Posted on 08/16/2013 7:21:29 PM PDT by moonshinner_09
iStockphoto/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) -- The Republican National Committee passed a resolution Friday calling on President Obama and Congress to pass immigration reform legislation before the end of the year, but it did not include a pathway to citizenship for any of the 11 million undocumented immigrants in this country, unlike the bipartisan legislation passed by the Senate in June.
The resolution criticized the current system, calling it “premised upon obsolete public policy” and “outdated technology,” and said the “best deterrent to illegal immigration is a well-functioning program for legal immigration, which we do not have.”
The resolution called on the president and Congress to create a new work permit program, which, according to the resolution, would “allow foreign nationals who are currently in the country and have not violated any other laws of the U.S. to come forward and register and be allowed to remain and work in the U.S.”
The language, though, specifically excluded a path to citizenship. The work permit, which would need to be renewed every two years, would “not result in application for citizenship nor any family members entering the U.S.” It would also require the immigrant to have “proof of continuous employment,” with no more than two months per year of unemployment.
The resolution called on Congress to create a special legal status for undocumented immigrants brought to America as children, a group known as “DREAMers” by immigration activists. The name came from the DREAM Act, legislation created for minors who were brought to this country illegally by their parents to be able to gain legal status.
Their classification for those brought to America as children also would include a work permit, but it would be renewable every five years. That, too, would have no pathway to citizenship and require proof of employment or attendance in school.
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The only two federal databases you list are military records and passports, neither of which is inclusive of all Americans. They are specific, not general. I mean, unless you think everyone should have to serve in the military, or be required to possess a universal passport. Do you?
I am going to bed. Cheers.
Sure it is. Defend your programs, by in the first place pointing to the constitutional empowerment you have for those programs.
I don’t subscribe to your Libertarian view.
I haven't said anything remotely Libertarian.
You are the one making the assertion saying that only census records should be allowed—and they are pretty intrusive.
Not the constitutional census. It's not intrusive at all. "How many people live here? Thank you very much. Good day."
What is intrusive is the additional unconstitutional things they've added to the census, which your position winks at, frankly.
When they send me their "American Community Survey," I throw it in the trash, where it belongs. And when they send someone out to talk to me I tell them "NO."
See ya.
If the Washington elites can only get one thing out of this whole debacle, my contention is that that one thing would be E-Verify.
On every front, their main drive is to compile data on everybody and everything, because, in the end, they can’t exercise control over us without that information.
But once they have that information, the door is open to use it.
I said it earlier in the thread, and I’ll say it again, for emphasis:
E-Verify, and all the databases like it, are beginning to tread into mark of the beast territory.
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