Remember Biden has pledged to create a massive legalization program for unknown millions of illegal aliens. The DHS enforces and administers America’s immigration laws and thus would bear the responsibility for administering this ill-conceived program.
Let’s begin by noting that during the Obama administration Mayorkas was the Director of USCIS (United States Citizenship and Immigration Services), an agency that operates under the aegis of the DHS and is responsible for the adjudication of all of the applications that are filed to accord aliens various immigration benefits. This includes applications for political asylum, change in status for various visa lawful immigrant status, and even United States citizenship.
You can think of USCIS as “America’s Locksmith” because lawful status provides aliens with easy entry into the United States through the “front door” of our nation’s ports of entry.
Mayorkas was notorious for demanding that USCIS adjudicators “Get to yes”- that is to say, approve virtually all applications for various immigration benefits.
It must be noted that immigration fraud was determined by the 9/11 Commission to be the key method of entry and embedding for numerous foreign terrorists operating in the United States.
Mr. Angwang first traveled from China to the United States on a cultural exchange visa, the complaint said. He later sought asylum, claiming that he had been arrested and tortured in mainland China because of his Tibetan ethnicity.
But prosecutors suggested in a court filing that Mr. Angwang secured his American citizenship under false pretenses, noting that he had traveled back to China after being granted asylum.
“These are not the actions of an individual who fears torture or persecution,” prosecutors wrote, arguing against bail. Mr. Angwang’s parents and brother still live in mainland China. His parents are members of the Communist Party, and his father is a retired member of the Chinese military, the complaint said.
The New York Times report also noted:
He also is accused of inviting a Chinese official to N.Y.P.D. events, offering potential access to senior police officials, prosecutors said.
The allegations raised serious questions about how much visibility Chinese government officials had inside the country’s largest police department and about the extent of Chinese efforts to conduct covert surveillance of Tibetan Americans.
We have all experienced the situation where in preparing for a family event, whether it was a holiday dinner, a wedding or other such joyous occasion had to remove some friends or relatives from the invitation list. Not because we hated them but because we did not have the resources to invite them all. The U.S. visa process is no different. The solution to world hunger does not demand that we invite all of the world’s poor to come to America!
In reality, while the notion of public charge was first codified in 1882, it has persisted in all subsequent rewrites of America’s immigration laws and, in fact, is still an element of the current Immigration and Nationality Act.
The grounds for determining admissibility of aliens into the United States is codified in a section of the current Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S. Code § 1182.
Among the categories of aliens who are excludible are aliens who suffer dangerous communicable diseases, serious mental illness, are criminals, spies, terrorists, human rights violators, fugitives from justice, aliens who had been previously deported (removed) from the United States and aliens who have committed fraud in their applications for visas and/or immigration benefits.
Additionally, it establishes that aliens are inadmissible (excludible) if they are likely to become public charges.
This is how the current Immigration and Nationality Act unambiguously lays out the entire issue of public charge:
(4) Public charge
(A) In general
Any alien who, in the opinion of the consular officer at the time of application for a visa, or in the opinion of the Attorney General at the time of application for admission or adjustment of status, is likely at any time to become a public charge is inadmissible.
(B) Factors to be taken into account
(i) In determining whether an alien is inadmissible under this paragraph, the consular officer or the Attorney General shall at a minimum consider the alien's--
(I) age;
(II) health;
(III) family status;
(IV) assets, resources, and financial status; and
(V) education and skills.
(ii) In addition to the factors under clause (i), the consular officer or the Attorney General may also consider any affidavit of support under section 1183a of this title for purposes of exclusion under this paragraph.
The media has accused President Trump of wanting to separate families. In point of fact, family members may provide an affidavit of support wherein they guarantee that they will provide financial assistance to their family members who seek to immigrate to the United States. This would help to unite families not divide them.
The issue is not about dividing families or denying poor people an opportunity to immigrate to the United States, but to protect the financial solvency of the United States, an issue of increasing concern as the national debt continues to soar into the stratosphere, by simply enforcing existing laws.
I must remind you that the imposition of American policies to address public charge laws is not new, but has a long-established history that goes back 137 years.
Mr. De La Garza, 38, was born in Mexico, and had lied about his citizenship status and supplied his employer with a fraudulent Texas birth certificate that falsely said he was born in Brownsville, Tex.
“In retrospect, I fully understand now that I was being selfish in my desire to serve my country that I had so loved,” he wrote after he was indicted by a federal grand jury on three counts of passport fraud and making false statements on his application for a federal law enforcement background check.
Mr. De La Garza agreed to plead guilty to one count of passport fraud, and the other two counts were dropped. On Thursday he was sentenced in Federal District Court in Tucson to one year of probation and a $1,000 fine. Judge Raner C. Collins said his service to the country “ought to count for something.”
Let me make it clear from the outset that I have no knowledge about De La Garza’s character or his dedication to service in either the U.S. Navy or the U.S. Border Patrol. That said, I am troubled by the judge’s findings and statements concerning an illegal alien who had entered the United States illegally and then repeatedly committed felonies by making a series of false statements to join the U.S. Navy and serve on a nuclear submarine and submit to followup security clearances.
Mr. De La Garza lived and worked on a nuclear submarine as a trusted member of the crew although his very identity and background was a fabrication. Nuclear submarines are among the most sensitive assets in our military’s arsenal.
When aliens enter the United States by running our borders they are not, as Carter and those who came after him claim, entering “undocumented.” They are entering the United States without inspection.
The obvious question is why would anyone want to enter the United States illegally by evading the vetting process conducted by CBP (Customs and Border Protection) Inspectors?
There are two disconcerting possibilities.
The first possibility is that aliens who evade the inspections process do not want a record of their entry into the United States created as would happen if they were to enter the United States through a port of entry.
Anyone entering the United States for a legitimate purpose, such as tourists, foreign students or foreign workers have no reason to not want to have their entry into the United States recorded by CBP.
Only a fugitive, criminal or terrorist would not want to create a record of entry if they were entering the United States for nefarious purposes such as hiding from law enforcement agencies in other countries. Criminals and fugitives on the run take many measures to cover their tracks to make it that much more difficult for law enforcement to track them or find them.
The other possibility is that such aliens obviously know that, for one reason or another, they are not legally admissible into the United States.
The categories of aliens who are inadmissible are enumerated in a section of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), 8 U.S. Code § 1182. Among these classes of inadmissible aliens are aliens who suffer from dangerous communicable diseases or extreme mental illness, as are aliens who had been previously deported, are convicted felons, human rights violators, war criminals, terrorists and spies. Finally, aliens who would seek unlawful employment, thus displacing American workers or driving down the wages of American workers and aliens who are likely to become public charges are to be prevented from entering the United States.
