{"id":29,"date":"2023-04-01T18:54:32","date_gmt":"2023-04-01T22:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mw2024.local\/?page_id=29"},"modified":"2024-01-17T20:33:55","modified_gmt":"2024-01-18T01:33:55","slug":"immigration-justice","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/marianne2024.com\/es\/issues\/immigration-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"Immigration Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\t\t\t\tI was taught from an early age about the often desperate plight of the immigrant and the blazing hope that America held out to them. The immigrant story of today contains no less richness, variety, and contribution than it did a hundred or two hundred years ago.\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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We need to re-examine our immigration policies to provide care and respect for those who come here. America, at its best, is a welcoming community, and we need to live up to our image, instead of tarnishing it.<\/p>\n

Through stories about the lives of strangers, and about the lives of my own family members, I was taught from an early age about the often desperate plight of the immigrant and the blazing hope that America held out to them. The immigrant story of today contains no less richness, variety, and contribution than it did a hundred or two hundred years ago.<\/p>\n

Immigrants are not our enemies. This is so important to remember today as immigrants are often viciously scapegoated. Scapegoating immigrants, particularly Mexicans and Central Americans, is a deliberate dehumanization technique. Dehumanizing others has always been the required first step leading toward history\u2019s collective atrocities. This is not the first time dehumanization has reared its head in our nation, and we must stand up against it now as other generations stood up against it in their time.<\/p>\n

The deliberate attempt by some of our leaders to make Americans fear something so basic to our greatness in the name of our greatness will one day be seen as a dark, aberrational chapter in our nation\u2019s history. Those who scapegoat immigrants, like all demagogues throughout history, are demonizing others to increase their own power.<\/p>\n

The actual rate of criminality among immigrants\u2014even the undocumented\u2014is lower, not higher, than the rate of criminality among our non-immigrant citizens<\/p>\n

And the rate of their contributions, in fields ranging from the arts to science to academia, are among the highest of any subpopulation, whether measured culturally, academically or economically. Children born of immigrants are more likely to go to college and get a degree and less likely to live in poverty. And rather than competing with U.S. workers, research has shown their skills tend to complement them.<\/p>\n

Undocumented immigrants also contribute to Medicare and Social Security \u2014 without reaping many of its benefits. As recently as 2010, research shows undocumented immigrants paid<\/a> $13 billion into Social Security but only received $1 billion in services. And they paid over $35 billion more into Medicare than they withdrew between 2000 and 2011. They also pay<\/a> over $11 billion a year in state and local taxes.<\/p>\n\n

Seeking Refuge<\/h4>\n

The plight of the modern refugee\u2014the vast majority of whom are asylum-seekers\u2014is no different now than it ever was. Today, when the world has a greater refugee crisis than at any time since World War II \u2014 with over 100 million people<\/a> displaced or homeless, often as a result of tragedies at least indirectly influenced by U.S. foreign policy \u2014 America is closing its heart.<\/p>\n

Right now, people seeking asylum on the southern border of the United States are being scapegoated as criminals, their children deceitfully taken from their arms with no plan as to how they will be returned. These tactics flagrantly violate American law, which mandates that most anyone who sets foot in the United States has full constitutional protection here. Seeking asylum in America is not a scam; it is a statutory right. These asylum-seekers who enter the country as a result of fleeing persecution in their country of birth, have been grossly denied fair protection. They are being prosecuted instead of welcomed, and their efforts to escape oppression are being met by new forms of oppression \u2013 by us.<\/p>\n

Our asylum system is a mess. It currently takes asylum seekers five or six years to get a court date. We need to hire far more asylum officers and judges, and we need to give exclusive jurisdiction to asylum officers to adjudicate these cases so that we can have much faster and fairer hearings.<\/p>\n

Immigrating to America is not a crime. The modern immigrant is chasing the same dream of a better life that lured the ancestors of every American who isn\u2019t descended from either slaves or Native Americans.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Our Borders<\/h4>\n

Building a wall at our southern border is not going to solve anything. The vast majority\nof illegal drugs coming through the border are coming through legal ports of entry, and\nsimilarly, many of the migrants coming through the border are actually asylum seekers\nwho surrender themselves at legal ports of entry.<\/p>\n\n

It is important that we have a president who distinguishes between threats to the United States that are real, and those that are not, and who offers real solutions, not tough-sounding political slogans.<\/p>\n

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My Approach<\/h5>\n

I support legislative reforms that include a full path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants who do not have serious criminal background issues. I would also work to reduce the cost of naturalization and increase resources to help people navigate that process more easily. Furthermore, our foreign policy should seek to ensure economic stability in other countries so that people do not want to seek economic refuge in the United States.<\/p>\n

Root Causes<\/h5>\n

We must deal with the root causes of immigration and asylum-seeking from Latin\nAmerica. Part of this means facing up to the fact that U.S. foreign policy and economic\npolicies have destabilized countries to our south and caused immigration.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s root causes of Latin American immigration have to do with two things: lack of\neconomic opportunity and violence fueled by drug cartels.<\/p>\n

To deal with the lack of economic opportunity, we must stop actively harming Latin\nAmerican economies with our sanctions. I will end the brutal sanctions on Cuba,\nVenezuela, and Nicaragua. I would also greatly increase economic aid to these\ncountries, which is currently woefully inadequate.<\/p>\n

To deal with drug cartel violence, I will end the war on drugs. The war on drugs has\nfailed to stop the cartels, just as it has failed to stop the drug overdoses. Instead, we\nhave spent $1 trillion only to make the problem worse. By ending the war on drugs and\nlegally regulating most drugs, we will take away the cartels\u2019 black market, therefore\ntaking away their power.<\/p>\n

The Williamson Administration will:<\/h5>\n