The Arlen Specter Bill - Giant Amnesty Puts Economic Special Interests Before ......

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Security and Lives of American Workers....



http://freedomfolks.blogspot.com/200...al-battle.html



Friday, February 24, 2006
The Congressional Battle

It's important to realize that our biggest enemy in terms of stopping illegal immigration and slowing down out of control legal immigration is our elected officials.

Today's ruiner of American prosperity is Arlen Spector.

This just in from Dan Stein at FAIR.

Giant Amnesty Puts Economic Special Interests Before Security and Lives of American Workers

Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) has put forward a 305 page bill for next week's Judiciary Committee consideration that can only be described as a nightmare for American workers and a dream come true for the Chamber of Commerce. Listen to a special audio message from FAIR President Dan Stein about this bill. (MP3 format)

If you are employed in any job in virtually any industry and think your job is secure, think again. The number of guest workers permitted in this bill is unlimited and available to every sector of the U.S. economy. No job will be spared unfair competition from cheap foreign workers and employers chomping at the bit to reduce labor costs.

The bill is divided into several sections. Here's a preview:

Title I Border Security

* Increases in border and customs personnel are provided, but those increases depend on future congressional decisions to allocate resources.
Translation-It may never happen.
* Border surveillance is promised on the basis of a provision calling for a plan to be developed.
Translation-It may never happen.
* Border security is promised on the basis of a provision calling for development of a strategy.
Translation-It may never happen.
* North American security is promised based on a provision calling for cooperation from Mexico and Canada and a report.
Translation-It may never happen.
* Entry-Exit system is to collect biometrics from all entering and exiting immigrants, but no provision makes this mandatory.
Translation-It may never happen.
* Border fencing between the U.S. and Mexico is promised based on a feasibility study.
Translation-It may never happen.

Title II Removal and Denial of Benefits to Terrorists

* Terrorists ineligible for asylum.
* Increased penalties for alien smuggling.
* Strengthen penalties for marriage fraud.
* Extends program to remove criminal aliens at the conclusion of their prison terms. These provisions are needed, yet they are so obviously needed it is hard to understand why they haven't already been enacted. To ask the American public to accept all that is wrong with this legislation on the basis of these provisions is absurd.

Title III Worksite Enforcement

* Requires employer use of electronic employment verification system for new employees only.
Translation-Currently employed illegal aliens will remain undetected.

Title IV Nonimmigrant and Immigrant Visa Reform
# Guest workers

* Unlimited in number annually and available to all economic sectors
Translation-Say good bye to the middle class.
* Family members/dependents may accompany new guest workers.
Translation-Even more competition for your jobs and greater likelihood that they will never return to their home country.
* Guest worker visas for three years and renewable once for a total of six years. These workers are then required to return home for one year before reapplying for another six years.
Translation - if they were working illegally before, why would they not stay and revert to illegal status?
* Protections for American workers are no stronger than an employer's promise that he first looked for American workers.
Translation-No protections for U.S. workers.

* Legal immigration
o New visa created for students seeking advanced science degrees with a fast track to legal permanent residency status.
o Exempts aliens with advanced degrees from the annual numerical cap.
o Exempts relatives of employment-based visas from the annual cap.
* Professional workers
o Increases the H-1B high tech guest worker program from 65,000 to 115,000 annually, a 71 percent increase and exempts all advanced degree holders from the annual cap.
Translation-Tell your children to forget about pursuing advanced science degrees, because those jobs will be closed to all but cheap foreign workers.

Title V Families United and Backlog Reduction
# More than doubles employment based green cards and exempts their relatives from the annual cap.

Title VI Conditional Nonimmigrant Workers
# Amnesty

* All illegal aliens may apply to become guest workers if they merely promise they have been in the U.S. and employed illegally since before January 1, 2004.
* Window for application lasts for 12 months from enactment.
Translation-Virtually all 11-13 million illegal aliens and their family members may participate.

# Grant Programs

* Provides assistance for nonprofit organizations to recruit illegal aliens into the amnesty guest worker program.
Translation-Fraud in the application process for this amnesty is facilitated.

Title VII Immigration Litigation Reduction

* Consolidates immigration appeals in one federal circuit court.
* Additional immigration judges and court personnel are added subject to future appropriations decisions.

Here's How You Can Help!

Call Senate Judiciary Chairman Arlen Specter's office (202) 224-4254 and let him know what you think of his war on the American worker.

FAIR will provide a complete bill analysis and very soon.

I look forward to reading it. Would somebody please remind these asshats they work for us and not every other country on the planet. Sane sensible control of immigration both legal and illegal is one of the essential elements of a free and just society.

I realize that people on both sides of the aisle wish to continue these suicidal practices, and it's up to us to stop them. I don't know exactly how to get their attention, but I believe with all my heart that our government needs to fear us, or at the very least remember that we exist as something other than a source of revenue. I most certainly don't want violence, but we're not being represented here. We're being sold out and I don't know how to change it.

Please take the time to call Sen. Specter and remind him who he works for.

Thanks,
Jake

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Ol' Arlen works for the highest bidder. And perhaps, for La Raza.

[Jerry D]

as Gomer Pyle stated "Shame shame shame" Arlen!

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http://minutemanhq.com/b2/index.php/...006/02/24/p423

Senator Specter's Border and Immigration Bill a Facade
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

SENATOR SPECTER?S BORDER AND IMMIGRATION BILL A FACADE

(PHOENIX, AZ) February 24, 2006 ? The Minuteman Civil Defense Corps (?MCDC?) rejects the border and immigration proposal put forth by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter as a fa?ade to lull the American people into believing he is addressing national security.

Al Garza, National Executive Director of MCDC issued the following statement on the bill:

?Senator Specter?s bill calls for taking time to study border security measures while granting amnesty to millions of illegal aliens who have violated our sovereignty and laws. The priorities set forth in Senator Specter?s bill are backwards?we need to secure the border immediately while studying the effects on illegal immigration should the federal government actually enforce immigration and employment laws.

?In a time of war, while international criminal cartels maintain operational control of our borders and terrorists are threatening to attack America with weapons of mass destruction, it is outrageous that Senator Specter is more concerned with granting amnesty to illegal aliens than protecting the American people.

?The Minutemen will be returning to the border for the month of April to demonstrate to the government how to secure the borders. We invite Senator Specter and the other 99 United States Senators to join us at the border.?

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http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/3697891.html







March 2, 2006, 9:37PM
Specter sees tough immigration battle
He says there's little chance this year for a citizenship provision for those here illegally


By GEBE MARTINEZ
Copyright 2006 Houston Chronicle Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON - Proposals to create a path to citizenship for 11 million illegal immigrants in the United States are too politically unpopular to make it into immigration legislation this year, the chief architect of the Senate's bill predicted Thursday.

During the first Senate debate on immigration, Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter, R-Pa., said he favors a citizenship track for the migrants. But, he continued, a bill to accomplish that would sink the chances of getting a comprehensive immigration measure through Congress.

The one reform with significant support is an effort to tighten border security.

But even that section of the bill is likely to generate fierce debate between conservatives who want to build a 700-mile fence along portions of the Mexican border with Texas, Arizona and California, and others such as Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, who are opposed.

"There's virtually no agreement on anything when it comes to this," Specter told the judiciary panel.


Lobbyists fill hearing room
The hearing room for the opening debate was packed with lobbyists representing all sides of the issue.

The divisions are particularly evident among Republicans. Immigration restrictionists want to limit the bill to border security, while other Republicans want a broad measure that would include temporary work visas to satisfy the demand for cheap labor.

In December, the House passed a bill that called for tighter border controls and tougher penalties on employers who knowingly hire illegal workers. Conservatives warned the White House they would not approve new visa programs or expansion of current visa caps until the administration proved its ability to stanch illegal immigration.

During the Senate Judiciary meeting, some Republican senators agreed that border security legislation should come first.

But Cornyn called it "irresponsible, and I fear, dangerous" to pass legislation that would ignore illegal immigrants already in the country or fail to document workers by issuing temporary visas.

"We have 11 million people living in the shadows. We don't know what their motivation is, we don't know what their criminal history is. We have to know or we can't claim to be vigilant about homeland security," Cornyn said.


Three major proposals
Cornyn and Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., have a plan that would require workers to return to their countries to apply for five-year visas to the U.S.

Specter's bill, offered as a starting point for Senate debate, would grant temporary work visas for up to six years to immigrants who entered the United States before Jan. 4, 2004.

A third major proposal by Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., offers visas for up to six years and would let immigrants apply for a green card or permanent status by learning English, staying employed and passing background checks.

Next week, the Judiciary Committee is scheduled to debate the provisions of Specter's bill.

[Jerry D]

I think the 1st plan(Cornyn and Sen. Jon Kyl's , R-Ariz) makes good sense but how we gonna get them illegals to take the bait

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Arlen Spector is the same guy who postulated the theory that one bullet got Kennedy and the Governor of Texas. One Bullet and three bullet holes. Amazing trajectory! Got to give him credit for doing one thing right though.....he appointed my kid to West Point.