President John F. Kennedy conditioned his 1963 immigration proposals to Congress on adoption of a formula which would take into account three factors:
(1) the skills of the immigrant and their relationship to our need,
(2) the family relationship between immigrants and persons already here, so that reuniting families is encouraged, and
(3) the priority of registration.
JFK’s first priority was based upon the requirement that immigrants must not displace American workers and must be skilled so as to avoid being a welfare burden. Regarding his second priority, JFK referred to “such persons already here” as “United States citizens and lawfully resident aliens.” This priority is consistent with the requirement that immigration be denied for families of those who have chosen to enter the U.S. unlawfully. His third priority is consistent with common-sense fairness of getting-in-line.
Admission of refugees into the United States has long been the subject of special refugee legislation. The Refugee Relief Act of 1953 required that no visa would be issued to any alien under the Act unless an assurance had first been given by a citizen or citizens of the United States that such alien, if admitted to the United study has quantified the monetary side of that burden at an estimated $150.7 Billion annually. To understand what $150 Billion means in physical terms, consider that number (based on assessed value) is equivalent to about 900 of the tallest buildings in Walz’s home state (the renowned 57-story IDS Center). That is an average of 18 such buildings per state, annually.
Over 13,000 illegal immigrants living in the U.S. are convicted murderers according to ICE reports. So far in FY24, 24,376 Chinese nationals have been encountered at the Southwest border, 24,214 of them apprehended illegally crossing the border. Border encounters with Chinese nationals in March 2024 increased over 8,000 percent compared to March 2021, and have surpassed all last fiscal year — just six months into FY24, according to a House report. The report also discloses that in March, CBP, including Air and Marine Operations (AMO), seized 1,392 pounds of fentanyl coming across the Southwest border, bringing the total for the fiscal year to 9,657 pounds — enough to kill roughly 2 billion people. Per the New York Post, the Biden-Harris administration has lost track of more than 320,000 migrant children without parents, many of whom could already be in the hands of criminals and sex traffickers.
The issue to be resolved in November’s election is whether decisions as to who will be permitted to cross our borders, and under what circumstances, will be made by government officials elected by voters who follow the wisdom and guidance of JFK or by voters who find the disastrous costs and consequences of the Harris-Walz policies to be acceptable.
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