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« Why Newspaper Websites Should Be Blogs | Main | Bombshell » December 16, 2005Call, or Cast Your Fate to the WindBy Donna Locke Go to NumbersUSA's Web site for detailed analyses of the bill and amendments, the list of cosponsors, almost up-to-the-minute reports of votes on the bill and amendments, chances for action, and more. Read the middle of NumbersUSA's home page and follow the links about the bill. Also click on Hot Topics on the right of that page. If text in the middle of the home page changes to another topic when you move your mouse, point your mouse to Hot Topics on the right, and the text about the bill will return and hold steady. Find and contact your House representative here. Call your rep's Washington office early and often. NumbersUSA is a Washington lobbyist for the immigration-reduction movement. Tennesseans for Immigration Control and Reform supports the positions NumbersUSA has taken on H.R. 4437 and the proposed amendments. Our positions do not necessarily reflect those of Bill Hobbs. [Editor's note from the editor of BillHobbs.com: We're pretty much on the same page with respect to chain immigration specifically and illegal immigration overall, though I'm less inclined to reduce legal immigration, especially as respects immigration of highly-educated highly-skilled people, which the U.S. can always use more of.] Posted in Immigration
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"though I'm less inclined to reduce legal immigration, especially as respects immigration of highly-educated highly-skilled people, which the U.S. can always use more of." Bill, therein lies a major problem with the current immigration policies. Repeatedly since the 60's the requirements for legal immigration have been dropped. No longer are the best and brightest immigrating to America. Whole regions have been migrating to the U.S. under the auspices of political asylum. My hope is the bill will pass. The reality is that it will likely fail especially in the lukewarm Senate under pressure from Bush. If it does pass will we see Georgie boy use his veto pen for the first time? Wouldn't you expect that from a President who believes the Constitution is just a $#%$$ piece of paper? Posted by: Rick Forman at December 16, 2005 9:43 AMThe most sweeping provision of the House bill would require all employers in the country, more than 7 million, to submit Social Security numbers and other information to a national data base to verify the legal status of workers. This is cut and pasted from the article in Yahoo. This would actually work to deter a lot of illegal immigration and give ICE Special Agents some teeth to prosecute employers/employees who violate the law. If it passes. Look for it to get cut out when they compare it to the Senate bill. Posted by: ronj at December 17, 2005 7:29 AMPost a comment
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