Posted on 06/13/2007 5:07:52 PM PDT by mtnwmn
Thursday, June 07, 2007 Senator Sessions Releases List of 20 Loopholes in the Senate Immigration Bill
U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) released a list of 20 loopholes in the comprehensive immigration bill today which reveals that the bill is fatally flawed and will not establish a functioning immigration system in the future.
The list of loopholes includes flaws effecting border security, chain-migration and assimilation policies. The list exposes the lack of serious attention given to ensuring that the legislation fixes Americas failed immigration system.
I am deeply concerned about the numerous loopholes we have found in this legislation. They are more than technical errors, but rather symptoms of a fundamentally flawed piece of legislation that stands no chance of actually fixing our broken immigration system, Sessions said. Many of the loopholes are indicative of a desire not to have the system work.
For example, one loophole in the enforcement trigger fails to require the U.S. VISIT system the biometric border check-in/check-out system established by Congress in 1996, but never implemented to be fully functioning before new worker or amnesty programs begin. Without the system in place, the U.S. has no method of ensuring that workers and their families do not overstay their visas.
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“The list of loopholes includes flaws effecting border security. . ..”
Oops! Effecting border security would be fine. Affecting it so as to weaken security is the problem.
Senator Sessions is one of the best.
pro-crime. Imagine those that have been patiently sitting around for 2 years while our immigration system couldn’t do its job, then to be told “sorry, go back to the end of the line, you would have been better off if you just snuck in.”
Yep.
Senator Sessions is clearly a bigot and a racist who inexplicibly refuses to submit to the will of his superiors in the Senate and continues to espouse the nonsense that he represents the people of his State. Reactionaries like this have to be dealt with, and quickly. If he and others of his ilk are allowed to spew this garbage, then the Senate will be changed forever. Our only hope is that Ted Kennedy and Lindsay Graham will get this evil doer under control.
Yep, he forgot to drink the kool-aid.
Thanks for posting. Hooray Jeff Sessions!
You're welcome.
GWB will be here in Mobile on the 21st for a fund raiser for Sessions. I've thought of doing a 'no amnesty' FReep of GWB but, probably won't out of respect for Sessions.
You know what? There are people in Washington, D.C. that believe that, and would not find your humor:)
Jeff Sessions will be long remembered for his work to quite literally save the Republic..
Only 20? He must have only gotten through the first 20 pages or so. He’ll probably be adding 20 more at least in the coming days.
Bump for later reading.
That any FICA payments made while working illegally would not be automatically forfeited is beyond me. Our leaders have gone collectively insane.
Sparks has decided not to challenge him, which means the only Democrat that we know is in the race is well, won’t say the name, but we know she can’t win.
That's always been my take on it. They don't WANT the immigration system to work. Not even a little bit.
Mr. SESSIONS. Mr. President, according to the budget point of order the Senator from Colorado has raised, he will be focusing on, I believe, the second 10 years. The Congressional Budget Office has told us that the first 10 years are net losers. They say that direct spending in this bill authorizes $54 billion. There will be $66 billion in revenue, and discretionary spending will be $64 billion, for a net cost in the first 10 years of $52 billion. That is really significant. The numbers are far worse in the outyears.
Those of us who have watched this Congress operate over the years and have been in it a few years realize that we make some of our biggest mistakes when we jump into programs that sound good at the time and we have not calculated the long-term costs to our country, and we wake up wondering how it ever happened. Sometimes we need to go back to look at precisely how it occurred. Robert Rector has done some serious number-crunching for the second 10 years. He was a chief architect of Americas welfare reform bill. He is a senior analyst at the Heritage Foundation, a very well respected group in town. These are some of the things he says about that.He believes-let me tell you-that the numbers could be $50 billion to $60 billion PER YEAR in the second decade. This is one of his quotes: In the long run, this bill, if enacted, would prove the largest expansion of Government welfare in 35 years.
The largest expansion of Government welfare in 35 years. He estimates that the bills provisions that put illegal aliens on a direct path to citizenship will result in $16 billion per year of net additional costs to the Federal Government for benefits given to the amnestied individuals alone. This is just the group that is in the first amnesty. This will be in the amnesty of those who are already here. That will cost $16 billion per year.
He also points out that the fiscal impact of the cost to the Treasury caused by the Senate bill will extend far beyond the benefits given to the individual aliens, those who are here seeking amnesty. Once those aliens receive legal permanent status-that is the green card, and that is what they will receive under the bill before us-they have an automatic guaranteed right to bring their spouses and minor children into the United States even if this had not been one of their strong desires to begin with. Now they have an automatic right to do this. So that will greatly expand the total number of people ultimately granted citizenship under this bills provisions. It is not just the people who are here. Undoubtedly, the welfare estimate of $16 billion per year will increase. That is a low estimate. Once an illegal alien becomes a citizen, they have an additional unrestricted right to bring their parents in. Many of these parents will be elderly and need medical care. The Heritage Foundation report points out that parents under the Medicare system could cost as much as $18,000 per person. They estimate that even if 10 percent of the people who are provided citizenship-we are talking about getting into the second 10 years because it will take about that long to go through the process of getting a green card under the restrictions of the bill and under their request for citizenship. You can bring your children and your wife with a green card. If you have a green card, you can bring them. If you become a citizen, you can bring your parents and your brothers and sisters, and they can bring their children. But he estimates that would be $30 billion a year in the outyears.
You say that cannot be. Well, all I know is Members of this body debated for years welfare reform. The people who opposed welfare reform and opposed it steadfastly-and President Clinton vetoed it several times-said it was going to increase poverty. The others argued: No, it will help lift people out of poverty. What has happened? Welfare rolls have dropped by more than 50 percent, and the number of children being raised in poverty is lower than it was at that time. Who said that would happen? Robert Rector at the Heritage Foundation. He was proven correct in that debate. I submit that he is one of the more brilliant students of public life today, of welfare and all of the related issues. He said it will be $50 billion to $60 billion a year in the next decade. That is a lot of money. That is really a lot of money. Over 10 years, that amounts to a half trillion dollars.
So we have to think about this. I suggest to my colleagues that we have not thought this through. We dont even have an official CBO score on the second 10 years. We are asking the country, the American taxpayer, who lifts the burdens and pays our fat salary and takes care of us and everything else in this Federal Government, to just take a walk with us in the hope that something good might happen. I dont think so.
more here, use next page bottom right to change pages.
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getpage.cgi?position=all&page=S5081&dbname=2006_record
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Sessions....he’s one sane Senator!
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