Four Failures of New Amnesty Bill S.1348
Four Failures of New Amnesty Bill S.1348
These Failures in the Bill Ensure that Illegal Immigration Will Continue After the Amnesty
Failure #1: BUSH/KENNEDY BILL DOES NOT REQUIRE EXIT SYSTEM TO ENSURE AGAINST 'OVERSTAYED' ILLEGAL ALIENS IN FUTURE
An estimated 40 percent of all illegal aliens came to this country legally on temporary visas as students, tourists and workers.
S. 1348 leaves out a requirement that a computerized exit system be in place and working before any new immigration programs can begin. This ensures that if this bill passes, we will continue to have hundreds of thousands of legal visitors becoming illegal aliens each year.
Failure #2: NO MONEY FOR ENFORCEMENT
9/11 Families for Secure America noted that Congress has been passing all kinds of enforcement measures through the years that never got implemented because the White House refuses to ask for funding and because the Congress routinely short-changes them.
Without appropriations, none of the talk about increased enforcement means much - particularly when based on the track record of the last three administrations (including Bush 1) of ignoring immigration laws.
Failure #3: AMNESTY HAPPENS BEFORE ENFORCEMENT
Of course, the White House says this is not true. They point out that the part of the amnesty that puts illegal aliens on the path to green cards and citizenship doesn't start until the enforcement triggers are met. The triggers must be met before the Z-visas are given out to illegal aliens.
But the big hole in that argument is that illegal aliens get their legal status long before the Z-visas. They get their "probationary" legal status, including a work permit and social security number, at the very beginning after the bill passes. If the Z-visas are never offered (because the enforcement triggers aren't met), the bill would allow the now-legal aliens to work and live in the U.S. the rest of their lives under the probationary status.
Failure #4: ENFORCEMENT TRIGGERS ARE ABOUT PROCEDURE BUT NOT ABOUT RESULTS
The triggers can be met without any reduction in future illegal immigration at all.
The triggers do NOT require that DHS has operational control of the border;
..... they do NOT require that DHS comply with the law and build all of the fence;
..... they do NOT require that DHS implement the exit system that would allow us to know if "guest workers" actually leave, even though it has been in the law since 1996;
..... they do NOT require work site enforcement;
..... and they do NOT require that DHS increase its apprehension rate or its alien absconder removal rate.
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Originally Posted by 5stringJeff
