These provisions are up for a US Senate vote next tuesday, after already being passed by the House of Reps ...
"The House bill would beef up border security with the help of local law enforcement and military technology, impose tougher penalties for smuggling and re-entry, and end the "catch and release" policy for illegal non-Mexicans. It makes drunken driving convictions a deportable offense.
The bill makes unlawful presence in the United States, currently a civil offense, a felony. An amendment to reduce the crime from a felony to a misdemeanor was defeated, with many Democrats voting against the proposal in protest over subjecting people who have overstayed their visas to any criminal charges.
The House also voted 273-148 to end the diversity visa lottery program that's open to countries that send few immigrations to the United States. Opponents said it was susceptible to fraud and could be a way for terrorists to enter the country.
On Thursday, the House approved an amendment calling for construction of a fence in parts of California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas.
The most sweeping provision of the House bill would require all employers in the country, more than 7 million, to submit Social Security numbers and other information to a national data base to verify the legal status of workers.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other business groups protested this provision as unworkable, while immigrant rights groups said some of the new penalties were draconian.
By making it a crime to be present in the country illegally, said the National Immigration Forum, foreign students who drop a class or high tech workers who lose jobs and take too long to find a new employer sponsor would be subject to arrest."
from foxnews.com



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Yeah, only because it would finally make it harder for them live and work here illegally. I know all about illegals doing the so-called shit jobs that Americans supposedly don't wanna do, and I know that illegals doing menial work for low pay supposedly affords us all to buy alot of products and services at better prices. But I still can't stand all the damned illegals I see hanging on the street corners waiting to be picked up to work that day, or the thought that the reason Americans don't wanna do those jobs that illegals do is because the employers wanna pay as little as possible for them and work the employees like slaves, so the only suckers they can get are illegals desperate for work. I have a hard time believing that all these illegals working under the table in this country truly do us any good. Never mind the fact that so many of them send large chunks of their paychecks OUT of the country to support family back home. Get the fuck outta here!


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