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Senator Sessions on Immigration Bill

June 19, 2007 | By Sniper One |

Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL), has released an audio file on the new Immigration bill as proposed by Sen. Reid.

(Follow the link for the audio)

http://src.senate.gov/public/_files/radio/sessionsimmig06_19_07.MP3

Kudos to Senator Sessions for sticking to his guns on this one. He makes me proud to be an Alabamian, even if it’s not for much longer.

Sen. Sessions mentions a house bill that is being introduced today. Hot Air is talking about that House Bill, as is the LA Times…

In a sharp rebuke to President Bush, House Republicans today introduced their own immigration reform and border security bill, a tough measure that would bar illegal immigrants from gaining legal status, require employers to check the legal status of all workers and make English the nation’s official language.

The Secure Borders First Act stresses operational control over the border as one of its core principles. The bill would reject “amnesty” and insist that the administration do more to enforce existing laws…

The new bill addresses major issues in immigration but it also turns a microscope on smaller issues that particularly frustrate conservatives. It would ban the use of matricula consular cards, identification cards issued by Mexican consulates and used by immigrants to open bank accounts or buy homes. It would make three convictions for drunk driving grounds for deportation…

Workers would not be able to bring their family and would not be able to gain citizenship, and one-quarter of their wages would be held in escrow to be picked up at the border when they returned home. They could stay for up to 22 months at a time and could participate repeatedly in the program but would have to return home between work periods for a duration of one-fifth the length of their stay in the U.S.

The bill would require the detention and deportation of all gang members. Currently, gang members are not deportable unless they have committed a crime.

Now this makes more sense to me. Especially the hold a quarter of the wages at the border part.

If you combine this with some of the other items we’ve hit upon, like…

  1. Build The Fence (Mexico and Canada)
  2. More INS, immigration processors, and Border Agents
  3. No Federal Funds for “Sanctuary Cities“
  4. National ID (so employers can tell who is illegal and who is not)
  5. Harsher Punishments for Employers who hire illegals.
  6. Increase the number of legal immigrants, and work faster to allow them in.
  7. Treatment and Deportation of any illegal using the medical system. Emergency treatments only.
  8. No use of schools K-12 or College for any illegal resident.
  9. Children born of Illegals are deported with parents.
  10. The use of sponsors

… and you have an immigration reform bill that America can live with.

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    1. Bill's Bites on June 19, 2007 18:22

      2006.06.19 “No Illegal Left Behind” Roundup…

      See previous: 2006.06.18 No Illegal Left Behind Roundup House Republicans introduce immigration bill The measure, a rebuke to Bush, would bar amnesty for illegal immigrants and require legal-status checks for all workers. WASHINGTON — In a sharp rebuk…

    2. Peter Richards III on June 19, 2007 22:20

      Really, This immigration reform is not logic. First instead of granting millions of lawbreakers a pardon of their law breaking, we can move the waiting time for the legal immigrant petitioners fast enought. Why an ILLEGAL will be closer than a non immigrant status visa holder to the green card?…
      The fence and all of that is a different story, a country can defend it self , thas ok, but why hurting the foreign citizens that obey the law. Why visa for PARENTS will be capped??, who invented that?. This country was founded principally on the family union and reunification. A US Citizen can bring their parents to live in this country with the same rights as they do. Why segregating them? why capping the right of the family based petition?. Maybe yes , brothers, sisters , cousins, that can be eliminated, but not parents, childern under 21 and spouses, that is the nucleous of the family, and the family strenght is the strenght of America. I ask Mr. J.W. Bush NOT TO hurt the first preference family based visa petition.

    3. wendell sorensen on June 20, 2007 0:03

      close borders
      jail employers of illegals
      no benefits for illegals

      equals aloud sucking sound as they go home with their kids…we do not breakup families.

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