Thread: ONLY a few of the significant problems with amnesty bill

Only a few of the significant problems with the amnesty bill
Up to 20 million illegal aliens would be granted citizenship.

"All background checks on those applying for amnesty must be completed within 24 hours, although there is no justification why and plenty of reason to suggest that complete background checks can't be done so quickly." (Bill Tucker on Lou Dobbs, CNN, April 22, 2007)

The amnesty will triple rate of chain migration of extended family from around 250,000 a year to around 750,000 a year for about a decade. (NumbersUSA.com, May, 2007)

Approximately 103 million illegal aliens will be brought into the United States - one-third of America's current population.

Will bring in new flows of 400,000 temporary foreign workers each year, bringing their families and having anchor babies who will be given U.S. citizenship. (NumbersUSA.com, May, 2007)

"Gang members would be given amnesty if they 'renounce' their gang membership. If an illegal alien is arrested in an enforcement raid and might be eligible for amnesty, the government must provide help in applying for the Z visa and release the illegal alien." (Bill Tucker on Lou Dobbs, CNN, April 22, 2007)

The bill would decrease the length of the border fence to be built from approximately 854 miles authorized in 2006 to approximately 200 miles. (Bill Tucker on Lou Dobbs, CNN, April 22, 2007)

Under the bill anyone who absconds after being ordered deported will be eligible for amnesty. If they follow the law and follow a judge's deportation order, they will not be elegible for amnesty - so they would not follow the law and leave. (Bill Tucker on Lou Dobbs, CNN, April 22, 2007)

Illegal aliens are already faced with a $5,000 fine (19 USC 1459 and 19 USC 1433), but this fine is not enforced. The $5,000 fine stipulated in the amnesty bill is simply a service charge to gain dual citizenship (Mexico already gives emigrants dual citizenship).

The Z (amnesty) visa could be extended indefinitely for the life of the holder. It is not temporary.
"If passed, this bill will make taxpayers pay the legal bills for illegal aliens seeking amnesty...." - Ken Boehm, Chairman of the National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC), May 22, 2007.
H1B visas will be doubled from 85,000 to 160,000, thereby displacing nearly 80,000 American high tech workers annually.

Under the amnesty, illegal aliens would not have to pay back taxes. But they would be eligible for earned income tax credit. (Lou Dobbs, CNN, May 23, 2007)

Once granted amnesty, illegal aliens would not have to learn English for seven years. (Lou Dobbs, CNN, May 23, 2007)

The amnesty specifies a "point system" for future legal entry into the U.S. However, this will not fully take effect for eight years. (Lou Dobbs, CNN, May 23, 2007)
"Section 413 promises U.S. help in getting financial services to Mexico's poor and under-served populations, expanding effort to reduce the transaction costs of remittance flows, helping the Mexican government to strengthen education and job training, and increasing health care access for the poor in Mexico." (Christine Romans on Lou Dobbs, CNN, April 22, 2007) "...we have truly entered a bizarre place, where the president of the United States, President George W. Bush, is representing the interests of Mexican citizens in this country, and Congress, our Senate, is attempting to impose a law that is appropriately the purview of the Mexican legislature." Lou Dobbs, CNN, April 22, 2007)
"Section 413 asks the U.S. Congress to ramp up the six-year-old bilateral Partnership for Prosperity and highlights the broader North American Security and Prosperity Partnership." (Christine Romans on Lou Dobbs, CNN, April 22, 2007)

Over the next 13 years alone, it would increase the current number of legal foreign-born green card holders from about 25 million (who arrived over 75 years) to around 50 million. (NumbersUSA.com)
Robert Rector, Heritage Foundation, just estimated that this particular amnesty will cost the American taxpayers 2.3 tp 2.5 trillion—that's right trillion—dollars!


"...The White House misleads with its claims that the amnesty recipients won't get welfare benefits. For the first decade or so they are in the United States, the adults can't get means-tested welfare benefits but their children could. And after that first decade, the adults get to partake of the welfare state as well. For the next 40 years, notes Mr. Rector, they are eligible "for every single type" of these welfare benefits."

"So the bottom line is that each of these households receives about $30,000 in government benefits, pays about $10,000 in taxes, at a net cost of around $19,000 per year [after rounding]. That's the equivalent of buying each of these households an automobile and every year of their lives as long as they're in the United States." (The immigration time-bomb Washington Times editorial, May 23, 2007)

Social Security for illegal aliens. A "totalization" agreement is waiting to be signed by Bush that would pay U.S. Social Security to all legal and illegal Mexicans who work here. All will be covered by affirmative action. Aliens would have to work eighteen months to receive the same benefits that Americans receive only after working ten years.
"The bill effectively shuts down our immigration-court system. If an alien in the removal process is eligible for the Z visa, the immigration judge must close the proceedings and offer the alien the chance to apply for the amnesty. The wheels of justice won't just turn slowly, they'll go in reverse.

The bill transforms the federal Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from a law-enforcement agency into an amnesty-distribution center. If ICE officials apprehend an alien who appears eligible for the Z visa (in other words, just about any illegal alien), they can't detain him. Instead, ICE must help him apply for the Z visa." - Rewarding Lawbreakers, by Kris Kobach, New York Post, May 21, 2007
Amnesties result in increased numbers is illegal aliens invading our country.

http://www.cairco.org/pol/us_senate_amn ... 07may.html

Hundreds of pages of bill text and we will still have anchor babies. I might add, that we are pay to deliver!!

That's not "comprehensive", that's incomprehensible.

Dixie

Have you noticed many are getting away from the '12 million illegals?'

Now we're hearing the '20 million' figure more, interesting!

Yeah, I've been hearing the 20 million figure more often also. Does this mean the actual number is closer to 30 million?