Posted on 04/05/2006 7:04:26 PM PDT by Altair333
Senate Republicans reached agreement last night on a compromise immigration measure that they believe will garner enough bipartisan support to break through a parliamentary impasse that has stymied progress on a high-stakes border security bill for two weeks.
Under the agreement, the Senate would allow undocumented workers a path to lawful employment and citizenship if they could prove -- through work stubs, utility bills or other documents -- that they have been in the country for five years. To attain citizenship, those immigrants would have to pay a $2,000 penalty, back taxes, learn English, undergo a criminal background check and remain working for 11 years.
Those who have been here a shorter time would have to return to one of 16 designated ports of entry, such as El Paso, Tex., and apply for a new form of temporary work visa for low-skilled and unskilled workers.
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I agree, if our leaders/owners ever decide to enforce the *no job without citizenship* laws, we'll need to get out of the way of the masses heading south to the border.
...and pay for many of us will double or triple within hours.
How about with ideas, technology, and freedom? I know these are radical concepts but they just might work here, now only if we could get the US goevernment on board with this idea.
I agree. Except, I know refer to them as Marxicans from Marxico.
The problem is a welfare system that lends itself to abuse by citizens and non-citizens alike.
Actually, the greater problem is having laws which aren't enforced.
"A whole industry has developed for the purpose of providing illegals with phony documents."
Another bad aspect of all these green cards Washington is so willing to give away means anyone of those illegals that gets their hands on one can vote in local and State elections legally. They are restricted from voting in a Presidential election but I'm sure that doesn't stop them. Dogs and dead people do so why not illegals w/green cards.
I never had a green card, mine was always blue, that's something I never figured out.
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