Summary of the Comprehensive Immigration Reform for America’s Security and
Prosperity Act of 2009 (CIR ASAP) provided by Reform Immigration for America
This snapshot highlights key provisions of the CIR ASAP Act and will be supplemented in the coming weeks as the IPC conducts deeper analysis of the proposals contained in the Act.
Title I. Border Security, Detention and Enforcement
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Representative Luis Gutierrez, along with 88 members of the House, representing a large cross section of constituents, introduced long awaited legislation to reform our broken immigration system. Known as CIR-ASAP, it has an excellent chance of passage in the first half of 2010
More than 88 co-sponsors have already signed on to the legislation, which is authored by Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) and titled the Comprehensive Immigration Reform for America’s Security and Prosperity Act of 2009, or “CIR ASAP” for short. The bill includes provisions strengthening border security, creating a streamlined employment verification system, altering the visa program to promote the reunification of families and establishing a commission to recommend changes to the current system of H-1B and H-2B visas for skilled workers.
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This morning, William Gheen of ALIPAC sent out another of his mindless missives to the masses on his email lists, blubbering about being Pro-American. It seems Willy is upset because he has rightfully been identified in manners not kind to him, but which speak the truth about his agenda.
Our recent national press coverage has illustrated once again how very willing our opponents are to lie. We’ve been called anti-immigration and anti-immigrant, which is false. Each time a biased media source does that, they harm their own credibility, which is good. All true Americans hate a liar.
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A interesting articles are out today, thoroughly debunking the time worn rhetoric from groups such as ALIPAC, FAIR and NUMBERSUSA about the value and worth of illegal immigrants in American society and the workplace.
A new study released Wednesday concludes that undocumented immigrant workers do not drain jobs or tax dollars and have a neutral impact on the U.S. economy, reports Lynsi Burton of the Hearst Newspaper Groups, Washington Bureau in todays San Francisco Chronicle.
Because illegal immigrants occupy a small share of the workforce – about 5 percent – and work low-skilled jobs at lower wages than other workers, their overall influence on the economy is trivial, according to the report, sponsored by the Migration Policy Institute, a pro-immigration think tank in Washington.
“The fate of the U.S. economy does not rest on what we do on illegal immigration,” said Gordon Hanson, author of the report and economics professor at the UC San Diego.
Undocumented immigrants contribute just 0.03 percent of the U.S. gross domestic product, with that gain going to employers who save money on cheap labor, the report says, while their cost to the economy is 0.10 percent of GDP, which mainly comes from public education and publicly funded emergency health care.
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Lou Dobbs made a total fool out of ALIPAC's William Gheen on his radio show
To put it in a nutshell, it was funny. Gheen was outclassed from the moment he opened his mouth, spouting his anti-hispanic agenda.
Gheen’s position as always was deport them all. If legalization is granted, then the borders disappear and civil war erupts, because (and this was insinuated), we don’t want no dirty Mexicans here.
Dobbs, on the other hand, reiterated his long time position, one which I have heard, that he is for immigration reform, once the borders and ports are secure. Of course, what does he consider “secure”?
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