Loading ...The Senate is debating S.2611, the Immigration Reform bill. While the legislation includes important provisions on border security and interior enforcement, the Hagel-Martinez “compromise” also creates a system that grants amnesty to the approximately 12 million illegal aliens currently residing in the United States. I am adamantly opposed to any legislation that turns a blind eye and rewards illegal immigrants for breaking the law.
I believe that any legislation approved by the Senate should include strong, definitive measures to address border security and interior enforcement. I believe the President’s proposal to put National Guard troops on our borders is a good first step. I also believe we should continue to construct physical barriers to prevent unlawful entry at our borders. A secure border coupled with strong enforcement laws will begin to eliminate the market for illegal workers and allow the United States to begin to truly address the problem of illegal immigration.
Amnesty-citizenship Senate Bill 2611 for illegal aliens stands for complete, unbelievable and unchangeable insanity! Our reckless U.S. Senate launches our country toward adding 200 million people from outside our borders. This bill will prove the disintegration of our nation, our way of life, our language, our sovereignty, our culture, our schools, medical systems and create an unsustainable society.
Senator Teddy Kennedy’s stupid, moronic and infantile 1965 Immigration Reform Act added 106 million people to our county in 40 years. He opened the gates to a flood that grows by 80 million worldwide annually. What in the name of sanity was he thinking then? That’s the problem; these senators are not thinking about the kind of America into which they are drowning us. They stand bereft of their minds, ethics and understanding of their actions.
America suffers its greatest crisis since the Civil War. Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. We are met on a great battlefield of that war testing whether that nation or any nation can long endure.
You’ve read or memorized Lincoln’s Gettysburg address. It stood as the definitive mandate for our country in 1865. Lincoln died for his efforts, yet the nation lived. Men and women perished in terrible battles that pitted brothers against brothers and sisters against sisters. In their time, it was states rights and slavery.
Senate Bill 2611 (Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act) (abbreviated CIRA), is a United States Senate bill dealing with immigration reform. It proposes to increase security along the southern United States border with Mexico, allows long-time illegal immigrants to gain citizenship with some restrictions, and to increase the number of guest workers over and above those already present in the U.S. through a new “blue card” visa program. The sponsor of S. 2611 is Senator Arlen Specter, who introduced it on April 7, 2006. It was passed on May 25, 2006, by a vote of 62-36. Cloture was invoked, which limited debate to a 30 hour period. The parallel House Bill H.R. 4437 deals with immigration differently.
Currently there are estimated to be between 11 and 12 million illegal immigrants living within the United States. On December 16, 2005, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 4437, which aims at improving the US-Mexican border security and increasing penalties for employers and smugglers of illegal immigrants. While most are supportive of increased border security, there have been various approaches to handle problems related to the large number of illegal immigrants already present in the country. The problems associated with illegal immigrants are unlicensed and uninsured drivers, identification theft and fraud, and employment fraud, and health services fraud.
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September 10th, 2009 at 7:52 am
Senate Bill 2611 has been dead since the summer of 2006.. The Obama administration will likely start an immigration reform soon, but this will be a new bill, not 2611 anymore!
September 10th, 2009 at 5:16 pm
I whole heartily agree with your post. A couple of points. First is the numbers. The US government has been offering up the 11-12 million number for at least 10 years. The US border patrol estimates that for every illegal alien they catch, 2 get by. Other sources indicate almost a million illegals enter the country each year. I don’t believe the number of visa over-stayers is ever figured in, but that number is high especially among Asians and Indians. Bear Stearns did a study using remittances sent out of the country and assorted other data. They estimated the figure at close to 20 million. Obviously the number if it was 12 million ten years ago is much much higher today.
The second point is that unless the National Guard is armed and allowed to use their weapons if threatened, their presence is just a bluff. There have been more then a few incursions across the border by Mexican Army regulars working for drug lords. In one instance the NG was required to fall back and not defend their ground (American soil). The political climate is changing, even though those who are supposed to represent us ignore it. The will of the public is moving more and more towards enforcement.
September 11th, 2009 at 10:46 pm
The incident that occurred in Congress by Rep. Joe Wilson R-NC, illustrates the consequences of a blurring line between illegal immigration and health care. Our politicians have been alerted to the angry voices of the American people. For once they have disregarded the business campaign contributors and all the cloaked gifts given for services rendered by special interest lobbyists. Millions of US citizens are enraged with the status quo buying favors from our representatives that has led to our wilting economy. Today speaking on behalf of Washington committees on health care, the lawmaking emphasized that illegal aliens cannot access the new health reform package, that any person applying will be checked through government databases.
E-Verify might be implemented for this very issue, that it has shown in the majority of cases remarkable successes in remove illegal alien workers from the working environment. E-Verify can solve this problem and bring sanity back to immigration enforcement. E-VERIFICATION OF EACH AND EVERY AMERICAN WORKER MUST BE MADE PERMANENT? NOT JUST VOLUNTARY POLICY, BUT AS A FULL FORCE OF OPERATION CARRYING STRICT PENALTIES. This operation will work under federal policies? But what about state laws? California as an example is a Sanctuary state for millions of illegal immigrants and their families? Other border states are also occupied by large proportions of unlawful populations of foreign nationals?
This last year has culminated in huge financial losses in California caused by millions of low income illegal aliens, which has created a third world community within the United States. There must be federal measures to bring under control, massive spending benefits for people who have no right from benefiting from those who come here legally or were born here. How can any public health care option work at a state level, when states like California ignore federal law, regarding financial refuge to indigent people? Our own people remain homeless and in many cases without hope, when legislators have prioritized, health care, education an overloaded jail system and easy welfare money for illegal immigrants?
The once golden state has been using taxpayer money, to support illegal aliens, when the same expenditures should have been adopted for a collapsing infrastructure. Highways, schools, tunnels, bridges and dams in a dangerous state of disrepair? Our legislators in many cases have been seduced by lobbyists and should be banned from any contact with our politicians. This will never happen, but something must be done? Millions have been spent on derailing the health care reform currently and in the past, as has immigration enforcement. Rescinding 287(g) federal training for local police enforcement of immigration laws, the NO MATCH LETTER and the cutting back on ICE raids on obnoxious businesses using foreign workers.
The order to crush E-verify was given to Sen.Harry Reid, Speaker Pelosi, Janet Napolitano, but narrowly survived in the Senate chambers. Both political parties are equally to blame for not enforcing the 1986 Immigration Control & Reform Act that was inundated with fraud and a desire to weaken the laws. Now they want to rescind that law, offering yet another reform package that will never function? Let’s not kid ourselves! Huge veiled forces are at work to import as much cheap labor as possible with no restraints, lowering wages and an unconscionable burden on taxpayers.
DON’T LET THE POWERS IN WASHINGTON WHITEWASH THE FACTS! DEMAND THE ORIGINAL DESIGNED FENCE AND THE FULL IMPLEMENTATION OF E-VERIFY, 287 (g), THE SAVE ACT AND AS WRITTEN, THE 1986 SIMPSON/MAZZOLI BILL AND AMEND THEM IF NEED BE? NO MORE IMMIGRATION REFORM? DO THE JOB THEY WERE VOTED FOR? CALL YOUR POLITICIANS AT 202-224-3121 AND DEMAND THESE LAWS BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE? MORE ANSWERS FOUND AT NUMBERSUSA & JUDICIAL WATCH.