Senator DeMint (R-SC): "This is amnesty"

[Little-Acorn]

From Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC)'s website:

http://demint.senate.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressReleases.Detail&PressRelease_id=470

DeMint Statement on Immigration Deal

May 17th, 2007 - Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator DeMint made the following statement:

“I hope we don't take a thousand page bill written in secret and try to ram it through the Senate in a few days. This is a very important issue for America and we need time to debate it.”

“But the little we do know about the bill is troubling. According to reports, the bill contains a new 'Z Visa' that allows those who entered our country illegally to stay here permanently without ever returning home. This rewards people who broke the law with permanent legal status, and puts them ahead of millions of law-abiding immigrants waiting to come to America. I don't care how you try to spin it, this is amnesty.”

 

[Vintij]

Well china has the Z-visa but you actually need a real passport to get one of these. It also limits your stay to 3 months. So if this is a model of chinas immigration policy, then I would agree to debate aspects of the American version of the z-visa in the house and senate.