Making it harder for migrants to qualify for asylum and deporting more recently arrived migrants are considered "low hanging fruit" and actions that can be taken quickly.
Yet fmr Pres Trump then signaled he would not sign the bill.
~ GasLighter
False because there were two bills being proposed.
@realDonaldTrump on immigration bills in Congress: "I'm looking at both of them. I certainly wouldn't sign the more moderate one"
twitter.com
Trump would likely sign the bill, which is favored by conservatives. But it has no chance of passing the Senate, where Democratic votes would be needed.
rollcall.com
Democrats are signaling they'll oppose a compromise bill based on Trump's four pillars, and immigration activist Frank Sharry said that if Miller supports the compromise, it is unlikely to be backed by the immigration reform community on the left.
thehill.com
Another view...
Paul Ryan Says Trump Is All In on Next Week's Immigration Votes (June 2018)
www.wral.com
... Speaker Paul D. Ryan told a closed-door meeting of House Republicans on Wednesday that his plan to bring two immigration bills up for a vote next week had the approval of President Donald Trump, who is enthusiastic about the effort, according to a person who attended the meeting.[emphasis mine]
Whether either bill can pass is very much in doubt.
Wednesday's gathering came less than 12 hours after Ryan's office announced that the House would consider immigration next week -- but not bipartisan bills aimed primarily at protecting young immigrants brought to the country illegally as children. Instead, lawmakers will consider a hard-line measure that emphasizes border security and a somewhat more moderate compromise measure, yet to be finalized, that still meets Trump's standards.
But the approval of an immigration hard-liner like Trump only underscored the growing sense that a rebellion by moderate Republicans seeking bipartisanship had utterly failed. It underscored the looming reality that the president has effectively acquired the last say over the actions of the Republican Congress.
Lawmakers attending the meeting said the compromise bill will be built around four principles -- Trump has called them the "four pillars" -- that the president has insisted any immigration bill contain: a path to citizenship for the young unauthorized children known as Dreamers; beefed-up border security, including $25 billion for the wall the president wants to build; an end to the current diversity visa lottery system, which is aimed at bringing in immigrants from underrepresented nations; and limits on family-based migration, known as chain migration.
Ryan told reporters that the "last thing I want to do is bring a bill out of here that I know the president won't support." ...
Democrats are furious that those measures will not come to a vote; the bipartisan bill was widely expected to pass the House with support from both parties. In a statement issued late Tuesday night, Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico, the chairwoman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, lambasted the Republican leaders.
"Instead of standing courageously with a bipartisan group of 216 representatives, they cowered to the hyper-partisanship that has broken Congress and failed to deliver solutions to our nation's most pressing problems," she said. ...
So, even back in 2018, the extremist Republicans blocked a supported bi-partisan attempt to solve the immigration problem.
@#39 ... That would be my guess, but I have nothing to substantiate it. ...
I've seen more recent articles about the coaching being done in Mexico, but this one sums it up well...
Twenty-Six Individuals, Including Six Lawyers, Charged In Manhattan Federal Court With Participating In Immigration Fraud Schemes Involving Hundreds Of Fraudulent Asylum Applications (2012)
www.justice.gov
... Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara stated: "Our asylum laws exist to provide a safe haven in the United States to immigrants subject to persecution in their own countries for exercising freedoms fundamental to a democracy.
As alleged, these defendants, including six attorneys and a church employee, exploited those laws by weaving elaborate fictions on behalf of hundreds of would-be asylum seekers, coaching them on how to lie on their applications, stepping in when they went off script, and lying to immigration judges at court hearings. ...
@#39 ... Under current rules, they could stay until the court hearing. ...
Two aspects of that...
1) under current rules
and
2) stay until court hearing
I commented on both of those, and they both were addressed in the bi-partisan Senate bill that Spkr Johnson refuses to bring to the floor.
... Mom gets preggo and has another kid, who is automatically a US citizen as a function of jus soli. ...
Just like the Russian women who travel to Florida to have their babies so that the kids re US Citizens.
Mother Russia: South Florida sees a boom in birth tourism' (2019)
apnews.com
... Every year, hundreds of pregnant Russian women travel to the United States to give birth so that their child can acquire all the privileges of American citizenship.
They pay anywhere from $20,000 to sometimes more than $50,000 to brokers who arrange their travel documents, accommodations and hospital stays, often in Florida.
While the cost is high, their children will be rewarded with opportunities and travel advantages not available to their Russian countrymen. The parents themselves may benefit someday as well. ...
But I suspect that may be a different thread. :)
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