Border Workforce Efficiency Act
NumbersUSA's Position:
SupportTo provide for U.S. Border Patrol Processing Coordinators to enhance border security, and for other purposes.
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372,000 Born to Illegal Aliens and Visitors Every Year, 33,000 to 'Birth Tourists'
Illegal and visiting immigrants give birth to enough children in the United States every year to top the populations of St. Louis, Pittsburgh, or Anaheim, and at least 33,000 are considered “birth tourists” eager to win their children birthright citizenship and themselves a quick ticket in, according to two new reports out Thursday.
U.S. Interior Immigration Arrests Fell Despite Admin Push
Non-border immigration arrests in the United States fell by 10 percent in the year to September from a year earlier, the latest U.S. data shows, a drop the head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said was partly due to the diversion of the agency’s resources to the border.
House Approves Amnesty & Indentured Servitude for Illegal Farm Workers
The House of Represen -tatives approved legislation on Wednesday night that would grant amnesty to more than 1 million illegal farm workers and renew the outdated system of indentured servitude to guarantee a steady and cheap foreign worker labor force going forward. The bill passed 260-165, mostly along party lines with all but four Democrats who were present supporting the legislation and more than 80% of the Republicans opposing the legislation.
Asylum Seeker Work Authorization Act of 2019
NumbersUSA's Position:
OpposeA bill to authorize certain aliens seeking asylum to be employed in the United States while their applications are being adjudicated.
Southwest Tourism Expansion Act
NumbersUSA's Position:
OpposeTo establish a pilot program waiving the Form I-94 document issuance requirement for certain Mexican nationals.
Southwest Tourism Expansion Act
NumbersUSA's Position:
OpposeA bill to establish a pilot program waiving the Form I-94 document issuance requirement for certain Mexican nationals.
Rep. Ross Spano: We can delay a budget, but we can't delay a crisis
It has been more than two months since we entered fiscal year 2020, and not a single full-year appropriations bill has been completed. Moreover, I have yet to see evidence that we’re any closer to resolving this issue. Despite my opposition to using continuing resolutions to manage our government, Congress passed another continuing resolution just before Thanksgiving to extend funding to Dec. 20 at fiscal year 2019 levels. Kicking this can further down the road hurts our military, ports, infrastructure investments, and borders.
New Way Forward Act
NumbersUSA's Position:
OpposeTo reform the process for enforcing the immigration laws of the United States, and for other purposes.
Border Apprehensions Dropped for 6th Consecutive Month, per DHS Data
Law enforcement apprehended or turned away 42,649 migrants at the southern border in November, according to preliminary data reviewed by Fox News -- a sixth month of declines that the administration is hailing as proof that the set of policies and initiatives to combat the border crisis is working.
