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Trump Would Tighten Immigration and Entry Standards if He Wins: Senior Adviser

Politically Energized Evangelicals Will Vote Almost Unanimously for Trump: Survey

Evangelicals with high levels of political interest will support President Donald Trump even more solidly next Tuesday than they did in 2016, but for different reasons, survey researcher George Barna said Friday. Barna asked 69 questions of 1,600 individuals he defines as Spiritually Active, Governance-Engaged Conservative Christians (SAGE Cons). He asked the same 69 questions to an additional 900 individuals deemed Near-SAGE Cons. The survey was commissioned by the Family Research Council (FRC) and conducted in late September. Such voters represent only about a tenth of the nation’s overall population, but their electoral influence is magnified by their high turnout percentages and their frequent involvement in the political process between elections. “SAGE Cons are a unique portion of the larger population: more spiritually active and driven, more politically informed and…

Trump Would Tighten Immigration and Entry Standards if He Wins: Senior Adviser

Stephen Miller, a senior adviser to President Donald Trump, told NBC News in an interview Thursday that, if the president wins his bid for reelection, his administration will toughen its stance on immigration and entry into the United States, aiming to protect the wages and the safety of Americans.

Miller, who noted that his remarks were being made only in his capacity as campaign adviser, said Trump’s second-term immigration agenda would involve “raising and enhancing the standard for entry” into the United States and cracking down on illegal immigration, including by tighter restrictions on work visas, stricter visa application screenings, banning “sanctuary cities,” and limiting the number of people granted asylum.

He said that the priority behind the measures, which would be accomplished through a combination of executive action and legislation, is to protect the safety and wages of Americans.

“In many cases, fixing these problems and restoring some semblance of sanity to our immigration programs does involve regulatory reform,” Miller told the outlet. “Congress has delegated a lot of authority … and that underscores the depth of the choice facing the American people.”

Miller said that lifting the freeze on new green cards and visas, which is set to expire at the end of the year, would proceed only if a government analysis, which would include evaluating the state of the labor market, would support such a move.

Regarding asylum, Miller said the Trump administration would look to expand the current burden-sharing arrangements with a handful of Central American countries more broadly, in a bid to further stem the flow of asylum-seekers into the United States.

“The president would like to expand that to include the rest of the world,” Miller said. “And so if you create safe third partners in other continents and other countries and regions, then you have the ability to share the burden of asylum-seekers on a global basis.”

He said a second-term Trump administration would seek to crack down on “sanctuary cities” and related policies with initiatives that include making it a crime for authorities not to turn over illegal immigrants to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for deportation.

Miller said another administration objective would be to implement enhanced screening standards for people seeking to come to the United States, including by vetting the “ideological sympathies or leanings” of visa applicants to assess their potential for recruitment by radicals.

A second-term Trump administration would also seek to adjust the policies that govern guest-worker programs like H-1B visas, including by prioritizing higher-wage applicants and doing away with a randomized, lottery-based system for granting such visas.

In his 2016 bid for the White House, Trump vowed to restrict immigration and illegal entry into the United States, including by expanding the border wall with Mexico, and has implemented a range of related policies while in office. The Department of Homeland Security on Thursday announced that 400 miles of new border wall had been completed during Trump’s term.

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has vowed to stop border wall construction if elected. The Biden campaign responded to Miller’s remarks, with Biden’s Latino Media Director Jennifer Molina telling NBC, “We are going to win this election so that people like Stephen Miller don’t get the chance to write more xenophobic policies that dishonor our American values.”

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Republicans Exploring Options to Hold Big Tech Accountable

Republicans on the Senate Commerce Committee are exploring ways to follow up on a contentious big tech hearing days ago about how to ensure companies do not censor content due to political bias. Conn Carroll, the communications director for Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), told The Epoch Times that holding Big Tech accountable can take many forms and that Lee is “pursuing many of them.” The CEOs of Twitter, Facebook, and Google were grilled during the Oct. 28 hearing. Lee’s first action will be highlighting the public the differences between what the CEOs of these technology companies claim to be their company policies and what actions the companies actually take, Carroll said. Looking into whether Big Tech uses their market power to undermine competition is another avenue Lee is taking, and examining…