bear23 said:What is your reasoning behind this??
I just feel there are too many issues to be discussed, negoiated and compromised within this comprehensive bill. The Senate and the House disagree on many issues. Thanks.
bear23 said:What is your reasoning behind this??
meg_z said:I just feel there are too many issues to be discussed, negoiated and compromised within this comprehensive bill. The Senate and the House disagree on many issues. Thanks.
marlon2006 said:Fact 1:Illegal immigration is out of control. Costs with medical, healthcare, security are causing a heavy burden in the US administration at all leves.
Fact 2 olicitians finally notice they need to do something to fix this - and that's a bipartisan conclusion.
Fact 3assing bills which grants amnesty or guest-worker visas to millions of illegal aliens without enforcing immigration laws will just work as a tremendeous magnet to ATTRACT even more illegal immigrants to this country. Threrefore passing bills such as S.1033 and others wouldn't solve Factor 1 above. It doesn't matter whether one is in favor or against legalizing illegal aliens, that is a fact already proven by other amnesties;illegal immigration waves just were drastically increased upon granting amnesty to people already here.
Fact 4:Be in middle of opposers and supporters of illegal immigration will be an uncertain business. We are the ones in the middle.
Conclusion: My hope is that PACE or other specific remedy - even if a temporary visa recapture relief - gets supported and implemented. Waiting for a comprenhensive reform bill may be really painful and slow.
meg_z said:I just feel there are too many issues to be discussed, negoiated and compromised within this comprehensive bill. The Senate and the House disagree on many issues. Thanks.
posmd said:I get the impression that the best possible ooutcome of this debate for us in this is for a strict enforcement bill with some Eb provisions such as visa recapture and perhaps numbers expansion.
That way it is likely to pass in the house and we get what we need. Our cause does to appear to have the degree of opposition as that of the illegals. If gridlock occurs and there is no bill that may be a worse outcome for us, since there will likely be no revisiting this issue until atleast one more year, then with implementation delays etc, most of us will be in for a wait of years.
The country can then figure out what to do about the 11 million illegals. If they succeed in trying to make them legal in whatever form then we will get caught in the tsunami of applications.
posmd said:I get the impression that the best possible ooutcome of this debate for us in this is for a strict enforcement bill with some Eb provisions such as visa recapture and perhaps numbers expansion.
That way it is likely to pass in the house and we get what we need. Our cause does to appear to have the degree of opposition as that of the illegals. If gridlock occurs and there is no bill that may be a worse outcome for us, since there will likely be no revisiting this issue until atleast one more year, then with implementation delays etc, most of us will be in for a wait of years.
The country can then figure out what to do about the 11 million illegals. If they succeed in trying to make them legal in whatever form then we will get caught in the tsunami of applications.
marlon2006 said:Abosutely. This is consistent with what I have been saying.
I think we should try to lobby for a very specific, EB oriented bill. Moreover, most generic 'immigration comprehensive bills' already include increase of visa numbers for the EB folks anyway. We don't need to spend lots of energy lobbying for that one, since it is already there. The problem is that this illegal immigration debate is extremely controversial, it is going to be a pain and uncertain business get caugth in the middle of opposers and supporters.
I hope we can join our efforts with IV and try to expedite a bill to the EB folks only. No H1B, no illegal aliens amnesty should be in that one.