“legalize as many as 12 million unlawful immigrants”
Try 20 million.
It is always
“Immigrant” instead of illegal
12 million instead of at least 20 million.
Who really knows, could be 30 - 40 million! Everyone of them is a law-breaker and knows it. What type of citizens will they become?
Government stats?
Double, triple!
Bush is a traitor. I don’t give a “hoot” what
his father said about, “beautiful, brown skin.”
Bush is Connecticut traitor with a Texas accent.
He’s trash. So is his pinhead father.
Bad bushes produce bad fruit.
Try 30 million.
One Democratic amendment, which would give family ties more weight in any point system that allows illegal immigrants to gain legal status, could cause trouble with Republican supporters of the bill.
The proposal, by Robert Menendez, D-N.J., has support from liberals and immigration advocates. But it has the potential to increase legal immigration and could be a deal-breaker for Republican supporters pushing for a merit-based immigration system.
Menendez dismissed the criticism, saying family reunification is a “bedrock principle” of the nation’s immigration system.
“Some of my colleagues have attached erroneous labels to my other family reunification amendments to rile opposition, but that’s just political rhetoric,” Menendez said.
At the other end of the political spectrum is an amendment by Kay Bailey Hutchison, a Republican who represents Texas, that would require holders of a new “Z” visa — which would be given to illegal immigrants — to return to their home country within two years and reapply for permanent residence.