Submitted by: Donald Hank
Top 10 Errors In The Gang of Eight’s Immigration Bill
By AJ Delgado | April 17th, 2013 - http://www.mediaite.com/online/top-10-errors-in-the-gang-of-eights-immigration-bill/
The Gang of 8′s immigration bill was finally released Wednesday morning. (Click here for the 844-page bill or here for the 19-page Senate summary.) While we’ll hear much lofty praise and pitches by its sponsors, particularly Senator Marco Rubio, let’s dig a little deeper and find what’s concerning, missing, or outright wrong in this bill.
1) There are no actual triggers of border enforcement or border security.
Repeat after me: there are no actual triggers. Crafty as ever, the bill’s summary, disclosed by the Senate, has a section misleadingly entitled: “Border Security Triggers.” It lists the two so-called triggers:
Repeat after me: there are no actual triggers. Crafty as ever, the bill’s summary, disclosed by the Senate, has a section misleadingly entitled: “Border Security Triggers.” It lists the two so-called triggers:
(1) “Trigger to Initial Adjustment of Status” (the ‘trigger’ necessary for the initial legalization, changing an undocumented immigrant to a “Registered Provision Immigrant”); and
(2) “Trigger to Adjustment of Status from Registered Provisional Immigrant Status to Lawful Permanent Resident Status” (the ‘trigger’ for then moving one from legal status to greencard/permanent resident)
(2) “Trigger to Adjustment of Status from Registered Provisional Immigrant Status to Lawful Permanent Resident Status” (the ‘trigger’ for then moving one from legal status to greencard/permanent resident)
But then one reads and realizes these ‘triggers’ aren’t really triggers at all.
Six months after the bill is enacted, the Secretary of Homeland Secuirty must submit a strategy plan for dealing with the high risk sections of the Southern border, as well as a strategy plan regarding border-fence improvement. The two [aforementioned] triggers are simply:
