Buzzfeed.com: on Immigration


Ketanji Brown Jackson: Trump administration set asylum seeking standards too high

In October 2020, Jackson sided with immigrant advocacy groups who sued the Trump administration over a lesson plan used to train federal immigration officers who screen potential asylum seekers slated for fast-track deportations. The challengers argued the language adopted in 2019 wrongly raised the bar too high for the initial round of vetting to see if a person had shown a "credible fear" of persecution in their home country. Jackson agreed. The Justice Department decided not to appeal.
Source: BuzzFeed.com on 2022 SCOTUS Confirmation Hearings Feb 25, 2022

John Kerry: Committed to increasing number of refugees that we take

As European countries cope with a wave of people fleeing conflict in the Middle East and Africa, Secretary of State John Kerry said the State Department will lift the overall number refugees it aims to resettle in the upcoming year. The department currently resettles 70,000 people from around the globe. "We are committed to increasing the number of refugees that we take, and we are looking hard at the number that we can specifically manage with respect to the crisis in Syria and Europe."
Source: Buzzfeed blog on Biden Cabinet Sep 9, 2015

Kathy Hochul: 2007: No drivers licenses to undocumented immigrants

Teachout opened a new front against Cuomo with criticism of his own choice for Lieutenant Governor, Kathy Hochul, who is best known in the state for her 2007 battle against a plan to issue drivers licenses to undocumented immigrants.

Teachout said that in a state that typically focuses on "honoring the dignity of all immigrants" she is "disappointed" in Hochul. She described Hochul as someone "who has not traditionally been a friend of immigrant communities."

Source: Buzzfeed.com blog on 2014 New York State gubernatorial race Jun 13, 2014

Zephyr Teachout: Honor the dignity of all immigrants

Teachout opened a new front against Cuomo with criticism of his own choice for Lieutenant Governor, Kathy Hochul, who is best known in the state for her 2007 battle against a plan to issue drivers licenses to undocumented immigrants.

Teachout said that in a state that typically focuses on "honoring the dignity of all immigrants" she is "disappointed" in Hochul. She described Hochul as someone "who has not traditionally been a friend of immigrant communities."

Source: Buzzfeed.com blog on 2014 New York State gubernatorial race Jun 13, 2014

Jeb Bush: Immigrants are committed to family, even if illegally here

On immigration, there's an elite consensus behind "comprehensive immigration reform" that would provide legal status and a path to citizenship for millions of undocumented immigrants. Bush is a particularly impassioned spokesman for this consensus: "Immigrants create far more businesses than native-born Americans, over the last 20 years," Jeb said at the Faith and Freedom Coalition Conference in June 2013. "Immigrants are more fertile, and they love families, and they have more intact families, and they bring a younger population. Immigrants create an engine of economic prosperity."

This Sunday, he went further in describing the motives of some undocumented immigrants in deeply positive terms: "Yes, they broke the law, but it's not a felony," Jeb said. "It's an act of love. It's an act of commitment to your family."

The problem: The only people absent from this consensus are the leaders of his own party. House Republicans have for a decade bottled up "amnesty."

Source: Ben Smith on BuzzFeed.com, "Terrible Candidate" Apr 7, 2014

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