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The Center for Immigration Studies will host a panel discussion on the effects of the federal governments immigration policies on Black Americans. The panelists will explore historical and recent trends, focusing on the wage and employment impacts on Black communities.

The July 11, 10 a.m. Eastern event features representatives of Black America for Immigration Reform, a non-profit founded by Black American leaders advocating for immigration reforms that serve the interests of Black men and women.

Roy Beck, author of Back of the Hiring Line: A 200-year History of Immigration Surges, Employer Bias and Depression of Black Wealth, also joins the panel, exploring how government policies and actions that have enabled employers to depress Black wages and to avoid hiring African Americans.

The participants will reflect on the views of leaders like W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, and A. Philip Randolph, who believed that mass immigration harmed their community. The panel will consider whether restricting immigration today would tighten the labor market and provide more opportunities for Black American workers.

Date: Thursday, July 11, 2024, at 10 a.m. EDT

Stream: YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter

Participants:

Kathleen Wells, Executive Director, BAIR Former host of both the Kathleen Wells Show and The Naked Truth Report; member of Project 21, the National Center for Public Policy Researchs black leadership network program.

Donna Jackson, Director of Membership Development, BAIR Director of Membership Development, Project 21, the National Center for Public Policy Researchs black leadership network program; Board member, The Conservative Caucus; former Deputy Controller, U.S. Export-Import Bank.

Roy Beck, Founder of NumbersUSA Author of five books, the most recent being Back of the Hiring Line: A 200-year History of Immigration Surges, Employer Bias and. Depression of Black Wealth. Moderator: Mark Krikorian, Executive Director, Center for Immigration Studies

Moderator: Mark Krikorian, Executive Director, Center for Immigration Studies

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QUINCY Sen. Elizabeth Warren visited Asian supermarket Kam Man Food on Friday morning to tour a workforce development program spearheaded by local social service provide Quincy Asian Resources Inc.

After meeting two recent graduates now employed at the supermarket, Warren spoke with local elected officials and local leaders about immigration reform during a roundtable discussion.

"Im here in QARI to celebrate getting $627,000 for QARI, an organization that helps new arrivals, new immigrants to our country, get some basic training and take on essential jobs in our economy," Warren said. "This is a life-saving opportunity for so many people. ... Its good for all of us."

The bustling Asian supermarket was founded by an immigrant and employs mostly immigrants. Owner Wan Wu, who came to the United States from Hong Kong as a student in 1966, said the partnership with Quincy Asian Resources Inc. has been a natural fit.

"It's a great opportunity for us to help immigrants," he said. "We are immigrants ourselves."

Through the program, Quincy Asian Resources Inc. provides skills training and language classes, while corporate partners like Kam Man provide opportunities to learn on the job and potential employment after graduation. In addition to Kam Man, Quincy Asian Resources Inc. works with Boston College, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Hilton Hotels to train recent immigrants in the food services and hospitality industries.

Led by Quincy Asian Resources Inc. CEO Philip Chong, Warren visited Kam Man's meat and seafood departments, where recent graduates of the program paused from their work to meet the senator. They included Samwel Sadi, who emigrated from the Congo.

Sadi entered the program in the dining halls of Boston College, but he was furloughed for the summer after classes ended. Quincy Asian Resources Inc. then helped him move to Kam Man, where he said he is expanding his skills while continuing to earn a paycheck.

Warren also met Reginal Toussaint, who was a school teacher in Haiti before coming to the United States to live with his wife in Dorchester. Toussaint was hired by Kam Man on the day he graduated from the 10-week program and has worked at the supermarket ever since.

"I'm so happy," Toussaint told Warren. "About my job and my life."

After the tour, Warren told a panel including State Rep. Tackey Chan, State Sen. John Keenan and others that she's hopeful Congress will reach a deal on comprehensive immigration reform including a pathway to citizenship.

Chan said that current immigration policy favors immigrants who already possess economically desirable skills. Workforce development programs such as Quincy Asian Resources Inc.'s Chan said, make preexisting skills less important if immigrants have a pathway into the work force "regardless of how they came."

Warren said she disagreed with President Joe Biden's recent decision to deny migrants the right to claim asylum if border crossings reach a certain threshold, a move some immigration advocates say violates international law.

"I think that's not the right approach," she said. "I understand that the president has been backed into a corner because the Republicans had negotiated an immigration package, and when Donald Trump said he wanted chaos at the border, they backed out on it and tanked the whole deal.

"So the president is working with the tools he has available, but what we really need is for Congress to step up and do a full immigration package. That means security at the border. It also means money for places that are housing migrants, and it means creating a pathway for citizenship for our essential workers and our dreamers."

Peter Blandino covers Quincy for The Patriot Ledger. Contact him at pblandino@patriotledger.com.

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The last time a bipartisan U.S. Congress passed comprehensive immigration reform was 38 years ago, when President Ronald Reagan signed the bill into law.

Since 1986, successive Congresses have tried and failed to enact legislation that the Migration Policy Institute says would marry increased border enforcement with legalization for unauthorized immigrants and the ability to bring in future workers needed by the U.S. labor market.

Americas more than 11 million undocumented immigrants, their families, and the rest of the country have waited for decades for political leaders at the highest levels of government to do what the electorate elected them to do. That is to secure the southern border and codify a legal path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, who are a vital backbone of Floridas and Americas labor force.

Even as Gov. Ron DeSantis and other Republicans spilled fake tears, gnashed their teeth, and wailed about hordes of immigrants spilling across the southern border, they have politically weaponized the immigration issue. Republicans have lied about migrants being criminals, minimized the positive impact of their presence in the United States, and some governors even bundled these profoundly vulnerable human beings onto airplanes and buses and deposited them in Democratic-run cities such as New York, Washington, D.C., Chicago, and Los Angeles.

According to a recent MoveOn petition, DeSantis used more than $600,000 in taxpayer dollars to lure 50 Venezuelan asylum-seekers onto a flight to Marthas Vineyard, Massachusetts. The stories from the Venezuelan immigrants are both heartbreaking and enraging. They were intentionally deceived and were put on a plane with nothing but a fake brochure that said they would be given benefits like eight months cash assistance, housing, food, clothing, expedited work papers, jobs, and assistance registering their children for school. But it was all a lie. Its absolutely inhumane.

A variety of polls, analysts, and pundits say immigration will be an issue in the presidential election in November. Republicans and Democrats are jostling to wrest control of the issue.

DeSantis and the GOP brain trust have been deliberate and strategic in manipulating the immigration issue, stirring the pot and stoking unfounded fear in the hearts of Americans about the migrant crisis.

Democrats, on the other hand, have fumbled in their response. They always seem a day late and a dollar short. To those in immigrant communities fighting to be heard and pushing for policies and laws to advance their cause, Democrats have fallen well short of their promises.

DeSantis, party leaders, and policymakers signaled well ahead of this falls presidential election that immigration would be front and center as a political issue primarily because of its acrimony and its ability to divide.

A recent Gallup poll survey and a range of stories across the news spectrum show that the ploy has worked. Gallup researchers concluded that immigration has surged to the top of the electorates concerns.

Rank-and-file Republicans have been spooked by a peak influx of more than 300,000 undocumented immigrants who crossed the southern border in December. Consequently, 28% of those polled cited immigration as the most important national problem.

Gallup researchers said Republicans typically are the subgroup most likely to name immigration as the most important problem, adding that they are largely responsible for the increase in mentions in the poll. To wit, 57% of Republicans characterize immigration as the top problem.

In response, DeSantis, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, other Republican governors and national and state politicians have poured gasoline on an alarming and distressing problem by sending migrants to Democratic cities.

As these racist, repulsive politicians use undocumented immigrants as political pawns, the fact that they are human beings whose only crime is that they seek a better life gets overlooked or ignored. Meanwhile, former president Donald Trump the son and grandson of immigrants has made his revulsion for Black, brown, and other non-white immigrants an animating factor in his 2024 attempt to return to the White House.

Nobody has ever seen anything like were witnessing right now. It is a very sad thing for our country, Trump told a right wing news site in a 2023 video interview, as reported by CNN. Its poisoning the blood of our country. Its so bad, and people are coming in with disease. People are coming in with every possible thing that you could have.

An immigration reform bill that a bipartisan group of senators hammered out but that Trump forced the GOP to scuttle was described by immigration activists and advocates almost universally as draconian. It was characterized as the strictest border crackdown in a generation.

Oklahoma Sen. Tom Lankford, a Republican, Democratic Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy, and Arizona Kyrsten Sinema, an independent, led the months-long negotiations on the bill that they hoped would severely diminish the number of people crossing the border; raise the bar for migrants qualifying for asylum; and allow the president to close the border when the numbers of migrants coming in gets concerningly high.

The senators, who negotiated the legislation in good faith, learned the hard way that those Republicans who have shouted the loudest about border security are hypocrites and snake oil salesmen.

Once they learned of Trumps strident opposition to the bill because he didnt want to give President Joe Biden a pre-election legislative victory, the senators jettisoned the legislation.

In the end, all but four Republicans voted against moving forward on the legislation including Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, who had delegated Lankford to negotiate the bill combining Ukraine aid and border security and had been closely involved in the negotiations, the Associated Press said in a February story.

Immigration advocates and activists, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, and others have castigated politicians in both parties for sacrificing undocumented immigrants on the altar of political expediency. They fear passage of the bill would set back comprehensive immigration reform for decades.

Haddy Gassama, national director for policy and advocacy for the UndocuBlack Network, said in an interview that undocumented immigrants and other migrants dodged a bullet.

It was pretty awful and really shocking but a good turn of events that Republicans killed it, she said of the bill. It was shocking and worrisome. We were very concerned about it, such as the provision requiring the U.S. to close border to those seeking asylum using a trigger number. We were very concerned about that.

Gassama said the bill was crazy, arbitrary, concerning, because it sought to create a policy similar to Title 42 to trap people seeking asylum, offering zero due process rights and invoking a policy to expel people, she explained. It seems to be a very clear theme of gutting asylum by both parties. They seemed really focused on making asylum as weak as possible.

Democrats had planned to bring the measure back for a vote, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said, despite no real chance of the bill becoming law. But in an election year, performative gestures are more important than substance. True to form, when the measure was brought up for a vote on May 23, it failed again.

Activists like Gassama; Patrice Lawrence, executive director of UndocuBlack and a member of the community it serves; plus other groups and individuals fought against the corrosive immigration policies of the Trump administration and collaborated with the Biden administration and political allies. But they have watched legislative session after session end without what they seek: a measure that would allow DACA recipients, undocumented immigrants, and others seeking asylum to work, remove the considerable barriers to their freedom, and the ultimate prize of a path to citizenship.

But in the present, Republicans in Congress are intent on resuming work on the border wall, reintroducing a policy of the Trump administration demanding that asylum seekers remain in Mexico.

They also plan to use mass surveillance to remove all undocumented workers from the U.S., roll back protections for migrant children, eviscerate services to undocumented immigrants, and make it considerably harder for migrants to secure asylum.

For undocumented immigrants, the emotional rollercoaster will likely not end soon.

Whoever is elected president in November will be confronted with a searing, discordant issue thats not going away. If Biden wins and Democrats hold the Senate and take the House, he promises to work with Congress to develop a path toward citizenship. But if Trump wins, he promises on Day One to kick off an immigration crackdown and widespread deportations of as many as 20 million people.

Allies of Trump are working out details to speed up asylum hearings and deportation eligibility, and remove deportation protections implemented by Biden.

In 2024, whats clear to migrants, undocumented immigrants, DACA recipients, and others is that neither political party may provide them with what they sorely need.

More and more, they are hoping for a miracle which may not come in our lifetimes.

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NEW YORK With bipartisan immigration legislation again unable to garner enough support in the Senate to pass last week, the head of the U.S. Bishops Conference Migration and Refugee Services said he doesnt expect immigration reform before the presidential election this November.

As were running up to this election, we dont expect that any concerted or results-oriented immigration bills will come forward, William Canny, the executive director of the Migration and Refugee Services of the USCCB told Crux.

What we do hope is that those who are willing to discuss and negotiate continue to do that regardless of whether its an election year or not, Canny said.

Former President Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, has made the crisis at the southern border a centerpiece of his re-election campaign, and has encouraged GOP lawmakers not to support any border legislation deal with Democrats that wasnt perfect.

President Joe Biden, meanwhile, has touted his own proposal as the toughest border enforcement in history. The legislation, which mirrors border legislation that was rejected in February when it was attached to a foreign aid package to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, failed in a 43-50 vote in late May.

60 votes were needed for the legislation to proceed.

Among other things, Canny said the new bill, like the previous one, would mandate rushed proceedings for people seeking protection and not give people due process to asylum. The bill would have also heightened the credible fear standard for migrants, and essentially shut down the border by virtually expelling without due process anyone who didnt cross into the United States at a designated border point, which Canny said the committee also doesnt support.

The bill also would have given the president power to shut down the border if certain migration thresholds are met.

We were essentially against this bill, as we were the immigration aspects of the previous bill, Canny said. [Aspects of this bill] were definitely against the teachings of the Church, and while we respect a countrys sovereign right to control its borders, it needs to be done in the context of the common good and it needs to be humanitarianly fair.

Canny noted, however, that the committee welcomes the bipartisan effort that went into the bill. The legislation was negotiated by Republican Senator James Lankford of Oklahoma, Democratic Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut, and Independent Senator Krysten Sinema of Arizona.

In a May 23 statement, Biden took aim at Congressional Republicans for the bills failure, saying they do not care about securing the border or fixing Americas broken immigration system.

Biden said the legislation would have hired more border patrol agents and asylum officers to process cases faster, implement new technology to stop fentanyl from entering the United States, provide resources to go after drug traffickers, expand access to lawful immigration pathways, and expedite work authorization to those who are eligible.

Congressional Republicans do not care about securing the border or fixing Americas broken immigration system, Biden said. If they did, they would have voted for the toughest border enforcement in history. Instead, today, they put partisan politics ahead of our countrys national security.

Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana said in a May 23 statement that Congress should instead adopt the GOPs partisan, stricter, immigration legislation proposal.

After more than three years of claiming the situation at our southern border was not a crisis while millions of illegals poured in, Congressional Democrats are attempting to throw an election year Hail Mary to cover for their embrace of President Bidens open border policies, Johnson said.

Through the political stalemate, Canny said the USCCB will continue to work to educate Catholics and others on the plight of migrants who come to the United States, and the nations current immigration laws and what aspects of them need to change.

Canny said the committee is also focused on its work resettling refugees coming to the United States from other countries who have been vetted, and are joining American communities with an eventual path to citizenship across the country in conjunction with other agencies, and the government.

Further, Canny added that the committee is continuing its advocacy to and conversations with Congress on root causes and creating programs to aid those countries people predominantly migrate from that respect a persons and families right to stay home.

People should be able to stay in their homes. We know people want to stay. They dont want to leave, Canny explained. So, we are looking at those situations and are talking to leadership in our government and the administration and congress about programs that could help folks stay in their countries and not feel forced to migrate.

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On the 28th of last month, the United States celebrated the 100th anniversary of the founding of the U.S. Border Patrol. According to the website of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the Border Patrol was established for the purpose of securing the borders between inspection stations. In 1925 its duties were expanded to patrol the seacoast.

If there is anything everyone in the United States can agree on, it is that during the past 100 years, the Border Patrol has failed to fulfill its mission. Today, everyone agrees that the Border Patrol has failed to prevent the illegal entry of people into the United States and especially on Americas southern border.

Yet, for immigration statists, hope springs eternal. Despite 100 continuous years of failure, immigration statists are convinced that someone will somehow figure out a way to make their immigration-control system succeed. In fact, one of the most amusing mantras during the past century has been, If only Congress would just enact comprehensive immigration reform, we would finally finally! end Americas perpetual immigration crisis.

Of course, lost in this process of eternal hope is that there have been all sorts of comprehensive immigration reforms during the past 100 years. The problem is that they have all failed.

Domestic highway checkpoints. Roving Border Patrol checkpoints. Warrantless searches of ranches and farms within 100 miles of U.S. borders. The criminalization of hiring, transporting, harboring, or caring for illegal immigrants. The boarding of Greyhound buses to check for peoples papers. The building of a Berlin Wall through eminent domain stealing of peoples property. The use of underwater concertina wire designed to cut people up. Forced deportations. Violent government raids on private businesses. Forcible separation of children from parents. The use of the U.S. military to secure the border.

It all adds up to a massive immigration police state along the border, one that has destroyed the liberty and privacy of people, including Americans. And none of it has worked to bring an end to illegal immigration. In fact, from the standpoint of advocates of this failed system, the illegal immigration problem is worse than ever.

Another favorite longtime mantra of advocates of immigration controls is, The system is broken. We need to fix it. If that is true, then why hasnt anyone fixed it? After all, theyve had 100 years a full century! to do so. Why hasnt anyone fixed what is supposedly a broken system?

The answer is: Because the system isnt broken. Instead, it is inherently defective. Something that is inherently defective cant be fixed. Thats what advocates of immigration controls simply cannot confront. No matter what they do no matter what comprehensive immigration reform they adopt it will still not work. Their system will continue to fail, just as it has for 100 years. In the process, they just continue destroying life, liberty, and privacy through the immigration police state that enforces their failed system.

The reason that their system is inherently defective is that it is based on the core socialist principle of central planning. Government officials plan, in a top-down, command-and-control, manner, the movements of millions of people in one of the most sophisticated and complex labor markets in history. It simply cannot be done at least not without the planned chaos that Ludwig von Mises pointed out comes with socialist central planning.

I have said it for 34 years here at FFF, but it bears repeating: There is only one solution to Americas decades-old failed, deadly, and destructive immigration morass. That solution lies not in the continuation of socialism and the continuation of death, suffering, rapes, kidnappings, Berlin Wall, concertina wire, highway checkpoints, warrantless searches, and other aspects of the immigration police state that comes with immigration socialism. The only solution to Americas 100 years of immigration-control failure is freedom, free markets, and limited government. That necessarily means the abolition of the Border Patrol, ICE, and all controls over the free movements of people across borders that is, the same system we have inside the United States with respect to state borders.

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