Speech #1090131566

Each of those loopholes is very significant and raises important questions we need to address. I will point out briefly what some of those are. Under the bill on the floor today. illegal aliens with felonies or three misdemeanors can get amnesty. That is not what the American people want or what we should want. Illegal aliens who have previously filed fraudulent asylum applications. prohibited by law from getting amnesty or citizenship today. can get amnesty and are put on a path to citizenship. There is no continuous work requirement. They say the people are here to work. but the bill doesnt require continuous work in any significant way. They allow evidence that can be produced to prove you have been in the country or been working that is very dubious and will clearly lead to fraud. The bill says you must accept just and reasonable inferences as evidence and that you can have documents from day labor centers and that an alien can file his or her "sworn declaration." and they must be accepted as evidence that the alien satisfies the work requirement. I pointed out that the bill is fundamentally unfair because it benefits only those who broke the law and not those who followed it and got their work visas to come to the United States or those who left the country when their visa expired as they were supposed to. Another loophole was that the annual numerical cap is not a cap at all. If it is met each year. it automatically goes up 20 percent without any thought going into that. or discussion. Furthermore. instate tuition will be made available to illegal aliens. reversing carefully considered and fully debated law that we passed a number of years ago in the Congress. These are mostly enforcement loopholes. They deal with amnesty provisions and the enforcement provisions of the bill. They are part of this 614page bill. But until today. no one has discussed publicly what S. 2611 would do about future immigration or how significant that could be. So we will be discussing that during the course of this debate. I am going to talk about it.