Immigration

Making America dumber every day.  Ignorance and hate are not virtues except for today's Republicans.

The little-known Genealogy Program administered by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services allows genealogists, family historians and other researchers to obtain citizenship and alien registration files, visa applications and other records documenting the lives of deceased immigrants who arrived in the United States between the late 19th and mid-20th centuries.

Park rangers belong in our parks, serving visitors and protecting the public lands that belong to us all, not at the border.

The Trump administration is sending a new “surge” of rangers from US national parks such as Zion, Yosemite and the National Mall to patrol the southern border for crossings by illegal immigrants.

The cruelty is the point.  Racism, xenophobia, and hatred being implemented by our country.  A stain on the U.S. for all of time.

The Trump administration on Wednesday [11/20/19} began carrying out its controversial plan to deport adults from El Salvador and Honduras who are at the southern border seeking asylum to the US — and send them to Guatemala.  The complicated mechanics of the plan, signed in July, has so far been shrouded in secrecy...where asylum-seekers are not entitled to a lawyer.

Don't become numb to these numbers. More than 5,400 children were separated from their parents.

To install the extremist Trump and Stephen Miller want as head of our Department of Homeland Security, they are seeking to bypass laws by naming someone as head of the "Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office", then elevating that person to be the acting secretary of homeland security.  

Trump's cronies can’t find a qualified person to be DHS secretary who would push his illegal and immoral policies and kiss his ass without using loopholes in the law.

In January 2018, Professor Don Moynihan at Georgtown said, "Criminalizing undocumented immigrants, creating chokepoints for refugee applications, slashing the number of legal immigrants. Whats next? Taking away citizenship from naturalized immigrants. And it won't be applied evenly or fairly."

Unfortunately he was accurate as we sit here in October 2019.

The Trump administration is seeking to denaturalize and deport longtime U.S. citizens, seizing on tiny mistakes in the process and putting the status of every naturalized citizen at potential risk.

Surprising? No. Infuriating? VERY.

 Trump plans to reduce the annual refugee cap to 18,000 in the coming fiscal year, the State Department said Thursday [9/26/19].  The lower ceiling follows a trend under Trump of cutting refugee levels every year.  

The coming year’s 18,000-person cap will be the lowest since the refugee resettlement program began in 1980, a major shift from the 110,000 refugee admissions President Barack Obama proposed for fiscal year 2017.

We have been warned that the Trump administration and Republicans might move from targeting illegal immigrants to green card holders to naturalized American citizens to U.S. born citizens with the “wrong” immigrant parents. Trump's tweet just in early August 2019 telling members of Congress to “go home” shows the next progression.  And now this:

The Trump administration introduced a new rule Monday [8/12/19] making it harder for low-income, legal immigrants who receive food stamps or other forms of taxpayer-funded assistance to stay in the country legally.

Republicans are standing behind Trump and Stephen Miller's plan to STEAL MONEY FROM OUR MILITARY.  These funds being stolen will prevent new schools and houses that serve our military bases.  Beyond that heartless action, there's the matter of national security which our Air Force confirms is greatly harmed due to this.

The Flores agreement mandates that migrant children cannot be held in detention for more than 20 days. In late August, the Trump administration announced its plans to roll back Flores—putting thousands of children in danger.  We must fight this.