Complete enforcement of the 1986 amnesty bill

[LilOlLady]

COMPLETE ENFORCEMENT OF THE 1986 AMNESTY BILL

We need to finish enforcing the 1986 immigration bill before we pass another immigration bill. Secure the border, enforce our immigration laws against businesses that hire illegal aliens and a temporary farm workers program with no path to citizenship. Period. Not in the present unemployment rate for Americans.

Does not matter how they got here, over the border or overstayed their visas because they are all in the country illegally.

Secure the border with workplace enforcement and not more fences, drones and border patrol agents. Will save lives because they will not be crossing to work and dying in the desert or drowning.

Enforcement only will bring them out of the shadows and not amnesty. Criminals will not come out of the shadows so we will not know any more about who is here with amnesty than before and they are in the work force and will continue to be in the workforce unless we enforce work place laws Another amnesty is not the solution and 1986 amnesty proved that. Comprehensive Immigration Reform will only make the illegal immigration bigger and more

expensive. The Gang of Eight is a gang of idiots. And anyone listening to them are even bigger idiots.

 

[LilOlLady]

I have never heard more BS coming out of the mouths of men than in these immigration hearings.

 

[waltky]

Technology industry, labor clash over immigration...

INFLUENCE GAME: Tech, labor spar on immigration
May 16,`13 WASHINGTON (AP) -- To the U.S. technology industry, there's a dramatic shortfall in the number of Americans skilled in computer programming and engineering that is hampering business. To unions and some Democrats, it's more sinister: The push by Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg to expand the number of visas for high-tech foreign workers is an attempt to dilute a lucrative job market with cheap, indentured labor.

The answer is somewhere in between, depending as much on new technologies and the U.S. education system's ability to keep up as on the immigration law itself. But the sliver of computer-related jobs inside the U.S. that might be designated for foreigners - fewer than 200,000 out of 6 million - has been enough to strain a bipartisan deal in the Senate on immigration reform, showcase the power of big labor and splinter a once-chummy group of elite tech leaders hoping to make inroads in Washington. "A lot of people agree that employers should have access to (highly trained) immigrants - that they are a benefit to the country, and we are a country of immigrants," said B. Lindsay Lowell, director of policy studies at Georgetown University's Institute for the Study of International Migration. "I think the question is how much of a good thing is good."

The Senate immigration bill - the result of months of quiet negotiations among eight influential senators - is on track to nearly double the number of highly skilled foreign workers allowed to work in the U.S. under what's called an H-1B visa, from 65,000 to 110,000. The number of visas could climb as high as 180,000 depending on the number of applications received and the unemployment rate. The Senate Judiciary Committee had planned to take up the portion of the bill relating to H-1B visas on Thursday, paving the way for an eventual floor vote and setting the tone for debate in the House. But the committee postponed action until next week as negotiations take place behind the scenes.

The expansion of H-1B visas is considered the first major victory for Zuckerberg's new nonprofit lobbying organization, FWD.us, which receives financial backing from such big tech names as Bill Gates of Microsoft, Reid Hoffman of LinkedIn and Napster pioneer Sean Parker. In announcing the group, pronounced "forward us," Zuckerberg in April called for changes so that U.S. businesses could attract "the most-talented and hardest-working people, no matter where they were born."

But support for FWD.us appeared to crack this week after the group's subsidiary ran television ads backing Republican senators who support immigration reform but also unpopular environmental programs, including the Keystone XL oil pipeline. Two backers of FWD.us - including PayPal co-founder Elon Musk, who now runs electric-car maker Tesla Motors - pulled their support for the group, and several liberal-leaning groups, including the Sierra Club and MoveOn.org, protested the ads.

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[waltky]

Granny says dey already got Simpson-Mazolli onna books - enforce dat!...

US immigration reform bill faces difficult passage
Mon, May 27, 2013 - The biggest proposed overhaul of US immigration laws in a generation won bipartisan approval from a powerful US Senate committee last week, but there is a strong chance that Republicans in the US House of Representatives will end up killing it.

The problem: House Republicans are far from convinced by arguments from party leaders that passage of the bill would help Republicans draw support from Hispanic voters. Many also believe any kind of amnesty for the estimated 11 million immigrants who are in the US illegally is just plain wrong. “There is no evidence to support this idea that Republicans will pick up a lot of votes if we give amnesty to 11 million folks,” Republican Representative Tim Huelskamp said One possibility is that the House will vote for watered-down reform, including more visas for highly skilled workers. However, it likely will not include a way for the undocumented to stay legally and eventually get on a special pathway to US citizenship.

Senate Democrats and even several Senate Republicans say there is no way a comprehensive immigration bill could win final congressional approval without a pathway to citizenship. “It’s a non-starter,” said Democratic Senator Charles Schumer, a member of the Gang of Eight senators who wrote the bipartisan Senate bill. Several House Republican lawmakers say that even if the party would gain votes by supporting sweeping reform, that is no reason to back otherwise objectionable legislation. “I don’t think we should be worried about the political impact, but instead what is in the best interest of America,” Republican Representative Mo Brooks said. Besides, “people who are going to break our laws, I don’t want them in this country,” he said.

This kind of opposition from House Republicans may pose the biggest threat to White House-backed legislation set to come next month before the full Senate, which Obama’s Democrats hold, 55-45. Republicans control the House, 233-201 with one vacancy. Most Republicans have traditionally opposed legalization as a form of amnesty that rewards law breaking and they see as providing an incentive for further illegal border crossing. The bill that passed the Senate Judiciary Committee, 13-5, on Tuesday last week — with support from three Republicans — includes putting illegal residents on a 13-year pathway to citizenship, provided they pay back taxes and a fine, learn English, hold a job and pass criminal background checks. The measure, backed by business and labor, also would bolster border security and help fill the need for high and low-skilled workers.

After Hispanics gave US President Barack Obama 71 percent support in last year’s presidential election, the Republican National Committee endorsed comprehensive immigration reform in March, saying that without reaching out to the fastest-growing large segment of the US voting population, the party could say goodbye to the presidency for generations to come. Two months later, many Republicans remain unconvinced, particularly in the House, where only 39 of the 233 members come from districts that are 20 percent or more Hispanic, according to a recent study by Alex Engler in the Georgetown Public Policy Review. Huelskamp recalled a private strategy meeting earlier this year where political pollsters offered their findings and advice to House Republicans.

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