Attorneys Want Fixes to Legal Immigration System, Too
The debate over what to do with the estimated 12 million people living in the country illegally has dominated the discussion on comprehensive immigration reform. But attorneys say key fixes are needed to the legal immigration system as well.
David Leopold, the general counsel and past president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, said Congress needs to address a subpar visa system and the backlog in immigration cases to avoid the same surge in illegal migration that took place after President Ronald Reagan’s immigration reform effort almost 30 years ago.
“People talk about the Reagan amnesty of 1986 and ...
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Mary Steele
We can only absorb so many people and it is time for the illegals here to leave and they can take their family with them so they are not separated. They can go to wherever they want to. But vacating the jobs and our country has to be a priority so those here legally can find a job and feed their family! We cannot create jobs fast enough for the ones here legally, much less adding 11-18 million more that should have followed the laws and applied like everybody else, just like the ones waiting their turn outside of the country; the way it has to be if those here legally wants their American Dream opportunities currently taken by 7 million illegal workers in non-Ag jobs!
Mary Steele
P.S. If we have money to process 11-18 million people, we have the money to start deporting them 3 or busses or book them on the next flight to whatever country they want to go to, taking their family with them if they want to stay together, and the message will be heard loud and clear, come here legally or don't come at all. Having compassion is one thing, taking away the rights of those who came legally and give it to those who did not, is wrong! They can leave and take their family with them if they don't want to be separated. There are families here that are waiting for their relatives like they are suppose to, and are not trying to go around the system. They deserve our government protecting them and their right to their family coming here first. So those here illegally need to leave and honor those who came the right way! Get in line behind them, which is waiting out of the country behind the ones that applied legally and are waiting to come here. No jumping ahead of them, go wait in line behind them.
richard jung
Good post Mary. I personally like the approach used by Pres. Eisenhower. DEPORT all of them.
Barbara Griffith
What is needed is mandatory E-Verify enforce it. Nobody gets a job without passing the E-Verify checks. If the illegal aliens can't find a job they will self deport, period.
Brittanicus
FAR MORE EXPENSIVE THAN “OBAMA CARE”.
Ignoramuses is the only way to describe both political parties, who are endeavoring to pass an immigration pardon for truly unknown numbers of illegal aliens, when somewhat more than 23 million Americans remain jobless. I have never seen so many people standing with signs at exits of highway ramps, displaying signs saying, “They will work for food.” When so many Americans of all races, whether Anglo, Black, Hispanic, Asian are these Democrats, Liberals or Republicans pushing for another insane immigration Policy, WHEN WE CANNOT EVEN ESSENTIALLY FEED OUR OWN PEOPLE? The underlying principle is simple, that illegal aliens, whether migrants sweeping across a sparsely enforced border, illegal immigrants who flew across the oceans or even Canadians, is not beneficial to the present dark recession when Americans are having a very hard time, with either being jobless, in temporary or part time work or just plainly given up looking, while business nationwide are scamming our nation by using underpaid cheap labor. Why is Washington waiting to enact THE LEGAL WORKFORCE ACT, when U.S. citizens/residents are living in a state of misery; some without hope. Bring the Legal Workforce Act into the light and pass it, with the mandatory E-Verify provision that examines electronically every man or women who has a right to work, but prohibits unauthorized employees. The 1986 Simpson/Mazzoli immigration amnesty dismally failed, because the business world didn’t like it and leaned hard on Congress.
DAILY ILLEGAL ALIENS SLIP THE BORDER OR FLY INTO AMERICA AND OVERSTAY, THEN HIDE IN PLAIN SITE WITHIN THEIR LEGAL FAMILY CIRCLE, GET A JOB AND THEN SUPPLEMENT THEIR INCOME WITH THEIR NATURALISED CHILDRENS PAYMENTS FROM US. WE MUST BE THE LAUGHING STOCK OF SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA, EUROPE AND THE REST OF THE WORLD.
The Immigration Reform and Control act (IRCA) was created with huge loopholes and a quagmire of fraudulent applications that was authorized, rewarding everybody with no reservations. The biggest mistake has been the Trillion dollars outcome of illegal alien children given automatic citizenship that must be amended, so only children of a U.S. citizen can be eligible. The BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP has provided from taxpayers free education, free health care and other welcoming entitlements. The illegal parents are able to collect huge benefits for every baby born and a nice tidy welfare payment in the form of a cash card; that’s why these parents are seen with two to six progeny, who benefit financially from a monthly stipend that can add up to thousands of taxpayers’ dollars. Also squeeze in the CHAIN MIGRATION bill, which ends up another expensive payout for us all, if the financial sponsor of immediate family ignores his promise to support them. All promises stated to us by the Congress, ends up as a pack of lies. Americans always gets short change. The newspapers like to name us as Nativists, TEA BAGGERS or something ugly and obnoxious, but the money I earn only goes so far, so I don’t think I or anybody else should be fiscally supporting the rest of the world. The 2006 Secure Fence Act needs to be reinstated, immediately—no matter the cost. Two fences separated by an open area for the ICE transportation activity, adorned with razor wire, cameras, sensors and other detection equipment. Unless these laws are met, its predicted thousands or nameless numbers will try to reach this country, before Obama signs it into law.
AMERICANS BY COMING TOGETHER still have a chance to make ourselves known to the Gang of 8 immigration legislators, as there is admission to free faxes at NumbersUSA, to petition Washington. YOU CAN ALSO PHONE YOUR TARNISHED POLITICIANS THROUGH THE CORE GOVERNMENT PHONE SWITCHBOARD AT (202) 224-3121. The Immigration debates are going on now and we should demand no more Paths to Citizenship, construct the real fencing; that illegal aliens should return to their home country and go through the scrupulous process that honest immigrants must take. EVERY CITIZEN HAS A RIGHT TO PETITION HIS STATE OR FEDERAL REPRESENTATIVE AND ESSENTIALLY OFFER HIS OBJECTIONS ABOUT ANYTHING, INCLUDING ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION.
Incidentally: If you think that the 2012 Presidential election was all above board, I’ll sell you the London Bridge for a dollar?