Thread: Bob Goodlatte: Senate immigration bill ‘falls far short’

By Roxana Tiron - May 22, 2013 12:39 PM PT
Bloomberg.com

The Senate’s comprehensive immigration bill won’t accomplish the goal of ending “illegal immigration for once and for all,” said House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte.

“The Senate bill is unlikely to secure the border,” Goodlatte, a Virginia Republican, said at a hearing he convened today in Washington to examine the legislation approved yesterday by the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Goodlatte said the measure, which the full Senate will consider in June, requires the Department of Homeland Security “to simply submit a border security plan to initiate the legalization of 11 million unlawful immigrants.”

“Without securing the border, and with a simple submission of a plan, unlawful immigrants become eligible for registered provisional immigrant status,” Goodlatte said. “The strategy does not have to be complete or be even more than a fantasy.”

Goodlatte, whose committee has jurisdiction over immigration legislation in the House, has begun introducing a series of measures with the goal of changing the system through a piecemeal approach, instead of one comprehensive plan.

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