Those were the pieces of legislation that Senator LEAHY and. I think. the entire Judiciary Committee agreed that we should move forward on. Now. let me mention why the Everify program is critical. I have to say to my colleagues that I cannot agree and this Congress and this Senate should not agree to an additional expansion of immigrants Into this country as a price to continue the current law. If we are going to do that. then we need to have a full debate about immigration and a full debate about the numbers that should be admitted. and properly so. into our country. and what standards should be utilized. That is the situation we are facing. Everify. as included in this bipartisan package. would not be changed in any way. It will remain the program it is today. but it expires on November 30 of this year. It was originally established in 1996. and it must not be allowed to expire. If this Congress allows Everify to expire. then we will have made a statement to this Nation that the one system that is working today and could be expanded in the future to create a lawful system of immigration is being abandoned. It would rightly cause every American who has been hearing Members of the Senate and the House promising to do something about restoring the rule of law to immigrationthey would know we were not serious at all. They would know this is one more flimflam that would be carried out. I feel very strongly about this issue.
Keywords matched
immigrants immigrationthey Everify immigration