Immigration+Proposals

Newer laws trying to be passed regarding illegal immigration.

Example: "__The Vitter Bill__" - denies undocumented workers from opening bank accounts and applying for credit cards

Most proposals regarding illegal immigration are based around the idea of fencing our borders and providing more border patrol. Other methods go along the lines of punishing employers of illegal immigrants, denying the use of U.S banks, denying health care and attaining drivers licenses. Other proposed ideas to divert illegal immigration is to make becoming a naturalized citizen easier by making the naturalization process easier. Which would make becoming a legal citizen more appealing. Programs for illegal aliens are also in progress, such as the "Guest Worker Program". This gives 600,000 low-skilled, low-paid temporary workers visas, renewable for 3 2-year periods. Many proposals do not pass with congress because of bias laws towards the immigrants. One of the more recent proposals is the S. 1348 bill, also called the "Bush-Kennedy Compromise". This bill grants amnesty to illegal aliens by granting them legal status through Z visas. Under this proposal, illegal aliens will get probationary status immediately, based only upon the submission of an application for a Z visa.

With probationary status, an illegal alien may live and work in the United States while waiting for his or her Z visa application to be adjudicated. The requirements for a Z nonimmigrant visa are relatively few. In general, an alien must: • not be inadmissible as the result of certain criminal activity (numerous waivers apply) • be illegally present in the U.S. on January 1, 2007 and on the date of application • be employed on the date of application • pay processing fees (no greater than $1,500) • pay required penalties ($1,000 for Z-1; $500 for Z-2 or Z-3) • pay a state impact assistance fee of $500 (Z-1 only) • appear to be interviewed (does not say by whom • register for the Selective Service, if required.

__H.R. 1645 Bill__

• pays taxes (but only taxes owed for legal work) • pays $2,000 in fees and fines • passes a background check • meets the citizenship requirements under current law

President Barak Obama believes that the solution to illegal immigration is to make it easier to become a legal immigrant, will this work? Will anything work? Until we can conceive a proposal to solve or even remotely solve this problem, we need to change how we handle the immigrants now.

Many hard-working, average citizens don't understand the complications of illegal immigration and the downfall of civilization it causes. Illegal immigrants hired at a local fast food restaurant are taking the jobs that perhaps a teenage boy would have liked to have so he could afford to fix up his 1966 Ford Fairlane and take out his number one gal to the drive-in to watch the smash hit movie "The Wizard From Mars". But since the illegal immigrant Paco has taken the job of poor little Bobby, he'll not have the money to pay to fix up his car and take out Cindy on the romantic date of his dreams. Perhaps in the future we can learn to live and accept our foreign brothers, but until then, it shall remain a normality only in... The Twilight Zone.