Immigration Reform Being Addressed by Congress

The new fast track Comprehensive Immigration Reform legislation is working its way through Congress. Everyone knows we need some type of bill for those that have been here for many years but it seems that chaos reins in the halls of the Senate and House. The House Minority leader, John Boehner, stated this immigration bill is a “Piece of sh*t”.

This bill is totally unacceptable and a majority of Americans will have a lot to say if this bill should pass. Also, Obama has changed his policy with regard to illegal aliens caught in this country. They previously were detained and deported, but now the policy has shifted to “catch and release”. The number of work site arrests is down 50%since 2008 as the bills written under the Bush administration were revised by Napolitano and friends. I guess the more immigrants in the country that can vote legally by the election assure a win for Obama. Why else would there suddenly be this big rush to push this bill through Congress?

This bill includes giving illegal immigrations legal status after 24 hours, even if their background check is incomplete. It would be rare if it is completed in 24hours. You might as well throw theimmigration laws right out the window. They are meaningless. We Americans will also have the pleasure of payingfor the immigration lawyers for the aliens. What a wonderful use of our tax dollars! Their Visas are supposed to be temporary but whatthey forget to mention is they can be renewed indefinitely. These new Americanshave 9 years to learn English. But, it getseven better. They will offer amnesty togang members. There are 30,000 knowngang members in 33 states according to the Heritage Foundation. All the gang member must do is say, “I don’twant to be a gang member any more”. I’msure there won’t be any deception with that plan. Another nice little perk for these newlylegal Mexicans is they won’t owe any back taxes so they just get a free pass. Plus, they will be eligible for the unearnedtax credit. Gee, do you think that’s fair?

Furthermore, absconded illegal aliens (those that have beendeported) can also be eligible for amnesty which will effectively shut down ourcourts where illegal aliens are concerned. One must assume they were deported for a good reason and now we aregoing to invite them back? Hand out someThorazine to those Congressmen and women as they obviously need to be in the loonybin! And I’m not done yet. The new citizens will get free tuition,something we don’t even give our own children as we watch the cost of collegerise every year. The Mexicans will jumpto the front of the line for legal status, even though there are thousands ofpeople around the world that are following the proper procedure to come to theUnited States. Many are well educated or they have a trade and would be an assetto America.

Another part of the plan will be to help out Mexico to try and keep Mexicans in Mexico bypaying for their health care, education, etc. So, there goes some more of our tax dollars. With our huge deficit where is the money coming from?

While this bill is supposed to addresssecuring the border, it is hardly mentioned except the 800 mile fence is nowcut down to 200 miles. So, you mightconclude that we will be doing another immigration bill ten years from now, as Idon’t think Mexicans are going to suddenly stop trying to cross the border.

Legalizing 120,000 illegal Mexican workers, who arepoorly educated and without work skills will strain the US economy evenmore. Conservative Heritage FoundationPresident Robert Rector estimates the cost of the bill to be in the trillionsof dollars, affecting Social Security, Medicare, particularly when the Mexicansretire as they will not have contributed very much to Social Security

The good news is the Senators are not of one accord. For example Sen. James Inhofe, R-OK wants to make English the official language on the US and not let an immigrant in until they can pass the current English proficiency test. Senators Barbara Boxer D-CA and Bryon Dorgan D-N D want to kill the guest worker program as do the unions. Since the unions seem to run the country now anything is possible. Senator John Cornyn R-TX wants to allow federal law enforcement to use information for immigrant visa applications in investigations. I would wonder why they are not doing that now. If you or I were being investigated they wouldn’t hesitate to look at our bank accounts, our work records and so forth. Senators Patrick Leahy D-VT and Robert Menendez D-NJ want to give more weight to families for earning green cards. With all these different opinions about portions of the bill it is very unclear if the Senate can muster the needed 60 votes.

Pelosi has stated that the House bill will look much different from the Senate version. They could come up with a good bill if they wouldn't focus so much on their personal agenda. Give amnesty to Mexicans that have lived here for a particular number of years without any criminal activity and so forth. They should be able to compromise but they haven't done that very well in the past.

Our best hope is an agreement happening after the November election. Then we have a better chance of having a good immigration bill

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