Loop holes in new immigration bill. - Political Forum

FRYandBENDER · 06-06-2007, 01:02 PM

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Sen. Sessions Releases List of 20 Loopholes in the Senate Immigration Bill

Monday, June 4, 2007

WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) released a list of 20 loopholes in the comprehensive immigration bill today which reveals that the bill is fatally flawed and will not establish a functioning immigration system in the future.

The list of loopholes includes flaws effecting border security, chain-migration and assimilation policies. The list exposes the lack of serious attention given to ensuring that the legislation fixes America’s failed immigration system.

“I am deeply concerned about the numerous loopholes we have found in this legislation. They are more than technical errors, but rather symptoms of a fundamentally flawed piece of legislation that stands no chance of actually fixing our broken immigration system,” Sessions said. “Many of the loopholes are indicative of a desire not to have the system work.”

For example, one loophole in the “enforcement trigger” fails to require the U.S. VISIT system – the biometric border check-in/check-out system established by Congress in 1996, but never implemented – to be fully functioning before new worker or amnesty programs begin. Without the system in place, the U.S. has no method of ensuring that workers and their families do not overstay their visas.

Another flaw in the legislation prevents the benefits of merit-based immigration from taking full effect until 2016. Until then, chain migration into the U.S. will actually triple, compared to a disproportionately low increase in skill-based immigration. As a result, the merit-based system in the bill is only a shell of what it should have been.

A third loophole in the bill allows immigrants to avoid demonstrating a proficiency in English for more than a decade. Illegal aliens are not required to learn English to receive full “probationary benefits” of citizenship. Passing a basic English test is only required for the third Z-visa renewal, twelve years after amnesty is granted.

Sessions will highlight many of the loopholes contained in the list this week during Senate debate on the immigration bill.

A full list of the 20 loopholes is attached.

This guy is from Alabama so the racism remarks should be easy!

What do you guys think? Is this new bill a hoodwink on the American people?
Here is the link where they go into the loop holes one-by-one.

U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions, Republican - ALABAMA

emptypepsi · 06-06-2007, 04:18 PM

Let's see, now

Well - they can get a Social Security card after applying...former laws are virtually discarded...illegals who "cut in line" most recently don't have to leave the U.S. to apply...felons may receive amnesty...gang members who 'lip service' and 'denounce' their gang membership may get amnesty...no need to know English...tuition and loans available to illegals...NO back taxes...and a few get SS benefits.

Wow.

*Sigh*...

And one wonders why people are cynical about the government.

In other news - YEAH! Let's vote for Rudy McRomney, or Barrack JohnClinton.

emptypepsi · 06-06-2007, 04:20 PM

BTW, FRy -- if someone from Alabama presented the findings, it means a Texan MUST have done it right originally. ; ) I keed...

Oedipus Rex · 06-06-2007, 04:36 PM

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Originally Posted by emptypepsi

Let's see, now

Well - they can get a Social Security card after applying...former laws are virtually discarded...illegals who "cut in line" most recently don't have to leave the U.S. to apply...felons may receive amnesty...gang members who 'lip service' and 'denounce' their gang membership may get amnesty...no need to know English...tuition and loans available to illegals...NO back taxes...and a few get SS benefits.

Wow.

*Sigh*...

And one wonders why people are cynical about the government.

In other news - YEAH! Let's vote for Rudy McRomney, or Barrack JohnClinton.

Here, in California, the damned illegals pay 'in state tuition' for college. Does that also happen in Texas?

emptypepsi · 06-06-2007, 09:21 PM

I actually don't know, but I hope not.

Scribbler1 · 06-06-2007, 10:42 PM

Disgusting. I've said it before but we are often looking at the wrong bad guy here. There are a LOT of good reasons to dislike Bush, but he only does what Congress ALLOWS him to, and this bill is being heavily promoted by Bush, and it needs to be passed by Congress.

It's funny, Sessions being a REPUBLICAN after all. I wonder if any of the useless Democrats have been bitching about this?