their asylum claims lingered in the backlogged immigration court system.
The Trump administration has been able to mitigate these incentives through a series of programs, such as Remain in Mexico, metering, and adding roadblocks to work authorization.

More at: https://www.infowars.com/trump-admin...y-entering-us/

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President Donald Trump touted the wage gains for Americans in the lowest income brackets, adding that that the open borders policies of the Democratic Party threaten those gains.

“Since the election, real wages have gone up 3.2 percent for the median American worker,” Trump said in a speech Tuesday to the Economic Club of New York. “But for the bottom income group, real wages are soaring. A number that has never happened before. Nine percent.”
Wage gains for those near the bottom of America’s economic ladder have been particularly strong this year. The lowest-paid Americans saw weekly earnings rise by more than 5 percent in the second quarter from a year earlier, according to a quarterly survey of households produced by the Labor Department. Workers with less than a high-school diploma saw their wages grow nearly 6 percent.
“That may mean you make a couple of bucks less in your companies,” Trump said. “And you know what? That’s okay. This is a great thing for our country. When you talk about equality. This is a great thing for our country.”
The so-called “poverty gap”–which measures the heightened poverty rate among blacks and Hispanics compared to poverty overall–shrank to its lowest level on record last year. The racial gap in unemployment has also contracted as unemployment rates hit record lows this year. Black unemployment hit its lowest level on record in November.
Trump gave credit to the tight labor market for the improvement in wages and employment. But opening the countries borders to new workers from abroad would threaten those gains, he added.
“Our tight labor market is helping them the most,” Trump said. “Yet the Democrats in Washington want to erase these gains through an extreme policy of open borders, flooding the labor market and driving down incomes for the poorest Americans. And driving crime through the roof.”

More at: https://www.breitbart.com/economy/20...es-down-wages/

[Swordsmyth]

The vital first step in the asylum-seeking process has nearly been extinguished at the largest immigrant family detention center in the country, according to a lawsuit.
Plaintiffs allege that since mid-July the number of women and children at Dilley family detention center in Texas who pass the first interview necessary to apply for asylum has dropped from 97% of applicants to fewer than 10%.

More at: https://news.yahoo.com/asylum-90-cla...070005658.html

[Swordsmyth]

The apprehension of migrants who illegally cross the border between ports of entry by Border Patrol agents dropped by 73 percent during the past five months. The numbers fell by nearly 100,000 from the peak in May where nearly 133,000 to just over 35,000 in October.

The apprehension of migrants who illegally crossed the border fell from 132,856 in May to 35,444 in October, according to the Southwest Broder Migration Report released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Thursday. This represents a decrease of 73 percent in five months.

More at: https://www.breitbart.com/border/201...n-five-months/

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II-

MH1BGA

Adelson: Let’s Pass Immigration Reform


Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto awards White House senior adviser Jared Kushner the Order of the Aztec Eagle, the highest Mexican honor awarded to foreigners.

Jared Kushner is taking over efforts to increase legal immigration
Eric Lutz
April 3, 2019
According to Politico, Kushner has been working behind the scenes on a plan to expand some forms of legal immigration in an effort to “increase the number of low- and high-skilled workers” in the country.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019...er-immigration

Transgender Women from LGBTQ Caravan Granted Asylum

Pence to offer US assistance to immigrants

II -

Zionists and their allies are deliberately flooding us with hostile foreigners and using them to enslave us so that our choices are to submit or divide and probably fight.

Trump is a Friend of Zion


Mega-donor Miriam Adelson, Now Israel's Richest Person
Israeli-born Dr. Adelson, wife of U.S. casino tycoon and philanthropist Sheldon Adelson, is a new addition to Israel's rich list this year — jumping straight to first place
Jun 20, 2019
Total worth in 2019: $22,000,000,000 Stock market value: $20,800,000,000



II and II don't add up.



That said, it's not really fair to blame MAGA for everything as some conservative purists have tried to do periodically:.

Blaming MAGA for Border Rush
Some in the past have tried to blame MAGA's messaging and tweets for accelerating border rush but he was trying to quickly resolve issues left unsolved by previous Dem administration and was by no means inviting more to join the pool before Congress acts. Critics like Breitbart writers, Coulter, Tucker etc have been too rough on MAGA on this.






Trump: We will show 'great heart' on DACA

GOP Immigration Deal: Potentially ‘Biggest’ Amnesty in U.S. History

Trump's Friends At Breitbart Brand Him 'Amnesty Don' Over DACA Comments

Ann Coulter: Trump Failing. Don't ask me to lie about it

Breitbart 'prepared to rally votes for Trump's impeachment if he stops pushing populist agenda

[Swordsmyth]

The DOJ has quietly told the Supreme Court it does not have the authority to issue work permits to DACA migrants and has effectively invited the court to block the annual award of more than one million work permits to migrants.

[Swordsmyth]

The Trump administration is set to harden the rules this week on those allowed to seek asylum in the United States, as it attempts to stem a wave of migration on its southern border with Mexico.In a fast-track regulation set to publish in the Federal Register on Tuesday, the administration has created a framework that will allow asylum seekers to be sent to other nations that have negotiated bilateral agreements to accept them.
Previously, officials in the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump have argued that migrants with a valid need for asylum should seek protection in the first 'safe' country where they have the chance to apply, since many migrants travel through multiple countries on their way to the U.S. border.
However, the new regulation states that asylum seekers may be sent to any other countries with which the United States has asylum agreements that permit such an action - even if they did not first transit through those nations.

More at: https://news.yahoo.com/u-change-migr...233444321.html

[enhanced_deficit]

Anti MAGA media might not give President Trump credit for this but without his agressive pro-diversity leadership (his administration threatened Sweden) for quick release of Rocky A$AP, this might not have been possible:




A$AP Rocky Says He's Going Back to Sweden to Help Immigrants

11/19/2019 5:18 PM PT

A$AP is donating proceeds from his concert in Stockholm to an immigrant rights org called FARR, the Swedish Network of Refugee Support Group

GOTTA GIVE BACK TMZ.com

A$AP Rocky says his time behind bars in Sweden is exactly why he's returning to that country -- which seems insane -- but he's on a mission to help the inmates and immigrants he met there.
We got the rapper Tuesday evening outside the swanky Rick Owens clothing store in NYC and asked why in the world he'd go back. A$AP says the month in jail for his assault case opened his eyes to the plight of immigrants. He says he was especially aware of the support he was getting, as a celeb, while some prisoners around him were rotting for 10 months or more before seeing a judge.
He's on a mission to change that. For starters, A$AP says he's donating proceeds from his December 11 concert in Stockholm to an immigrant rights org called FARR, the Swedish Network of Refugee Support Groups.
tmz.com/2019/11/19/asap-rocky-sweden-concert-immigration-prisoners-donald-trump/

A$AP Rocky, Trump fans call for boycott of Swedish brands
July 28, 2019
FOXBusiness
President Donald Trump had advocated for Mayers after he was jailed in Sweden in July over assault charges, leading to his early release.
Trump wanted Sondland, who is ambassador to the European Union, to tighten the screws on Sweden to let A$AP go free.

U.S. warned Sweden of 'negative consequences' if ASAP Rocky wasn't released
Aug. 3, 2019
The U.S. government warned Sweden of "negative consequences" as it advocated for rapper ASAP Rocky during his trial for assault charges in Stockholm this week, according to a pair of letters released by the Swedish Prosecution Authority.
"The government of the United States of America wants to resolve this case as soon as possible to avoid potentially negative consequences to the U.S.-Swedish bilateral relationship," Amb. Robert O'Brien wrote in the letter, dated Wednesday.
In response Sweden's prosecutor-general, Petra Lundh, defended the independence of Swedish courts and said he therefore had to deny O'Brien's requests.
"No other prosecutor, not even I, may interfere with a specific case or try to affect the prosecutor responsible," Lundh wrote in a letter dated Thursday.

[Swordsmyth]

Illegal immigration across the southern border has fallen back to “normal” levels, and the Trump administration can take the “credit” for instituting policies to turn back the flood of families that started to surge along the border during the Obama administration, according to a new report.
“The border appears to be coming back under control in terms of incoming activity,” said the report from Princeton Policy Advisors.
Princeton President Steven Kopits, an immigration expert, added, “there is still a massive backlog in the courts and regarding migrants being held under various auspices, but the flow has now normalized to more typical levels, and as [of] last month, President Trump can take the credit.”


Kopits had been warning that illegal immigration could top 1 million this year, but his review of the latest border data found that the administration has seized control of illegal crossings and brought it down to historical levels.

More at: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/w...ake-the-credit

[Swordsmyth]

The Trump administration has sent the first migrant to Guatemala as part of its agreement with the country to accept asylum seeking migrants from the US, according to Guatemalan officials. An Honduran man arrived in Guatemala City on Thursday morning. He appeared to be the only migrant on the flight and was taken to a shelter after being processed.
The agreement marks a significant shift in US asylum policy as migrants who may have a legitimate claim for asylum are sent to another country to make their case.
Over recent months, the administration has been in discussions with the Northern Triangle countries of Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador to send migrants seeking asylum at the US-Mexico border to those countries. The accords bar migrants from seeking asylum in the US, with some exceptions, and allows the US to instead send asylum seekers to one of the three countries.

It's not unusual for the government to start off small to work out the kinks, said a Homeland Security official. A similar slow-start process took place with the launch of the administration's program to return migrants to Mexico to await immigration proceedings in the US.
Newly appointed acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf told reporters in south Texas Thursday that flights had begun, saying it's a "phased-in process."

US asylum officers are receiving training on the program and have gradually begun interviewing migrants to assess whether they're eligible to go to Guatemala, according to two sources familiar with the process. Migrants from Honduras and El Salvador are eligible to be sent back to Guatemala under this program, according to a source familiar.

More at: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/11/21/p...ent/index.html

[Swordsmyth]

Immigration hardliners gain key Trump posts in USCIS shake-up