{"id":23911,"date":"2020-11-30T13:16:13","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T18:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=23911"},"modified":"2020-11-30T13:16:16","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T18:16:16","slug":"immigration-lobbyists-make-demands-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2020\/11\/30\/immigration-lobbyists-make-demands-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Insatiable Immigration Lobby Demands \u2018More\u2019 From Biden"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2020\/11\/20\/border-apprehensions-spike-reasons-why-immigrationreform-com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">swelling numbers<\/a> of illegal aliens head across America\u2019s southern border, immigration enthusiasts are giddy about the changing of the guard in Washington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a series of <a href=\"https:\/\/immigrationforum.org\/article\/convening-points-to-post-2020-immigration-opportunities\/?utm_campaign=2020%20Immigration%20News%20Digest%20Newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;_hsmi=100591251&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz--G-TP5j-fDTiCr54Oxj7IpYk9zb2CDRx_rtxL2ONfFGYtHmMSd1eI1ItzNXQ5n9HNJMGrsZrtF47A1jm1lIVaR9TL1Bw&amp;utm_content=100557597&amp;utm_source=hs_email\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">video conferences<\/a> hosted by the National Immigration Forum (NIF) this month, open-borders advocates laid out game plans for the Biden administration to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=676T31W3aeg&amp;list=PLG08_jTuIYD7byRWBU0wQ04SI8nba7twM&amp;index=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">\u201cPush the boundaries [of immigration law], using every lever of government.\u201d<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zUZB9L050uY&amp;list=PLG08_jTuIYD7byRWBU0wQ04SI8nba7twM&amp;index=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">\u201cRoll back [Trump administration] rules\u201d and raise immigration levels.<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cBjjROTAonU&amp;list=PLG08_jTuIYD7byRWBU0wQ04SI8nba7twM&amp;index=7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">\u201c[Enact] comprehensive immigration reform \u2026 that will endure the whims of electoral politics.\u201d<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QKRF-ahIaTE&amp;list=PLG08_jTuIYD7byRWBU0wQ04SI8nba7twM&amp;index=10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">\u201cReform and expand the [immigration]system to allow more people to come here legally.\u201d<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>That last point came from Cato Institute\u2019s Alex\nNowrasteh, who compiled a most expansive wish list: more \u201cflexible\u201d parameters\nfor admission, more \u201cportability\u201d for foreign workers in the labor market, and\neven more importation of low-skilled workers. When he calls on Congress to\n\u201cwhittle down the population of unlawful immigrants,\u201d he\u2019s not talking about\ndeportations; he means amnesty. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These moves, he asserts, \u201cwill get control of\nthe border and reduce visa overstays.\u201d The libertarian\u2019s definition of border\ncontrol is nonsensical, but he could well be correct that enactment of such\nradical policies \u201cwill put people like me out of business.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In pushing for evermore immigration, the NIF crowd blurs the line between legal and illegal status to a vanishing point. To them, no established levels will ever be enough. Nowrashteh even opposes rational points-based admission systems like those in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fairus.org\/legislation\/federal-legislation\/s-1103-raise-act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">RAISE Act<\/a>. Instead he argues that the U.S. must \u201clengthen and widen\u201d the number of jobs taken by foreign workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While immigration enthusiasts may be enthralled by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/byron-yorks-daily-memo-bidens-plan-on-immigration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Biden\u2019s policy pronouncements<\/a> and titillated at the prospect of Democrats capturing the U.S. Senate via runoff elections in Georgia, ritual vilification of President Donald Trump requires a reality check.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fact is, the number of immigrants obtaining permanent U.S. residence during his administration is <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dhs.gov\/immigration-statistics\/yearbook\/2019\/table1\" target=\"_blank\">in line with previous years<\/a> \u2013 more than 1 million annually. From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/hispanic\/2020\/08\/20\/facts-on-u-s-immigrants-trend-data\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">2000-2018<\/a>, foreign-born residents legally in this country increased 44 percent to 44.8 million, and now account for 13.7 percent of the total population (versus 5.4 percent in 1960).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/immigration_index\/immigration_index_nov24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">new polling<\/a> showing support for <em>reducing<\/em> immigration at its highest levels since last December, open-ended demands for \u201cmore\u201d are badly out of sync with public opinion and detrimental to the national interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As swelling numbers of illegal aliens head across America\u2019s southern border, immigration enthusiasts are giddy about the changing of the guard in Washington. In a series of video conferences hosted by the National Immigration Forum (NIF) this month, open-borders advocates laid out game plans for the Biden administration to: \u201cPush the boundaries [of immigration law],<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2020\/11\/30\/immigration-lobbyists-make-demands-immigrationreform-com\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":12795,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[10412],"tags":[10413,1524,902,8797],"yst_prominent_words":[2043,3356,10483,2181,2358,2013,1980,1963,7294,4420,3895,4912,2016,1994,6021,1955,5199,3742,1939,1937],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23911"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23912,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23911\/revisions\/23912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23911"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=23911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}