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To: Dane
it was directed at about 200,000 people to reunite families

So it's "for the families" eh? And there are on "200,000 people"?

I don't know where you get this information, but it is flatly wrong in the former, and dubious in the latter.

The legislation clearly states that if you can establish that you had a family relationship (e.g., marriage or anchor children) before August 2001, you are eligible, assuming a resident immigrant or citizen will sponsor you. But if you can find any citizen or resident immigrant who will simply assert that you were working for them prior to August 2001, and will sponsor you, then you also are eligible.

So obviously there is a non-family component to this amnesty which is quite huge, and you are clearly wrong on the facts. It is directed at employees as well as "families."

Your second assertion that the aggregate numbers are only 200,000 is based on precisely nothing, a wild guess pulled right out of thin air. I say the actual eligibility numbers are 10 percent of the illegal alien population, so it's more like 800,000 to 1.2 million.

Find a way to dispute those numbers. You sure won't get them from any reputable source on the illegal alien population.

18 posted on 03/19/2002 3:25:30 AM PST by angkor
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To: angkor
But if you can find any citizen or resident immigrant who will simply assert that you were working for them prior to August 2001, and will sponsor you, then you also are eligible.

And if any company does that for someone who didn't have the proper paperwork, they get fined.

The above italicized passage is for those you hired people with the proper paperwork, but due to INS mix ups or their own lapses, became illegal. Those are the people who are going to get sponsored.

And it will be about 200,000 people.

23 posted on 03/19/2002 3:41:12 AM PST by Dane
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