Illegal Immigration Amnesty Bill Hangs in the Balance: Make Your Voice Heard!
Big P.S. Immigration AMNESTY BILL FLOPS ... Harry "the Undertaker" Reid has taken it off of the table... for now... (read the rest of this post for the reasons why--Do Not Forget because this Bill is down, but not out, and the threat that the CABAL poses to American society, economy and politics will long be with us...) ...so THANKS to all who emailed and phoned their Senators!
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In case you haven't seen it yet: We know where the beef is! We want to see the FENCE!
The votes going back and forth on amendments to the Amnesty Bill are way below the radar--just the way the pro-illegal alien cabal wants it. Yes there is a possibility that the Bill will die from inability to work out amendments and votes on amendments... then again, it could pass in a heart beat and be thrust on the nation as a fait accompli!
Keep an eye on Michelle Malkin's blog. She is tracking events and media coverage LIVE... Way to go Michelle! (Yesterday night) (This a.m.) (Main link)
Read this information below, and then follow the AFA link at the bottom to email your Senators! Speak now, or forever hold your piece (gun, that is)!
On the Immigration travesty... You need to ACT now...Email Senators...
Q & A on Immigration Reform
Compiled by Heritage Foundation policy analysts
June 4, 2007
Question: Supporters say this bill does not provide amnesty to illegal immigrants. Why does Heritage disagree?
Answer: Because we’ve read the bill. It grants amnesty. Immediately.
· The provisional Z visa acts as a magic wand, instantly conveying legal status on illegal immigrants. With a provisional Z visa in hand, immigrants are instantly protected from deportation and authorized to work anywhere in the country.
· The bill stipulates that the federal government can start issuing provisional Z visas immediately upon enactment, and must start issuing them within six months.
· The bill grants illegal immigrants massive benefits (subsidized college tuition rates, free legal counsel for agricultural workers, etc.) in return for a token fee--$3,000 for an individual, $5,000 for a family of five.
Question: Why does Heritage believe this bill would actually slow down immigration enforcement measures?
Answer: Because the bill effectively puts the immigration justice system on ice.
· ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agents are barred from detaining anyone who may be eligible for a Z visa. Instead, they must give those they apprehend a chance to apply for the visa. It’s like turning the Drug Enforcement Agency into a needle-exchange program.
· Immigration judges are required to close any deportation proceedings against illegal aliens if it appears they may be eligible for the Z visa.
· Even absconders who have flouted previous deportation orders can avoid deportation by showing that it would result in “extreme hardship” for himself or a family member—a loophole so huge you could drive a truck through it.
Question: Does this bill strengthen U.S. border security?
Answer: No, it does virtually nothing new to secure U.S. borders.
· Its “proposals” to increase security personnel, surveillance technology, and crossing obstacles at the border are mostly already required by laws like the Secure Fence Act of 2006. Repeating the same requirements strengthens nothing.
· Instead, the bill assures illegals of amnesty before security is tightened. Amnesty provisions would take effect as soon as the 700-mile fence required in the 2006 act is 47% complete.
· The bill uses false metrics to measure security. It repeats requirements to take security measures (additional border Patrol Agents, expanded detention facilities, vehicle barriers and fencing) without requiring any reduction in the number of illegal entries. Border security performance standards are lacking.
Here's MORE analysis of what this travesty of justice involves...
THE SENATE AMNESTY BILL
Summarized by Reps. Lamar Smith (R-TX) and Peter King (R-NY)
A SUFFICIENT “TRIGGER”? NOT EVEN CLOSE
- The Senate amnesty bill “triggers” don’t delay the amnesty. Virtually all illegal immigrants who haven’t been convicted of three or more misdemeanors or a felony will be granted legal status and a work permit on the day they file for a “Z” visa. This is just like the 1986 bill -- amnesty first and enforcement maybe never. (Section 1).
- The Senate amnesty bill “triggers” don’t even require the miles of border fence that Congress required in a bill President Bush signed last October. “The Secure Fence Act” requires over 700 miles of border fence, so the 370 miles required by the Senate bill trigger is a cut. (Section 1).
MASS AMNESTY? DEFINITELY
- The Senate amnesty bill is worse than last year’s Senate-passed bill. It allows nearly all illegal immigrants currently in the United States to stay and work on “Z” visa status without first going home, but in last year’s bill only the illegal immigrants who had been in the country for five years were eligible to stay and work without first going home.
- The Senate amnesty bill grants an almost guaranteed path to U.S. citizenship for the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants currently residing in the United Sates. The illegal immigrant, their spouse, parents over the age of 65 and children get immediate “Z” visa “probationary benefits” which allow them to stay in the United States and work. (Section 601).
- The Senate amnesty bill fails to address national security concerns. Illegal immigrants who receive “Z” visa probationary benefits must consent to a “background check,” but that check must be finished in one day. If it is not finished, DHS must give the illegal immigrant probationary status anyway. (Section 601).
This cause is just about the most important issue of the day, the future of America is at stake...
Take action, email your Senators with the link below... BUT, here's MORE ammunition you need to attack this travesty.
From the Claremont Institute, the leading natural law policy studies foundation in America. I re-print the entire article because I do not think it is available on their website, only a shorter version that appeared in NRO...
Don’t Just Do Something, Stand There
BY SETH LEIBSOHN
Take just the recent stories of the past three weeks: Of the six alleged terrorists who were plotting to attack US Soldiers at Fort Dix last month, three of them were illegal aliens who lived in the United States for years. The tuberculosis patient who has traveled internationally, exposing untold numbers of people to a particularly difficult strain of the disease and is now under quarantine, entered the United States even though US Customs and Border Patrol was instructed to bar him from entry.
And with these stories, we are poised to pass an immigration bill that would flood the already-broken immigration, border, and legal system with a minimum of 12 million illegal aliens—granting them legal status. Is it not clear that the newly formed US Immigration and Customs Enforcement office of the Department of Homeland Security is already broken, unable to carry out its fundamental and basic functions? And if it is clear, is it not folly to further overwhelm that office thinking it will keep America safe and protect us from further internal lapses and chasms in our ability to track illegal entrants into our country who can do us great harm?
Speaking about the current legislation this past weekend on Fox News Sunday, Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich had it right:
[The] bill explicitly grandfathers in somewhere between 10 million and 20 million people. We don't know the number because the government has no idea how many there are—again, an example of incompetence. The government doesn't know within a million how many people will be grandfathered in.
They're all, in effect, made permanent temporary workers the day the bill is signed. They have to go through one day of filling out a form. There is zero possibility the federal government will be able to process those forms.…
It would have grandfathered the three terrorists in New Jersey.
Meanwhile, we are told that nobody will be given legal status—not one person, not twelve million persons, not twenty million persons—from their current illegal status without a series of security triggers that include background checks and further border enforcement measures. But Matthew Spalding of the Heritage Foundation and Kris Kobach University of Missouri-Kansas City have already analyzed that supposed provision and found it simply untrue:
Section 1(a) allows probationary Z visas to be issued immediately after enactment, and Section 601(f)(2) prohibits the federal government from waiting more than 180 days after enactment to begin issuing probationary Z visas.…
Moreover, the "probationary" designation means little. These visas are nearly as good as non-probationary Z visas, giving the alien immediate lawful status, protection from deportation, authorization to work, and the ability to exit and reenter the country (with advance permission).
Perhaps this is why Steve Moore (of the Wall Street Journal Editorial Page), one of the strongest advocates for more immigration into this country, debating the current legislation on Bill Bennett’s Morning in America last week, said he would eliminate the Z visa from the current legislation. (Audio of Moore’s debate with Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies is included in the right-hand column.)
Yes, the rhetoric against conservatives is increasingly hotter from the Left and the pro-path-to-citizenship Republicans—we want nothing short of deportation, they tell us. The President has said “if you don't want to do what's right for America, you can pick one little aspect out of [the legislation], you can use it to frighten people.” The Secretary of Homeland Security has said, to many opponents of this legislation, “anything other than capital punishment is an amnesty.” U.S. Senator Lindsay Graham (R-SC) has said of opponents of the current legislation, “We’re going to tell the bigots to shut up.”
The truth is, we are not bigots, we do not want capitol punishment, we do not want mass deportation, and we do want what’s best for America—including a better system for more legal immigration. And, believe it or not, we can get somewhere helpful on immigration here in Washington.
So, here’s a better plan—one which has been alluded to by Andrew C. McCarthy of National Review: Do nothing with the 12-20 million illegals here now. That’s right, no Z-Visa, no mass deportation, no path to citizenship, no rounding up—nothing.
The truth is, we have lived with the illegal population for quite some time now. Whence comes the exigency to do something now?
What we can and should do is encourage their attrition, piecemeal.
Few are against securing the border (or so they say). So secure it. Build the full fence and show some seriousness about protecting our country. In the meantime, we need to stop the silly sound-bite that if you build a ten-foot fence the illegal immigrants will find an eleven-foot ladder. With enough border patrol, the ladders become irrelevant.
But, we can and should deport illegal persons piecemeal and over time as they, themselves, come out of the shadows—as of course they will whenever they have cause to show an i.d. to a government agency or employer; or if they show a fake ID; or if they are arrested for other crimes; or if they are merely pulled over for traffic violations.
At those points, let us show our ability to handle the law as it is now, which allows for the deportation of illegal aliens.
Earlier this year, Michelle Malkin pointed out that we have doubt enough with our task as it is, never mind absorbing 12 million (minimum) more illegal citizens and requiring their legal mainstreaming and processing. Among other things, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services “has lost track of 111,000 files in 14 of the agency's busiest district offices and processed as many as 30,000 citizenship applications last year without the required files.”
We are being asked in the pending Senate legislation to adopt a whole series and set of laws, regulations, and procedures that depend on our—or the government’s—ability to actually effectuate those requirements that few have confidence we can effectuate rightly. How can we think of reforming something called Section 101(a)(15)(H)(ii) of the Immigration and Nationality Act to solve our problems with absorbing a minimum of 12 million illegal aliens when we have yet to solidify the southern border? That’s what irks about the long, Rube Goldbergian machinations of the proposed law. We cannot even make the current law work.
Let’s try the law as it is now, first—and prove our ability.
Let’s put illegal immigration on the course of ultimate extinction by tolerating no more furtherance, or rewarding, of it—but without taking any drastic measures either.
So, yes, don’t just do something, stand there. It’d prove a lot.
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And in case you needed any more convincing... How about a word from Stik-n-stein !
Pro Amnesty Dems and Repubs Vote to Welcome Additional Illegal Immigrant Felons….to Do the Crimes Americans wont Do…"These additional hard working felons will be mowing your grass while your kids are home alone, making your hotel beds while you’re out, cleaning your pools while your daughter is getting a tan, and…You know…casing out the joints Americans won’t case out. We, in the Senate intend to welcome them into YOUR neighborhoods with open arms.”WHO ARE THE WORSE CROOKS...CONGRESS OR THEIR IMMIGRANT FELON FRIENDS?...FIND OUT AT StikNstein...has no mercy.
Go to stikNstein's blog here:
AT StikNstein...
P.S. Hot Air has the latest Lindsey Graham hissy fit: you "loud folk" watch it, y'hear!
posted by Dumb Ox at 6/07/2007
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