Trump’s Truth vs. Hillary’s Lies on Immigration

1.) Build a wall along the southern border
2.) Triple the number of ICE officers
3.) Nationwide E-Verify
4.) Mandatory return of all criminal aliens
5.) Detention — not catch-and-release
6.) Defund sanctuary cities
7.) Enhanced penalties for overstaying a visa
8.) Cooperate with local gang task forces
9.) End birthright citizenship
10.) Increase prevailing wage for H-1Bs
11.) Requirement to hire American workers first
12.) End welfare abuse
13.) Terminate the J-1 visa program and replace it with a jobs program for inner-city youth
14.) Immigration moderation

Numbers 10, 13, and 14 need a bit of explanation. America graduates plenty of STEM students (science, technology, engineering, and math) but employers use the H-1B program to hire low-cost immigrants over American graduates; raising the wage removes the incentive for employers to hire foreigners over Americans. Similarly, the J-1 visa program encourages the hiring of foreign students over our own students; Trump wants to end that and replace it with a job bank program that promotes hiring inner-city youth. And “immigration moderation” means instituting a pause in immigration so employers will have to hire from the domestic pool of currently unemployed Americans.

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By contrast, on her website, Hillary wants to:

1.) Introduce comprehensive immigration reform
2.) End the three- and 10-year bars
3.) Defend President Obama’s executive actions
4.) Do everything possible under the law to protect families
5.) Enforce immigration laws humanely
6.) End family detention and close private immigration detention centers
7.) Expand access to affordable healthcare to all families
8.) Promote naturalization

Nearly all of these need some explanation. Number one is amnesty, plain and simple. Or, as she puts it, “comprehensive immigration reform with a pathway to full and equal citizenship within her first 100 days in office.” Amnesty. Ending the three- and 10-year “bars” mean she wants to do away with current immigration law that, if an immigrant overstays their visas, they have to return to their country and are barred from visas for three or 10 years, depending on the length of overstay. So for Hillary, if you’ve broken the law, no problem. Like how Obama got around the laws via executive action (which were struck down by the courts) — Hillary wants to not only keep these but promises she will use more executive actions if Congress doesn’t bow to her will.

You’d think that doing “everything possible under the law to protect families” would mean protecting people like the Angel Moms, whose children were killed by illegal immigrants, but she doesn’t mean protecting American families, she means protecting immigrant families. Hillary says she wants to stop detaining those crossing the border illegally and wants to close “private detention centers.” This is odd, because these centers are set up via the Obama administration. It’s not like people are out there setting up private jails and heading out to capture immigrants and hold them for ransom. (Perhaps she’s confusing the U.S. with ISIS?)

And, naturally, Hillary wants to offer free health care to all families — but once again, these are immigrant families and not the 10+ million Americans still without health care, despite the miracle that is Obamacare.

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Finally, you’d think promoting naturalization would be a good thing — but what she’s actually calling for is speeding up the process to become a citizen and lowering the fees to do so. While many people might agree this would be good for those who are trying to do things legally, with Hillary it’s a reward for those who broke the law in the first place. But in typical slippery Hillary speak, note that she’s promoting naturalization and not assimilation. There’s a big, big difference between the two. Naturalization means you become a citizen (and get a voting card and access to government programs). Assimilation means you become an American. There is a world of difference between people who want to come here, who want to embrace our heritage and our culture and to throw off their past and take on an American future. None of that is part of Hillary’s plan. Hillary’s plan puts her politics first, not America first.

As I listened to Trump’s speech, and knowing the two plans and their differences, one question kept coming to mind that I’d like to ask Hillary — why not put America first? This is America. Shouldn’t an immigration plan put Americans first? You know, the ones who spent their lives building the country that is so great that everyone wants to come here. Shouldn’t we put the interests of those people, those Americans, first?

As I said, either Trump or Clinton will be president. Whoever that is will institute one of the above immigration plans. One plan is pro-American — the other is pro-immigrant. One puts America first — the other puts immigrants from every other nation first. Which do you support?

You, and America, will get one or the other of these immigration plans. That’s reality.

Mark Anderson is a business strategist and the host of the “I Spy Radio Show,” Oregon’s second-largest radio network show.