So it seems that while the administration talks about wanting immigrants to "follow the rules," to become citizens, they seem to be changing the rules in order to hinder those that follow the rules, but take advantage of the social safety net while they are green card holders to gain citizenship.Working wouldn't be good enough, depending on whether the green card holder took advantage of public benefits that they qualified for.
This isn't official yet, but it is clear that even without these changes, fewer legal immigrants have been moving through the process (issuing green cards, or issuing actual citizenship), with the numbers down by 20% compared to the Obama administration.
Now, it could be that the previous administration was "too lax" on enforcing rules. Hard to really tell. But given the rhetoric from the administration and their supporters, I'm guessing that they are being much more stringent (i.e. heartless), seeing as we are talking about people that were fine with separating children from parents at the border, and not worrying about keeping families together through the process.
It would be nice to see an official explanation for the process the administration would want in place, so the citizenry could evaluate it. But I doubt that's going to happen, and let's face it, even if it did, how many people would really take the time to learn what it all meant.
It does seem clear that it's time to change that little poem under the Statue of Liberty though...
- Trump Charity lawsuit by New York Attorney General
- FBI investigation (it keeps being called a Russian Collusion investigation, but I'm pretty sure more to it than that at this point)
- North Korea
- The Space Force
- The Border Wall
- Alien Children Detention/family separation
- Presidential Pardons
- Civil War Monuments
- Muslim Travel Ban
- China Tariffs/Trade
- Canada-G7 Tariffs/Trade
- NAFTA
- Puerto Rico response
- Military Parade in Washington
- World Trade Organization
- Covfefe Syndrome
- NATO
- Russia/Putin relationship
Giuliani still there as Lawyer
John F. Kelly still there as Chief of Staff - 6-29-2018 Trump says "Things Happen."
Jeff Sessions still there as Attorney General
Sarah Huckabee Sanders still there as Press Secretary, rumors continue to be denied.
Mike Pompeo - Secretary of State
John Bolton - National Security Advisor
Marc Short - White House Legislative Affairs Director - no denial of plans regarding his departure prior to the 2018 midterms.
Kirstjen Nielsen - Homeland Security Secretary
Joe Hagin - White House deputy Chief of Staff is resigning.- reported June 19th
Scott Pruitt - EPA Director - Resigned 7-5-2018
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