If you like seeing your children water-boarded, you’ll love the President’s plan for their future! One of the few obvious patriots left inside the beltway shares with us what Shrub, Mal Martinez, John McAmnesty and Teddy DUI Kennedy want to do to help criminals burden us so horrifically it will screw up the rest of your kid’s lives!
United States Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa
For Immediate Release
May 22nd, 2007GRASSLEY OUTLINES HOW AMNESTY REALLY WORKS IN IMMIGRATION REFORM BILL
Top 15 Amnesty Flaws Revealed
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley today revealed his Top 15 flaws with the amnesty program in the immigration reform bill being debated in the United States Senate. He pointed out that the amnesty section in the Senate immigration bill is ripe for abuse and rotten for national security.
“I voted for amnesty more than 20 years ago. I believed at the time that by giving illegal aliens blanket citizenship, we would solve the problem. I was wrong. We’ve now got at least 12 million people illegal aliens thumbing their nose at our laws,” Grassley said. “We found out that by rewarding illegality, we only get more illegality.”
Grassley said that if the bill passes, the amnesty provisions would allow for illegal aliens to immediately apply for probationary status. If they are approved, the illegal alien would automatically receive a Social Security number and work authorization. In 1-2 years, once certain requirements are met by the federal government, the illegal alien can apply for a “Z” visa for himself, spouse, children and parents over the age of 65. At this point the illegal alien may legally remain in the United States while waiting for the current backlog of visa applications to be cleared. After the backlog is cleared, the illegal can apply for a greencard or renew his/her “Z” visa. Click here for a chart outlining the amnesty process.
Here are Grassley’s Top 15 amnesty flaws.
· Probationary benefits not subject to the trigger – Probationary benefits, including work authorization, protection from removal, and a social security number are granted to illegal aliens immediately, even if the alien’s background check is not complete.
· Many criminal provisions may be waived – Numerous criminal provisions are waived for eligibility purposes. For example, an alien who falsely claims U.S. citizenship would be considered eligible for amnesty even though it’s a crime.
· Background checks taken too lightly – An illegal alien can apply for probationary status and a Z visa without thorough background checks. Immediately after the bill passes, the alien can apply for probationary legal status and receive a card even if the alien’s background check is not complete.
· Illegal aliens protected from removal – If an alien is in removal proceedings, or being detained, at the time of enactment, the alien can still apply for amnesty. Aliens who apply for amnesty cannot be detained or deported while their application is being processed, essentially giving them immunity from justice.
· Terrorists and criminals can apply for amnesty – The Secretary of Homeland Security is allowed to waive the grounds of ineligibility for those who have an outstanding administrative final order of removal, deportation or exclusion. Currently there are more than 637,000 alien absconders in the United States that have defied orders to leave.
· Taxes – Illegal aliens are required to provide the IRS information about tax payments only when applying for legal permanent residence, if that avenue is pursued. Illegal aliens can skirt the federal, state and local tax laws because its not a requirement to prove one has paid outstanding tax liabilities to get probationary or Z status.
· Limits eligibility to illegal aliens – Creates a Z nonimmigrant visa program for illegal aliens and illegal aliens only. No one else is eligible for this program, particularly those waiting their turn in line. Also, there’s no cap on the number of eligible participants.
· Indefinite renewal for Z nonimmigrant visas – Z nonimmigrant visas are valid for four years and may be renewed indefinitely. This is a disincentive for illegal aliens to pay the $4,000 penalty, touch-back to their home country, prove they’ve paid their taxes, or receive a medical exam.
· Health standards ignored – No medical exam or immunizations are needed to get a Z visa.
· No incentive to learn English – There is no English requirement to get a Z visa. Each Z nonimmigrant must only demonstrate “an attempt to gain an understanding of the English language” upon the first renewal of a Z visa. There are waivers for this requirement.
· Green card applicants not required to return to home country – Green card applications (only for heads of household, not dependents) must be filed in person outside the but not necessarily in the alien’s country of origin. The alien can then reenter (same day) under a Z nonimmigrant visa because it serves as a valid travel document. There are exceptions for this requirement.
· Fines are False and Misleading – Not everyone is required to pay the $5,000 penalty. To get a Z visa, a principal alien (Z-1 or head of household) must pay a $1,000 penalty, a $500 penalty for each dependent, a processing fee, and a $500 state impact fee. Dependents must also pay a processing fee. To renew a Z nonimmigrant visa, each Z visa holder must pay a processing fee no greater than $1,500. To get a greencard, if the alien intends to pursue this route, a Z-1 nonimmigrant must pay a $4,000 penalty. Z-2 (parents and spouse) and Z-3 (children) aliens are only required to pay application fees.
· Fines won’t adequately pay for cost of amnesty – The bulk of the monetary fines are required at the end of the program. All fines may be paid in installments and waivers are available in extraordinary circumstances.
· Impact on state and local government – State impact money will be granted to states to provide services for non-citizens only, instead of providing services to all citizens impacted by the large number of illegal immigrants (school systems, health care services).
· Revocation of terrorist visas – Visas revoked on terrorism grounds would allow Z visa holders to remain in the United States and use the U.S. court system to appeal terrorism charges. The bill, including the amnesty program, does not address visa revocation for any visa holder.
So, remember folks, our leaders are looking out for you.
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5 responses so far ↓
1 BillT // May 24, 2007 at 2:07 pm
Look at the “electronic verification system” for social security numbers.
2 Stephanie // Nov 22, 2007 at 2:04 am
Aside from almost puking at the “creativity” of the so called clever “i love the amnesty bill” graphic, theres a couple things i would like to say, beginning with what the hell is wrong with the person who wrote the article and the one who created the “clever” image. First of how is this bill going to burden little white zit faced suburbians? They cant see anything part American eagle much less even imagine congregating with immigrants, it would insult mommy and daddy. Also its true that there are criminals who are entering the country, but odds are they aren’t going to burden, i would rather refer to it as an influence. If youths are influenced by them, then hey , mommy should have kept a better eye on her kids rather then working her thighs off and Bally. the No incentive to learn English, flaw? ridiculously stupid to even mention that. If thats being criticized then, why not criticize that not enough is being done to help these people learn English. It ridiculous to think that an illegal/immigrant that has to support a family, maintain a job, and keep a low profile would fine the time to go to a community college, sign up for a class, and learn English. Theres no time and no money. Americans (who should be thankful to call themselves this) should realize that becaase they are given opportunities in life does not mean that everyone is… Rewarding illegality? less than minimum wage, no health care, constant fear of multiple agents, and constant abuse.. oh yea big reward, but hey that still beats living in a third world country where three year olds aer allowed to work and public school does not exisist, as niether does retirement? Can Mr. Brown/Smith image working for the rest of their miserable jobs until they roll over and die, forget the Florida and your condo, deaths the only peace that will ever come. To conclude my rampage, i end with this, sure slapping a logo on a gang members face and labeling him a immigrant would make any one queasy, but remember the flaws are helping protect people, real people, not just a stereotype.
3 Stephanie // Nov 22, 2007 at 2:08 am
excuse the spelling errors, i wasn’t seeing what i was typing.. just felt like venting it out.
4 Katie's Dad // Nov 22, 2007 at 4:33 pm
I’ll set aside your slur and answer directly: It doesn’t matter that there are a lot of Americans of Heritage, in the suburbs and elsewhere, who have been politically corrected and rendered ignorant to the fact that we owe everything we have in this great nation to a multi-thousand generation heritage that traces back through the beginnings of Western Civilization and Cristendom.
There are plenty of us who are aware of what our heritage prescribes and are willing to defend it from being subsumed by any other culture, and particularly ones that have never shown a capacity for governing themselves without horrific economic hardship, consistent failure, frequent internecine bloodshed, and extended periods of being a lorded over by totalitarian scum.
That some in America, like you, would intentionally set asunder my ancestors’ legacy for the benefit of peoples whose heritage just flat out sucks in comparison is more than enough reason for me to be involved in fighting your uninformed, overly compassionate and transparently pathetic sort of idiocy in any way that I can.
I don’t want another thin cent of my tax dollars to go toward helping any immigrant, legal or illegal; if they fail here and don’t go home, they can starve for all I care. If they cannot make it without any public help whatsoever, they can go to hell. If we’re going to remain a great nation, we have to get back to being decidedly intolerant towards those who come here without the capacity to make it on their own.
If you want to know why America’s “immigrant experience,” has been any sort of net positive for us, you must first realize and admit the fact that for about our first 190 years we were so intolerant toward newcomers that we invented the term “immigrant” to differentiate ourselves from them, and then made their lives here so difficult that huge percentages of those who came repatriated because they couldn’t cut it.
Obviously you haven’t thought about this very deeply and are strictly being ruled by emotions. Of course, I understand that there are a lot of Americans either so dumbed down or so indoctrinated that they can’t get their heads out of their asses to look at this rationally.
Why do you think the Third World operates the way that it does? Does infrastructure appear out of thin air? Or does it come about as a reflection of the people who built it? Do those who live in the Third World, who have their heritage there, and upon whose ancestors we can look as comparative failures, have some special qualities that, if only they could establish parasitic attachments to a better nation, they will make their hosts somehow better for it ?
Or is it more likely that if enough of the parasites infest a neighbor with a more successful heritage, they will drag their neighbor into the same mire of pestilent mediocrity from which they came?
If you cannot prove incontrovertibly that there will be absolutely no damage done to the lives of my child and descendants if we allow substantial numbers of aliens with no kith and kin ties to Western civilization to share in our heritage and franchise, then you have no case.
If you can’t respond with facts and concrete evidence that completely mollifies and eliminates my concerns about the people we’re discussing, then I humbly suggest you shut the hell up.
5 Dr.D // Dec 4, 2007 at 11:05 pm
Looks like Stephanie is a candidate to immigrate to one of those great third world countries herself. She would love it, and she could really relate to the folks there. Go, Steph, Go! Don’t let the door hit you on the way out!
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