The amnesty bill in its current form will legalize at least 30 million people. If you accept the low estimate of 12 million illegals currently in the country (I think it is closer to 20 million) and then you account for immediate family — spouses, kids, etc., I think the final figure will be well over 30 million and could approach 50 million newly legalized citizens. Our current official population is around 300 million. That means, within a few years of this bill’s passage, 1/6 - 1/5 of all our population will be composed of newly legalized, formerly “undocumented” people. No country can absorb such a large group of people, many of them poorly educated and inadequately acculturated, and not be permanently transformed into something completely different. I believe this is betrayal of all current American citizens by a ruling elite that seeks to either gain politically or exploit economically from the arrival of all these new people. This is an existential moment in our country’s history. If this bill is not significantly watered down and balanced by assured border enforcement this republic will never be the same. We must fight this with all our might. The politicians who vote for this must be challenged in the primaries. If they still win the nomination, we should vote write-in or third party in the general election. If we are going lose so should they. This is not negotiable. No immigration reform of the type being currently advocated and certainly no immigration bills without border enforcement first. No lip service, we want action.
“50 million newly legalized citizens”
You don’t say. Show me where the bill provides for this?