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Congressman, Republican
23rd District of Texas
Served in the House, 2021-
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Rep. Gonzales has yet to sponsor legislation that would require employers to use E-Verify.
Rep. Gonzales has not sponsored H.R. 1100 to end the Visa Lottery.
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Chain Migration refers to the endless chains of foreign nationals who are allowed to immigrate because previous immigrants can send for ADULT relatives.
Chain migration includes spouses and minor children, but it also includes Immigrants can also send for their sibling, parents and adult children. Because each of those can then bring in their own adult relatives and nuclear family, a single immigrant can eventually be responsible for the arrival in the United States of his/her aunts, uncles, nephews, nieces, first cousins, second cousins once-removed. Read More
The Diversity Lottery started in 1990. Congress invented the lottery in order to establish chain migration in more countries. The people who can enter the lottery are those who live in a country with very little current chain migration.
Around 50,000 names are pulled out of a hat each year and are allowed to move toward U.S. citizenship without any regard to their usefulness to the country or their own humanitarian need. Read More
Probably the greatest damage to the wages and working conditions of American workers comes from foreign nationals who are specifically imported to compete with Americans for jobs.
Although temporary importation of foreign workers does not in itself cause significant U.S. population growth, it usually does because the federal government has done almost nothing to ensure that workers go back home after their work visas expire. Read More
The taking of refugees and asylees is the one part of immigration policy that is connected primarily to humanitarian impulses.
Nonetheless, the numerical level of refugee and asylee admissions affects the damage of population growth and wage suppression. It is important that people allowed into the United States in the refugee and asylee categories truly deserve that humanitarian gesture, but it is usually riddled with fraud. Read More
Amnesties go farther than most incentives for illegal immigration because they make it impossible for illegal aliens to be forced to go back home. Amnesties reward the illegal alien with the pathway to U.S. citizenship.
Millions of illegal aliens have been made part of the permanent, legal population of America since 1986. Read More
Anchor Baby Citizenship rewards women for becoming illegal aliens and adds more than 200,000 citizens to the United States each year by giving automatic U.S. citizenship to every baby of illegal aliens born within the borders.
Anchor Baby Citizenship adds immensely to America's record-breaking population boom. Not only do illegal aliens give birth to more than 200,000 each year, but the babies become anchors that prevent nearly all of their mothers from ever facing deportation. Read More
Foreigners are enticed to come to the U.S. illegally because of the letters and news stories they get back home about how the U.S. federal government refuses to enforce its immigration laws most of the time.
The federal government in recent years has, in effect, put up giant billboards around the world encouraging people to come, to break our laws, to exacerbate problems in our communities and to suppress the wages of America's most vulnerable workers.
To protect America's borders against those who are intent on illegally entering our nation, Congress must enact tough new laws to strengthen our porous borders and provide the manpower and infrastructure necessary to detect and deter illegal entry at all points across our borders.
American society is being eroded systematically by illegal aliens who avoided detection at our nation's borders and migrated into the communities that law-abiding citizens once felt secure residing within. Read More
The constant wave of illegal immigration is due, in large part, to the unwillingness of the Federal government to enforce immigration laws beyond the border.
Interior Enforcement comes in two forms. First, workplace enforcement to ensure that businesses are hiring documented workers. Requiring the mandatory use of E-Verify would go a long way in curbing this problem. Second, enforcement of immigration laws on the state and local levels would help reduce illegal immigration. Read More
The "Challenge Status Quo" grade is based on whether a Member attempts to challenge the status quo of each key immigration policy problem or chooses to ignore one or more of them. In most Congresses, it is possible for Members to just avoid doing anything about several immigration problems. Those who run Congress tend to 'protect' Members from having to cast a vote on immigration bills and amendments.
Thus, Members who do act in all the key immigration categories - and do so positively - are showing excellent overall leadership and get a high grade in this Leadership Subject. Members also earn positive points in this category by authoring (not simply co-sponsoring) reduction bills and by providing special leadership on committees and caucuses. Members who skip doing anything in some or most of the subjects are showing poor leadership by failing to challenge the status quo. This grade recognizes that simply avoiding taking negative actions is not enough because doing nothing at all is a support for the status quo. And status quo immigration policies monthly are adding large numbers of foreign competitors to unemployed Americans who are searching for jobs. The status quo policies also are adding millions of people each decade to the overloaded physical, social and environmental infrastructures of American communities.
In each of the six immigration areas listed in this Subject, there are clear actions needed that Members can take. If a Member takes no action, that is graded 0 of 3 points as a sign of lack of leadership in that Subject . Skipping votes, voting present and failing to co-sponsor positive legislation is not a sign of leadership.
