It adds 400,000 temporary workers a year, which allows them to stay two years and bring their families. They can then renew it twice with a one year hiatus between renewals. And then what happens if they disappear?
• The “touch-back” provision that requires heads of households to return to their native countries to apply for citizenship.
They don't have to apply for citizenship. They get legal status immediately and can renew their Z visas indefinitely, which allows them to travel back and forth, bring their families [spouse, children, and one set of parents], and enroll in SS/Medicare.
• An end of “chain migration,” an immigration platform that awards citizenship status based largely on ties to family members who already are U.S. citizens. The new bill calls for the selection process for future immigrants to be based on a points system that rewards employment criteria, education and knowledge of English.
Chain migration, as currently structured, doesn't end for another 8 years and is in fact accelerated. Chain migration will still remain accounting for 40% of all new immigrants.
Kyl struck a Faustian bargain and the Dems can change whatever provisions they want in subsequent Congresses especially if a Dem wins the WH in 2008.
"Now it is not good for the Christian’s health to hustle the Aryan brown,
For the Christian riles, and the Aryan smiles and he weareth the Christian down;
And the end of the fight is a tombstone white with the name of the late deceased,
And the epitaph drear: “A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East.”
Rudyard Kipling
Kyl is a Fool who tried to hustle the Dems.
“Kyl struck a Faustian bargain and the Dems can change whatever provisions they want in subsequent Congresses especially if a Dem wins the WH in 2008”
Bingo!!