As the House Judiciary Committee takes up a bill to grant Temporary Protected Status to Venezuelan tourists and illegal aliens, the UN issues a statement calling on countries to treat most of the 3.8 million Venezuelans abroad as refugees, even if they don't meet the criteria for persecution.
It is no surprise that the most recent effort to "reform" the EB-5 program, put out by the Chamber of Commerce and its allies, is an effort to keep the program pretty much as it is (with much window dressing). But it is odd that their sleek, super-well-paid publicists would produce such a sloppy document.
Unless the moderate Democrats who form the majority of the party’s membership assert themselves over the open-borders Democrats who dominate the party’s activist base, they will be complicit in a blunder that could well lead to the reelection of Donald Trump.
The addition of E-Verify to the president’s proposal shows how serious he is to craft an immigration system that will protect American workers—both United States citizens and aliens who have already been lawfully admitted.
The question the Kushner-Trump immigration plan puts on the table
To their credit, President Trump and Jared Kushner are willing to imagine a better scenario: better for the system, better for the alien, and better for the American people.
EB-5 investments in charter schools can produce excellent benefits for a select few, but not always for the more numerous groups, such as citizen taxpayers, kids, and teachers, nor for the aliens themselves.
The advantage of the program has to do with cost savings and minimal officer downtime, because the amount of training needed for this limited activity is also minimal.
Visas for immediate family are different from visas for extended family
It's hard to avoid the suspicion that reporters' sloppiness about immediate-family immigration vs. chain migration is related to their personal biases. Most reporters and editors oppose the Kushner plan, so negative-sounding claims about it don't raise fact-checking alarm bells in their minds.
