Sen. Sessions Releases List of 20 Loopholes in the Senate Immigration Bill (visas, illegal aliens)

[chloedog]

WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) released a list of 20 loopholes in the comprehensive immigration bill today which reveals that the bill is fatally flawed and will not establish a functioning immigration system in the future.

The list of loopholes includes flaws effecting border security, chain-migration and assimilation policies. The list exposes the lack of serious attention given to ensuring that the legislation fixes America’s failed immigration system.

“I am deeply concerned about the numerous loopholes we have found in this legislation. They are more than technical errors, but rather symptoms of a fundamentally flawed piece of legislation that stands no chance of actually fixing our broken immigration system,” Sessions said. “Many of the loopholes are indicative of a desire not to have the system work.”

For example, one loophole in the “enforcement trigger” fails to require the U.S. VISIT system – the biometric border check-in/check-out system established by Congress in 1996, but never implemented – to be fully functioning before new worker or amnesty programs begin. Without the system in place, the U.S. has no method of ensuring that workers and their families do not overstay their visas.

Another flaw in the legislation prevents the benefits of merit-based immigration from taking full effect until 2016. Until then, chain migration into the U.S. will actually triple, compared to a disproportionately low increase in skill-based immigration. As a result, the merit-based system in the bill is only a shell of what it should have been.



-Loophole 1 – Legal Status Before Enforcement
-Loophole 2 – U.S. VISIT Exit Not In Trigger
-Loophole 3 – Trigger Requires No More Agents, Beds, or Fencing Than Current Law
-Loophole 4 -- Three Additional Years Worth of Illegal Aliens Granted Status, Treated Preferentially To Legal Filers
-Loophole 5 – Completion of Background Checks Not Required For Probationary Legal Status
-Loophole 6 – Some Child Molesters Are Still Eligible
-Loophole 7 – Terrorism Connections Allowed, Good Moral Character Not Required
-Loophole 8 – Gang Members Are Eligible
-Loophole 9 – Absconders Are Eligible
-Loophole 10 – Learning English Not Required For A Decade
-Loophole 11 – Earned Income Tax Credit Will Cost Taxpayers Billions In Just 10 Years
-Loophole 12 – Affidavits From Friends Accepted As Evidence
-Loophole 13 – Taxpayer Funded Legal Counsel and Arbitration
-Loophole 14 – In-State Tuition and Student Loans
-Loophole 15 – Inadequacy of the Merit System
-Loophole 16 – Visas For Individuals That Plan To Overstay
-Loophole 17 – Chain Migration Tippled Before Being Eliminated
-Loophole 18 – Back Taxes Not Required
-Loophole 19 – Social Security Credits Allowed For Some Illegal Work Histories
-Loophole 20 – Criminal Fines Not Proportional To Conduct

Loophole 1 – Legal Status Before Enforcement:

Amnesty benefits do not wait for the “enforcement trigger.” After filing an application and waiting 24 hours, illegal aliens will receive full “probationary benefits,” complete with the ability to legally live and work in the U.S., travel outside of the U.S. and return, and their own social security card. Astonishingly, if the trigger is never met and amnesty applications are therefore never “approved,” the probationary benefits granted to the illegal alien population never expire, and the new social security cards issued to the illegal alien population are not revoked. [See pp. 1, 290-291, & 315].

Read the rest,
U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions, Republican - ALABAMA (http://sessions.senate.gov/pressapp/record.cfm?id=275456 - broken link)

[Kele]

To top it all off, Kennedy, Reed and company plan to force a vote on CLOTURE tomorrow around 7 PM.

Ring the Senate phones off the hook folks. It's do or die time.

[rebuilder]

WHAT A MESS.......I was just watching CSPAN and the debate is going on about this legislation.......