Gov Abbott should still lose the battle, eventually, as it's likely illegal: Texas can leave a 1,000-foot chain of buoys in place in the Rio Grande, a federal appeals court *5th Circuit ruled Thursday, one day after a lower court told the state to relocate the barrier that Gov. Greg Abbott has used to deter illegal border crossings. *It's an administrative ruling, so temporary. #ImmigrationReform https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2023/09/07/texas-floating-barriers-rio-grande/?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_source=twitter

W/o #ImmigrationReform, which Republicans refuse to do for pol reasons, Sargent's right: Why Biden’s big fight with Eric Adams is headed for disaster: Biden’s reluctance: admin officials worry that expanding TPS will draw more migrants to the US, which Rs would wield against the pres. If worry about GOP attacks is a motivator-shouldn’t be. Rs are using Adams to argue that even Dems are slamming Biden’s failure to secure the border. Adams knows: Rs: no interest in reform. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/09/08/biden-eric-adams-migrants-new-york-gop/

Hopefully this immigration policy can be implemented: A group of Dems is calling on the Biden admin to make a series of policy adjustments to help nationals of El Salvador, Honduras, Nepal & Nicaragua keep or obtain work permits. Draft letter: members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus are calling on the WH to redesignate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for those countries & to extend reg.periods for individuals to sign up for the program’s benefits. #ImmigrationReform https://thehill.com/latino/4188140-hispanic-democrats-tps-migrants-biden/

Asylum seekers, refugees, migrants, H1-B visas... immigrants are needed of fill jobs & they'll enrich America. But Republicans want to halt immigration bc of their popular (they indoctrinated them) racist stance & many immigrants will eventually become citizens & won't vote for them.

#ImmigrationReform

Biden’s infrastructure building boom is missing one thing: Workers:

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/economics/bidens-infrastructure-building-boom-missing-one-thing-workers-rcna100209

Effectively criminalizing #migration is immoral. In addition to protecting #HumanRights, our #economy (especially agriculture) has strong immigrant underpinnings. We need to recognize this and engage in compassionate #ImmigrationReform.

"'Barbaric' and 'negligent' treatment in ICE detention, inspections found"

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/16/1190767610/ice-detention-immigration-government-inspectors-barbaric-negligent-conditions

In other words: These illegals are good workers, but I'll have to fire them now bc we have >25 employees & E-Verify says they're undocumented. I voted for you, Ron, but change the rules for us. The restaurant, AG, CONST, hospitality... IDUs are short workers. The restaurant mogul says It's too bad they gotta go bc they have roots & families in FL, but if he votes Republican, then he doesn't care about their fate, only that he needs these w*t b**ks🚨. #ImmigrationReform https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article278161652.html

Gov Abbott's immigration policies are abhorrent. He's complicit in manslaughter: A 3-year-old child who was aboard a bus of asylum seekers headed to the Chicago area has died, per IL Dept of Health. The bus left Brownsville yesterday and was sponsored by the State of Texas, per Brownsville spokesperson. -Reporting by Rosa Flores & Sara Weisfeldt #ImmigrationReform #GOPDeathCult
Child, 3, dies on migrant bus to Chicago: https://wgntv.com/news/child-3-dies-on-migrant-bus-to-chicago-tribune/

Even the Dallas newspaper EB knows that the US needs a comprehensive IMG Bill. Republicans won't cooperate *must be voted out: Our immigration system is no longer just broken & messy +now dangerously dysfunctional🚨 -MOC should look at the Dignity Act of 2023: would authorize at least $25B in funding to upgrade INFRA & tech/estab. processing facs./offer a LT legal path to ppl with doctoral degrees in STEM fields +most DACA/mandate E-Verify for employers. #ImmigrationReform https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/editorials/2023/08/01/bipartisan-immigration-plan-is-reform-we-need/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter_dallasnews

Objecting to #immigrationreform on the basis of moral hazard is defacto and implicit support of #HumanTrafficking.

Beyond the theatrics of aquatic barriers & razor wire, DPS troopers are rounding up migrants & sending them to jail on misdemeanor trespassing charges. Operation Lone Star is prosecuting migrant women after -appeals court ruled migrants’ convictions violated bc EP clause bc prosecutors were only going after men. The USG should do more to make the border more efficient & effective & invest more in our under-resourced our IMG system-. #ImmigrationReform https://www.expressnews.com/opinion/commentary/article/commentary-abbott-s-performative-cruelty-at-18266357.php

America is a nation of immigrants and laws - navigating this tension has never been simple. Where do you stand on immigration policy?

https://abeautifulmess.substack.com/p/america-the-land-of-immigrants-and

#ImmigrationReform #ImmigrationDebate #NationOfImmigrants #Dreamers #BorderSecurity #ImmigrantContributions #CulturalDiversity #ImmigrantEntrepreneurs #EconomicImpacts #Assimilation #SensiblePolicy #AmericasPromise #ABeautifulMess #immigration #reform #economy #security #culture

A rarity, an undoc. IMG arrives illegally from GT & becomes a bishop while espousing liberal views, a success story for America +Catholic church: He grew into adulthood doing any job he could get -sometimes at the mercy of bosses *knew his dicey legal status meant he wouldn't dare to complain about dangerous working conditions & wages that weren’t paid. His ascension reflects what has been deemed “the Francis effect,” a more inclusive, less judgmental-. #ImmigrationReform https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/24/bishop-menjivar-undocumented-el-salvador-catholic/

😭Just when you think the border enforcement crisis couldn't possibly get worse... There're horrific HR abuses🚨. BP is endangering migrants' lives: Border Patrol Is Caging Migrants Outdoors During Deadly AZ Heatwave. 7/20, we trudged up a hill in a remote corner of the Sonoran Desert where temps had reached 114 & documented some 50 people caged in DIRECT SUN. Photos by the Intercept show how dozens of people trapped with little shade in a lethal desert. #ImmigrationReform https://theintercept.com/2023/07/21/arizona-heatwave-border-patrol-migrants/

😭Photo of a baby being passed through concertina wire near Eagle Pass, Texas yesterday -captured by a border law enforcement official. It shows a "family unit" navigating harsh new measures put in place by the administration of TX Gov Abbott to repel & deter migrants *I was told that the family with the baby was going under the “casualty wire" —hadn't heard that term 'til now but it's appropriate -Jay Root investigative reporter- in Albany for the NYT. #ImmigrationReform

More information on Gov Abbott's illegal border enforcement. #ImmigrationReform "Texas’s governor put a barrier in the Rio Grande. DOJ just hit back." https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/21/texas-abbott-rio-grande-justice-department-migrants/

Good: The DOJ is ready to sue Gov Abbott over the floating buoy barrier he deployed in the Rio Grande to block migrants from crossing the river from MX into TX -sent Abbott a letter on Thurs warning that TX’s buoy barrier is unlawful. “The State of Texas’s actions violate federal law, raise humanitarian concerns🚨, present serious risks to public safety & the environment, & may interfere with the federal govt’s ability to carry out its official duties." #ImmigrationReform https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/doj-abbott-border-buoys-18253897.php?utm_campaign=CMS%20Sharing%20Tools%20(Premium)&utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=referral

Where is the justice for child IMG deaths in US custody? This atrocity occurred with some regularity in #TFG's admin. No one from the CPB has ever prosecuted. CPB official concedes the 8-yr-old who died could've been saved. CPB admits that the system failed to protect her. An indep. fed court monitor called her death "clearly preventable" -result of "a series of failures." "They told me no -wouldn't call an ambulance until she passed out - not before." #ImmigrationReform https://www.cbsnews.com/news/anadith-danay-reyes-alvarez-8-year-old-migrant-died-border-patrol-custody-family/

Abbott’s wall-building scheme, like its fed predecessor -so far proven itself to be a slow-moving, BILLION+$ boondoggle that's produced very little completed wall & plenty of logistical quagmires, delays, & soaring costs, while sparking resistance & resentment among many landowners & local leaders -in the project’s path. Gov Abbott's Billion$ Barrier: Texas' border wall: concerns about wildlife, public thrift, & prop. rights notwithstanding. #NoWall #ImmigrationReform https://www.texasobserver.org/abbotts-billion-dollar-barrier/

Today we filed a federal lawsuit challenging Florida's anti-immigrant law #SB1718 -focuses on Section 10, which criminalizes the transportation of individuals into Florida who entered the US w/o inspection. The complaint argues that FL's unilateral federal immigration reg. is unlawful & lacks fair notice... -American Immigration Council, the Southern Poverty Law Center, American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Florida, & Americans for Immigrant Justice. #ImmigrationReform https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/litigation/challenging-florida-unconstitutional-anti-immigrant-law

Reminder to all the self-righteous Christians proudly advocating for policies of intolerance & intentional cruelty against asylum seekers:

#Immigration #USPolitics #ImmigrationReform #ChristianNationalism