Speech #1090044593

Because we have not given the Department of Homeland Security enough dollars to work the program beyond it being a pilot program. It was also brought to our attention that maybe we should look to those who make the fraudulent documents and find a way to weed them out. What this Nation really needs is comprehensive immigration reform. And so I offer to my colleagues the Save America Comprehensive Immigration Act of 2005. It is H.R. 2092. We call it the fixit bill. There are many fine efforts going through the United States Congress. But what I think immigrants need is a bill that fixes some of the 1996 immigration reform effort. So we start off by focusing on familybased immigration by increasing the allocation of familybased visas. In speaking to a group of IndoAmericans. it was sad to hear the complaint about not being able to have loved ones come to the United States simply for a visit or simply to visit relatives in the United States that are ill or having some event. I have heard that from many. many immigrant communities around America. many of them documented with status. but yet they cannot invite their relatives to visit. Another issue is protection against processing delays. Many offices have had to deal with constituents of Members when they call the various centers that deal with immigration where they have lost paperwork or lost fingerprints. stopping the good flow of immigration. This bill includes acquisition of citizenship for children born abroad and out of wedlock to a United States citizen father. It allows aunts. uncles or grandparents to adopt orphaned or abandoned children of the deceased relative so it does not leave in limbo children outside of the country who have a United States citizen father. or orphaned children here in the United States who do not have an immediate parent. a mother or father.