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Don't Be Fooled By Fake Immigration Reform
June 17, 2005

The mass immigration advocates have finally realized that the vast majority of Americans want immigration reform, border security, employer sanctions and all the nation's immigration laws enforced. Their response is to attempt to hijack the term "reform" and include it in their open borders discussions and legislation.

This summer we are likely to see the president's vision of "comprehensive immigration reform." Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Jon Kyl (R-AZ) intend to introduce a bill soon that will likely incorporate most of the President's already discredited guest worker proposals. They are calling it comprehensive immigration "reform." However, their bill is likely to fall far short of what the vast majority of Americans would recognize as comprehensive immigration reform.

Beware

Just because the White House calls something "comprehensive immigration reform," doesn't mean it is. As you hear immigration issues discussed on television, talk radio and in Congressional Townhall Meetings keep in mind, it is not immigration reform if it doesn't:

Cut the numbers

The Cornyn-Kyl bill will include new guest workers. Any increase in guest workers, increases the numbers. Even if the bill does not specifically allow them to stay, we all know the familiar refrain that will follow. "How can we ask them all to go home? They've been here six years; they have American-born kids in school, etc., etc., etc."

Just say no to amnesty

Cornyn and Kyl have professed opposition to amnesty, but if their bill (as President Bush has called for) allows upwards of 11 million illegal aliens to remain in the country it is an amnesty and not comprehensive immigration reform!

Protect wages and standards of living

Americans understand that both guest workers and illegal aliens are a major cause of declining wages and working conditions for American workers. If a Cornyn-Kyl bill allows illegal aliens to be guest workers, more illegals will come. Any large guest worker program open to all sectors of the U.S. economy will place middle class jobs on the auction block and is not comprehensive immigration reform!

Increase interior enforcement and employer sanctions

Cornyn-Kyl will authorize all sorts enhanced enforcement provisions. Authorize, however, is not the same as appropriate or implement. If, funded, verifiable enforcement is not a prerequisite to any other provisions of the bill, then it is not comprehensive immigration reform!

FAIR is not waiting for the Administration's, PR blitz of selling open borders and amnesty as comprehensive immigration reform. Our Seven Principles of True Comprehensive Immigration Reform lays out the basics of legitimate immigration reform, as the overwhelming majority of Americans understand it to be and have been demanding for a long time.

The 7 Principals of True Comprehensive Immigration Reform is attached. You can use the principals as a test of whether the suggestions, solutions and legislation dealing with immigration are True Reform.

Together we can win! Good luck,