I have a better idea, and it costs less money: bring back the public stocks.
Posted on 03/05/2008 12:07:48 PM PST by isrul
GOP senators to introduce toughest-yet immigration package
Bills would mandate prison time for illegal border crossings and compel English in dealing with federal agencies.
March 5, 2008 WASHINGTON -- Senate Republicans are set to announce today the hardest-hitting package of immigration enforcement measures seen yet -- one that would require jail time for illegal immigrants caught crossing the border, make it harder for them to open bank accounts and compel them to communicate in English when dealing with federal agencies.
The bills give Republicans a way to put pressure on the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates to take a tougher stance on immigration. They also reflect a shift toward harsher immigration rhetoric and legislative proposals from both parties since Congress failed to pass a comprehensive overhaul in 2007.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
yeah, if only...
Futile?
These are the same GOP senators, who when they HAD THE POWER, along with Bush, could have passed a tougher immigration policy.
Quite frankly, this is nothing but election year politics, intended to save their arses. Nothing more.
A for effort! Get it passed before McCain gets in.
OK...Pass some laws, we have laws already, pass more laws...”It’s the enforcement stupid”. If the laws aren’t enforced that exist, what’s the point of new laws.
All talk, smoke and mirrors.
Flush the D.C. bowl of all the Professional Political Lifers including the Bureaucrats. It’s the only way to regain control of our Nation.
Pull the chain.
Quite frankly, that’s not a bad plan. Given the sorry state of things.
Yep. Too little, too late. Bush and the Republican Congress had a historic opportunity after 9/11 to make sweeping reforms in immigration laws, and did nothing.
Yep, I hear it....too little too late. My state senator loses my vote this year just for even ‘trying’ to get the last bill passed (he quickly changed his tune - but didn’t change his heart, I see).....
Really cool; but nobody will pass it and nobody enforces the existing laws.
You are right. After 9/11 you would have thought that something could have been done about the illegal problem. GWB and his minions did not want to touch it and that I find disappointing to say the least.
A GOP operative told me that during the 2000 election that illegal immigration was “off the table.” Karl Rove did not want it brought up as an issue and neither did the RNC.
Now we have a total mess that is going to change our country forever.
McCain will vote present. Obama will vote present. Hillary might vote but not sure which direction.
Jail people caught crossing the border a second time? Yeah, right—where do we put 300,000 people? In detention camps?
Do you really want to see the feds start building camps?
And then have to feed and guard 300,000 prisoners?
And in what state are we going to put these detention camps?
Is it really too much to expect a little common sense from our congressmen?
(Oh—sorry.)
I have a better idea, and it costs less money: bring back the public stocks.
BTW, another 1900 illegals crossed our border today.
>One would discourage states from issuing driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants by docking 10% of highway funding from states that continue to do so.<
Why not ALL of the funding?
> Block federal funding to cities that bar their police from asking about immigration status.<
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Give the Department of Homeland Security the authority to use information from the Social Security Administration to target illegal immigrants<
> Require construction of 700 miles of fencing along the southern border, not including vehicle barriers<
Should already be happening.
>Impose sanctions on countries that refuse to repatriate their citizens<
Globalism will suffer. Too many globalists will say no.
>Deport any immigrant, legal or illegal, for one drunk-driving conviction<
ACLU will put a stop to this.
>* Enable local and state police to enforce federal immigration laws<
Don’t they already try? How about the feds enforcing the federal laws. That might be nice.
>Another would extend the presence of the National Guard on the border<
Mexico might interpret this as military action against their country.
> a third would end language assistance at federal agencies and the voting booth for people with limited English ability.<
If you need language assistance you shouldn’t vote! They will never go for this. They’ve worked too hard to import that voting block.
>A bill by Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), who is leading the effort, would impose a maximum two-year prison sentence on someone caught illegally crossing the border a second time<
If we had room to house them, should have been done the first time. Forget this catch and release junk!
> Democrats have focused on offering opportunity to immigrants, but the study by two public-policy groups urged them to begin speaking in terms of “requiring” illegal immigrants to become legal and about what’s best for the United States<
Somewhere in this murky zone lies the amnesty monster.
“H.R. 750: Save America Comprehensive Immigration Act of 2007”
There’s that comprehensive word. I don’t like it already.
Let’s see what it says.
“Authorizes the Secretary to adjust the status of aliens who would otherwise be inadmissible (due to unlawful presence, document fraud, or other specified grounds of inadmissibility) if such aliens have been in the United States for at least five years and meet other requirements.”
Whoop! There it is!
“Lessens immigration consequences for minor criminal offenses”
Oops! There’s another snag!
Summary:
1/31/2007—Introduced.
Save America Comprehensive Immigration Act of 2007 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) to provide increased protections and eligibility for family-sponsored immigrants.
Directs the Secretary of State to establish a Board of Family-based Visa Appeals within the Department of State.
Authorizes the Secretary of Homeland Security (Secretary) to deny a family-based immigration petition by a U.S. petitioner for an alien spouse or child if: (1) the petitioner is on the national sex offender registry for a conviction that resulted in more than one year’s imprisonment; (2) the petitioner has failed to rebut such information within 90 days; and (3) granting the petition would put a spouse or child beneficiary in danger of sexual abuse.
Directs the Secretary to establish the Task Force to Rescue Immigrant Victims of American Sex Offenders.
Authorizes the Secretary to adjust the status of aliens who would otherwise be inadmissible (due to unlawful presence, document fraud, or other specified grounds of inadmissibility) if such aliens have been in the United States for at least five years and meet other requirements.
Authorizes the emergency deployment of Border Patrol agents to a requesting border state.
Sets forth provisions for Border Patrol acquisition and use of specified equipment.
Directs the Secretary to: (1) provide for additional detention space for illegal aliens; (2) increase Border Patrol agents, airport and land border immigration inspectors, immigration enforcement officers, and fraud and document fraud investigators; (3) enhance Border Patrol training and operational facilities; (4) establish immigration, customs, and agriculture inspector occupations within the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection; (5) reestablish the Border Patrol anti-smuggling unit; (6) establish criminal investigator occupations within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS); (7) increase Border Patrol agent and investigator pay; (8) require foreign language training for appropriate DHS employees; and (9) establish the Fraudulent Documents Task Force.
Redefines the term “law enforcement officer” under provisions of the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) and the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) to include: (1) federal employees not otherwise covered by such term whose duties include the investigation or apprehension of suspected or convicted individuals and who are authorized to carry a firearm; and (2) Internal Revenue Service (IRS) employees whose duties are primarily the collection of delinquent taxes and the securing of delinquent returns.
Authorizes S (witness or informant) nonimmigrant status for aliens in possession of critical reliable information concerning commercial alien smuggling or trafficking in immigration documents.
Establishes a reward program to assist in eliminating immigration-related commercial document fraud operations.
Sets forth unfair immigration-related employment practices.
Requires petitioners for nonimmigrant labor to describe their efforts to recruit lawful permanent residents or U.S. citizens.
Makes permanent an INA provision allowing adjustment of status of certain aliens for whom family-sponsored or employment-based applications or petitions were filed by a specified date.
Lessens immigration consequences for minor criminal offenses. Eliminates retroactive changes in grounds of inadmissibility and removal.
Amends criminal offense removal-related provisions.
Increases the worldwide level of diversity immigrants.
Authorizes adjustment of status for certain nationals or citizens of Haiti.
Eliminates mandatory detention in expedited removal proceedings.
Amends the Haitian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act of 1998 to: (1) waive document fraud as a ground of inadmissibility; and (2) address determinations with respect to children.
Eliminates the one-year filing requirement for asylum applicants. Includes gender persecution within the particular social group category of persecution.
Provides for the permanent resident status adjustment of certain temporary protected status persons.
Amends the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 to eliminate a provision prohibiting restrictions on the communication of immigration status information by a government entity.
Replaces the existing fashion model H-1B visa classification with an O-visa classification
Sponsor & co sponsors:
Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee [D-TX]hide cosponsors
Cosponsors [as of 2008-01-27]
Rep. Corrine Brown [D-FL]
Del. Donna Christensen [D-VI]
Rep. Yvette Clarke [D-NY]
Rep. William Clay [D-MO]
Rep. Elijah Cummings [D-MD]
Rep. Danny Davis [D-IL]
Rep. Keith Ellison [D-MN]
Rep. Chaka Fattah [D-PA]
Rep. Alcee Hastings [D-FL]
Rep. William Jefferson [D-LA]
Rep. Henry Johnson [D-GA]
Rep. Carolyn Kilpatrick [D-MI]
Rep. Barbara Lee [D-CA]
Rep. John Lewis [D-GA]
Rep. Kendrick Meek [D-FL]
Rep. Gwen Moore [D-WI]
Del. Eleanor Norton [D-DC]
Rep. Charles Rangel [D-NY]
Rep. Laura Richardson [D-CA]
Rep. Hilda Solis [D-CA]
Rep. Edolphus Towns [D-NY]
Rep. Diane Watson [D-CA]
Piss on prison time. That is three hots and a cot. Either send the bastards back or shoot them.
as rockinqsranch stated, it’s all smoke and mirrors. I guess I’d give them a A for the propaganda effect, but not for effort. If there were any meaningful effort it would be in the enforcement of existing laws...
Those aren’t half-bad ideas, CondorFlight, but they need `fleshing-out’. 300 thousand you say.
The economy is a little down now and our foreign invaders are hard-working and they work cheap from what I’ve heard, but many are unemployed . . .
Able-bodied males could be put to work in a sort of WPA program, beginning in San Diego and working their way south-east, living in temporary camps, like the intercontinental railroad. I’m guessing they could build a really cracker-jack double-fence with lots of extras!
And when they’re done we just show them the gate.
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