Hearing on H.R. 1645 STRIVE Act - TODAY!!!

House Judiciary Committee web site ^ | 9/6/2007 | N/A

[TheBattman]

Thursday 09/06/2007 - 1:00 PM 2141 Rayburn House Office Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law Hearing on H.R. 1645, the “Security Through Regularized Immigration and a Vibrant Economy Act of 2007 (STRIVE Act)”

Being discussed at this time - yet another bold (and even more obvious) attempt at amnesty. this bill is as bad, if not worse than the one defeated such a short time back.

Witness list:

Panel I: The Honorable Jeff Flake U.S. House of Representatives (R-AZ)

The Honorable Joe Baca U.S. House of Representatives (D-CA)

The Honorable Ray LaHood U.S. House of Representatives (R-IL)

Hon. Brian Bilbray U.S. House of Representatives (R-CA)

Panel II: Tony Wasilewski Small Business Owner Schiller Park, Illinois

Eduardo Gonzalez US Navy Petty Officer Second Class Jacksonville, Florida

Reverend Luis Cortés, Jr. President Esperanza USA

Joshua Hoyt Executive Director Illinois Coalition for Immigrant & Refugee Rights

Cassandra Q. Butts Senior Vice President for Domestic Policy Center for American Progress

Michael L. Barrera President and CEO United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce

Julie Kirchner Director of Government Relations Federation for American Immigration Reform

The Honorable Corey Stewart Chairman At-Large Prince William County Board of Supervisors

[TheBattman]

We must take action - and I was only alerted to this by an email. Why have we not heard more on this?

[sheana]

I heard about this yesterday on Lou Dobbs and couldn’t find it anywhere. I am on every email list there is and never got notified.
This is a BS bill!!!! Man those phones!!!!!

[EEDUDE]

NumbersUSA has nothing about this on their website.

I wonder if they don’t know about it?

[sheana]

Subcommitte membership for immigration, border security, etc.

Hon. Lofgren
Chairman
(D) California, 16th

Hon. Gutierrez
(D) Illinois, 4th

Hon. Berman
(D) California, 28th

Hon. Jackson Lee
(D) Texas, 18th

Hon. Waters
(D) California, 35th

Hon. Meehan
(D) Massachusetts, 5th

Hon. Delahunt
(D) Massachusetts, 10th

Hon. Sánchez
(D) California, 39th

Hon. Davis
(D) Alabama , 7th

Hon. Ellison
(D) Minnesota, 5th

Hon. King
Ranking Member
(R) Iowa, 5th

Hon. Gallegly
(R) California, 24th

Hon. Goodlatte
(R) Virginia, 6th

Hon. Lungren
(R) California, 3rd

Hon. Forbes
(R) Virginia, 4th

Hon. Gohmert
(R) Texas, 1st

[sheana]

Look at the members of the committee, it is almost guaranteed to pass out of the committee with those members.

[lilylangtree]

Just enforce the laws already on the books. We don’t need anymore damn immigration legislation to muddy the waters.

[vetsvette]

Amnesty?? No, no you must have it wrong — they considering a bill concerning “regularizing immigration such that it supports both security and a vibrant economy.”

Doesn’t say a thing about amnesty.

[sheana]

That’s because without these ‘immigrants’ we won’t have a vibrant economy. ‘They’ told me so.

[3AngelaD]

The "Security Through Regularized Immigration and a Vibrant Economy (STRIVE) Act" contains most of the provisions of the bill that came out of the Senate Judiciary Committee last year with additional "triggers" added that would insure that the border security aspects of the bill were working before any legalization of the current undocumented population could begin. Additionally, a "touchback" provision was added requiring some undocumented immigrants to leave the country and re-enter before normalizing their status. Bottom line: this is the same amnesty crap the Senate tried to force down our throats.

See: http://migramatters.blogspot.com/2007/03/overview-of-strive-act.html

[Jasper]

Thanks for the heads up.

BTTT

/jasper

[Sybeck1]

Seems Tancredo and Hunter would have brought this up last night to me.