regulations - Forum - Command Center2024-03-28T09:05:26Zhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/forum/feed/tag/regulationsTrump to Close Loophole that Gives 50K U.S. Jobs to Border Crossers Every Yearhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/forum/trump-to-close-loophole-that-gives-50k-u-s-jobs-to-border-crosser2020-06-22T22:41:54.000Z2020-06-22T22:41:54.000ZAdmin Melony B. DeFordhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/AdminMelonyBDeFord<div><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}6213823493,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}6213823493,RESIZE_584x{{/staticFileLink}}" width="500" alt="6213823493?profile=RESIZE_584x" /></a></p>
<p class="subheading">President Trump’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will eliminate a loophole in the asylum system that gives out work permits to about 50,000 border crossers every year.</p>
<p>As part of a broader effort to reduce illegal and legal immigration while more than 30 million Americans are unemployed, DHS will issue a regulation that prevents border crossers from quickly obtaining work permits to take American jobs without securing asylum.</p>
<p>DHS Acting Deputy Secretary Ken Cuccinelli said more than 50,000 work permits are issued annually to border crossers who have not filed for asylum, had their asylum claims adjudicated, or who have committed crimes.</p>
<p>The regulation, Cuccinelli said, eliminates “the incentive to file asylum applications for the purpose of getting a work permit. … We’re closing a tremendous number of loopholes in that system.”</p>
<p>read more here: <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/06/22/trump-to-close-loophole-that-gives-50k-u-s-jobs-to-border-crossers-every-year/">https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/06/22/trump-to-close-loophole-that-gives-50k-u-s-jobs-to-border-crossers-every-year/</a></p></div>Frustrated Californians move out, say coronavirus 'pandemic was last straw'https://patriotcommandcenter.org/forum/frustrated-californians-move-out-say-coronavirus-pandemic-was-las2020-05-14T02:26:38.000Z2020-05-14T02:26:38.000ZAdmin Melony B. DeFordhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/AdminMelonyBDeFord<div><p> </p>
<p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}4998698460,RESIZE_930x{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}4998698460,RESIZE_584x{{/staticFileLink}}" width="500" alt="4998698460?profile=RESIZE_584x" /></a>NOVATO, Calif. (KGO) -- Elon Musk is not the only person threatening to leave California. Dissatisfied residents have left in a minor exodus in recent years.<br /><br />In 2019, more than half a million Californians moved to Texas, alone. That is hard to believe when standing along Grant Avenue in Novato. It's another iteration of Main Street, USA.</p>
<p><br />But behind some of the small business storefronts in this picture-perfect scene, the coronavirus has brought pain and doubt to the American dream.</p>
<p>"It is hard to keep up with the bills right now," said Lam, an immigrant from Vietnam. His family arrived with next to nothing, 30 years ago.</p>
<p>Now, their restaurant called Bacon, is much of what they have to show for it. But with his doors still closed, profits have dropped 90 percent.</p>
<p>The family is ready to move to Texas, which is opening up, and already more affordable than California.</p>
<p>"I blame the state. Yes. I do," said Tien.</p>
<p>He's not alone.</p>
<p>Up in the hills, Lauren Prichard prepped, this morning, for a move to Florida, by throwing old furniture into a dumpster.</p>
<p>read more here: <a href="https://abc7news.com/society/californians-unhappy-with-shut-down-moving-out-of-state/6177157/?fbclid=IwAR1xHzd5gob9hz8IpA0rJpFU3wgDHKsk5lbWkaB4V3gBymJGLWO5xC3Nj1g">https://abc7news.com/society/californians-unhappy-with-shut-down-moving-out-of-state/6177157/?fbclid=IwAR1xHzd5gob9hz8IpA0rJpFU3wgDHKsk5lbWkaB4V3gBymJGLWO5xC3Nj1g</a></p></div>Government Cannot Weather Coronavirus Storm Without a Civil Societyhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/forum/government-cannot-weather-coronavirus-storm-without-a-civil-socie2020-04-12T14:24:29.000Z2020-04-12T14:24:29.000ZAdmin Melony B. DeFordhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/AdminMelonyBDeFord<div><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}4401282317,RESIZE_1200x{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}4401282317,RESIZE_710x{{/staticFileLink}}" width="710" alt="4401282317?profile=RESIZE_710x" /></a></p>
<p>In crises like the coronavirus pandemic, it’s only natural that people look to government. The American framework of federalism has been critical, with local, state, and federal governments all taking on different roles in the response. But government alone cannot get the job done.</p>
<p>As critical as the work of government has been, its efforts to get out of the way of business and the civil society—by lifting regulations that inhibit our ability to quickly develop cures or help those in need—are just as important and show how indispensable these other sectors are to the solution.</p>
<p>Civil society in particular is crucial, but what the term actually means is often misunderstood. Civil society is comprised of our churches, charities, community organizations, professional groups, and our families. It’s distinct from the government and business sectors.</p>
<p>Without the foundation of a strong civil society, a nation, its government, and its economy are weak—either clearly so, or just below the surface—and will show signs of failure when tested with things like pandemics, wars, or civil unrest.</p>
<p>On the other hand, a strong civil society can help a nation weather almost any storm.</p>
<p>America’s vibrant civil society is one of the reasons that this nation has withstood so many tests throughout our history, and it is civil society that will help America get through this one.</p>
<p>Churches are keeping their food pantries open and are even providing home deliveries for the elderly and those too sick to venture outside their homes.</p>
<p>read more here: <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/04/10/government-cannot-weather-coronavirus-storm-without-a-civil-society/">https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/04/10/government-cannot-weather-coronavirus-storm-without-a-civil-society/</a></p></div>Did Excessive Bureaucratic Regulation Helped Ignite COVID-19’s Rampant Spreadhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/forum/did-excessive-bureaucratic-regulation-helped-ignite-covid-19-s-ra2020-04-01T12:24:22.000Z2020-04-01T12:24:22.000ZAdmin Deehttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/AdminDee<div><p><img class="align-right" src="https://www.ushistory.org/gov/images/00023731.jpg" alt="Reforming the Bureaucracy [ushistory.org]" />When historians of the future look back at the 2020 pandemic, the heroic work of Helen Y. Chu, a flu researcher at the University of Washington, will be worthy of recognition.</p>
<p>In late January, Chu was testing nasal swabs for the Seattle Flu Study to monitor influenza spread when she learned of the first case of COVID-19 in Washington state. She deemed it a pressing public health matter to document if and how the illness was spreading locally, so that early containment efforts could succeed. So she sought regulatory approval to adapt the Flu Study to test for the coronavirus, but the federal government denied the request because the original project was funded to study only influenza.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>Aware of the urgency, Chu’s team bravely defied the order and conducted the testing anyway. Soon they identified a local case in a teenager without any travel history, followed by others. Still, the government tried to shutter their efforts until the outbreak grew dangerous enough to command attention.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>Needless testing delays, prompted by excessive regulatory interference, eliminated any chances of curbing the pandemic at its initial stages. Even after Chu went out on a limb to sound alarms, a heavy-handed bureaucracy crushed the nation’s ability to roll out early and widespread testing across the country. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention infamously blundered its own test, while also impeding state and private labs from coming on board, fueling a massive shortage.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>The long holdup created “a backlog of testing that needed to be done,” says Amesh Adalja, an infectious disease specialist who is a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Security.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>In a public health crisis, “the ideal situation” would allow the government’s test to be “supplanted by private laboratories” without such “a lag in that transition,” Adalja says. Only after the eventual release of CDC’s test could private industry “begin in earnest” to develop its own versions under the Food and Drug Administration’s emergency use authorization.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>In a statement, CDC acknowledged that “this process has not gone as smoothly as we would have liked, but there is currently no backlog for testing at CDC.” <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>Now, universities and corporations are in a race against time, playing catch up as the virus continues its relentless spread, also afflicting many health care workers on the front lines.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
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<p><span class="Apple-converted-space"><a href="https://leapsmag.com/how-excessive-regulation-helped-ignite-covid-19s-rampant-spread/">https://leapsmag.com/how-excessive-regulation-helped-ignite-covid-19s-rampant-spread/</a></span></p></div>Is It Time to Burn Down the Regulatory House?https://patriotcommandcenter.org/forum/is-it-time-to-burn-down-the-regulatory-house2020-03-31T13:37:56.000Z2020-03-31T13:37:56.000ZAdmin Deehttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/AdminDee<div><p><img class="align-center" src="https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.newsapi.com.au%2Fimage%2Fv1%2F765edecb404f46e40a6a757ac9cd1388&f=1&nofb=1" alt="Cut to red tape would help fast-track businesses: IPA" />The Wuhan epidemic is bringing to light many regulations and processes that have needlessly impeded efforts to fight the virus by private industry, as well as by government. Quite a few such regulations are now being suspended, causing many to ask, why did we have them in the first place?</p>
<p>Minnesota’s governor has ordered a draconian shutdown that is devastating the state’s economy and will bankrupt thousands of small businesses. Why? As elsewhere, to “flatten the curve.” The concern is that Minnesota doesn’t have enough hospital beds and, especially, enough ICU beds to accommodate COVID-19 patients who will need them during the height of the epidemic. That is the fundamental reason why millions of Minnesotans have been ordered to stay home, at great cost.</p>
<p>In 1984, Minnesota enacted a hospital construction moratorium. This prohibits the building of new hospitals as well as “any erection, building, alteration, reconstruction, modernization, improvement, extension, lease or other acquisition by or on behalf of a hospital that increases bed capacity of a hospital.” Whenever hospitals or provider groups propose an exception to the moratorium, the Minnesota Legislature requires the Department of Health to conduct a “public interest review.” *** [I]t is incredible to note that, as with [Certificate of Need] laws, the purpose of this system is to make it harder to provide hospital beds in Minnesota. [Researcher Patrick] Moran says: “Policymakers hoped that the moratorium would be more effective than CON in reducing the growth of hospital beds.”</p>
<p>They would appear to have been successful. In the twenty years from 1984 through 2004, 16 exceptions were granted permitting just 94 additional licensed beds. As the chart below shows, between 1996 and 2016, the number of licensed beds in Minnesota actually fell by 921 while the population increased by 81,000.</p>
<p>read more:</p>
<p><a href="https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/03/burn-down-the-regulatory-house.php">https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/03/burn-down-the-regulatory-house.php</a></p></div>