Senator Grassley's biggest complaint about so called 'holes' in the legislation revolves around the topic of crime.
This is an immigration bill, it is not a crime bill. He offers no statistics to assign overwhelming concern to these 11 million people stating they are a problem within this country, therefore, should not be legal citizens.
The Immigration Reform Bill excludes anyone seeking citizenship that has a criminal record.
Additionally, the concerns over counterfeit visas and assigning criminal content to their manufacture belongs to Homeland Security. That is the place where accountability lies.
The Department of State (click here) issues visas to foreign nations seeking to visit or immigrate to the United States. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is charged with admitting persons seeking entry to the United States for short term visits or immigration. Immigrants to the United States will interact with the Department of Homeland Security to apply for Legal Permanent Residence (Green Cards) and during the naturalization process. The Departments of State and Homeland Security work cooperatively to ensure consistency and transparency in the administration of U.S. visa and border security and facilitation of travel.
Homeland Security can write regulations to bring this crime under control and I suggest they do so. But, to make criminal people in Mexico we would have to get our hands on to charge is a very difficult thing to do. If there are foreign problems such as that it belongs to The State Department. It is also up to other governments to mitigate those crimes under their laws. So, including measures to levy criminal charges of those manufacturing Visas and Passports outside the USA won't work.
Within the USA if there are those falsifying documents and selling them is something the USA criminal system could oversee and should. My guess that such fraud is being somewhat minimized is due to case loads and the realistic ways in which that can be dealt with in the criminal justice system. Senator Grassley can hold hearings with Justice to find statistics and methods to minimize the impact of such fraud. My suspicion is there is not a great deal of it to handle, but, I could be wrong and Senator Grassley's concern is 'the one document' that will cause the next 9/11.
As for terrorism. The 11 million already in the USA are worried about terrorism, too. They don't communities full of people willing to kill for the sake of a cause. They don't want underwear bombers or tennis shoe bombers or anyone else, so let's not assign these folks that identity. Additionally, these 11 million people can't be held responsible for the Boston Bombing or September 11, 2001. That was masculine identities connected with radicalism in former and distant homelands. None were from Mexico, okay?
At this point, Senator Grassley is starting to sound as though we are going to pull the plug on Grandma again. He needs to apologize to these folks and pass the legislation. We have brilliant young people longing to be an asset to the USA and I suggest he consider that identity the most prominent among this community.
Have a better day for the 32 that vote "No." Maybe you all need a vacation. Maybe to Mexico.
This is an immigration bill, it is not a crime bill. He offers no statistics to assign overwhelming concern to these 11 million people stating they are a problem within this country, therefore, should not be legal citizens.
The Immigration Reform Bill excludes anyone seeking citizenship that has a criminal record.
Additionally, the concerns over counterfeit visas and assigning criminal content to their manufacture belongs to Homeland Security. That is the place where accountability lies.
The Department of State (click here) issues visas to foreign nations seeking to visit or immigrate to the United States. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is charged with admitting persons seeking entry to the United States for short term visits or immigration. Immigrants to the United States will interact with the Department of Homeland Security to apply for Legal Permanent Residence (Green Cards) and during the naturalization process. The Departments of State and Homeland Security work cooperatively to ensure consistency and transparency in the administration of U.S. visa and border security and facilitation of travel.
Homeland Security can write regulations to bring this crime under control and I suggest they do so. But, to make criminal people in Mexico we would have to get our hands on to charge is a very difficult thing to do. If there are foreign problems such as that it belongs to The State Department. It is also up to other governments to mitigate those crimes under their laws. So, including measures to levy criminal charges of those manufacturing Visas and Passports outside the USA won't work.
Within the USA if there are those falsifying documents and selling them is something the USA criminal system could oversee and should. My guess that such fraud is being somewhat minimized is due to case loads and the realistic ways in which that can be dealt with in the criminal justice system. Senator Grassley can hold hearings with Justice to find statistics and methods to minimize the impact of such fraud. My suspicion is there is not a great deal of it to handle, but, I could be wrong and Senator Grassley's concern is 'the one document' that will cause the next 9/11.
As for terrorism. The 11 million already in the USA are worried about terrorism, too. They don't communities full of people willing to kill for the sake of a cause. They don't want underwear bombers or tennis shoe bombers or anyone else, so let's not assign these folks that identity. Additionally, these 11 million people can't be held responsible for the Boston Bombing or September 11, 2001. That was masculine identities connected with radicalism in former and distant homelands. None were from Mexico, okay?
At this point, Senator Grassley is starting to sound as though we are going to pull the plug on Grandma again. He needs to apologize to these folks and pass the legislation. We have brilliant young people longing to be an asset to the USA and I suggest he consider that identity the most prominent among this community.
Have a better day for the 32 that vote "No." Maybe you all need a vacation. Maybe to Mexico.
