Amnesty?

Damocles

Damocles

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Link... Krauthammer's Column

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From the moment this bill is signed, every illegal alien who does not have a criminal record can register with the U.S. government for temporary legal status. Moreover, as soon as the president certifies that certain border enforcement triggers have been met, this cohort of 12 million becomes eligible for the new Z-visa -- renewable until death -- which allows them to stay and work and travel and re-enter.

This is amnesty -- and I would be all in favor of it if I believed in the border enforcement mechanisms in this bill. If these are indeed the last illegal immigrants to come in, let us generously and humanely take them out of the shadows. But if we don't close the border, that generous and humane gesture will be an announcement to the world that the smart way to come to America is illegally.

In this bill, unfortunately, enforcement at the border is all bureaucratic inputs and fancy gadgets: principally, a doubling of the border patrol to 28,000, lots of high-tech sensors and four unmanned aerial vehicles. And 370 miles of fence -- half of what Congress had mandated last year.

Does anyone imagine these will stop the flood? Four UAVs? And how does 370 miles of fence close a border of 2,100 miles? And if fences work (of course they do: look at the San Diego fence), why not build one all the way?

The amnesty is triggered upon presidential certification that these bureaucratic benchmarks are met -- regardless of what is actually happening at the border. What vacuous nonsense. The trigger must be something real. I propose a single amendment, short and very concrete: ``The amnesty shall be declared the morning after the president has certified (citing disinterested studies) that illegal immigration across the southern border has been reduced by 90 percent.'' That single provision would guarantee passage of this comprehensive reform because most Americans would be glad to grant a generous amnesty -- if they can be assured it would be the last.
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uscitizen said:
And how many of the poorly paid illegal workers can afford several thousand dollars to get legal ?
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How many of them were able to pay the coyotes while being even lower paid?

I'd even be willing to lower that penalty if they could assure me that the last paragraph would be true.
 
Watermark said:
Did the Coyote's charge 5000 dollars? They'd be fucking millionares in a week.
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Yes, that is pretty much a standard fare. And no, not in a week.

Also interesting is that the $5000 is only when they wish to become citizens, to be legally here would be free.
 
All I can say is...

Tancredo was right...this bill is a fraud...I read it it is Amnesty called by another name...it only benefits corrupt corporations wanting cheap labor pools...as for the $5000. coyotes charge...it is true and they also rape and pillage along the way...most are actually Federalies...collecting more Mordia!
 
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