Immigration Legislation (1 Viewer)

[Stinger]

Many don't know that legislation to control immigration has been entered before but not passed. Here are several proposals that had been put into legislation previously.

Can you guess who entered the legislation (and no spoilers, if you know from the source just say "I know already" but let those who don't have a guess).

-- Reduces annual legal immigration levels from approximately 800,000 admissions per year to about 300,000. Relatives other than spouse or minor children will be admitted only if already on immigration waiting lists and their admission does not raise annual immigration levels above 300,000.

-- Reforms asylum rules to prevent aliens from entering the United States illegally under phony "asylum" claims.

-- Expands list of felonies considered "aggravated" felonies requiring exclusion and deportation of criminal aliens. Allows courts to order deportation at time of sentencing.

-- Increases penalties for failing to depart or re-entering the United States after a final order of deportation order. Increases maximum penalties for visa fraud from five years to 10 years.

-- Curtails alien smuggling by authorizing interdiction and repatriation of aliens seeking to enter the United States unlawfully by sea. Increases penalties for alien smuggling.

-- Adds "alien smuggling" to the list of crimes subject to sanctions under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act. Expands the categories of property that are forfeited when used to facilitate the smuggling or harboring of illegal aliens.

-- Clarifies that a person born in the United States to an alien mother who is not a lawful resident is not a U.S. citizen. This will eliminate incentive for pregnant alien women to enter the United States illegally, often at risk to mother and child, for the purpose of acquiring citizenship for the child and accompanying federal financial benefits.

-- Mandates that aliens who cannot demonstrably support themselves without public or private assistance are excludable. This will prevent admission of aliens likely to be dependent on public financial support. This requirement extends to the sponsor of any family sponsored immigrant.

-- Increases border security and patrol officers to 9,900 full-time positions.
Do you support such legislation?

 

[Stinger]

Hmmmm no guesses. no comments.

This is the most important piece of legislation currently going through the congress. It is all over the news. And no guesses as to who authored the cited legislation and whether you support it.

Amazing

 

[vandree]

-- Mandates that aliens who cannot demonstrably support themselves without public or private assistance are excludable.

Isn't this part already law? I know that international students in order to get a visa have to show financial proof that they can support themselves (or that their parents will support them).

If an alien gets married to an American, the couple also has to show that they can support themselves.

In other kind of visas they require the alien to have a sponsor who guarantees the alien is financially independent.

 

[Stinger]

Isn't this part already law? I know that international students in order to get a visa have to show financial proof that they can support themselves (or that their parents will support them).

If an alien gets married to an American, the couple also has to show that they can support themselves.

In other kind of visas they require the alien to have a sponsor who guarantees the alien is financially independent.

Well if not then do you support such legislation in new, reinstating it, legislation?

 

[EkBalam]

Joining what some are calling the nation's largest mobilization of immigrants ever, hundreds of thousands of people boisterously marched in downtown Los Angeles Saturday to protest federal legislation that would crack down on undocumented immigrants, penalize those who help them and build a security wall on the U.S. southern border. Spirited crowds representing labor, religious groups, civil-rights advocates and ordinary immigrants stretched over 26 blocks of downtown Los Angeles from Adams Blvd. along Spring Street and Broadway to City Hall, tooting kazoos, waving American flags and chanting "Si se puede!" (Yes we can!). The crowd, estimated by police at more than 500.000, represented one of the largest protest marches in Los Angeles history, surpassing Vietnam War demonstrations and the 70,000 who rallied downtown against Proposition 187, a 1994 state initiative that denied public benefits to undocumented migrants.

The marchers included both longtime residents and the newly arrived, bound by a desire for a better life and a love for this county...

Saturday's rally, spurred by anger over legislation passed by the U.S. House of Representatives last December, was part of what many say is an unprecedented effort to organize immigrants and their supporters across the nation. The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee is to take up efforts Monday to complete work on a comprehensive immigration reform proposal. Unlike the House bill, which beefed up border security and toughened immigration laws, the Senate committee's version is expected to include a guest worker program and a path to legalization for the nation's 10 to 12 million undocumented immigrants.
The Jewish people were immigrants in Europe, and now yhey are immigrants in america, and they were in Mexico , Argentina, Brasil, etc...

We all are Immigrants one way or the other, so don't hate indians, poor people or religions.