whats going on with the immigration law. Did it pass?
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No, nothing has passed as of yet, like everything else, the two sides can't agree.
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Your link drives to an add for a company that collects "a small fee" to send mail. Isn't this against the policies for Yahoo! Answers?\n\nRevised: Keep in mind that President Bush directs policy (he asked for Congress to do something about immigration in his State of the Union Address), but the people who are considering the new laws are your Senators and Representatives. These are the best recipients for any letters you wish to write at this time. Congress will take up the question again after their break having failed to get a law passed on Friday, April 7, as they had hoped. Any letters you write to them now are much more likely to get noticed!
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yes they are, the congress is just working in a new reform to pass it to the president to sing it, aftre that, it becomes LAW, then you will see your so missing news abut immigration.
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It is relatively speedy, compared to other immigration issues. The basic process is laid out at the site below. The important thing is getting all of the proper documents.
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Immigration laws, do we have any, if so it's news to me. I thought Blair had given our country away, at least it seems that way to me.
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A lot of rules have changed. Check out the CIS or DOJ or INS website (they change their title a lot) for the real scoop.
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I have not seen anything on the Internet yet. It seems to me that the ones supporting illegals being in this country are being more racist then the ones trying to kick them out. People need to grow up and answer a question without having to go the racist route in their answers
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The two immigration bills that have been passed by the House and the Senate are still not law. The House and Senate bills have to be reconciled in committee. Both versions are worlds apart with the House version being much harsher and offering no relief for people currently in the U.S. illegally. As to what version is going to survive after comittee or if any law will be passed your guess is as good as mine.
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Somebody had to do something. The federal government is all talk and no action. Do you have a link to these new laws? I haven't read them yet. Georgia was the perfect state to do something because no one can say this state was stolen from mexicans.
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I've been watching MSNBC all night, and about an hour or two ago they mentioned in passing that the marijuana measure had failed.  I don't have any actual numbers, but they made it sound like it wasn't terribly close.  55-45 or worse maybe?   In any case, it failed.\n\nEDIT:\n\nIt's failing at 56-44.  I verified this through the MSNBC website.
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'ABC15.com' has the results listed. Basically, all the props relating to lessening illegal immigration passed...English is now the official language, illegals cannot sue or receive benefits or make bail. Both props relating to changing the way State Trust Land is handled (105 & 106) were NO so it will remain the same. The statewide smoking ban passed. The prop to prohibit confinement of animals passed. It looks like AZ is the one state where the Protect Marriage prop is not passing. The minimum wage increase passed...so we should see all grocery prices also increasing within the month. The eminent domain prop appears to have passed...so our taxes will be going up to pay all the frivilous lawsuits resulting. Check the website for complete details.
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I think that it's an unnecessary strain on race relations.  I believe they would have been more successful at getting reform by doing this quietly.  The president, who is a conservative, had just pushed a bill to allow illegals to become eligible to apply for citizenship.  So, if a conservative is for it, it will probably pass since most of his party will follow him and the liberal would vote in favor of it.\n\nBut then it got ugly and there were marches demanding AMNESTY (instantly legal), not just the ability to apply for citizenship, and the race issue came up.  They accused whites of being racists, and a BIG backlash is brewing among american citizens.\n\nI've been raised around the hispanic culture and they're fine people.  I work with them daily, and my company has a center in MX City.  Actually, race has never been an issue around here, for the most part.  But this whole May 1st walkout is brewing some serious anger among Americans because they are demanding when they, quite honestly, should be humbly asking.  I've never seen anything like it.  I'm not racist, and even I'm getting dragged into the melee because I refuse to allow an illegal any latitude for their illegal entry.  And instantly people call me a racist or an "arrogant American."\n\nWe gave an amnesty in the 80's and everybody was ok with it.  The idea was that we're going to clear up the illegal issue and keep the new illegals out.  Well, now we have an illegal population of about 10 million...so amnesty is a big POS.  Enforcement is the answer.
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I have the same question for anything that involves a 'pass'.  How do you enforce their leaving?  Right now up to half of the people here came legally and overstayed visas.  Why would these passes miraculously be enforced?
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The Sentate Immigration reform bill is in response to the HR passed by House of Representatives in December.\n\nThe now passed Sentate Resolution is far more lenient toward existing illegal immigrants already within US borderd including granting those immigrants a path to citizenship outside the normal procedures granted to immigrants from European or Asian nations.\n\nDue to the great difference in the HR and SR bills a conference committee will be formed consisting of house and senate members. That committe will negotiate a final compromise bill that will go back to both chambers for an up or down vote.\n\nIf passsed by both chambers, conference bill will go to president for signing or rejection.\n\nNo need to be angry hispanic....the members of both political parties will become spineless jellyfish like they did in 1986 and Mexico's invasion can continue unabated.
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Congress will reassemble for a lame duck session, but nothing on immigration will happen.\n\nThere is no one bill, and no broad consensus among the many bills. Republicans and Democrats both would like the issue to go away.\n\nWhat's happening is that the states are imposing rules regarding illegals, and the Feds are being pushed into the position of objecting to the enforcement of existing Federal law. It's an issue that is turning into a metastatic cancer on Republican politicans.
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Immigration law reform is long overdue.  I'm more interested in what the actual law will look like after it gets out of committee (or if it can even get out of committee).  The biggest problem with sweeping reform legislation is that it rarely works and usually backfires in some form or other (See the recent bankruptcy reform legislation.)  I wish I had a little more faith in the political process to get stuff right.
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There was a bill just passed by the U.S were immigrants can't be in this country and anyone who hires an illegal or helps one will go to jell and fined. Now they are trying to make it a law, but there is a debate going on in the senate, they are debating over different propositions regarding if they should give illegals an amnesty,meaning they will become legal if they have been here for 5 to ten years, another one is the permit to work for six months, where after a period of a few years they will possibly be able to get there legalization,but with this permit they also have to leave after the time given and then get another permit to come back,(it's really unsure)and others I'm not aware of,  It's really ridiculous now that illegals have been here so long and have adapted to the customs of the U.S and furthermore there are millions of undocumented families and persons who have really struggled to get here to work hard and have a better life, people have lost there lives's trying to cross the border, and all they wanted was to come here to work and provide for there family, just like any other American. They just want an opportunity to make an honest living, and not live in there possibly corrupt countries where their own government fails them constantly and gives them no hope for progress.  Well this is my point of view, not to offend anyone or anything, everyone has the right to view this issue as they choose to, this is how I choose to do so and I hope it helps you at least to know one part of the issue.