The Obama administration says all the House need do, to solve the immigration kerfuffle, is to pass the immigration bill that the Senate passed a year ago. Sounds good.
But I wonder what is in that Senate bill. Lots of amnesty?, guest workers? more H1B visas? More immigration overall? Border security? How many pages is it? Another 1000 page monstrosity which basically lets the bureaucracy do any thing it wants?
Not even the Fox newsies are saying anything about the contents of the Senate bill. They don't even mention it's number.
If there is any life left in American constitutional Democracy, the reps will vote their districts. And the districts are dubious to hostile toward amnesty. And toward letting more people into the country. We voters have turned out of office plenty of reps who voted for Obamacare. You would think that would get the message across.
Showing posts with label Immigration bill. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Immigration bill. Show all posts
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Monday, June 24, 2013
So What is a "Registered Provisional Immigrant"?
I first saw this phrase in an Email from my US Senator supporting the 1200 page Corker-What's-his-face amendment.
Sounds like all those 11 million or so illegals currently in the country become "registered provisional immigrants" (RPI for short) as soon as the bill is passed. Or as soon as they file a form down at the Post Office. Wanna bet all those instant RPI's gain the right to stay in the US and the right to work in the US? Once they have that, who needs a green card? I mean a lot of perfectly decent folk just want to hold a job, raise their families, and pursue a little happiness. Gaining US citizenship is of less importance to them, just as long as they can stay in the country and maintain a low profile.
So, after declaring everyone an RPI, why do we need E-verify or employer sanctions? I mean now that everybody is legal, sort of, why do we need by bang on employers about who they hire? Especially since we are still in the grip of Great Depression 2.0 and want to get unemployment down?
Sounds like all those 11 million or so illegals currently in the country become "registered provisional immigrants" (RPI for short) as soon as the bill is passed. Or as soon as they file a form down at the Post Office. Wanna bet all those instant RPI's gain the right to stay in the US and the right to work in the US? Once they have that, who needs a green card? I mean a lot of perfectly decent folk just want to hold a job, raise their families, and pursue a little happiness. Gaining US citizenship is of less importance to them, just as long as they can stay in the country and maintain a low profile.
So, after declaring everyone an RPI, why do we need E-verify or employer sanctions? I mean now that everybody is legal, sort of, why do we need by bang on employers about who they hire? Especially since we are still in the grip of Great Depression 2.0 and want to get unemployment down?
Monday, May 6, 2013
New Immigration bill does what?
Hard to tell. The bill is long, hundreds of pages, all written in a foreign language (legal gobbledegook). The best summary I found was this Reuters article. It seems like a balanced discussion to me, Reuters has a good reputation for impartiality going back a century or so, and being British, is less likely to take sides in a purely American issue. And, many, if not most, of the other articles on the web quote the Reuters article or are clearly based upon it.
So what will this immigration reform bill do?
1. Create a path to citizenship for the 11 million illegals already in the country. It's a fairly demanding path. Immigrant must have a reasonably clean criminal record, must become reasonably fluent in English, must attend civics classes, pay substantial fees, and probably more. And spend some ten years on the path. It will take serious motivation to stay on the path for that length of time. I'm confident that any illegal who stays the course and gets naturalized will be a willing and loyal citizen of the US.
2. Give the secretary of Homeland Security broad powers to waive problems with an immigrant's criminal history. Pretty much, if the secretary is OK with the immigrant's record, he gets in.
3. Revise immigration policy from the current family ties policy to a merit based policy. Immigrants (all immigrants) will be given points for college degrees, valuable industrial experience (machinist, technician, computer programmer,etc) fluency in English, and again, probably more. The idea is to favor immigrants who will contribute to the American economy, rather than the current policy that favors grandparents and siblings of US citizens.
4. Provide $150 million in funding for immigrant advocacy groups to inform potential immigrants of their opportunities and to assist them with the paperwork.
5. Labor unions and the Chamber of Commerce have wrangled over the guest worker and H1B visa provisions and are reported to be happy with them.
6. Probably a lot of other stuff buried in the hundreds of pages of the bill. Who has the energy to plow thru that much gobbledegook?
7. Congresscritters have a couple of days left to slip their favorite goodies into the bill, so we won't know what's been done to us until they do it.
From what Reuters has published, it isn't a bad bill. It would be a better one if they boiled it down to 20 pages, in English and published it so we really knew what we were getting into.
So what will this immigration reform bill do?
1. Create a path to citizenship for the 11 million illegals already in the country. It's a fairly demanding path. Immigrant must have a reasonably clean criminal record, must become reasonably fluent in English, must attend civics classes, pay substantial fees, and probably more. And spend some ten years on the path. It will take serious motivation to stay on the path for that length of time. I'm confident that any illegal who stays the course and gets naturalized will be a willing and loyal citizen of the US.
2. Give the secretary of Homeland Security broad powers to waive problems with an immigrant's criminal history. Pretty much, if the secretary is OK with the immigrant's record, he gets in.
3. Revise immigration policy from the current family ties policy to a merit based policy. Immigrants (all immigrants) will be given points for college degrees, valuable industrial experience (machinist, technician, computer programmer,etc) fluency in English, and again, probably more. The idea is to favor immigrants who will contribute to the American economy, rather than the current policy that favors grandparents and siblings of US citizens.
4. Provide $150 million in funding for immigrant advocacy groups to inform potential immigrants of their opportunities and to assist them with the paperwork.
5. Labor unions and the Chamber of Commerce have wrangled over the guest worker and H1B visa provisions and are reported to be happy with them.
6. Probably a lot of other stuff buried in the hundreds of pages of the bill. Who has the energy to plow thru that much gobbledegook?
7. Congresscritters have a couple of days left to slip their favorite goodies into the bill, so we won't know what's been done to us until they do it.
From what Reuters has published, it isn't a bad bill. It would be a better one if they boiled it down to 20 pages, in English and published it so we really knew what we were getting into.
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