The Immigration Hour

Today's show starts with a deep dive on Trump's ICE Enforcement Tweets and how that led to this last weekend's lack of actual enforcement action against the vulnerable immigrant communities. We look at actual ICE Capability to carry out enforcement actions and the economic and societal impact of these actions. We spend some time talking about the least qualified head of immigration in our history. Finally, we do a deep dive on the new proposed Asylum Regulation changes, barring asylum seekers from the US who present at the border, and why that regulation is illegal.

Today's Podcast takes a super deep dive into the new regulations on Public Charge and Public Benefits that will become effective on October 15, 2019. These rules will separate families, severely limit legal immigration, and will have a terrible, long term impact on the psyche of immigrants and the view of United States as an Immigrant Nation. Oh, and Emma Lazarus is rolling over in her grave.

Today we talk about USCIS and ICE's Regulatory Agenda for 2019 and 2020, ICE's continued detention of children, and the new social media requirements for visas from DOS. Sorry about the weird sound. New equipment. Will be fixed in the next episode!

With my co-host Laura Rosmarin, we take a deep dive today on the Pew Religious Survey showing that White Evangelicals are the LEAST likely to support refugees (shocking?). We also analyze in detail the positive effects of HR 1044, up for a vote today as the Fairness for High Skilled Immigrants Act of 2019. Finally, we also discuss the "H-1B disease" and RFEs, along with the horrific nomination of Ronald Mortensen to be assistant secretary of state for refugees, population, and migration.

We are all about Parole today, and the proposed Senate legislation. What affect will it have?