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Immigration Reform Hopefully Coming

Immigration Reform is actually coming. There are other bills which are in front of Immigration Reform, but not for long.

It appears that will Immigration Reform might not exactly happen this year. However, it is going to be important of which people call your current congressional representatives and your current immigration attorney to be able to try to give your own opinion. There are generally 12 million illegal immigrants here from the U.S. and several would say in which the system is going to be broken. The deportations are generally up, illegal aliens keep arriving and employers employ the service of many folks illegally. A new system of which takes the reality associated with immigration and is going to be not basically an enforcement tool would help all involved. Harry Reid is going to be moving forward using the Immigration Reform. The Arizona Law is so obtrusive that a California Senator has been reported to want to have contracts torn up with Arizona. Immigration Rallies are happening.

Let us look at the problem more closely. If you look at just what exactly passed the legislature in Arizona, it almost makes one believe you actually are usually reading a fictional book. The only item left to be able to make it law is going to be for the Governor associated with Arizona to be able to sign the bill. It in essence allows the local police to be able to ‘stop and arrest’ men and women who ‘look suspicious’. Exactly how can someone look suspicious? Is actually that a way regarding stating which an individual looks hispanic or even illegal or maybe out regarding status? There is without a doubt no realistic or maybe real way that will a person basically ‘looks’ suspicious. Exactly what is actually means is actually that it is without a doubt giving the law enforcement authorities associated with Arizona the power to do racial profiling. Consequently, if someone looks ‘hispanic’ and maybe not a ‘resident’ or even ‘U.S. Citizen’, they can easily merely be stopped, questioned and harassed. This is going to be a severe intrusion into the privacy of the individual. Maybe they ought to just simply go door to door and ask to see someones Green Card or perhaps Birth Certificate. It is unconstitutional and even if your governor signs it, there will likely end up being lawsuits ready to be able to end up being filed the same day or shorty thereafter showing precisely how the law is without a doubt unconstitutional and should end up being stricken and invalidated. It is without a doubt curious precisely how the congressional representatives might have passed such an overtly racial and unconstitutional bill. Tend to be they afraid of which they will not end up being reelected back in office? Exactly how can easily they justify such a anti constitutional bill?

It is without a doubt this exact type of immigrat bashing and unconstitutionality of which mandates we ought to have immigration reform. We need complete immigration reform coming from the enforcement side associated with immigration in order to the visa and residency side. It should be where some laws will possibly be enacted in order to permit the over 12 million illegal immigrants to be able to get out associated with hiding and get some manner in order to obtain legal residency. The reality is going to be they tend to be part associated with this economy and they have integrated into out society. It will not have in order to possibly be an amnesty, yet a clear path to legalization. Naturally, the enforcement side regarding immigration really should additionally be amended so of which folks tend to be not deported for minor crimes and so that there are ways for those people persons to request waivers or maybe in order to not end up being seperated for several years from their families.

Immigration Reform is going to be definitely about the table as President Obama has indicated he wants to be able to obtain Bill passed. Democrat Charles E. Schumer of New York and Republican Lindsey Graham associated with South Carolina are usually working to be able to help craft an Immigration Reform Bill. There tend to be Bills that will are generally being presented in Congress, television coverage regarding Congressional Representatives moving forward on Immigration Reform and debate among a number of groups are generally to come. We being a nation of individuals really should call, e-mail and write our representatives in Congress to be able to move forward upon getting Immigration Reform.

Is there any law to help undocumented workers?

Question: I have heard a lot about upcoming immigration reform and bills to help immigrants obtain jobs. However, I know many people who have been working under the table for a very small wage. Do know what laws may be coming and how they might help immigrants?
Answer: There has been the introduction in the Senate of the first comprehensive immigration reform bill introduced in Congress. Other bills are expected to be introduced shortly. One such proposal is centered on an uncapped temporary worker program intended to “match willing foreign workers with willing U.S. employers when no Americans can be found to fill the job.” The program would grant program participants temporary legal status and authorize working participants to remain in the U.S. for three years, with their participation renewable for an unspecified period. Initially, the program would be open to both undocumented people as well as foreign workers living abroad (with the program restricted to those outside of the U.S. at some future, unspecified date).
American employers would have to make reasonable efforts to find U.S. workers. Under this proposal, participants would be allowed to travel back and forth between their countries of origin and “enjoy the same protections that American workers have with respect to wages and employment rights.” The proposal also includes incentives for people to return to their home countries and calls for increased workplace enforcement as well as an unspecified increase in legal immigration.

Question: Are there any more bills?
Answer: The Immigration Act of 2004 also includes a “Willing Worker” program that revolves around a needed reform of the current H-2B program and the creation of a new H-2C program. The bill reforms the H-2B program as follows: it caps the program at 100,000 for five years, after which the numbers revert to 66,000; admission of H-2B visa holders is limited to nine months in any twelve-month period (with a maximum of 36 months in any 48-month period); and, with some exceptions, it does not allow portability. The new H-2C program is a two-year program
renewable for another two years. It is capped at 250,000 annually, and sunsets five years after regulations are issued. Portability is allowed after three months, with exceptions for earlier transfers allowed under certain circumstances. An attestation is required for both visas, with employers having to meet certain U.S. worker recruitment requirements. Dual intent is allowed in both visas and derivative status is available for both as well.
Thus, if these two reform bills go through, there will be a significant boost to the legal jobs available to people in these situations.

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The New Immigration Reform Bill

Eagerly awaited legislation to legalize millions of undocumented immigrants was filed in the House of Representatives Tuesday, but chances of passage were unclear.

Provisions in the legislation from Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., are somewhat similar to those in prior bills.

Democratic lawmakers, led by Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., on Tuesday filed the first comprehensive immigration reform bill in the current Congress, giving renewed hope to millions of undocumented immigrants in South Florida and around the country.

But the prospects for passage remain as uncertain as ever.

Provisions in the Gutierrez legislation — Comprehensive Immigration Reform for America’s Security and Prosperity Act of 2009 — are somewhat similar to those in prior bills. The Immigration Bill is trying to reform a broken system and give hope to millions of illegal aliens.

Undocumented immigrants in the United States prior to Dec. 15, 2009, would be encouraged to come forward and register with the government in exchange for a future path to residency and citizenship.

Certain immigrants in deportation proceedings, facing removal or ordered to depart would be able to apply for legalization under Gutierrez’s bill. Applicants would pay a $500 fine — lower than the thousands of dollars sought in prior bills — and must have clean criminal records. If approved, applicants would receive a six-year visa, which eventually could be replaced by a green card — the path to possible citizenship.

The bill also incorporates provisions of the DREAM Act, separate legislation filed earlier that would provide green cards to children of undocumented parents who are in high school or college and were brought to the United States as minors.

As Gutierrez, an eight-term House member representing a Chicago district, unveiled his legislation at a news conference on Capitol Hill, immigrant rights activists in Miami and other U.S. cities stepped up efforts to convince federal lawmakers and the Obama administration to embrace immigration reform as a priority.

Several South Florida groups are organizing news conferences, a march to Washington by young students and a hunger strike in January — initial steps in what is expected to be a national campaign by immigration activists on behalf of immigration reform.

Similar bills in recent years have failed because of fierce opposition by conservative and anti-immigrant forces. Whether the political climate has changed is difficult to say, but most experts say debate on immigration reform will be as emotional and polarizing as the healthcare reform debate. However, there is currently a Democratic President and a Democratic Congress, so there may be a much higher chance of getting approved this time.

President Obama has signaled he will push immigration reform, but not until healthcare reform is out of the way.

Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart, R-Fla., who supports immigration reform, criticized Gutierrez’s bill because it disrupts efforts by him and a group of bipartisan lawmakers drafting a separate immigration reform bill.

“This effort today, a showhorse not workhorse effort, is throwing a hand grenade into the midst of the bipartisan efforts,” said Diaz-Balart.

Mario Diaz-Balart, R-Fla., echoed his brother saying Gutierrez’s bill “will probably destroy the chances of passing any real reform.”

Long standing opponents vehemently criticized Gutierrez’s bill.

“The bill proposes to reduce illegal immigration by making all illegal immigrants legal,” Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Tex., a longtime legalization opponent, said in a statement.

The Obama Administration is doing enough to ease the suffering of immigrant communities,” the organizations said in a statement.

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