White House Shoots Down Salazar’s Amnesty and Migration Bill

The White House has rejected Rep. Maria Salazar’s (R-FL) suggestion President Donald Trump owes God a favor and should repay the debt by signing her amnesty and migration bill.

“The same God who saved you from death in Pennsylvania one year ago and who put you back in the Oval Office, against all odds, is the same God Almighty who millions and millions [of illegal migrants] are begging to for some type of dignity,” Salazar (R-FL) declared at a July 15 press conference on Capitol Hill.

“It’s in your hands, Mr. President. May the Lord guide you,” Salazar declared.

On Thursday, Trump’s press secretary Karoline Leavitt replied: “The president made it clear he will not support amnesty for illegal aliens in any way.”

“From my understanding, neither the White House nor the President has actually read through this legislation,” she said.

Salazar’s theocratic pitch for amnesty and cheap labor is “insulting,” said Jessica Vaughan, policy director at the Center for Immigration Studies. {snip}

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Salazar made her pitch to Trump alongside her allies in the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, and multiple GOP legislators, including Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY), who delayed Trump’s signature spending bill to win a real estate tax break that helps Democratic-run countries.

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From Capitol Hill, Salazar also claimed to offer Trump a historic role akin to President Abraham Lincoln, who won the Civil War against slavery, and President Ronald Reagan, who won the Cold War against communism. {snip}

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{snip} Salazar’s description of the bill lists multiple sections that would dramatically grow the inflow of wage-cutting, rent-spiking foreign workers into the white-collar and blue-collar jobs needed by young Americans:

Authorizes [migration] centers in Latin America, to prevent individuals from making a long land journey and to disrupt human trafficking and smuggling operations that are profiting from sending individuals to our southern border. These facilities will offer asylum pre-screening, family reunification services for children, and regional employment consultation services.

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[IIlegal migrants get] a 7-year program that provides work authorization and protection from removal proceedings, if conditions and requirements are being met … If they remain in good standing with the law, they can remain in this status as long as they want.

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[Double the annual inflow of] “high-skilled Employment Visas [workers] … by only counting the principal applicant (worker), and not a child or spouse that is not working, towards [the limit of 140,000] annual employment visas.

Allows STEM PHD Graduates from American Universities to receive an O Visa for Individuals with Extraordinary Ability or Achievement, allowing them to stay and work in the U.S.
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Allows [chain migration] individuals that have been waiting 10 years or more in the [capped] legal immigration line to pay a premium processing fee of $20,000 to move up in the line [of 4 million people]. Doubles the per-country cap set in the Immigration Act of 1990, from 7% to 15%. This will reduce backlogs from [India].

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Modernizes student visas to streamline the process for students to stay and work after their education is complete, if they would like to.

Ten GOP legislators back the Salazar plan.

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