Washington Post article on potential immigration reform

I hope the Republican bigots who oppose even legal immigration don’t block this.

Big news:

Sen. Thom Tillis and Kyrsten Sinema have reached a deal on a framework of immigration reforms:

*Protections for 2 million Dreamers
*New resources to speed processing asylum seekers
*Fast removal of migrants who don't qualify

More details here:https://t.co/3pT0l1Y97V
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) December 5, 2022

Fareed Zakaria asked Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo if we need more high skilled immigration to stay competitive with other countries.

Raimondo's response:

"We need to make it easier to have high skilled immigrants come to America, stay in America, and help us." pic.twitter.com/JB2TyJ8UNB
— Alec Stapp (@AlecStapp) December 5, 2022

Ron Brownstein on GOP immigration strategy

Flights are just one prong of red state strategy. On 1 front, they are pushing w/unilateral action against federal predominance in immigration enforcement that courts have long recognized. On 2nd, they are suing, b4 GOP judges, to stop Biden from changing Trump hardline policies https://t.co/4Sr5h8mVj4
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) September 20, 2022

Lots of comments on my Twitter comment on DeSantis and the media

Look at all of the comments on my tweet.

The stunt made its point – the media gave DeSantis a lot of coverage. That’s what he wanted. The media has not learned from the excessive coverage they give to Trump.
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) September 17, 2022

Great tweet on immigration

Bad news for the US. I blame Trump and his cult.

Immigration is America's superpower, so this should be raising alarm bells for policymakers:

The United States is no longer the top choice of foreign talent when asked where they would move for work. pic.twitter.com/HLsuh2Ngxb
— Alec Stapp (@AlecStapp) March 30, 2022

Biden is wrong on the refugee cap

Terrible decision.

This is one of these days when I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall as WH officials discuss how to frame a decision that a) reverses an earlier announcement and b) betrays core supporters and c) earns them nothing but grief.
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) April 16, 2021

Senate Foreign Relations Chair Menendez on decision by Biden – himself a former chairman – to keep Trump refugee levels:

“WH has not only stymied number of refugees permitted entrance, it has prevented State Dept from admitting vetted refugees currently waiting in the system"
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) April 16, 2021

This is shameful. https://t.co/DIAA5weAQq
— Max Boot (@MaxBoot) April 16, 2021

More than two months ago, Biden pledged to raise the refugee cap for the next fiscal year to 125,000 and signaled he would try to make a “down payment” on that this year, but acknowledged it wouldn't be easy. https://t.co/XM25EDQXvk
— Yahoo News (@YahooNews) April 16, 2021

Confirmed from a WH official on refugee cap: President Biden will keep the refugee cap number at 15,000. He is going to be changing the regional allocation of those refugees.

Note: This is Biden is walking back an earlier pledge to welcome more than 60,000 refugees into the U.S.
— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) April 16, 2021

Biden administration to keep refugee cap at Trump’s level, far less than what it proposed to Congress https://t.co/PbBYaSrwIP
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) April 16, 2021

Biden, Feb. 16: "We used to allow refugees, 125,000 refugees, into the United States on a yearly basis. It was as high as 250,000. Trump cut it to 5,000. Come with me into Sierra Leone. Come to me into parts of Lebanon…." 1/2
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) April 16, 2021

The border surge is media and Republican hype

Great work here revealing something truly terrible: https://t.co/rc5v7daV0m
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) March 24, 2021

"have Biden administration policies caused a crisis at the southern border? Evidence suggests not…This year looks like the usual seasonal increase plus migrants who would have come last year, but could not." https://t.co/SA7quanG2X
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) March 24, 2021

Migrants are not overrunning U.S. border towns, despite the political rhetoric — pa que sepan. https://t.co/57Hb01riqA
— Arelis R. Hernández (@arelisrhdz) March 22, 2021

Yes, it turns out that actually trying to solve hard problems is…hard! Any depiction of this that doesn't wrestle with whether Trump's policies were worse in humanitarian and rule-of-law terms is adopting the GOP frame that cruelty-as-deterrence is good: https://t.co/aWFoFmqWgf https://t.co/wpQOPuE0Hc
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) March 22, 2021

"As President Joe Biden tries to undo the damage that his predecessor did to America’s immigration system, three problems are getting in the way," @juliettekayyem wrote in February. https://t.co/hjgQXFQkeU
— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) March 22, 2021

Why is @mehdirhasan the first journalist to show this graph?

The surge at the border has been taking place for nine months. A 690% increase in unaccompanied minors in Trump’s last year. You can get the data straight from CBP’s website. pic.twitter.com/QODyBU8C2t
— Sawyer Hackett (@SawyerHackett) March 22, 2021

In the last nine months of Trump’s presidency there was a 690% increase in unaccompanied minors encountered by CBP.
— Don Winslow (@donwinslow) March 21, 2021

I wrote about media coverage of the border "crisis" https://t.co/S2gc7sD0lJ
— Alex Shephard (@alex_shephard) March 24, 2021

Trump plan to not count undocumented immigrants fails

BREAKING: Trump's Census Bureau Director Steven Dillingham is stepping down on Jan. 20, months before the end of his term, after whistleblowers complained he was pushing for "statistically indefensible" data.

My report (confirming @Tierney_Megan scoop):https://t.co/lEbwWPTNsX
— Hansi Lo Wang (@hansilowang) January 18, 2021

Trump plan to exclude undocumented immigrants from census totals used to apportion congressional seats is officially dead
Census Bureau announced today that data on apportionment & undocumented population would not be released until after Biden is sworn in https://t.co/ANauKSnPL0
— Catherine Rampell (@crampell) January 17, 2021

After trying for all four of its years in office to keep undocumented immigrants from being counted in the 2020 census, and two SCt rulings along the way, the Trump team gives up, leaving it to Biden team to scuttle that plan. Full details at https://t.co/IpKqBOueXw
— Lyle Denniston (@lylden) January 16, 2021

A scheme to strip congressional seats from diverse states has ended with a whimper, the Justice Department admitted. https://t.co/f6Kkpb9C2P
— Slate (@Slate) January 15, 2021

VICTORY: The Trump administration is abandoning its unconstitutional plan to exclude undocumented immigrants from the census count used to determine seats in Congress. https://t.co/3JxeC5C0C6
— ACLU (@ACLU) January 13, 2021

Today the Supreme Court hears arguments in the challenge to President Trump’s attempt to exclude undocumented immigrants from the census count – a move that would have a tremendous impact on reapportionment and federal funding. #SCOTUS
— Kimberly Atkins (@KimberlyEAtkins) November 30, 2020

Trump’s spending on the wall was unlawful

BREAKING: A federal appeals court rules Friday the Trump admin. does not have the authority to use military funding to pay for construction of a border wall. https://t.co/0PaLmkcre4
— NBC News (@NBCNews) June 26, 2020

Breaking: Trump admin does not have authority to divert Pentagon funds to construct additional barriers on US-Mexico border, a federal appeals court ruled, days after Trump’s visit to the wall.

In 2-1 ruling, Ninth Circuit said the $2.5 billion transfer circumvented Congress.
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) June 26, 2020

BREAKING: A federal appeals court ruled in our case that President Trump’s attempt to transfer billions of dollars in military pay and pension funds for border wall construction is unlawful.
— ACLU (@ACLU) June 26, 2020

Supreme Court upholds DACA

Republicans will complain but their position is not shared by the majority.

NEWS: Supreme Court blocks the Trump administration's recession of DACA. Chief Justice Roberts writes the opinion, joined in full or part by the four liberal justices.

DACA survives.https://t.co/qzI1YGgzNA
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) June 18, 2020

Eight years ago this week, we protected young people who were raised as part of our American family from deportation. Today, I'm happy for them, their families, and all of us. We may look different and come from everywhere, but what makes us American are our shared ideals…
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) June 18, 2020

I get the impression that you do a lot of things that the Supreme Court regards as illegal. https://t.co/dqeTVAjIQG
— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) June 18, 2020

Images like this do more for America’s standing in the world than anything we could do through our foreign policy. https://t.co/Y2jGfyV6wm
— Ben Rhodes (@brhodes) June 18, 2020

Nearly 75% of Americans Support Legal Status For DACA Beneficiaries, Poll Finds#DACA https://t.co/85l1IKVOqY
— Antonio Arellano (@AntonioArellano) June 18, 2020

But 70% of Americans support DACA. It will energize the base, but Trump cannot win with with 30%, no matter how energized they may be. https://t.co/c7qntoZwSn
— No Malarkey Spoon (@Political_spoon) June 18, 2020

Sorry you didn't get to screw over millions of American dreamers for your racist base.https://t.co/Eex2C0yzA6
— 'Stache Exotic (@Stache2020) June 18, 2020

2/ 69% of Trump voters don't want to see Dreamers deported. Protecting Dreamers is one of the most popular, bipartisan issues in America. Rescinding DACA was always for the purpose of using Dreamers as bait to get the Wall and deport others. That blew up. https://t.co/IYwvN5h433
— Alan Cross (@AlanLCross) June 18, 2020

Reminder: Democrats offered Trump *$25 billion* for wall/border in return for a path to citizenship for the DACA-eligibles. WH rejected.
— Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) June 18, 2020

Trump could have had a deal

DACA is safe. For now. And Sotomayor makes clear that POTUS’ intent was bigoted in her concuring decision:

“Taken together, ‘the words of the President’ help to ‘create the strong perception’ that the recission decision was ‘contaminated by impermissible discriminatory animus.’” pic.twitter.com/sC7YJlRUlW
— Phillip Atiba Goff (@DrPhilGoff) June 18, 2020

He mad. https://t.co/k6Ib0UQ0hc
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) June 18, 2020

Playbook PM: TRUMP has spent 3yrs delighting in flouting governing conventions and cutting corners.

BUT TODAY, the SUPREME COURT slapped him across the face with the rulebook, upholding DACA because the TRUMP ADMINISTRATION did not follow the correct procedures in repealing it.
— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) June 18, 2020

This is a sobering reminder that how we vote matters. #Election2020 is about what kind if country we choose to be. I choose caring and cohesive. #VoteOutHate https://t.co/KaEiZNz4dF
— Maya Wiley (@mayawiley) June 18, 2020

Opinion: In big DACA ruling, Trump’s bad faith blew up in his face https://t.co/WqYLiqm1bb
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) June 19, 2020

Immigration poll

Overall, do you believe that immigration is good for the country or bad for the country? (via new Quinnipiac poll)

Democrats:
87% good
7% bad
6% don't know

Republicans:
49% good
32% bad
19% don't know
— Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) July 30, 2019

Americans increasingly support accepting Central American refugees: Poll https://t.co/UC7HIofjGy via @dcexaminer @timbpearce
— FAIR (@FAIRImmigration) August 13, 2019

The way migrants attempting to cross the US border are being treated by the US government:
ALL
Approve 31%
Disapprove 62%
Dem.
Approve 5%
Disapprove 93%
Ind.
Approve 33%
Disapprove 60%
Rep.
Approve 62%
Disapprove 28%
(CNN Poll, 6/28-30/19)
more: https://t.co/nf4JAwcrG1
— PollingReport.com (@pollreport) July 2, 2019

For immigrants already living in the U.S. illegally, the government's top priority should be:
Deporting them all 15%
Developing a plan for legal residency for some 80%
(CNN Poll, 6/28-30/19)
more: https://t.co/nf4JAwcrG1

Full question wording below:

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— PollingReport.com (@pollreport) July 2, 2019

Quinnipiac poll: Most Americans believe Trump's motives behind his immigration policies are sincere and not racist. (sincere/racist)
Overall: 49/41
GOP: 93/4
DEM: 12/77
IND: 48/42
Men: 57/33
Women: 42/48
18-34 yr. olds: 47/38
White: 53/38
Black: 20/67
Hispanic: 53/38
— Ryan James Girdusky (@RyanGirdusky) July 30, 2019

I don’t agree.
Trump is a racist.

New Pew poll: majority of Americans want more immigration judges and for us to provide safe and sanitary conditions for asylum seekershttps://t.co/HB7O8tRLH2
— America's Voice (@AmericasVoice) August 12, 2019

75 percent of independents see immigration as “good” for the country, Quinnipiac poll finds https://t.co/j1Vj4WhMSa
— Roll Call (@rollcall) August 12, 2019

And 42% of Republicans say in a new Pew poll that they would support an effort to deport ALL of the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants living inside the U.S.

But they are the minority. Most do not support such a draconian approach.https://t.co/oQsLXw5Rid
— James Hohmann (@jameshohmann) August 13, 2019

Today’s Morning Consult poll asked respondents a bunch of questions about immigration.

36% of Republicans and 36% of Trump 2016 voters think LEGAL immigrants are a “burden to the country” (POL19).

LEGAL immigrants.

Illegal immigration wasn’t why they were obsessed with this.
— TheValuesVoter (@TheValuesVoter) August 14, 2019