Build up Illegal Line Defenses with Assets Lawfully Lifted Act of 2017
NumbersUSA's Position:
SupportTo amend section 524(c) of title 18, United States Code, to use lawfully forfeited drug seizures to increase border security.
News
Big Tech Fears Trump's 'America First' Visa Reforms
Breitbart -- John Binder
Director of Governmental Affairs for NumbersUSA Rosemary Jenks told Breitbart Texas that Trump’s executive order draft is feared by multinationals for the specific reason that it throws a wrench in their current model where tech departments are handed over to consulting firms who then find cheap, foreign workers to fill job positions.
American Families United Act
NumbersUSA's Position:
OpposeTo amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to promote family unity, and for other purposes.
SHUT Act of 2017
NumbersUSA's Position:
SupportTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to deny the refundable portion of the child tax credit to individuals who are not authorized to be employed in the United States and to terminate the use of certifying acceptance agents to facilitate the application process for ITINs.
72 Terrorists Came to U.S. from Terror Hot Spots
The Center of Immigration Studies (CIS) has reviewed a Senate report on individuals convicted in terror cases since 9/11 and found that 72 individuals came from one of the seven countries listed in Pres. Trump’s executive order as a hot spot for terror. His order was blocked by both a Federal District Judge James Robart and the Ninth Circuit Court last week. Judge Robart claimed that there was no evidence that individuals from these countries posed a national security risk.
Trump just getting started with immigration raids
Politico -- Seung Min Kim and Ted Hesson
Roy Beck of NumbersUSA says he prefers mandatory E-Verify — an internet-based system that allows businesses to check whether employees are in the U.S. legally — instead of wide-scale arrests. But until Congress passes a law requiring businesses to use the verification system, raids are the best tactic available, he said.
America’s Strangest Immigration Program
LifeZette -- Brendan Kirby
Although it accounts for less than 5 percent of the legal immigrants admitted to the country each year, critics contend the program is based on no recognizable interest — not to import people with needed skills or even to reunite recent immigrants with their families.
“It’s hard to believe that any country in the world would run a program like this,” said Roy Beck, president of the advocacy group NumbersUSA. “It’s a crazy way to run a railroad.”
H.R. 1006
NumbersUSA's Position:
OpposeTo clarify the rights of all persons who are held or detained at a port of entry or at any detention facility overseen by U.S. Customs and Border Protection or U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Haiti Emergency Relief Act of 2017
NumbersUSA's Position:
OpposeTo designate Haiti under section 244 of the Immigration and Nationality Act to permit nationals of Haiti to be eligible for temporary protected status under such section.
Defense of Legal Workers Act of 2017
NumbersUSA's Position:
SupportTo amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to expand the definition of an unauthorized alien to include aliens who have not been admitted to and are not lawfully present in the United States, and for other purposes.
