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LARAZ's Immigration Reform For America is open for comments!

Please post your thoughts! Keep it clean, and honest please.

Here is mine:

Oh Please, if anyone wants to be an American or any other nationality make them all do it legally. Apply for citizenship, and go the regular routes just like millions of others do. This only disgraces anyone who spent years to migrate here legally. You folks are doing more harm to America by trying to displace American workers and turning this country into a 3rd world nation like so many others. Times are changeing, you need to begin a program that pushes people need to obey the laws of the nation they want to migrate to. We want immigrants, we only want them to come here the legal way and when we need the talents that Americans cannot provide
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http://www.reformimmigrationforamerica. ... nt-page-1/

Ken

Rich Stolz, Campaign Manager
rstolz@immigrationforum.org
IMMIGRATION REFORM IN THE 111TH CONGRESS
Principles of Immigration Reform

As the Administration and Congress prepare to begin debating immigration reform, we urge that the following principles guide our policymakers:

Immigration reform must promote economic opportunity. We must renew our commitment to helping all low-income Americans improve their job prospects and move up the economic ladder towards the American Dream. Opponents of reform try to pit the needs of native-born
workers against immigrants, but our vision of reform is that a rising tide lifts all boats. Immigrants and citizens working shoulder to shoulder, with the same labor protections, access to programs and services, due process, and faith in a system that works for them and their families,
is our vision for a stronger America.
Immigration reform must be comprehensive. Comprehensive immigration reform would recommit our country to being both a nation of immigrants and a nation of laws. Unless we reform the broken immigration system as a whole, we will fail to solve the problems at hand.

The necessary components of reform include:
(1) improving the economic situation of all workers in the United States; (2) legalizing the status of undocumented immigrants working and
living in the United States;
(3) reforming visa programs to keep families together, protecting
workers’ rights, and ensuring that future immigration is regulated and controlled rather than illegal and chaotic;
(4) implementing smart, effective enforcement measures targeted at the worst violators of immigration and labor laws;
(5) prioritizing immigrant integration into our
communities and country; and
(6) respecting the due process rights of all in the United States.
Long-term reform requires long term solutions. We acknowledge that the factors shaping immigration are not just domestic, and that the issue transcends our borders. As such, how we as a country approach our relationships with other nations matters. We must deal with the domestic
aspect of this issue, and work in partnership with other countries over time to develop long-term strategies that improve the economic conditions in regions that supply large numbers of economic migrants. Responsible and accountable approaches in this regard, coupled with
improving skills and opportunities for our domestic workforce, will improve the economic outlook for all our communities.

A reform package that works for all communities and families in America should include the following:

A rational and humane approach to the undocumented population. We must address the more than twelve million undocumented immigrants living in this country by creating a rigorous registration process that leads to lawful permanent resident status and eventual citizenship.

Undocumented immigrants working and living in the United States must be counted through a registration program that includes reasonable submission to background checks, paying an appropriate fine, paying taxes, and studying English. Undocumented immigrants who satisfy
those requirements must be permitted to apply for lawful permanent status leading to citizenship.

Protect U.S. and immigrant workers. Immigration reform is a component of building real economic security, contributing to a shared prosperity agenda that maintains and improves wages and working conditions in the United States and in other countries. Specifically, we must protect
all workers’ right to organize and bargain collectively, and provide occupational safety and health and anti-discrimination protections to workers regardless of whether they were born in the United States or abroad. This will ensure that immigration policies do not depress wages and working conditions or create incentives for unscrupulous employers to operate outside the legal system. Additionally, any employment verification system should determine employment authorization accurately and efficiently while protecting workers and good-faith employers. The system should minimize workplace disruptions, prevent discrimination and contain sufficient due process and privacy protections.
Allocate sufficient visas to close unlawful migration channels. One of the great failures of our current employment-based immigration system is that the level of legal immigration is set arbitrarily by Congress—as a product of political compromise—without regard to real labor
market needs. This failure has contributed to the development of an unregulated, but highly integrated North American labor market. The resulting extra-legal migration channels have created a shadow economy that has allowed unscrupulous employers to manipulate the system to
the detriment of workers and reputable employers alike. In order to close these unlawful migration channels, the allocation of employment visas to such workers should be depoliticized and placed in the hands of an independent commission that can assess labor shortages and
determine the number and characteristics of foreign workers to be admitted, with Congress' approval.

Enhance our nation's security and safety. A sensible enforcement strategy will keep America safe, protect due process and human rights, make the most effective use of the tools and policies already available in a fair and reasonable manner, and be fiscally responsible. Such a strategy
would prioritize enforcement actions to target genuine threats, including the prosecution and removal of violent individuals who pose a threat to public safety; the prosecution of unscrupulous employers who are exploiting vulnerable workers to enhance their competitive advantage; the elimination of trafficking and drug smuggling operations that profit from human exploitation; and the prevention of exploitation of the immigration system by those who seek to do the country harm. This strategy, however, must be coupled with vigorous enforcement of
civil rights and labor and employment laws. While the use of detention may be necessary in some cases, it should be used as a last resort, and Congress and the Administration must ensure that all detainees are treated safely and humanely by mandating the creation of enforceable
detention standards. An effective and sensible immigration enforcement strategy should not include continued use of local law enforcement agencies to enforce federal immigration law,
indiscriminate worksite and neighborhood immigration raids, and blanket detention policies.
Establish a strategic border enforcement policy that reflects American values. A border strategy that prioritizes the safety and security of border communities, and consults with these communities in the process, is the best way to ensure that our border policies protect our national
security. We must create comprehensive border solutions that balance enforcement with economic development and human and civil rights along the border. Border enforcement requires clear accountability mechanisms, such as a Border Enforcement Review Commission to
ensure that the rights of border residents and immigrants are protected and that enforcement measures are fiscally responsible.
Keep American families together. Our outdated family immigration channels, which keep close family members separated for decades, must be reformed to restore our commitment to promoting family unity. [b]Those stuck in endless “backlogsâ€

You can read my comment under "Callie."

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What if citizenship were a bank account? These people would be advocating that 'We' who have worked, earned and saved simply allow those who didn't access to OUR accounts. Not just that though, 'We' should also invite them into 'OUR' homes where they can then dictate to 'US' how 'OUR' home is run.

I suggest Luis G. set an example by doing these things for any and all who would 'Take Advantage of Such Insanity'.

Done!

Done.

Looks like i'l "ian" is getting spanked over there. lol

here is the link now to the main blog area, they think that they are winning now!


This is what they are talking about now also:

Cortes reminded us that it is only through the agitation of those who think differently than we do that we can win hearts and minds, in order to move the votes we need in Congress.

In closing, Cortes adress the infuriating injustice that the most vulnerable have faced because of our broken immigration system. He reminded us that Cold Anger is the only kind of anger that will help us win this fight.

Sounds like fightin words to me, lets heat this place up.....

Lets heat up this and show them what AMericans really want!

http://www.reformimmigrationforamerica.org/blog/

Ken

Done...posted as sosad!

It's been rigged. The original link shows our posts but when I checked the main Blog link to the exact same article our comments aren't included.