jueves, septiembre 01, 2016

La Presidencia de Bill Clinton respecto a las inmigraciones LEGAL e ILEGAL y recordando las sugerencias de Barbara Jordan ícono de la lucha por los Derechos Civiles en EE.UU. respecto a la Inmigración en EE.UU.

 Bill Clinton and Barbara Jordan talked years ago  like Trump is talking  today on immigration




 1995 Senator Barbara Jordan Press Conference on Legal Immigration Recommendations







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La  Presidencia de Bill Clinton respecto a las inmigraciones  LEGAL e ILEGAL y recordando las sugerencias de Barbara Jordan  ícono  de la lucha por los Derechos Civiles en EE.UU. respecto a la Inmigración en EE.UU.

Por Pedro Pablo Arencibia
1 de septiembre de 2016

La politiquería y los intereses especiales  de partidos, de  medios de información así cómo  los personales  persiguen en no pocas ocasiones  ¨arrimar su sardina¨ al fuego manipulando la información y la historia.  En un país libre y democrático esa acción manipuladora puede ser neutralizada si tenemos el interés y los medios para encontrar la verdad o gran parte de ella. No pertenezco a ningún partido político y  entiendo que mi deber con el país que tan generosamente me ha acogido es darle a sus ciudadanos lo que mejor se hacer en mi vida: investigar y enseñar lo que he aprendido.

En varios posts de este blog  he publicado estos fragmentos tomados de un estudio publicado  en Internet:

¨La Ley de Inmigración y Nacionalidad de 1965, también conocida como la Ley Hart-Sótano, abolió el sistema de cuotas de origen nacional. Al igualar las políticas de inmigración, el acto dio lugar a la nueva inmigración de países no europeos, que cambiaron la composición étnica de los Estados Unidos. Mientras que los inmigrantes europeos representaban casi el 60% de la población extranjera total en 1970, la representaron cayo a tan sólo el 15% en el 2000. La inmigración se duplicó entre 1965 y 1970, y se volvió a duplicar entre 1970 y 1990. En 1990, George W. Bush (padre)  firmó la Ley de Inmigración de 1990, la que aumentó la inmigración legal a los Estados Unidos en un 40%.¨

¨Desde 1986 el Congreso ha aprobado siete amnistías para los inmigrantes indocumentados. En 1986 el presidente Ronald Reagan firmó una reforma migratoria que dio amnistía a 3 millones de inmigrantes indocumentados en el país. Los inmigrantes hispanos estuvieron entre las primeras víctimas de la recesión a finales de la década de 2000, pero desde finales de recesión en junio de 2009, los inmigrantes registraron una ganancia neta de 656.000 puestos de trabajo. Más de 1 millón de inmigrantes se les concedió la residencia legal en 2011.¨

 También en otros posts de este blog he afirmado que en uno de sus discursos Bill Clinton nombró a la Comisión de los EE.UU. sobre la Reforma de Inmigración y recomendó reducir la inmigración legal de alrededor de 800.000 personas por año a aproximadamente 550.000 y que desde los años 70 del pasado siglo XX las regiones que más aportan inmigrantes LEGALES  a los EE.UU. son en primer lugar América Latina y en segundo lugar Asia.

En esta ocasión deseo  incluir las sugerencias o recomendaciones que  dió la Comisión sobre Inmigración para la Reforma de Inmigración del Presidente Bill Clinton de 1993; comisión presidida por la Senadora afronorteamerica Barbara Jordan, una de los  líderes en la Lucha por Los Derechos Civiles de las minorías en los EE.UU.  Esas sugerencias pueden leerlas y profundizarlas llendo al artículo  Barbara Jordan's Vision of Immigration Reform ; de donde seleccioné algunos fragmentos. El artículo está en idioma Inglés pueden usar el Google Translate y con ¨copiar y pegar¨podrán leerlo en el idioma que deseen y , en particular, en idioma español.

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“Credibility in immigration policy can be summed up in one sentence: those who should get in, get in; those who should be kept out, are kept out; and those who should not be here will be required to leave.”
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Barbara Jordan (1936-1996) was a Civil Rights leader and a pioneering public servant. She was the first African-American woman elected to the Texas Senate (1966), the first woman from Texas to be elected to the U.S Congress (1973-1979), and the first African-American to deliver the keynote address at a Democratic National Convention (1976).

Due to her stature and reputation for integrity, she was appointed chair of the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform in 1993 by President Bill Clinton, and served in that role until her death in January 1996. Jordan testified several times before Congress regarding the work and findings of the Commission. Below are quotes from Jordan’s testimony before Congress which outline her grasp of the issues surrounding immigration and highlight Congress’ continuing failure to act on the Commission’s recommendations.

The work of Barbara Jordan and the other Commission members was part of the inspiration for NumbersUSA’s founding. As you will see, Barbara Jordan’s words are still relevant today, and NumbersUSA still has sensible solutions that will bring about the Commission's recommendations to stop illegal immigration and bring legal immigration down to a moderate level.

 Prevent Illegal Immigration (back to top)

“To make sense about the national interest in immigration, it is necessary to make distinctions between those who obey the law, and those who violate it. Therefore, we disagree, also, with those who label our efforts to control illegal immigration as somehow inherently anti-immigrant. Unlawful immigration is unacceptable.”– February 24, 1995

 “Illegal aliens have no right to be in this country. They are not part of our social community. There is no intention that they integrate. As human beings, they have certain rights – we certainly should not turn them away in a medical emergency. As a nation, it is in our interest to provide a limited range of other services- immunizations and treatment of communicable diseases certainly fall into that category. But, if illegal aliens require other aid, it should rightly be provided in their own countries.” – August 9, 1994
Solution: Reduce Illegal Immigration Rewards

Increase Border Security (back to top)

“Far more can and should be done to meet the twin goals of border management: deterring illegal crossings while facilitating legal ones. But we have to recognize both goals.” – February 24, 1995

“It is far better to deter illegal immigration than to play the cat and mouse game that results from apprehensions followed by return followed by re-entry. To accomplish a true deterrence strategy will require additional personnel as well as a strategic use of technology and equipment. We will also require new measures of effectiveness because apprehensions alone cannot measure success in preventing illegal entries. Our goal should be zero apprehensions-not because aliens get past the Border Patrol but because they are prevented entry in the first place.” – March 29, 1995
Solution: Improve Border Enforcement

Deportations Are a Necessary Part of the Immigration System (back to top)

“The top priorities for detention and removal, of course, are criminal aliens. But for the system to be credible, people actually have to be deported at the end of the process.” – February 24, 1995

If people unauthorized to enter believe that they can remain indefinitely once having reached the interior of the nation, they may be more likely to come.”–August 3, 1994
Solution: Strengthen Interior Enforcement.

No to Amnesty (back to top)

“If people unauthorized to enter believe that they can remain indefinitely once having reached the interior of the nation, they may be more likely to come.” – August 3, 1994

“There are people who argue that some illegal aliens contribute to our community because they may work, pay taxes, send their children to our schools, and in all respects except one, obey the law. Let me be clear: that is not enough.” – September 29, 1994
Solution: Stop Amnesties

A Sensible Refugee Policy (back to top)

“Certain legal immigrant populations may impose other costs: refugees often have special needs for health and other services, making resettlement significantly more costly than overseas solutions to refugee problems; elderly new immigrants are more likely to draw upon public services than elderly native-born Americans or immigrants who came to the United States at a younger age.”– June 28, 1995
Solution: Reduce Refugee and Visa Fraud

Immigration is Not a Path to Public Benefits (back to top)

“Citizenship and naturalization should be more central to the process of immigration. There are many barriers to naturalizing in law and practice, and they should be removed. But it is a debasement of the concept of citizenship to make it the route to welfare….We want immigrants to be motivated to naturalize in order to vote, to be fully participating members of our polity-to become Americans. We don’t want to motivate law abiding aliens to naturalize just so that they can get food stamps, health care, job training, or their homes tested for lead.”– February 24, 1995

For legal immigrants, we recommended making abuse of the public charge provision grounds for deportation. The affidavit of support that sponsors sign should be a legally-binding contract. Moral obligations work well enough in church, but the law requires a contract. – February 24, 1995

A Warm Welcome to Immigrants (back to top)

“We decry hostility and discrimination towards immigrants as antithetical to the traditions and interests of the country. At the same time, we disagree with those who would label efforts to control immigration as being inherently anti-immigrant. Rather, it is both a right and a responsibility of a democratic society to manage immigration so that it serves the national interest.”– August 3, 1994

“[T]he best way to fight discrimination is to treat everyone exactly the same….the Commission believes that the best defense against discrimination is adoption of a more secure, simpler verification process for determining work authorization.”– September 29, 1994
Solution: “No” to Immigrant Bashing.

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1995 Barbara Jordan Press Conference on Legal Immigration Recommendations




Barbara Jordan speaks on the need to reduce immigration



 

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