Posted on 06/03/2007 10:58:10 AM PDT by PhiKapMom
May 2, 2007
WASHINGTON, DC U.S. Senator Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) today once again introduced his immigration legislation aimed at addressing the ever-increasing influx of illegal immigrants to the United States and its strain on society. Inhofes ENFORCE - Engaging the Nation to Fight for Our Right to Control Entry -Act (S.1269) increases U.S. border security, emphasizes greater enforcement of existing immigration laws and prevents amnesty and other shortcuts for illegal immigrants.
Illegal immigrants continue to cross our countrys borders, strain our economy and exploit our resources, Inhofe said. The gravity of this situation warrants that Americans of all political stripes come together to address this problem immediately. I will not stand idly by and watch our great nation collapse under the pressures of uncontrolled illegal immigration; this is a crisis and one that must be addressed aggressively.
Simply granting citizenship to immigrants, who are currently in our country illegally, is not the answer. We must enhance our border security, hold those accountable who encourage illegal immigration and ensure that those who violate our laws by entering our country illegally do not have this illegal activity easily forgiven and even rewarded with permanent residence or citizenship. Our nations future rests on Congress actions of today, and the ENFORCE Act is a strong step in the right direction to help solve our growing problem of illegal immigration.
Major Provisions in Inhofes ENFORCE Act:
· Establishes the National Border Neighborhood Watch (NBNW) Program allowing retired law enforcement officers to assist Border Patrol agents by reporting illegal border crossings.
· Makes unlawful-presence in the United States a felony.
· Establishes an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
· Authorizes funding for online immigration training for state and local law enforcement officers.
· Eliminates the practice of granting automatic U.S. citizenship to children born to illegal immigrants in an effort to reduce anchor babies.
· Establishes an independent verification system for Social Security numbers; also mandates that immigrants Social Security numbers expire when visa runs out.
· Establishes electronic birth & death registries to fight fraudulent Social Security cards
· Helps reduce Individual Taxpayer Identification Number abuse.
· Empowers state & local law enforcement to carryout immigration laws (but does not make it mandatory).
· Establishes penalties for most flagrant employer tax violationsi.e. if an employer willfully files incorrect tax returns, they will be assessed the maximum penalties available.
· Makes it illegal to operate day laborer centers for illegal aliens and to give them unemployment assistance.
· Eliminates in-state tuition benefits for illegal aliens.
Why wasn't this bill any good?
Re-elect Jim Inofe to the US Senate!
I like it!
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I love it — short, to the point, and no one can misinterpret what it says!
I’ve been trying to get people to pay attention to the legislation, but some were too busy pissing and moaning at each other that what the White House had was the BEST!
Common Sense ‘ENFORCE ACT’ introduced By Sen. Inhofe
Posted by AuntB
On News/Activism 05/21/2007 3:27:02 PM PDT · 25 replies · 643+ views
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1837422/posts
Because it's not a complete sellout to businesses who employ cheap illegal foreigners and to La Raza.
Businesses who employ dirt-cheap illegals have an unfair advantage over law-abiding businesses, and are able to pass on much of the hidden costs of the illegals, like healthcare and high crime rates, on to taxpayers.
* Begin immediate depotation of illegal immigrants.
Great isn’t it! Jim Inhofe is not afraid to speak out and why we have to send him back to the Senate.
Cannot believe I didn’t hear about this before and found it looking for something else I needed from the website. I did a search and couldn’t find it anywhere on here.
BTW, I stopped my monthly to RNC and donating it to Sen Inhofe where it will do some good.
Thanks! I couldn’t find it anywhere on the site with this title. Maybe they will start paying attention now instead of moaning.
Any 1,000 page bill is bad because it leaves room for all kinds of loopholes IMHO.
KISS fits the immigration bill!
Love the name!
Inhofe and Coburn ... you've got to love being in Oklahoma. Not like Georgia where we've got Chambliss and Isakson posing for pictures on the front page of the papers with Ted Kennedy the day after they cooked up this G'awful mess of an "immigration bill."
Yes it does, and Inhofe is a master at keeping the simple, simple. There was an article posted yesterday, IIRC, about all the problems they're having in Okla with aliens.
· Makes unlawful-presence in the United States a felony.
· Eliminates the practice of granting automatic U.S. citizenship to children born to illegal immigrants in an effort to reduce anchor babies.
· Establishes penalties for most flagrant employer tax violationsi.e. if an employer willfully files incorrect tax returns, they will be assessed the maximum penalties available.
· Makes it illegal to operate day laborer centers for illegal aliens and to give them unemployment assistance.
· Eliminates in-state tuition benefits for illegal aliens.
Well, there goes half of Austin’s population. I like this.
What bothers me in the last several months that Oklahoma on I-40 has had two major accidents involving illegals and a lot were killed but the OK taxpayer is footing the bill for the care of the ones not killed and have a hunch we are footing the bill for the ones that were.
At least the last bill they said it was illegals right away instead of us waiting over 24 hours to find out.
I am tired of paying my tax dollars for illegal immigrants including the ones on student visas that don’t go home when their visa expires which makes them illegal at that point in time and nothing is done with them.
HOLY SMOKES, YOU’RE BACK POSTING!!!!
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Was on that thread — Tulsa is a sanctuary city which burns me to no end. I had heard rumors but to see it in print irritates me to no end.
Ping...
I don’t want to sound snippy, but weren’t you banned or wanted to be banned for supporting Rudy?
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