Points
A few more points: lack of allocation of resources/money towards the backlog reduction, in spite of the 5-year Bush plan. Take a look. Money goes to hospitals treating illegals.............
A Medicare bill, which includes a clause that gives hospitals at least $1 billion to
hospitals for emergency care to uninsured and undocumented immigrants, has won
final congressional approval. Although the legislation calls for the funds to be
distributed on a first-come, first-served basis, funding formulas will give preferences
to states with significant numbers of undocumented immigrants, including Texas,
Arizona and California, where millions of dollars of unpaid medical bills are generated
by undocumented immigrants.
This provision in the bill comes after a study was done on the impact of the federal
Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act on border-state hospitals. The study
found that hospitals in Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas spent $190 million
in 2000 on emergency medical treatment for undocumented patients.
Hospitals are required by federal law to care for all patients, regardless of insurance
status or citizenship. The $1 billion will help compensate doctors and ambulance
companies that provide immigrant care.
Illegal procedures: The second and third FP are basically illegal and unconstitutional as well as violation of basic human rights. This extends to other security checks, like name checks, CIA checks, etc. The repetition of these is a joke (35 days). How about instituting all these for the general population? They are more thread than we are!
Numbers not met: The annual 140,000 quota may not be met for several years.
Transfers: Little dirty trick. If they want to transfer, why not by the reception of the application?
Chain effect: One case of backlogs reverbates to other backlogs. People are waiting to get their "Export Licenses" from the Departements of Commerce and State for long times, because they have backlogs. No wonder!
Homeland Security Act: Section 458, to reduce backlogs within a year...FAILURE. Section 452: Ombudsman.....FAILURE. (hsa2002.pdf)
news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/terrorism/hsa2002.pdf
http://www.twmlaw.com/new/immsecurity.html
Reports to Congress:
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/8/1574.html
I have not seen a report to Congress for YEARS. None from the Attorney general, the DHS, Ombudsman, ANYBODY. No report, no action.
Foreigners for EVER:? We are foreigners until we get the GC. Immigration law wrt to other areas of the law do not favor us. See especially PERMANENT EMPLOYMENT.
http://www.hammondlawfirm.com/publications.htm
Immigration Law and Its Relation to Other Areas of the Law
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