Thread: Senate immigration proposal a betrayal of public

Senate immigration proposal a betrayal of public

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Joel Ondrejack
Davie
Posted May 26 2007

South Floridians decry the recent immigration deal announced last week by the Senate. The proposal would allow virtually all illegal aliens currently in the United States to remain and work in this country. In addition, it would raise legal importation of foreign workers over its already peak historical level. Over the next 13 years alone, it would increase the current number of foreign-born green card holders from about 25 million (who arrived over 75 years) to around 50 million.

The Senate negotiators would have us believe we can solve illegal immigration by rewarding it, and that we can deal with the American people's sense of being overwhelmed by a 20-year flood of accelerated immigration by increasing the numbers still further. These senators have sold out the American public and the rule of law by agreeing to craft such a disastrous bill that gives illegal aliens exactly what they broke the law to obtain: permission to live and work in the United States.

Several of these negotiators ran for re-election on platforms promising not to legalize immigration lawbreakers or have promised constituents for months that they would never be part of this kind of amnesty.

Their betrayal of trust was made official when they stood at the press conference last week announcing the "amnesty."

The proposal will bring about another flood of illegal immigration as it has the same basic elements of the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act: enhanced enforcement, legal immigration increases, guest workers and amnesties. Even if they are required to pay fines or back taxes, learn English and civics, or even "go to the back of the line" for their green cards, if the end result is legal permission to work or stay for any period of time in the United States, it is amnesty.

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