Will House approve comprehensive immigration reform and when?
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Why do we need reform. we have immigration laws now, we need enforcement.
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secure the borders (both) then begin a systematic deportation process in tandem with strict fines and possible revocation of business licenses for employers who are not properly validating perspective employee work status.\n\nI am in line with 77% of Americans who support the house on enforcement. Just as before...Amnesty will not work. It has been tried and it is in part responsible for the national domestic crisis that America is facing now.\n\nMexico is NOT doing enough. They are actually encouraging this behavior in a big way. The Mexican government seems in way over their heads. I do not believe there is any thing the Mexican government can do to clean up the corruption that has brought that country to it's knees short of bringing in the U.N.  I am surprised that the people of Mexico have yet to organize a labor strike in their own country.
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It all depends on the final immigration reform bill that passes and if it if the laws are enforced.
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Not until the illegal immigration issue is satisfied, no. They should find 100 billion in the annual budget and slash it all clear to put the money into immigration/border patrol until the borders are secure and we've sent a message to the south and around the world that america's not 'easy pickin's for em...
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We need border security immediately and all else should wait.  That will at least restrict illegal immigrants to bottlenecks where they can be more easily managed. (Love the wrestling pigs analogy!) Putting amnesty and guest worker programs in place now while waiting on studies and permission from Mexico to build barriers to future illegal immigration is ludicrous.\n\nLetting the Senate get away with putting a 'rolling' ten year statute of limitations for border crossing in the bill so all illegals have to do is stay 10 years (or forge documents pretending they have) is completely out of line.  The very fact that they slipped that provision in secretly while piously and loudly discussing what illegal immigration may or may not be legalized is dishonest and an insult to our intelligence.  This is an engraved invitation for illegals to enter in the future and is far worse than the amnesty for those already here.\n\nFortunately, the House approach is very different, and any compromise will have to take that into account.  \n\nWrite to your Congressmen about this.
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it's not a law, just a bill passed by Senate. It also needs to be passed by the house and signed by the president to become a law, which probably won't happen.\n\nAnyway as a student this new immigration reform probably won't affect you at all. If you are hoping to get permanent residency out of this that probably won't happen either.\n\nIt's all speculations really, we must wait for a law to pass before we know anything for sure
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I think you need to get your facts straight. The Republican controlled house passed the so=called "enforcement" only bill. This is the Bill that the people want. The Democratic controlled Senate knows better than the American people because they are well, superior intellects, so they put their own bill together. The Senate amnesty bill. Look up Diane Feinsteins speech before Congress\nhttp://feinstein.senate.gov/06speeches/cr-immigration.htm\n If you look up voting records you will find that Republicans vote overwhelmingly in favor of tough immigration laws while Democrats like Dianne overwhelmingly oppose. This is precisely why nothing gets done. The Dems won't let it happen. The Republicans have the lets tackle one problem at a time approach. Let's seal the borders, let's plug the holes, then we will worry about what to do with those already here. The Dems won't hear of it. They feel we have to have a comprehensive plan. We have to solve all the problems at once. In short they are selling the American people down the river so they can play their political game. BTW it is 700 MILES of fence not 500 feet.
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Um, I don't think the timing is relevant, except that some politicians are looking ahead to the November elections, which is pretty much what politicians always do.\n\nBush ran on immigration reform and a guest worker program as part of his election platform: look it up.\n\nThe House passed the Bill saying the border should be secured and illegal immigrants should be made felons in December.  Thereafter there were a bunch of polls that said all majorities were against illegal immigration, but the majority would accept a stronger border with a guest worker program. The Senate put together its Bill outline.  Then came the marches.  THEN this became a hot topic.\n\nThis issue may be one reason Bush's support declined, but it didn't come up as a result of that decline.  I think Bush wants this as part of his legacy, and always has wanted this.
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As I understand it the compromise was that the pro-illegal immigrant sponsors of the Senate Bill would allow there to be a vote on amendments, which they were refusing to do before.  For example, they refused to allow a vote on an amendment which would restrict a guest worker program only to people who are not convicted felons.  In the face of that refusal to consider amendments, Republicans would have fillibustered the Bill to death.\n\nIn return for the agreement to consider amendments, the Republican Majority Leader agreed that a specific number of people whose biggest concern was relief for currently present illegal immigrants would be on the committee that negotiates the Senate Bill (whatever it turns out to be) with the House Bill (the strict one you have heard most about.)  The Senate Bill is expected to have a path to citizenship and guest worker program, whatever other amendments occur, but then it will need to be negotiated against the House Bill which has neither of these things.\n\nPersonally, I think that without SOME form of legalized path for current, qualified illegal immigrants, no bill will get out of Congress this year.  However, the exact shape of that is still on the table.\n\nOnce the two bills are 'conferenced' together, the whole congress needs to vote 'yes' or 'no', without amendments.\n\nThe deal so far just moves the status quo forward to the next step, as far as I can tell.  The big push will be over the next two weeks, so if you have something to say, you should be saying it to your representatives.
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Not currently, but you will be 2008 due to the IRTPA.\n\nThe Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 requires that by January 1, 2008, travelers to and from the Caribbean, Bermuda, Panama, Mexico and Canada have a passport or other secure, accepted document to enter or re-enter the United States.  In order to facilitate the implementation of this requirement, the Administration is proposing to complete it in phases following a proposed timeline, which will be published in the Federal Register in the near future.\n\nThis is a change from prior travel requirements and will affect all United States citizens entering the United States from countries within the Western Hemisphere who do not currently possess valid passports.   This new requirement will also affect certain foreign nationals who currently are not required to present a passport to travel to the United States.  Most Canadian citizens, citizens of the British Overseas Territory of Bermuda, and to a lesser degree, Mexican citizens will be affected by the implementation of this requirement.
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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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Heres A Link That Explains \nthe main provisions of the HR 4437  \n\nhttp://www.justiceforimmigrants.org/HR4437.html\n\nMajor Provisions of HR 4437\nThe following is a summary of the major provisions of H.R. 4437, the Border Protection, Anti-Terrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005.   The legislation passed the House of Representatives 239-182 on Friday, December 16, 2005.\n\n“Unlawful presence” would now be considered a crime and a felony, meaning that undocumented immigrants may have to serve jail time and would be barred from future legal status and from re-entry into the country. \n\nImmigrants, including asylum-seekers, victims of human trafficking, victims of domestic abuse, and children who are apprehended along an international border or at a port-of-entry would be detained until such time as they are removed from the nation or otherwise provided immigration relief. \n\nAnyone or any organization who “assists” an individual without documentation “to reside in or remain” in the United States knowingly or with “reckless disregard” as to the individual’s legal status would be liable for criminal penalties and five years in prison.   This could include church personnel who provide shelter or other basic needs assistance to an undocumented individual.   Property used in this act would be subject to seizure and forfeiture. \n\nThe use of expedited removal, which would permit DHS enforcement personnel to remove a potential asylum-seeker without providing an opportunity to appear before an immigration judge or qualified adjudicator, would be mandated within 100 miles of the border and within 14 days of a person’s entry into the country. \n\nThe Department of Homeland Security (DHS) would be required to erect up to 700 miles of fencing along the Southwest border at points with the highest number of immigrant deaths. \n\nState and local law enforcement are authorized to enforce federal immigration laws.  State and local governments which refuse to participate would be subject to the loss of federal funding. \n\nAsylum seekers and refugees who are convicted of a minor offense, such as petty theft, would be barred from permanent legal residence and eventual citizenship. \n\nDocument fraud would be considered an aggravated felony and would subject an asylum-seeker to deportation and bars to re-entry. \n\nNationals from countries who do not accept the return of aliens who commit crimes in this country would not be admitted to the United States.   This would include countries such as China, Vietnam, and Cuba. \n\nDHS would be given the authority to continue to detain individuals who have served their sentences based upon a determination that they are a “dangerous alien,” contrary to Supreme Court rulings barring indefinite detention. \n\nThe diversity visa lottery program, which allows 50,000 immigrants each year from countries around the world to permanently reside in the United States, is eliminated.\n \nThese represent a few of the most egregious provisions of H.R. 4437
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Tom Tancredo out of Colorado.\n\nHe is the prime mover and shaker for immigration reform in this country and is the one responsible for HR4437, the house bill that puts border security first (as opposed to the senate bill that is only really about amnesty).\n\nI think it is highly likely that Tancredo will be our next president.  All he has to do is run on immigration reform.  He'll win both the republican nomination and the election by a landslide.  Also, a candidate like this will have a huge halo effect on the rest of the party, ensuring huge victories in both the house and senate.
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When congress passes the bill to raise it. It was defeated about 2 months ago. http://www.dol.gov/esa/minwage/america.htm
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First off, I believe you mean H.R. 4437. It's a good, strong bill againt illegal immigration passed by the House and yet to be voted on by the Senate, but will probably be shot down because the GOP has become a bunch of sissies. See below for more info (especially the External Links at the bottom).
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Not for sure, but probably at the beginning of the new year. That's usually when new laws take effect.
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There is on May 5th and 6th.   Here is a website of where they will be across the US and also to give the opoportunity to organize one in your area.  \n\nhttp://www.illegalimmigrantprotest.com/\n\nPass it to everyone!