AMNESTY BILL DETAILS:
Security doesn’t come first in this bill. This bill would immediately legalize illegal aliens who get into the U.S. reguardless of border security.
Illegal aliens won’t have to pay back taxes. (This may have been changed)
If passed, this bill will make taxpayers pay the legal bills for illegal aliens seeking amnesty. Tucked away on page 317 is a provision that would allow lawyers in the federally-funded legal services program to represent illegal aliens, which they are presently barred from doing.
This bill rewards illegal aliens for breaking our laws. There are tens of millions of people who respect our laws and our country, waiting patiently to get a chance to permantly live here.
The bill gives the government only one business day to conduct a background check to determine whether a “Z Visa” applicant is a criminal or a terrorist. It is impossible, of course, to determine in a single day whether someone is a terrorist or a criminal.
In the bill Section 601(g)(2), illegal-alien gang members would be eligible for amnesty merely by signing a renunciation of gang affiliation.¯
Gang-bangers and other criminals who have been ordered to leave the U.S. can be granted a Z visa anyway if he can show that being forced to leave the United States would result in extreme hardship to the alien, his spouse, parent or child.
The bill effectively shuts down our immigration-court system. If an alien in the removal process is eligible for the Z visa, the immigration judge must close the proceedings and offer the alien the chance to apply for the amnesty.
If ICE officials apprehend an alien who appears eligible for the Z visa (just about every illegal alien), they can't detain him. Instead, ICE must help him apply for the Z visa.
To qualify for the Z-visa amnesty, an illegal alien need only have a job (or be the parent, spouse, or child of someone with a job) and come up with a scrap of paper suggesting he was in the country before Jan. 1 2007. Any bank statement, pay stub, or similarly forgeable record will do.
Expect a mass influx unlike anything this country has seen before, once the 12-month period for accepting Z visa applications begins. These rules are an open invitation to sneak in and present a fraudulent piece of paper indicating that you were already here.
Supporters of the bill call the Z visa temporary¯ - neglecting to mention that it can be renewed indefinitely until the visa holder dies.
Are you a law-abiding resident alien who's interested in switching to privileged Z visa status? Sorry. Only illegal aliens can qualify.
The bill increases legal migration by at least 50 percent over the next decade by granting green cards to all the remote relatives who are in the chain migration categories, a number estimated at 750,000 to 900,000 a year. That is triple the current number of 250,000. Giving green cards to millions of additional relatives ensures that legal immigration will continue to grow as this larger pool of permanent residents brings in spouses.
The costs of the Senate immigration bill are mind-boggling. Unbelievably, the Senate has made no attempt to estimate this costs or how to pay them. The Heritage Foundation’s Robert Rector puts a potential price tag on this bill of $2.5 trillion.
At least 60 percent of illegal immigrants lack a high school diploma, which means they will work low-wage jobs, pay little or no income tax, and be heavy users of our schools and means-tested social benefits such as Medicaid, school lunches, Women, Infants and Children Program, subsidized housing, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and free legal counsel.
Fiscal costs would go up dramatically after amnesty recipients reach retirement. Each elderly low-skill immigrant imposes a net cost - that is benefits minus taxes - on U.S. taxpayers of about $17,000 per year, according to the Heritage Foundation. These costs would hit Social Security and Medicare at the very time Social Security is expected to go into crisis.
Section 413 calls on Congress to “accelerate the implementation” of the Security and Prosperity Partnership - announced by Bush in Waco, Texas, in 2005 - so that the United States can “improve the standard of living in Mexico.” Do U.S. taxpayers want to take on the economic burden of solving poverty problems in Mexico?
The Senate immigration bill states that the United States wants “to reduce the transaction costs of remittance flows” from the U.S. to Mexico now running at $23 billion a year. Making it cheaper to transfer money made in the U.S. out of our economy.
The Senate bill also puts the United States into a “partnership” with Mexico for “increasing health care access for poor and under-served populations in Mexico,” for “assisting Mexico in increasing its emergency and trauma health care facilities,” and for “expanding prenatal care” in the border region. Do U.S. taxpayers also want to pay for health care in Mexico?
Illegal Alien students will receive instate tuition; a taxpayer subsidy worth tens of thousands of dollars and would be treated better than U.S. citizens from out of state, who must pay three to four times as much to attend college.
Health standards ignored. Z-Visa holders are not required to be given medical examinations and immunizations. Legal immigrant residents are required to be given a medical examination and immunization. The health and safety issues are one and the same. Tuberculosis anyone?
There are no serious assimilation components to the legislation.¯ Despite McCain-Kennedy's "comprehensive" scope. "Assimilation"¯ appears only once in this legislation, and not until the 343rd of 347 pages. "Americanization"¯ never emerges.
The amnestee doesn't have to know squat in English to get a Z visa. After four years when seeking to renew the Z visa the first time, he only has to take — not pass, just take — the naturalization language test or be on a waiting list for English classes. "Learn English"¯ only happens after eight years, and then it's not actual mastery of the language.
As stated above “The bill increases legal migration by at least 50 percent over the next decade….”. Yet, when asked in a Gallup poll what level of immigration do Americans want, overwhelmingly they say less (46%) or same (34%). While only 16% want more. The US Census Bureau in 1999 projected The USA’s population will double in less then 100 years from 300 million to 600 million. The majority of that increase will be from legal immigration, illegal immigration, plus both their descendants. This is completely against what the American people want.
If Amnesty passes, 12-20 million illegal aliens would be immediately granted probationary legal status. Processing these individuals would be the responsibility of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). Estimates are, if amnesty is given to just 12 million illegal aliens within the year allowed for applications, that would mean an average of 48,000 amnesty applications each day for USCIS's 3,000 adjudicators. Add an additional 200,000 guest workers applications to the mix. That would be in addition to the 6.3 million (2005) legal applications and the backlog of several million unresolved applications the USCIS has responsibility over.
The Senate's proposal would vastly expand USCIS's workload but do little to ensure that the agency is capable of handling the task.
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