Thread: Goodlatte statement on obama administration immigration announcement

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June 18, 2012 Monday
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The following information was released by the office of Virginia Rep. Bob Goodlatte:

Congressman Bob Goodlatte issued this statement following the Obama Administrations announcement that they will stop deporting and instead grant work permits to illegal immigrants who came to the U.S.

Todays politically motivated announcement from the Obama Administration that it is going to immediately stop deporting illegal immigrants who came to this country and instead grant them work permits is an outrageous abuse of power by the Executive Branch. With this announcement President Obama has completely bypassed the Congress, which is charged with writing our immigration laws, in order to grant possible amnesty to many illegal immigrants. This policy shift is in direct conflict with the law of our land.

Not only do I believe President Obama lacks the authority to make such a change to our immigration laws but I find it particularly egregious that he would want to hand out work permits to nearly 1 million illegal immigrants when many Americans are struggling to find work themselves.

America is a land of great opportunity and promise. Our nation was founded by those who sought a better life and our strength and diversity come from our immigrant heritage. However, our nation was also founded upon a set of principles, among them the rule of law and fairness and todays announcement by the Obama Administration is contrary to these very principles.

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Great statment, loved it? Loved it because Rep. Goodlatte is right on every point! What did he do though to tighten border security and deport illegal aliens?

Rep. Bob Goodlatte Introduces the SAFE Act to End the Visa Lottery

Friday, February 18, 2011, 6:32 PM EDT


Rep. Goodlatte

Elected Officials Who...

• Sponsored H.R.704 - SAFE for America Act of 2011 (Goodlatte)
  Updated Friday, February 17, 2012, 2:52 PM EDT

Total 44 Sponsors

• (AL) Brooks
• (CA) Bilbray
• (CA) Gallegly
• (CA) Herger
• (CA) Miller
• (CA) Sherman
• (CO) Coffman
• (CO) Lamborn
• (FL) Nugent
• (FL) Posey
• (FL) Rooney
• (FL) Ross
• (FL) West
• (GA) Woodall
• (IA) King
• (KS) Jenkins
• (MD) Harris
• (MI) McCotter
• (MN) Kline
• (MS) Nunnelee
• (MS) Palazzo
• (MO) Hartzler
• (NY) Hayworth
• (NC) Myrick
• (NC) Shuler

• (NC) Jones
• (OK) Sullivan
• (OR) DeFazio
• (SC) Duncan
• (SC) Mulvaney
• (TX) Carter
• (TX) Conaway
• (TX) Flores
• (TX) Johnson
• (TX) Marchant
• (TX) Poe
• (TX) Smith
• (UT) Chaffetz
• (VA) Forbes
• (VA) Goodlatte
• (VA) Hurt
• (VA) Wittman
• (VA) Wolf
• (WV) McKinley

Official H.R. 704 cosponsor list


Elected Officials Who...

• Sponsored S.332 - Strengthening our Commitment to Legal Immigration and America's Security Act (Hatch)
  Updated Tuesday, March 8, 2011, 7:50 AM EDT

Total 2 Sponsors

• (KS) Roberts
• (UT) Hatch

Official S.332 cosponsor list



Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) reintroduced his SAFE for America Act (H.R.704) this week, which would in effect shut down the Visa Lottery. The lottery issues 50,000 green cards per year without any regard to their humanitarian needs, what they might offer the country or their having any family connections here.
Rep. Goodlatte had planned to introduce an amendment to H.R.1, the Continuing Resolution to fund the federal government for the remainder of FY2011, that would have prevented funding from the bill going towards the administration of the lottery. After several days of floor debate, however, Rep. Goodlatte was not allowed to introduce his amendment.
H.R.704 was introduced with 12 original co-sponsors.

https://www.numbersusa.com/content/n...a-lottery.html

Goodlatte has an A+ from numbers USA
https://www.numbersusa.com/content/m...sheet#tabset-3