Thread: Immigration Expert: Republicans Push Enforcement, Not Reform

Immigration Law Experts Believe Republican House Leaders Will Push For Enforcement, Not Reform

November 22, 2010
by Personal Liberty News Desk

Immigration law experts believe Republican House leaders will push for enforcement, not reform. Some immigration experts believe that the new Republican-led House of Representatives will be more focused on enforcing immigration law, rather than pushing through a comprehensive reform of the currently broken system.

According to The Epoch Times, Stephen Yale-Loehr, a professor of law at Cornell University, expects comprehensive immigration reform to be placed on the back burner in the next congressional session. Yale-Loehr, who is the co-author of a 20-volume immigration law treatise, said that key leaders on immigration and Homeland Security subcommittees will likely concentrate more on drafting stricter laws for illegal immigrants who are already living in the United States.

Aziz Rana, who is also a law professor at Cornell, told the news provider that the economic situation does not bode well for immigration reform. Rana added that reform has historically been unpopular during economic downturns.

Some groups, however, are optimistic about future reform legislation under the GOP leadership. The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) said that the results of midterm elections reflected the public's feelings on broken immigration policies.

"FAIR urges the leadership of the next Congress to embrace the agenda of the American people and transform our immigration policy to place their interests first," said Dan Stein, the organization's president. "The American people want our immigration laws enforced and overall levels of immigration reduced."

The group noted that several reform proposals have already garnered bipartisan support, including mandatory work eligibility verification, enhanced security along the nation's borders and elimination of the visa lottery program.

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One can only pray. Enforcement is the way to go. NO NO NO NO NO reform.

WE DO NOT NEED TO REFORM OUR IMMIGRATION LAWS JUST TO SUIT MEXICO AND THEIR ILLEGAL CAST OFFS LIVING AND WORKING HERE ILLEGALLY. THE FOLKS WE SEND TO WASHINGTON JUST NEEDS TO DO THEIR JOB, AND ENFORCE THE LAWS THAT ARE ALREADY ON THE BOOKS NO AMNESTY PLAIN AND SIMPLE.

Its about time is all I can say. Stop talking about reform, the laws are just fine, start enforcing them. Hopefully we can get a fence built that spans the whole border and then put enough troops there to stop the invasion forever. Then we need to ship them all out of here.

All this talk about reform gives me a headache. Exactly WHO is it that thinks we need to reform our current laws? I suspect it's the very people who VIOLATE them that seek a change! We are NOT the dumping ground of the world. (Does anyone remember the Muriel Boat Lift)? A country that doesn't enforce their own borders is no country at all. We need to ENFORCE our laws and CONTROL our borders. Period.