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A Look at the U Visa Program  USCIS new data shows beneficiaries are illegal aliens, some with egregious violations

Washington, D.C. (March 30, 2020) – A new report by the Center for Immigration Studies focuses on the controversial U visa program, which awards lawful status and a path to a green card and citizenship for alien crime victims and their families. The report analyzes data newly released by USCIS, which will help policymakers determine appropriate reforms to ensure the program works as Congress intended, serves law enforcement, and does not shut out deserving applicants. The annual number of U visa petitions has quintupled in the last decade, from roughly 11,000 in 2009 to 59,000 in 2018.  Once approved, victims may sponsor spouses and children, or parents (if the victim is under age 21).  The approval rate over 10 years is 82 percent.  Just over half (56%) were for the principal applicant (the crime victim), with 44 percent approved for family members. To qualify, victims must have suffered substantial physical or mental abuse; have information of use to prosecutors; and actually be helpful to authorities in prosecuting the abuser.  It is not supposed to be an automatic benefit for anyone who is the victim of a crime. As the program has grown, there is more concern that the U visa program is vulnerable to fraud, improperly promoted by advocates, and exploited as an easy avenue to obtain legal status. Nearly all of the beneficiaries are illegal aliens, and nearly one-fifth of the approved petitioners did not have a valid passport or visa.  This raises questions as to the ability of USCIS to authenticate the identity of the individual (and their derivative family members). Because the program rules allow applicants to avoid deportation and obtain a work permit for several years, even before final approval of the application, there is a powerful incentive to file a petition, even if the applicant believes it eventually will be rejected. Jessica Vaughan, the Center’s director of policy and author of the report, said, “This new data released by USCIS will be a big help to policymakers in identifying where to make changes in the U visa program.  I hope they will put out more reports like this, especially looking at whether the program is helping law enforcement agencies prosecute offenders and encourage victims of serious crimes to report and work with police.  Advocacy groups have agitated mainly for increasing the number of visas available and letting more categories of applicants qualify.  But it’s likely that Congressional intent can be fulfilled more directly by weeding out the frivolous and fraudulent petitions.  That would be a better way to help the meritorious applicants.” View the entire report at: https://cis.org/Report/Visas-Victims-Look-U-Visa-Program The new report from USCIS examines applications filed between 2012 and 2018.  Among the key findings:  Only five percent of U visa petitioners reported having lawful immigration status at the time of application.  Most (79%) reported never having lawful status and 14 percent said they were visa overstays. 22 percent of the petitioners reported that they had once been in deportation proceedings prior to seeking the U visa.  That number has nearly doubled in the last year.  Another 13 percent said that they were currently in deportation proceedings at the time they petitioned for the U visa. A significant share of U visa applicants are disqualified for admission to the United States, but are able to apply for a waiver of inadmissibility as a U visa applicant.  The most common reason for needing a waiver was illegal presence (79%), followed by lack of a valid passport or visa (19%).  A number of approved U visa recipients had previously committed immigration fraud (10%) or re-entered illegally after removal (8%), which are both considered serious immigration violations.  Six percent of those approved for the U visa had been ordered removed at some point before. The largest number of petitions were filed by citizens of Mexico (68%), followed by Guatemala (7%), El Salvador (6.3%), Honduras (5.3%), India (3%) and Ecuador (1.9%).   Fifty-eight percent of all the petitioners were women.  This share has gradually decreased since 2012, when 69 percent of the petitioners were female.  About 43 percent of the petitioners also seek to sponsor a family member/s.  On average, U visa petitioners sponsored 1.5 family members.  Roughly half (49.2%) of the family members sponsored were spouses, 42.5 percent were children, and 7.1 percent were parents.  Of the family members, about one-fifth had been or were currently in deportation proceedings.  90 percent were also in the United States at the time of application, and 86 percent lacked lawful status.  'Moderate' Biden's Rush to the Middle And why it won't work. March 24, 2020  Don Feder Now that he’s all but won his party’s nomination, Joe Biden can follow the time-honored strategy of Democratic presidential candidates by scurrying to the political center. He’ll pretend he didn’t say what he said (in Joe’s case, the age-associated-memory-loss thing will help), or he’ll offer an explanation so incoherent that everyone will fall asleep trying to figure out what he means, or he’ll tell skeptics, “Don’t be such a horse’s ass.” It won’t work. The Sanders-AOC-Tlaib-Omar gang won’t shut up. They’ll keep barging into the conversation and embarrassing him with middle-class voters. But if he disowns them, he risks losing half the party. Throughout the primary season, the media did its best to sell Biden as a moderate, a regular guy -- good ol' Lunch Bucket Joe, a throwback to the days when Democrats stole your money, but didn’t give it to illegal aliens. Biden the moderate is pure media hype. Lately, Joe has been telling the Resistance: I’m Sanders too, but a Sanders who doesn’t scare the hell out of normal people – a Sanders who can win.             Here are a few of his channeling-my-inner-Bernie moments: 1.  Immigration – "Lunch bucket Joe” wants wide-open borders: free health care for illegals and no deportation except for felonies committed in the United States (felonies in Mexico don’t count, neither does drunk driving, says Joe). Biden demonstrated his clear-thinking and firm grasp of the issue when he proclaimed during a speech in January that DACA recipients   become Americans before many Americans do. (He neglected to explain the process whereby Americans become Americans.) A November report showed that 1 in 10 “Dreamers” have a criminal record – but they may have been tagged for something inconsequential, like drunk driving.   2.  Taxes – In the words of the 5th Dimension song, “Up, up and away.” Repeal the Trump tax cuts and double the capital gains tax. In all, Biden envisions $3.2 trillion in tax increases. With the country trying to make up for the economic losses of COVID-19, punishing investment will work wonders.   3.  College Tuition – Biden recently adopted Sanders’ College-for-All Act -- free tuition for students at public colleges and universities whose family income is below $125,000, and regardless of the student’s major. Why should those majoring in transgender studies be denied public support for training that will allow them to make a crucial contribution to society.   4.  Government health care – While criticizing Sanders’ Medicare for all, Biden’s plan has been called Medicare for Most: Bringing back the individual mandate and spending $750 billion to expand Obama Care.   5.  Climate and energy – Joe’s positions here might be called the Lime Green New Deal. He started with the grandiose pronouncement, “We are going to get rid of fossil fuels.” This includes no new fracking, off-shore drilling or spending for pipeline infrastructure. The candidate who’s said to have blue-collar appeal told miners to learn computer programing – Hillary-style elitism at its worst. There goes Pennsylvania, Wyoming and West Virginia. There’s also $1.7 billion to establish the framework for his plan to achieve zero carbon emissions by 2050.   6.  Gun control – Biden says Beto O’Rourke (“Hell yes, we’re going to take away your AR-15!”) will be in charge of firearms policy in his administration, because no one needs “a clip that holds 100-rounds.” There goes every state with a large contingent of sportsmen.   7.  Abortion – Biden wants publicly funded abortion. He’ll also use abortion as a litmus test for court appointments. This will be a big hit with traditional Catholics. The South Carolina priest who refused to give communion to Joe in November may have started a trend.   8.  Bringing civility back to government – Joe told the Human Rights Campaign  that with Trump as president, “virulent people” and “the dregs of society” have a friend in the White House. Basket of intolerables here we come. All of this puts the Vice President far outside the mainstream of American politics. If that weren’t enough, while he’s trying to rationalize, modify and explain away what he said, like the ghosts of dialectical Christmas past, Sanders, Warren and the squad will relentlessly try to pull him to the left. The Trump campaign can reasonably ask what Biden will give Bernie and company if elected. Will he make Sanders Secretary of HHS, Warren Secretary of Treasury, Ilhan Omar Ambassador to Israel? While the Vice President scurries to the middle, the radical rodents will block his way and gnaw away at his credibility