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Tennessee Comptroller Says Lawmen "Frustrated" by Illegal Immigrant Situation
Richard Simms
August 7, 2007 - 11:00AM
A comprehensive report by Tennessee Comptroller John Morgan says that local law enforcement agencies are "frustrated at the lack of response from the federal government in picking up criminal unauthorized aliens for possible deportation..." That's just a small portion in a 28-page report Morgan's department prepared for the General Assembly. It outlines numerous issues with regard to problems associated with illegal immigrants. Click HERE to read the entire report.

Morgan writes, "The General Assembly may wish to consider encouraging the federal government to take a stronger role in this area including increasing the quotas of immigrants allowed to enter the United States, increased enforcement against undocumented workers and employers hiring unauthorized aliens, deportation of criminal aliens, and funding state and local public services for this population."

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"The General Assembly may wish to consider encouraging the federal government to take a stronger role in this area including increasing the quotas of immigrants allowed to enter the United States

Are you kidding me ???

The U.S. legalizes more than 2 million people each year through either citizenship or green card provision

We grant 3,300 people citizenship each day
We grant 3,200 people green cards each day
We grant 240 people asylum each day

We have 9 different guest worker programs already in existance, 6 of which are unlimited (no caps) in the number of workers that can be brought in.

2/3 of green cards granted to aliens are issued to family members of individuals that are already here in order to provide for family unification.

Legal Permanent Residents in U.S. (green cards)

2006: 1,266,264
2005: 1,122,373
2004: 957,883

Source: Department of Homeland Security

Question: How many guest worker programs do we have?

Answer: 9

Source: NumbersUSA

Question: What are they?

Answer:

SKILLED -- Treaty Traders, Treaty Investors -- authorized by international free trade agreements.

H-1B Workers -cap: 85,000 (unlimited exceptions to cap)
H-1C Nurses -cap: 500
L-1 Intracompany Transferees -unlimited

UNSKILLED --

H-2A Temporary Agricultural Workers -unlimited
H-2B Temporary or Seasonal Workers -cap: 66,000 ("returning workers" from prior 3 years exempt from cap)

OTHER WORKERS --

Workers with Extraordinary Ability -- unlimited
Athletes & Entertainers -- unlimited
Religious Workers -- unlimited

Source: NumbersUSA

The General Assembly may wish to consider encouraging the federal government to take a stronger role in this area including increasing the quotas of immigrants allowed to enter the United States,

This kind of statement concerns me.

I fear our government is pulling something - not sure what and we won't know until it is done. If they can come out and say, 'we need to enforce laws, blah, blah, blah, but we will then have to increase visas, they can just hand out visas to the ones here and how we would really know.

Maybe the illegals could take a vacation home, visas already in hand, then return as a 'legal' worker.

These politicians are not going to give up this easily - they just aren't. They have worked for 30 years to get this thing accomplished.