Immigration Bill

Alert! Disastrous immigration bill proposed in Senate!


Senate negotiators have reached agreement on a new immigration bill that doesn’t just give away the store—it gives away the country.

The Senate is scheduled for a "cloture" vote on Monday, May 21, allowing the bill to receive a floor vote without proceeding through the normal committee hearing process. It needs 60 votes and the prospects of stopping it appear dim.

Under the new language, S 1348 would:
• Allow illegal aliens immediately to receive probationary legal status.
• Create a new four-year, renewable "Z" visa is given to those present within the U.S. unlawfully before Jan. 1, 2007.
• Permit illegal aliens to adjust their status to lawful permanent residents once they pay $5,000 in fees and fines.
• People under age 30 who came to the U.S. as minors could receive their green cards after three years, rather than eight.
• Allow illegal farmworkers who have worked 150 hours or three years in agriculture to apply for green cards.
• Create a new "temporary" guest worker program with two-year "Y visas," initially capped at 400,000 per year with annual adjustments based on market fluctuations.

Other provisions concern border security, workplace enforcement, and a new point system for selecting legal immigrants.