Trump aides plan fresh immigration crackdowns before midterms

[brooklynite]

Source: Politico

Top aides to President Donald Trump are planning additional crackdowns on immigration before the November midterms, despite a growing backlash over the administration’s move to separate migrant children from parents at the border.

Senior policy adviser Stephen Miller and a team of officials from the Justice Department, Department of Labor, Department of Homeland Security, and the Office of Management and Budget have been quietly meeting for months to find ways to use executive authority and under-the-radar rule changes to strengthen hard-line U.S. immigration policies, according to interviews with half a dozen current and former administration officials and Republicans close to the White House.

The goal for Miller and his team is to arm Trump with enough data and statistics by early September to show voters that he fulfilled his immigration promises — even without a physical border wall or any other congressional measure, said one Republican close to the White House.

Among the fresh ideas being circulated: tightening rules on student visas and exchange programs; limiting visas for temporary agricultural workers; making it harder for legal immigrants who have applied for any welfare programs to obtain residency; and collecting biometric data from visitors from certain countries.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/18/trump-aides-plan-fresh-immigration-crackdowns-before-midterms-652246

[lark]

1. Yeah, keep out all the migrant farm workers, especially orange assface should get zero.

How stupid are these asses? Georgia lost tens of millions of dollars when the farmers couldn't harvest their crops because they had deported all the Mexican farm workers and wouldn't immport any more. Yeah, asses, hurt the farmers that are the backbone of your support, you are truly the smartest people alive!!

[Midnight Writer]

2. I hear this being previewed on hate radio.

The last few days I hear them ranting about foreign students coming to US to steal knowledge, then returning home to use it against us. The agriculture workers and "welfare" immigrants are old hat.

But the biometric thing? That's new. Kudos to the Administration for original thinking.

[TexasBushwhacker]

3. This will drum up his extreme base

But the current policy of separating families will turn off far more.

[NewJeffCT]

4. how terrible allowing foreigners to come to America

and experience our culture and our many prestigious institutions of higher learning. If they do go back to their native countries, they can tell them good things about America. if they stay here, they are well educated and can add to our workforce here and experience the American Dream (which is dying under Trump)

[truthisfreedom]

5. The party of misery and suffering. The anti-Jesus party.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. The arrogance of power means they think they are winning the electorate. Make it NOT So. . . . nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. Collect biometric data from threats to National Security like Canada (think steel & aluminum tariffs

The tourist industry (down 4% since Trump), normally a growth industry, is going to love this (not).

[dhill926]

8. please proceed.....idiots.....

[walkingman]

9. Trump and GOP are about as sorry bunch of human beings I have ever seen, however, if Hispanic

does not turn out to vote in November then I am going to quit feeling bad for them. At some point they have to vote or there is nothing that anyone can do to stop the racism. Texas is a perfect example - Texas has a majority minority but not a single Democratic elected to a statewide office. VOTE, VOTE, VOTE!

[pazzyanne]

10. It is more important for the repug idiots to assuage their hate,

than to consider what their hate is doing to the financial future of our country. One can only hope that they will wake up when these "policies" are hitting their pocketbooks big time. Knowing them, they will only transfer blame to their usual targets rather than using their God given sense to figure it out. After all admitting you were wrong makes you "look" weak. I have news for them, it doesn't just make them "look" weak, it makes them weak.

[Mc Mike]

11. Repugs like war and chaos when they're running.

They're sort of treasonous.

[sinkingfeeling]

12. Have I mentioned I despise the GOP?

[eppur_se_muova]

13. I hope they handle it as ham-fistedly as they have everything else ...

... so GOP support shrinks even further.

[angstlessk]

14. They are doing this to keep them away from the polls!

All the legal Hispanic residences will be intimidated...even if they don't have so much as a parking ticket...they will be afraid, and rightly so