Posted on 05/07/2012 11:15:27 AM PDT by Theoria
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) aims to have his alternative to the DREAM Act proposal on paper in the next few weeks and passed by the end of the summer.
"Our goal is to pass something this summer in time for kids who plan to go to school this fall," Rubio press secretary Alex Conant said Monday.
Rubio's proposal would provide non-immigrant visas to illegal immigrants' children who attend college or serve in the military.
"So just like lots of people come to the United States on work visas or on student visas or tourism visas or whatever, this would be a non-immigrant visa, so it would be a temporary one," Conant said. "It wouldn't be permanent. But the intent here is if they choose to remain in the United States permanently that they could apply for permanent residence just like any other immigrant would."
Rubio's proposal is an alternative to the Democrat-backed DREAM Act, sponsored by Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), which would grant legal status to illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. when they were young and then go to college or serve in the military.
Conant said Rubio's legislation would not mean the immigrants would be deported after their visa runs out.
"They could apply for permanent residence after a certain amount of time without having to return to their country of origin," Conant said. "They'd be like any other immigrant except that they could wait while they're in the United States. The Democrats' DREAM Act doesn't have them leaving the country but, as I said, it creates a special pathway for them."
Rubio's office does not yet have an estimate on how many new visas would be issued under the proposal. Conant said it depends on what the qualifying age for the visas in the legislation will be.
A day earlier, Rubio defended the proposal against criticism that it was a form of amnesty.
"We use the existing immigration system to deal with a humanitarian issue. And that is these children who entered this country illegally or have overstayed visas illegally, through no fault of their own," Rubio said on Fox News Sunday. "These are children, they follow their parents. The parents put them in this predicament."
Just showing his true colors.
Bottom line...we need a new conservative party that has principles, ethics and a signed contract for anyone representing the conservative party.
YOU want to ship 20 million people out of the country, and “I” am the one with the “brain clog”?????
Sigh: those who remain ignorant of history will never learn anything.
Read about Operation Wetback http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Wetback
Virtually all those affected left voluntarily rather than be in your words, “shipped back”.
Evil people spread lies like yours. Seems you are nothing but a race-baiting monger.
Oh...Jim..he called me “evil”...ohhhh....
Rubio did an excellent job of outlining his plan, this a.m. on Laura’s show. He acknowledged area that require further work.
If you were literate, you would have read in my initial post, the steps necessary to make this work.
An obvious result of imposing penalties on employers is the self deportation aspect.
You’ll pardon me if I don’t follow your lead by referring to racist programs and their related propaganda, just because they may have the wikipedia stamp of approval.
The key elements of Rubio’s plan involve the use of “non-imigrant visas” for students who were minors at the time of their arrival. It DOES NOT move them to the front of any line. In fact it moves them to the back of the line.
At the same time it addresses critical improvements to the legal immigration process, which can take over 5 years with the current broken system.
Nice to see you’re so opposed to character assasination and name calling, that you’re motivated to maintain a substantive discussion on the merits.
Thus, I’m through wasting my time with you.
As I said, you have my sympathy on recovering from your obvious problems.
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