No. I said we don't need new laws to make the changes necessary. Visa quotas and criteria are modified all the time and do not require massive new legislation from Congress. We currently have laws to build a fence, enforce the border, sanction employers who knowingly hire illegals, punish individuals and employers who do not abide by tax laws, etc. It is time to enforce those laws, not add new ones.
Are you okay with the anchor baby policy? Are you okay with all the generous welfare benefits avaiable to unskilled legal aliens?
No. But I've never seen one proposed provision within "Comprehensive Immigration Reform" legislation that corrected those issues, in fact they have only gone to reinforce them. We need to take the enforcement actions already within the authority of Government to reduce the number of illegal aliens. That then automatically reduces the number of anchor babies and the amount of dollars being spent on welfare benefits.
It really ain't rocket science!
You are very Clintonesque in your choice of what counts as ‘immigration reform’ and what doesn’t.
Yes they do. The current immigration policy that favors so-called "family reunification" (or nepotism, as I prefer to call it) is a result of Ted Kennedy's 1965 immigration act. We will not have a sane immigration policy until we repeal it.
But I've never seen one proposed provision within "Comprehensive Immigration Reform" legislation that corrected those issues,
Then you don't get out very much, do you? Bush's immigration reform bill was not the only one proposed. I leave it to you as an exercise to look up reform bills sponsored by people like Tom Tancredo who favor tighter immigration laws and lower legal immigration numbers.
That then automatically reduces the number of anchor babies and the amount of dollars being spent on welfare benefits.
FYI, the welfare spending on poor legal immigrants dwarfs any amount spent on illegals.