Tulsi Gabbard on immigration
In order to understand and fix the immigration/refugee issue at the US southern border, we must first understand its root cause/biggest reason. All talk on this issue, without understanding and attempting to fix this root cause is empty.
"The root cause of mass immigration on our southern border is our history of US military intervention in Latin America that left countries destroyed. Before we talk about a wall, we need to end our ongoing threats of intervention - this time in Venezuela. #SOTU"
https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1092977776066527232
"The root cause of mass immigration on our southern border is our history of US military intervention in Latin America that left countries destroyed. Before we talk about a wall, we need to end our ongoing threats of intervention - this time in Venezuela. #SOTU"
https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1092977776066527232
These quotes best sum up her position on immigration :
“We need to stop using immigrants as tokens in a political game & start talking solutions—funding to process asylum requests & targeted aid to address the decades of US intervention that contributed to the collapse of the countries they are fleeing.”
“We need comprehensive immigration reform to address our broken immigration laws and we need to have a serious conversation about the most effective and humane ways to compassionately secure our borders while building bridges and cooperative foreign policy with other countries. We need to ensure we have a clear, enforceable, accessible, and humane pathway to citizenship. Most urgently, we must pass DACA to ensure children who know no other home are allowed to remain in the US and take steps to ensure children are not separated from their parents. We must fund and equip agencies in charge of processing asylum claims and protect migrants, many of whom are women and children, who are going through our asylum process and fleeing natural disasters, religious persecution, or violence under an asylum status.”
https://www.tulsi2020.com/issues/immigration-reform
Tulsi understands that immigration is used as a political football by both parties and this will not lead to real solutions. These quotes show her deep understanding of the problem and how to solve it.
Note the targeted aid part in the tweet above. It shows she is careful to recognise that aid must go to the right people, through right channels and must be cash/material that are required by the people affected.
Tulsi understands that immigration is used as a political football by both parties and this will not lead to real solutions. These quotes show her deep understanding of the problem and how to solve it.
Note the targeted aid part in the tweet above. It shows she is careful to recognise that aid must go to the right people, through right channels and must be cash/material that are required by the people affected.
Unlike many other democratic candidates, she has not fallen into the trap of decriminalisation of border crossings - which was being hailed as a solution to stop mistreatment of illegal refugees. Decriminalisation of border crossings is a non-solution because it will not stop their mistreatment. It will instead will lead to increase in illegal immigration and more resentment from citizens. What is really required to ensure humane treatment of illegal refugees is legislation like the one below, which has 202 co-sponsors.
H.R.541 - Keep Families Together Act
This bill limits the separation of families at or near U.S borders or ports of entry and imposes limits on the prosecution of asylum seekers.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/541
About tuition free college for illegal immigrants :
DON LEMON: Senator [Bernie] Sanders believes college should be tuition-free for undocumented immigrants as well, do you?
TULSI GABBARD: I don’t. I think it’s important to fix our legal immigration system and look at the millions of undocumented immigrants in this country who have been suffering as they have been living in the shadows.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/07/31/tulsi-gabbard-comes-out-against-giving-free-college-tuition-illegal-aliens/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSAdmrsHU7c
This is just another example of her focus on fixing the root cause of the issue and not just applying a bandaid solution or giving free handouts to people just to gain popularity/votes.
About tuition free college for illegal immigrants :
DON LEMON: Senator [Bernie] Sanders believes college should be tuition-free for undocumented immigrants as well, do you?
TULSI GABBARD: I don’t. I think it’s important to fix our legal immigration system and look at the millions of undocumented immigrants in this country who have been suffering as they have been living in the shadows.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/07/31/tulsi-gabbard-comes-out-against-giving-free-college-tuition-illegal-aliens/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSAdmrsHU7c
This is just another example of her focus on fixing the root cause of the issue and not just applying a bandaid solution or giving free handouts to people just to gain popularity/votes.
These are some of the other legislations she has supported with respect to immigration reform :
H.R. 3440 DREAM Act
H.R. 532 Dreamer Information Protection Act, which prohibits using DACA hearings for deportation
H.R. 496 Bridge Act, which codifies the DACA program
H.R. 392: Tulsi co-sponsored the Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act, which would remove the existing per-country cap on employment-based green cards and ensure all immigrants are treated equally regardless of their country of origin.
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