Pirate's Cove

I mean, who’s going to clean the bathrooms and do the floors at the NY Times building? Who’s going to clean the homes and fix the gardens of the NY Times high muckity mucks?

As Trump Squeezes the Immigrant Work Force, Employers Seek Relief

In recent weeks, managers of the nation’s resorts, plant nurseries, fish processors and racetracks started getting very worried.

The Trump administration had yet to release a batch of H-2B visas — those available for seasonal businesses that often can’t find enough workers domestically to fulfill demand.

Usually, the Department of Homeland Security releases them a few days after receiving more applications than the number of visas allowed for the second half of the year. That cap was reached on March 5, but no announcement came. Industry lobbyists got members of Congress to reach out on their behalf, put on a fund-raiser at Mar-a-Lago and sent a letter urging the administration to continue issuing the visas.

“It needs to be done by April 1, otherwise we all get backed up,” said Greg Chiecko, the president of the Outdoor Amusement Business Association, which represents traveling carnival producers. “We’ve heard that they’re going to, but they’re being very deliberate in waiting a little bit.”

The sad part here is that it used to be American kids who did these jobs. After school, on the weekends, during the summer. What the hell are they doing now? Do they even have summer jobs? Is it truly necessary to bring temporary aliens in to do these jobs?

Finally, last Wednesday, a news release announced that the visas would continue to flow, allowing businesses that banked on having them for the summer to move forward with their plans.

But the anxiety reflected a deep uncertainty about where President Trump is headed on legal immigration programs, both temporary and permanent, as the administration ramps up deportations and moves to end the legal status of millions who arrived in recent years. Those actions will squeeze the labor supply that many employers depend on — and they’re using the crackdown to argue for broader channels for people to come and work.

Most of those the Biden-Harris admin brought/allowed in are not here for jobs: they’re here for free everything. They did not come on work visas. Further, we have seen for decades that many who come here on these temporary visas do not leave, and then demand citizenship a decade or two later. Same with other types of visas.

Last week, the American Business Immigration Coalition — a group representing employers of immigrants — gathered its members in Washington to plead their case with lawmakers. Their refrain: Congress can both stop illegal migration and bring more people in legally, as well as give those already here a chance to stay.

We can. But, Democrats do not want to. Right off the bat if you make employers and schools responsible under threat of big fines to keep track of the immigration status of those on visas, requiring them to notify the visa holders that they are about to end and federal immigration forces, then terminate them or boot them from schools if the visas expire, this would go a long way towards ending visa abuse. Make the penalties for those with expired visas tough, starting with the law allow immediate deportation and using any money/assets to fund this. Change the law to require immediate deportation for anyone caught illegally in the US, the way it use to be as late as the 1980s.

Democrats do not want to stop illegal immigration

The could start with a fix for the people brought to the United States as children who are currently shielded from deportation under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which polls well even among Republicans. Representative Jim Jordan, the Ohio Republican who heads the House Judiciary Committee, has said immigration reforms including help for the Dreamers, as they’re known, could follow the tax bill currently being negotiated.

And there it is. Amnesty for all the Dreamers. But, like I wrote in 2017

Here’s a recommendation: Congress puts DACA into law, but allows 4 year renewals, rather than 2 years, in order to decrease burden on federal agencies. Just like with people who are applying for citizenship, any serious crimes can be cause to cancel an illegals legal status and deport them. And, yes, even DUIs may be considered cause, just like with those applying for citizenship. After 12 years, they can go through the same process as those applying for citizenship in order to attempt to earn full citizenship.

BUT, if we aren’t going to lay the “sins” of the parent(s) on the children, we are going to lay them on the parent(s). In order to obtain DACA status, the parent(s) must self deport, and provide proof at an immigration checkpoint as they leave. They are not allowed back in the United States for 2 years, and then only for a short visit. If they are caught residing in the U.S., or attempting to enter the country illegally, the children will have their DACA status ended and will be deported. After 12 years, they would be allowed to apply for temporary resident status, conditioned on speaking English and having good moral character. This seems fair. The parents broke our laws.

If you don’t agree with punishing the parents, then you’re simply using DACA to create a backdoor amnesty for all.

Dems do not want the parents gone. They do not want the illegals/fake asylum seekers gone

Judge pauses Trump administration plans to end temporary legal protections for Venezuelans

A federal judge on Monday paused plans by the Trump administration to end temporary legal protections for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans, a week before they were scheduled to expire.

The order by U.S. District Judge Edward Chen in San Francisco is a relief for 350,000 Venezuelans whose Temporary Protected Status was set to expire April 7 after Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem reversed protections granted by the Biden administration.

Chen said in his ruling that the action by Noem “threatens to: inflict irreparable harm on hundreds of thousands of persons whose lives, families, and livelihoods will be severely disrupted, cost the United States billions in economic activity, and injure public health and safety in communities throughout the United States.”

The protections for the Venezuelans is already going to expire: is he making law from the bench that the TPS must continue? Same for the Haitians who’s protection ends in August? Under what statute?