Trump presents a new more strict immigration plan

Today, Sunday September 8, 2017 Trump presented his plan to Congress. He's parlaying demands to legalize DACA to insert his own ideas on needed legislation for enforcing laws to control illegal immigration.

This post is derived from Washington Times, Trump unveils new strict 70-point immigration enforcement plan. The following is recap of points made there.

* Trump is calling for a comprehensive rewrite of laws to stiffen border and interior and to cut chain migration.

* Border Wall.

* More deportation agents.

* Crackdown on sanctuary cities.

* Stricter limits on chain migration.

* These need to be part of any bill that Congress passes to legalize illegal immigrant so-termed Dreamers currently protected by Obama-era deportation amnesty termed DACA

* Plan gives more leeway to deny illegal immigrants at the border.

* More leeway to arrest illegals and to hold them when spotted in the interior.

* More leeway to deport illegals.

* 27 suggestions on border security and 39 improvements to interior enforcement, 4 major changes to legal immigration system.

* Input came from Justice, State, Labor Departments plus 3 main immigration agencies at Homeland Security, each were asked what tool they need to manage illegal immigration.

* Ideas poured in about cracking down on sanctuary cities and doling out assistance to other countries in the Western Hemisphere to enlist them as partners, but mostly about closing loopholes that are exploited.

* Stiffen the lax asylum standards that are gamed by immigrants by saying the magic words that earn instant protections.

* Unaccompanied alien children would have to prove they really are without parents and are fleeing abuse.

* Visa overstays will face misdemeanor penalty for the first time.

* Curtail the 2001 Supreme court decision that forced the release of tens of thousands of illegal immigrants including murderers.

* Enshrine in law the ability of federal, state, and local authorities to detain illegal immigrants, a problem that fueled some sanctuary cities.

* Cancellation of annual visa lottery that doles out 50,000 green cards at random.

* Require all businesses to use E-Verify, currently a voluntary system.

* Trump is basically blackmailing. Congress needs to decide if they want to resolve this crisis or do they want to fall prey to the likes of Stephen Miller and other hard liners who want to kill legislation and expose all 800,000 DACA beneficiaries to deportation.

* Many of these items were had bipartisan support inlcuding fencing, Border Patrol agents and end to the lottery, and were part of the earlier 2013 bill that the Senate approved with support of every Democrat in the chamber, but Democrats say now that they only supported the measures as part of a borad compromise that offered legal status to 8 million illegal immigrants at that point. They say smaller legalization for Dreamers cannot be coupled with tis broad of enforcement surge.

* Democrats do not want the burden put on Dreamers to accept every aspect of comprehensive immigration reform to get a chance to become citizens. It's too much to ask. (Durban)

* White House counters, the logic amounted to false pretense that the safety of American people should be held hostage to some other goal.

* Congress doesn't need an excuse to pass laws that make our country safer and jobs more secure. It's the right thing to do.

* Schumer and Pelosi will most likely be irked after emerging from a meeting with Trum and insisting they had the outlines of a Dream Act-style deal that would grant a pathway to citizenship to Dreamers in exchange for limited border security such as technology, boosting the coast Guard or adding more inspectors at ports of entry. They said they had won an agreement not to couple the Dream Act with any new action on Trump's proposed border wall.