Posted by
Arnie on Thursday, June 07, 2007 7:06:09 AM
Last night the senate voted in favor of an amendment that would allow 200,000 illegal foreigners to fill temporary jobs with US employers. For five years. Originally, the bill would have allowed 400,000 into the temporary worker program, but was cut in half to appease the opposition.
This is just one of those details of this huge comprehensive bill that illustrate what is wrong with the entire thing. The number of temporary foreign workers is arbitrary, as not one of them can predict how many will be needed or wanted. It’s only a guess. You know that the business lobby has been talking to the committee that drafted the bill in the first place. You know that the La Raza organization was talking to the committee while the bill was being drafted. You also know that few, if any, of the committe members were talking to their constituents back home.
Now here’s one part of the details that will just frost your nostrils together. Our congress thinks it is OK to allow criminals to get legal status, even if a judge ordered an illegal immigrant to be deported, this bill would allow that same criminal to walk out of the court house, down the street to some office and get his legal papers and remain here. It also appears that gang members could stay, just not become legal.
The Senate voted 51-46 to reject a proposal by Sen. John Cornyn, R- Texas, to bar criminals—including those ordered by judges to be deported—from gaining legal status. Democrats siphoned support from Cornyn's proposal by winning adoption, 66-32, of a rival version that would bar a more limited set of criminals, including certain gang members and sex offenders, from gaining legalization.
This thing has got to be defeated. Every bit of it. Start over. Borders First.
Senator Jeff Sessions had his staff go through the bill and find any “loopholes” that just might inadvertently be in the bill. They found a bunch. 20 of them are listed
"I am deeply concerned about the numerous loopholes we have found in this legislation. They are more than technical errors, but rather symptoms of a fundamentally flawed piece of legislation that stands no chance of actually fixing our broken immigration system,” Sessions said. “Many of the loopholes are indicative of a desire not to have the system work.” Read all about the loopholes here.