Thread: Immigration bill has no teeth

Immigration bill has no teeth

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061007
By The Times-Union

The current immigration policy discussion is reminiscent of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986.

The 1986 law established a one-year amnesty program for illegal immigrants who had already worked and lived in the United States for four years.

Those eligible could apply for regularization of status and eventually full citizenship.

The law also mandated the intensification of Border Patrol activities to prohibit the further entry of illegals.

The law criminalized the act of knowingly hiring an illegal immigrant.

It established financial and other penalties for those employing illegal aliens, under the theory that low prospects for employment would reduce illegal immigration.

The immigration act accomplished only one stated objective, legalizing over 2.7 million illegal aliens.

Very little was done to augment the Border Patrol.

Very little was done to prosecute those hiring illegal immigrants.

As a result, we now have an additional 12 million illegal aliens.

The currently proposed immigration policy is strikingly similar to the 1986 law.

Recently, the Senate rejected, by a 49-48 vote, a proposal by Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn.

It would have allowed government authorities to question someone about his immigration status if they had probable cause to suspect the person was in the United States illegally.

Does this sound like Congress intends to limit future illegal immigration?

It is painfully obvious that Democrats have no intention of controlling future illegal immigration, regardless of the wording in the new immigration bill.

The new immigration law passed in 2007 will have exactly the same effect as the immigration law of 1986, except on a much larger scale.

It will legalize 12 million illegal immigrants, while leaving the borders open and law enforcement powerless.

We are being sold the same fraud now that we were sold in 1986.

I'm telling you people need to come down hard on the Demacrates also. There is some really big traitors in that party and if they want to hold the majority they had better do what is right for the U.S..

Originally Posted by SOSADFORUS

I'm telling you people need to come down hard on the Demacrates also. There is some really big traitors in that party and if they want to hold the majority they had better do what is right for the U.S..

Aww, come on, they're still all about the worker. The foreign worker, but still! :P

Originally Posted by squishy

Originally Posted by SOSADFORUS

I'm telling you people need to come down hard on the Demacrates also. There is some really big traitors in that party and if they want to hold the majority they had better do what is right for the U.S..

Aww, come on, they're still all about the worker. The foreign worker, but still! :P

Ya, they need to learn to prioritize

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"It would have allowed government authorities to question someone about his immigration status if they had probable cause to suspect the person was in the United States illegally. "


Umm, as an attorney, the thing I don't I understand is why we need a law to do this.

If "government authorities" have probable cause to believe that someone is in the United States illegally, they can make an arrest. That's what "probable cause" is.

This is why, in my view, it isn't that hard to deport millions of the illegal aliens. If you look at the numbers, there is a 70% that any hispanic immigrant who came here since 2000 is illegal. So vast numbers can simply be questioned and arrested immediately, because there is probable cause.

For the Chinese, Irish, and Koreans, it would be much harder, but better workplace enforcement can take of them.