Thread: CIR here we go again

Although the Senate is in recess, both Republicans and Democrats in the Senate introduced immigration bills in October to set the stage for debate on the issue through the election, the lame duck session, and the 112th Congress.

Sen. Robert Menendez’s (D-N.J.) Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2010 makes the attempted amnesties from 2006 and 2007 look like Arizona’s SB 1070. The bill is over 800 pages long, so anti-amnesty researchers have not had time to comb through every little detail, but what they’ve found so far is bad enough. The bill will grant amnesty to every single illegal alien in the country. It will increase legal immigration by millions, and will nullify all state and local laws against illegal immigration.

The bill also gives amnesty for social security fraud, and gives in-state tuition to illegal aliens. Menendez’s bill incorporates the Uniting American Families Act, which allows homosexuals living in the US to sponsor their same-sex partners for citizenship. Giving federal recognition to homosexual partners in an immigration act could be used as a precedent to impose legal homosexual marriage throughout the country.

The same day Menendez introduced his amnesty, Sen. Orin Hatch sponsored the Strengthening Our Commitment to Legal Immigration and America’s Security Act. Unlike Menendez’s bill, it is only a few pages long. It will prevent Obama from committing an amnesty through executive order, eliminates the diversity visas—which gives 55,000 unnecessary green cards every year by a lottery—and encourages states to assist enforcement of immigration laws.

This is a good start, but does not come close to fixing our disastrous immigration policy.

Republicans do not need an 800-page bill like Menendez’s, but there are a few simple principles that need to guide our policies. We must increase border security and interior enforcement against illegal immigration. We need to remove rewards for illegal aliens. And we need to reform our excessive legal immigration policies to protect American workers and taxpayers.

The anti-amnesty organization Numbers USA lists 5 bills in the House of Representatives that will give real “comprehensive immigration reformâ€

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I hope this helps.

November elections may not assure these actions,but they better take heed to the people(citizens) voices over the disastrous invasion of illegal aliens into this country. It is time they fight HARD for us all.

I don't know why so many are brainwashed that we must fix our immigration system. We don't have to let anybody in, ever, and in my personal opinion it is extremely immoral of us to do so until we have our financial house in order.