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Asa Hutchinson:
Pass border security first, then immigration reform
We have always tried before to pass border security with comprehensive immigration reform. We have to do simply a straightforward border security bill. That should be able to get through Congress in a bipartisan way that puts more resources for the
Border Patrol for our immigration processing, for the security of our country. And that builds faith with the American public that we can have more comprehensive reform once we secure the border itself.
Source: CNN interviews on 2023 Presidential hopefuls
Mar 5, 2023
Francis Suarez:
Connect immigration to employment, declining birth rate
He said his status as the only Hispanic candidate in the GOP race gives him "a lot of credibility" in a conversation about reforming immigration laws, though he was vague about what he'd propose. "I do think that we need to right-size legal
immigration and that it should be connected to our employment rate and our declining birth rate," said Suarez, who has Cuban ancestry. "And I do think we have to do something with those who are undocumented in our country."
Source: Associated Press on 2023 Presidential hopefuls
Jun 15, 2023
Nikki Haley:
Instead of catch and release, let's go to catch and deport
This is a crisis created by Republicans and Democrats. This very much should have been dealt with a long time ago and it wasn't. What I would do is first of all do the mandatory e-verify. I would defund sanctuary cities. I would go back to remain in
Mexico because no one wants to remain in Mexico. I would fire the 87,000 IRS agents that are going after Middle America and put 25,000 Border Patrol and ICE agents on the ground. And instead of catch and release, let's go to catch and deport.
Source: CBS Face the Nation on 2023 Presidential hopefuls
May 14, 2023
Will Hurd:
There are common sense solutions, but pols have to sell them
What's happening at the border is an absolute crisis. There's ways to solve the problem, there's ways to actually improve and streamline legal immigration, have more people coming in… We need people that are willing to go out there and sell some of
these ideas. It's hard to explain how you solve immigration and the border crisis in 280 characters, but it requires people to go out and make that case, and explain these common sense solutions to these complicated problems.
Source: Meet the Press on 2023 Presidential hopefuls
May 14, 2023
Stephen Laffey:
Increase infrastructure at the border; pass legislation
A key issue is securing the Southern border. Laffey said he supports increasing infrastructure at the border, passing legislation and reducing the problems causing an influx of illegal immigration. "We have to tell
Mexico if you're not going to deal with your gangs, the drug lords, the ones I actually physically saw, the ones who are making fentanyl now, that's killing 100,000 people a year in America, that we're going to have to come deal with it," Laffey added.
Source: The Anchor on 2023 Presidential hopefuls
Mar 20, 2023
Francis Suarez:
Aggressive policies adversely impact small businesses
On Immigration: He is on the more moderate end of the G.O.P. field.Mayor Francis X. Suarez of Miami opposes many of the far-right immigration policies outlined by other candidates, including by his governor, Mr. DeSantis.
He argued on Fox Business that the aggressive immigration bill Mr. DeSantis and the Florida Legislature had enacted was "having an adverse impact on small businesses in our state."
Source: N.Y. Times on 2023 Presidential hopefuls
Aug 18, 2023
Vivek Ramaswamy:
Military force to secure the border; then universally deport
Ramaswamy, the son of Indian immigrants, has called for securing the border by any means necessary, including military force. This could violate an 1878 law that forbids the use of federal troops for civilian law enforcement, but Mr. Ramaswamy argues
that securing the border isn't civilian law enforcement.He wants to "universally" deport undocumented immigrants and opposes any path to legal residence because "we are a nation of laws. That is something we cannot compromise on."
He added that,
for people brought to the US as children, he would be open to a process allowing them to return after being deported. But all legal immigration, he says, should run on a "meritocratic" points system, with lottery-based paths eliminated.
He said citing
undocumented immigrants' economic contributions was tantamount to making economic arguments for slavery: "'The vegetables will rot in the field, we need people to pluck our crops'--[slaveowners] were saying that in the South in the 1860s," he said.
Source: New York Times on 2023 Presidential hopefuls
Aug 18, 2023
Chris Christie:
Trump didn't do anything to make immigration laws stronger
Donald Trump was arguing again last night about immigration. He didn't do anything to change the immigration laws to make them better or stronger for America. And he built 47 miles of new wall in his four years as president.
At that rate, he would need 110 more years as president to be able to finish the wall between United States and Mexico.
Source: CNN SOTU interviews on 2023 Presidential primary hopefuls
Jul 16, 2023
Joe Biden:
Let Title 42 expire: more humanitarian asylum policy
Biden has sought to establish a more humanitarian-focused approach to immigration than his predecessors. He supported letting Title 42, a pandemic-era immigration policy that allows the U.S. to return migrants to their home countries without the former
asylum process, expire.In January, Biden announced several new immigration policies, including an increase of the use of expedited removal, the tripling of refugee resettlement from the Western Hemisphere, increasing humanitarian assistance in
Mexico and Central America, and a surge in resources to the U.S.-Mexico border.
He has also introduced a policy crackdown last month that could disqualify a vast majority of migrants from being able to seek asylum at the southern border, sparking
criticism from some progressives.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has recently knocked Biden's immigration policies: "It's not racist or insensitive to say that we need to close our borders and have an orderly immigration policy," he said.
Source: Newsweek magazine on 2023 Presidential hopefuls
May 15, 2023
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.:
War on Drugs creates desperate conditions south of border
In January, President Biden announced several new immigration policies, including an increase of the use of expedited removal, the tripling of refugee resettlement from the Western Hemisphere, increasing humanitarian assistance in Mexico and Central
America, and a surge in resources to the U.S.-Mexico border.Kennedy Jr. has recently knocked Biden's immigration policies, criticizing him for not closing the border. "It's not racist or insensitive to say that we need to close our borders and have
an orderly immigration policy. I would expand legal immigration to this country that's orderly, that makes sense for our country, but also that our borders are impervious," he said, according to the New York Post.
He also tweeted that he would change
U.S. policy in Central America, including ending the "War on Drugs" and "neoliberal extraction of resources," which he said "create desperate conditions south of the border" that compel migrants to seek to immigrate to the U.S.
Source: Newsweek magazine on 2023 Presidential hopefuls
May 15, 2023
Chase Oliver:
Comprehensive reform gets millions out of shadows
He is a proponent of comprehensive immigration reform: "We have millions and millions of people who live in this country in a shadow economy, because they live here without documentation,"
Oliver said. "Because getting here was too difficult to do the legal or the right way.
Let's Ellis Island our immigration policy so anybody who wants to come here and make an honest day's pay and put down roots and start their American dream can do the same thing my ancestors did.
"This also has the added benefit of keeping the law enforcement eye on the real criminals at the border."
Source: Cedar Rapids Gazette on 2023 Presidential hopefuls
Jul 23, 2023
Chase Oliver:
Immigration crisis created by government, not by immigrants
Chase Oliver, a 37-year-old Libertarian activist living in Atlanta, [was] dubbed "the most influential Libertarian in America" by Rolling Stone [magazine]. Oliver is looking to update America's immigration policies for the 21st century.
Before the event, Oliver stated, "A lot of young people are extremely concerned about the immigration crisis in this country. And by the way, it's a crisis not created by immigrants. It's created by the government."
Source: Palm Beach Examiner on 2023 Presidential hopefuls
Oct 23, 2023
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