Today Congressmen Jeff Flake (R-AZ) and Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) will be introducing their own Comprehensive Immigration Plan. From the sounds of it they realized that the Senate Bill was having issues and therefore decided to propose their own. But don\’t be fooled, they\’ve both been in negotiations with John \”I swear I\’m actually a Republican\” McCain and Ted \”I\’m driving, just three more rounds bartender\” Kennedy. So this will be very similiar to their bill.
Now as of my writing of this, the text has not been released for the bill, but from what Flake and Gutierrez have been telling reporters, we can glean some central points from the bill and it\’s not good. Here are just a few.
- Anyone that can offer even the tiniest shred of evidence that they\’ve been here since June 1st, 2006, gets amnesty and an automatic path to citizenship.
- These aliens would have to pay $2000 and at least some of the taxes they never did previously. Heh, how do I get this deal?!? I\’m a US citizen and I had to pay ALL of mine!!
- They have to pass a criminal background check….you know to further overburden that system.
- Plus they have to learn some English. Presumably, just enough to say \”Where is my polling place?? This guy says I have to vote for the Democrats or the evil Republican will send me home.\”
- The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), which is already overloaded, will grant them temporary visa and work permits, on which they\’ll stay for six years.
- After six years, they get a Green Card if they\’ve learned basic English and traveled outside the US for any length of time. Although there are approximately googolplex of exceptions to this rule.
- I probably don\’t need to point out this is a perfect example for criminals and potential terrorists, to get official papers under a false name?
- Oh and just in case you can\’t get into that amnesty program, it allows for a couple others
- AgJOBS, is for those who claim to have worked in agricultural jobs. If this sounds familiar it should be. The 1986 amnesty included a similiar provision, which resulted in massive fraud, plus allowed at least one terrorist attack. Mahmud Abouhalima, a leader of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, was legalized by this program. As a result he had the freedom to travel abroad, including several trips to Afghanistan, where he received terrorist training.
- The DREAM Act, provides amnesty for anyone that has already stolen a taxpayer-funded high school diploma (or the equivalent).
- And if you STILL don\’t qualify for any of those, you\’re not out of luck yet. There will also be a guest worker program allowing for approximately 400,000 \”guest workers\”. But really they are permanant residents as it doesn\’t sound like there is a time limit. I dunno about you, but I don\’t call someone who stays at my house forever a \”guest\”.
- As a bone to people like me, the bill does say that employers eventually have to figure out if their workers are legal, and if they don\’t they have to pay even bigger penalties. But as we\’ve already seen these are rarely enforced and all it takes is a call to your Congressman to get the penalties lifted.
- There is also something about a North American Security Perimeter. Details are really really fuzzy, but from what I can gather, basically Mexico is responsible for the security of our southern border against any threat. These sounds too completely ridiculous to be true….at the same time, I\’ve seen worse come out of Congress. But seriously, this alone would be reason to oppose this bill if it\’s true. Now we\’d be officially outsourcing our national defense.
So that\’s what\’s coming down the pipeline sewerline today.
If you like what you see, do nothing. If you do nothing, expect to get shat upon. Otherwise call your Representative. We know they aren\’t the most reliable people in the world, so sometimes you have to remind that they their job exists because of people like you.