Immigration reform

[LaLinda75]

'Obama is a little confused on where that line begins. It began in the country where those are waiting legally to enter this county. The line does not begin here. Living and working here and enjoying the benefits of this country, puts them ahead of the line..'

Obama is being helped to 'appease' the illegals by the spanish media who does not know which end is up.

 

[Intense]

Important Immigration Enforcement Amendments are On the Line!

Help FAIR Ensure These Important Amendments Survive Conference!

The Senate is set to adjourn for its annual summer recess at the end of this week, and the House of Representatives has already adjourned for its summer break. With Members of Congress set to return home, one of the important items of unfinished business that will they will face when they return to Washington in September is the Fiscal Year 2010 Homeland Security (DHS) spending bill (H.R. 2892).

If you've been following FAIR's monitoring of the DHS spending bill over the past two months, you already know that this legislation has passed both the House and the Senate. Before the bill passed the Senate, true immigration reformers scored long-awaited legislative victories with the adoption of four commonsense amendments:

1.) Sessions E-Verify Amendment #1371 — Offered by Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Amendment #1371 makes the E-Verify program permanent. E-Verify is the online, electronically operated system that allows employers to quickly and easily check the work authorization status of their new employees. Without the Sessions Amendment, E-Verify is set to expire on September 30, 2009. By making E-Verify permanent, the Sessions Amendment will prevent supporters of mass amnesty from using any further extension of E-Verify as leverage to try to pass an amnesty bill for at least 12 million illegal aliens. In addition, the permanent extension would ensure that this important tool will always be available to good-faith employers. The Sessions Amendment also requires all employers who do business with the federal government to use E-Verify on their new hires, as well as existing employees assigned to affected federal contracts. This represents a huge leap towards finally ensuring that the federal government only does business with contractors who hire a legal workforce!

2.) DeMint Border Fence Amendment #1399 — Offered by Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC), Amendment #1399 requires the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to complete almost 700 miles of double-layered reinforced fencing along the southwest border by the end of 2010. The DeMint Amendment would direct DHS to complete the border fence as Congress originally intended when it passed the Secure Fence Act of 2006. DHS has been constructing fencing that would prevent vehicular border crossings, but has only completed construction of 32 miles of double-layer fencing to deter pedestrian border crossings. The DeMint Amendment is critical to ensure that the border fence will also reduce illegal alien foot traffic.

3.) Vitter "No-Match" Amendment #1375 — Offered by Senator David Vitter (R-LA), Amendment #1375 prohibits any of the funding in the FY2010 Homeland Security spending bill from being used to rescind a DHS final rule that will notify employers whose employees name does not match their Social Security numbers (SSNs) and directs employers to act when they receive these notices. According to DHS, "most" workers with unmatched SSNs are illegal aliens. The Vitter Amendment would open up jobs held by illegal aliens by providing an important immigration enforcement tool that addresses these no-matches!

4.) Grassley E-Verify Amendment #1415 — Offered by Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA), Amendment #1415 would give employers who are enrolled in E-Verify the option to use the program to check the work authorization status of existing employees in addition to new hires. Currently, E-Verify can only be used to check the status of new hires. With unemployment now at a 25-year high, the Grassley Amendment would act as a true stimulus plan for unemployed Americans! If an employer discovers illegal aliens on his payroll, that employer can free up jobs for Americans who are out of work!

The passage of these amendments is great news for Americans who support the enforcement of our immigration laws. However, the battle to ensure that these provisions become law isn't over yet. The DHS spending bill is now set to move to a House-Senate conference to resolve the differences between the House and Senate versions of the legislation. The House version of the bill does not contain any of the amendments listed above. This means that the Conference Report could drop any or all of these measures.

You can help FAIR ensure that these amendments survive the conference process! Here's what you can do:

If you can't make it to a town hall meeting, here's a list of the Senators who have already been appointed to the Conference Committee (the House hasn't appointed its conferees yet). We need you to call these Senators and tell them:

You support the Sessions, DeMint, Vitter, and Grassley immigration enforcement and border security amendments that were adopted as part of the DHS spending bill.
You expect them to do everything in their power to ensure that these amendments will be included in the final version of the bill.
You won't accept any effort to strip these commonsense measures from the bill during the Conference or during any backroom negotiations.
Robert Byrd (D-West Virginia): 202-224-3954
Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii): 202-224-3934
Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont): 202-224-4242
Barbara Mikulski (D-Maryland): 202-224-4654
Patty Murray (D-Washington): 202-224-2621
Mary Landrieu (D-Louisiana): 202-224-5824
Frank Lautenberg (D-New Jersey): 202-224-3224
Jon Tester (D-Montana): 202-224-2644
Arlen Specter (D-Pennsylvania): 202-224-4254
George Voinovich (R-Ohio): 202-224-3353
Thad Cochran (R-Mississippi): 202-224-5054
Judd Gregg (R-New Hampshire): 202-224-3324
Richard Shelby (R-Alabama): 202-224-5744
Sam Brownback (R-Kansas): 202-224-6521
Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska): 202-224-6665

Find the phone numbers of your Senators here.

The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR): FAIR Legislative Update July 13, 2009

 

[editec]

The leadership of BOTH PARTIES seems intent on giving illegal immigrants a path to legal citizenship.

EXACTLY as REAGAN did, I note.

How'd that work out for us last time?

 

[Intense]

Reagan made a bargain with congress and upheld his end. When is congress going to live up to it's end? When Hell freezes over. Why do you blame him?

 

[TT16]

This debate is no longer about illegal immigration, it's about winning elections. The republicans have already taken a big hit for the next presidential election by not voting for Sotomayor more than they did. Without minorities, republicans vs democrats in a national election would be pretty much a 50-50 match up. The minorities are the swing vote. Hispanics are the fastest growing minority group. In a few years, all minorities combined will be the majority in the US. There are now several minority/majority states including Texas and California. If the congressional republicans do not act and vote in ways to attract a significant number of minorities, they could very well cease to exist as a political party.

 

[TT16]

The solution to illegal immigration is: stop hiring them! Take away the incentive.

Here is why this wont work.
Underground activities can be grouped into four main catego ries:
1. Economic activity yielding income that is not reported to the tax
authorities.
2. Economic production that violates one or several other mandates, such
as compulsory government licensing and rate making, inspection and
label laws, labor laws, government regula tions of agriculture, export
and import controls, government control over money and banking,
governmental control of energy production and distribution, and
countless others. Violators may or may not evade taxes, but they all
work illegally, hiding from swarms of government inspectors.
3. Productive activity by transfer beneficiaries who draw Social Security
benefits or receive public assistance. Their freedom to work is severely
restricted.
4. Productive activity by illegal aliens without residence status. They may
pay income taxes and other taxes, but must remain underground for
fear of deportation.
Read More............
http://mises.org/etexts/underground.pdf

 

[LaLinda75]

'This debate is no longer about illegal immigration, it's about winning elections. The republicans have already taken a big hit for the next presidential election by not voting for Sotomayor more than they did. Without minorities, republicans vs democrats in a national election would be pretty much a 50-50 match up. The minorities are the swing vote. Hispanics are the fastest growing minority group. In a few years, all minorities combined will be the majority in the US. There are now several minority/majority states including Texas and California. If the congressional republicans do not act and vote in ways to attract a significant number of minorities, they could very well cease to exist as a political party.'

And you, TT16, have fallen for the biggest bag of crap in the 21st century! Who the heck has you people convinced that hispanics vote ONLY for those who are pro-illegal immigration???? They, the pro-illegal advocates, have the politicians running like scared chimpanzees. If the dems got the hispanic vote in 2008 it's because the MAJORITY of them did not like GWB! The majority, 72% of those hispanics who vote, are NOT for people entering our country illegally!!! You people have to stop falling for all the rhetoric that orgs like NCLR, MALDEF, LULAC and the spanish media keep feeding you! If things in this country keep going as they are, you will find that in 2010 and 2012, hispanics will jump to the republican party just to keep the dems from doing more harm to the COUNTRY and not for the reasons those orgs want you to believe. (Yes, I know I said good-bye put I could not let this idiotic type of thinking go without a rebuttle.) So again - good-bye.

 

[TT16]

#27 LaLinda75
No doubt, that is wishful thinking on your part but those just arent the facts. The republicans for the most part are an anti-minority party. If they don't change their ways, they will cease to exist. The antics of the far right are doing damage as we speak.

"Nevada has a growing Hispanic population, a group that is increasingly moving to the Democratic names on the ballot. The Hispanic electorate nationwide is credited with giving President Barack Obama the margin he needed for victory last fall.

Like Republicans nationally, the party in Nevada has lost ground with Hispanics, and the state’s Republican elected officials in Washington are giving these voters little reason to join the party, said Andres Ramirez, a Nevadan who is vice president of Hispanic Affairs at NDN, a liberal think tank in Washington."

Read More..........
In opposing Sotomayor, is GOP risking the Hispanic vote? - Las Vegas Sun

 

[LaLinda75]

#27 LaLinda75
No doubt, that is wishful thinking on your part but those just arent the facts. The republicans for the most part are an anti-minority party. If they don't change their ways, they will cease to exist. The antics of the far right are doing damage as we speak.

Say what??? It's been the repub party who has done more for minorities than the dems! See what I mean, you people buy all the propaganda! The proof is in the pudding. It was Reagan who gave them amnesty; it was Bush who tried to give them another one but the american people, both repubs and dems and of ALL races, said enough is enough! Stop the spin, Get the facts.

Andres Ramirez, a Nevadan who is vice president of Hispanic Affairs at NDN, a liberal think tank in Washington."

I rest my case........

 

[LaLinda75]

Oh yes, I forgot - McCain was also for an amnesty and is very pro-illegal - so why did he not win??? The people wanted the dems in and the repubs out.....no matter what.

 

[TT16]

Sarah Palin destroyed any chance for John McCain getting elected. She is to much of a far right extremist. John himsef was and is out touch with modern realities. His daughter is a good example of what should be a modern republican. If more like her don't come along, the party is gone. There are only 4 solid red states left and 1 leaning red. The minorities are the swing vote and they get nothing but disrespect from the republicans.