Very hectic closed door negotiations have finally materialized into a positive outcome. With the senate’s bipartisan “Gang of eight” offering a legislative summary of its proposals for complete immigration reforms. Let’s analyze how the Senate gang managed out four newest immigration flashpoints like border security, legalizing about 12 million undocumented immigrants in US, changing or creating new guidelines and programs under which the future potential workers could migrate into US, and finally to streamline and restructureof the family based immigration system.
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Baby steps to curbing US illegal immigration
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The United States of America seems to be a country with a continual illegal immigration crisis and most will agree that something must be done. However, will the proposed reform plans including the “pathway to citizenship” resolve the issue? President Barack Obama was voted president twice and most have supported the DREAM Act. There are immigrants who played by the rules and were issued visas but somehow there are a number of things that Americans must know before they take their stand on the immigration reform. Read the rest of this entry
Republican Rep. Lamar Smith, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, has charged Obama’s administration with falsifying records of deportation in order to artificially boost the numbers. This has long been a consideration of the Homeland Security Department’s critics. Texas Rep. Smith has said that this has been going on for the last several years as the Obama administration has been mixing Border Patrol apprehensions with the statistics on deportation from United States Customs Enforcement and Immigration. Customs Enforcement is the agency largely responsible for not only deporting aliens, but also for interior enforcement. Read the rest of this entry
A recent study has been done that has provided many examples of immigrants who had been arrested for a crime and released, only to be rearrested later for another crime, but it seems that this recidivism rate is much lower than what is typical of the other prison population demographics.
Washington – – a man named Evin Adonis Ortiz was jailed back in January for allegedly slaying a man 24 years of age in LA. After the arrest, Ortiz’s fingerprints were put through the FBI database and it was quickly discovered that he was an illegal alien, and had been previously detained on separate charges. His prior convictions consisted of attempted grand larceny, and driving with no license. Read the rest of this entry
A study released by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) estimates that illegal immigration now costs federal and local taxpayers $113 billion a year. The report, The Fiscal Burden of Illegal Immigration on U.S. Taxpayers, is the most comprehensive analysis of how much the estimated 13 million illegal aliens and their U.S.-born children cost the federal, state and local governments.
The cost estimates are based on an extensive analysis of federal, state and local spending data. The Fiscal Burden of Illegal Immigration on U.S. Taxpayers examines dozens of government programs that are available to illegal aliens and their U.S.-born children, both legally and fraudulently. The report provides detailed analysis of the impact of illegal immigration on education, health care, law enforcement and justice, public assistance, and other government programs.
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