Speech #1090122493

The alien meets "the burden of proving by a preponderance of the evidence that the alien has satisfied the requirements" if the alien can demonstrate "such employment as a matter of just reasonable inference." If you can just have a reasonable inference that you have worked. get a document from a day labor center. you meet the work requirements. Everybody will meet it. No illegal alien will be left behind. The bill then states: ... it is the intent of Congress that the [work] requirement ... be interpreted and implemented iii a manner that recognizes and takes into account the difficulties encountered by aliens in obtaining evidence of employment due to the undocumented status of the alien. The invitation is there to abuse the system. The invitation for fraud is clear. Congress is telling the Department of Homeland Security to accept pretty much anything as proof of work. and if they dont take it. they will be sued and they will win in court because the bill we have written says anything goes as valid proof of work. Loophole 8: The bill benefits only those who broke the law. not those who followed it and got work visas to come to the United States. That is a plain fact. If you were here legally on or before April 5. 2001. you will not get the benefit of this amnesty. This amnesty benefits you only if you came here illegally. Loophole 9: The essential worker permanent immigration program for nonagriculture lowskilled workers leaves no illegal alien out. It is not limited to people outside the United States who want to come here to work in the future but includes illegal aliens currently present in the United States who do not qualify for the amnesty program in title VI. including aliens here for less than 2 years. Under the bill language. you can qualify for this new program to work as a lowskilled permanent immigrant even if you are unlawfully present in the United States. The bill specifically states: In determining the aliens admissibility as an H2C... The program is specifically intended to apply to absconders. There are 400.000 absconders out there now that we are trying to apprehend and trying to deport. They have been ordered deported yet they absconded. illegal aliens who were in removal proceedings and signed a voluntary departure agreement but never left. many of them did that. and illegal aliens already removed from the United States but who have come back. Loophole No. 10: The annual numerical cap on this program is a completely artificial cap. If the 400.000 cap per year is reached. what happens then? The cap immediately adjusts itself to make more room under the cap. I kid you not. If the cap is reached. an additional 80.000 visas can be given out that year and the cap will go up automatically the next year as much as 20 percent. Even if the cap stays at 400.000 per year. we will have a minimum of 2.4 million lowskilled permanentnot parttimeimmigrants in the first 6 years. the length of the H2C visa if the individual did not file for a green card. I see the Democratic leader. I have been going over some of the things in the bill that I think the American people and maybe our colleagues are not aware of.