An Immigration Bill We Could Like

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Donald Trump has cut illegal border crossings to zero and tried to expel illegals. He has banned immigration from the most awful countries, slapped new fees in H1-B visas, slashed refugee admissions, and issued a lot fewer visas for students and for families of foreigners.

But it’s all by executive power. A Democrat government could undo all his good work.

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On May 14, Congressman Andy Ogles of Tennessee introduced a bill to write good policy into law, and to “GUT the Hart-Celler Act of 1965.” That caught my attention.

The ’65 act was the worst law Congress ever passed. It ended nearly 200 years of policy designed to keep America white.

Before Hart-Celler, there were national quotas to make sure immigrants were European.

That ended in 1965, and look at the country now. It would be too much to ask Congress to restore what was, in effect, a White America Policy, but this is about as good as immigration reform is likely to get, short of that.

Hart-Celler turned immigration into nepotism. Get an immigrant visa and bring in your wife and children. Get citizenship and bring in more family. And then they turn around and do the same. It’s called chain migration.

One immigrant becomes a hundred immigrants.

Of the 1.2 or 1.3 million people who historically get immigrant visas every year, about 800,000 are chain migrants. About 120,000 aren’t even sponsored by naturalized citizens, but by Legal Permanent Resident foreigners. They can sponsor spouses and children under 21.

Even under the current system, they can sponsor only one wife, even if they married three or four back in Pakistan or Somalia.

The Ogles bill would put a hard annual limit of 88,000 of these sponsorships, down from the 120,000 or so now.

But it’s naturalized US citizens who bring in the masses — usually more than 750,000 a year. They can sponsor aged parents, brothers and sisters and their families, married children and their families. And then they get to start sponsoring. The Ogles bill bars everyone but spouses and children under 18. That would take a huge bite out of chain migration. A few citizens could sponsor parents, but only for five years, and they’d have to support them and pay health insurance. No handouts.

Current law says sponsors have to show they can keep family members barely above the poverty level.

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The Ogles bill makes them show they can support people at at least twice the poverty level, and if there’s any doubt, they have to post bond.

The Ogles bill changes the whole purpose of immigration. Its very first sentence says it will “establish a national-interest standard for immigration.”

Immigration has got to be good for the country. America first. Fancy that. Immigrants must be self-sufficient, make a real contribution, assimilate culturally, and never undercut American wages. To get a work visa, you must have a bona fide job offer that pays you at least the 90th percentile wage in that profession. For specialties that are officially in short supply, you must be paid at at least the 75th percentile.

To be eligible for citizenship, you’d have to wait 10 years, which is twice the current five-year wait. There would be a strict limit of 140,000 immigrant work visas, down from up to 200,000 who get them now.

H-1B visas would be strictly temporary, non-immigrant visas.

They would be good for no more than three years, non-renewable. No more of the current H-1B nonsense of extensions, conversions to permanent residency, and citizenship. When the time’s up, you’re gone. H-1B salaries must be at least twice the current median wage for that job, and there can be no more than 50,000 a year — as opposed to as many as a quarter of a million in previous years.

The bill does lots of other good things. Every hire in the US would have to go through E-Verify to keep illegals out of the work force.

The bill eliminates birthright citizenship for babies born to illegals, tourists, and non-permanent residents. It denies naturalization to anyone convicted of a crime, including DUI. It tightens up “public charge” provisions; no moochers. It would kill the ridiculous Diversity Lottery that raffles off 55,000 immigrant visas by lot every year — and to people we don’t need: Uzbeks, Egyptians, Sudanese, Algerians, Congolese.

That lottery was insanity on stilts.

Another tremendous improvement. To become a citizen, you must speak English, but the current, four-minute joke of a language test is at the beginner level. If you fail, you get two more tries right away, the same day. If you are 50 or older and have been a legal resident for 20 years, you don’t have to take the test at all!

That means, if you are too stupid or lazy to learn elementary English after 20 years, we still want you. That’s why federal ballots are printed in 23 foreign languages, including Cambodian, Navaho, and Tagalog.

The Ogles bill would require English at the B2 level, which means you can handle university courses and business meetings.

All by itself, that would eliminate a huge number of naturalizations.

What are the bill’s chances? It already has 12 co-sponsors in the House, and the same language has been introduced in the Senate by Tommy Tuberville.

Who could object to switching from nepotism to ability and merit, and expecting new Americans to speak English? This guy, for one. He’s Hanu Karlapalem, running for the Alabama State House.

He says, “Tuberville’s hate toward the immigrant community is documented.” He says of immigrants: “We built this country. We are still building it. And we are not going anywhere.” He and his wife were born in India, and he is a lifetime member of the NAACP.

Senator Charles Schumer says Tommy Tuberville spreads “mindless hate,” and Congressman Hakeem Jeffries — here with Al Sharpton — says Andy Ogles is a “malignant clown and pathological liar.”