[AuntB]

Just a reminder to remind the Senate that there is a good immigration REFORM bill languishing in committee that is simple and addresses current loopholes!

Common Sense ‘ENFORCE ACT’ introduced By Sen. Inhofe

Major Provisions in Inhofe’s 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 immigrant’s 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 violations—i.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. ###

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1837422/posts

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=s110-1269

[reg45]

Establishes an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Sorry Senator Imhofe (R) - Oklahoma, but that smells like pork to me.

[reg45]

I would like to see a provision prohibiting (embargoing) all federal money to all cities, counties or states which refuse to enforce federal immigration laws.

[stephenjohnbanker]

Good list!

BUMP

[epow]

Eliminates the practice of granting automatic U.S. citizenship to children born to illegal immigrants in an effort to reduce ‘anchor babies.’******

That would require repealing that phrase of the 14th Amendment which endows any person born in the United States with full US citizenship. That would require approval by 2/3 of both houses of Congress plus ratification by 38 state legislatures or conventions. That's about as likely to happen as it would be for hell to freeze over in July.