| Today our Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson, together with Rep. Mike Pence unveiled yet another immigration bill. According to the headline in the Washington Post, it is supposed to “Bridge the Republican Divide”. Yeah, because that’s just what the Immigration Bill needs to do.
This Bill goes describes about how this new temporary worker program will work. (You can read the whole article and the Discussion Draft of the Bill at http://www.washingto...)
The Bill requires American companies to verify that the jobs they want to fill by using a “temporary worker” could not be filled by and American. (Correct me if I’m wrong, but aren’t companies supposed to do some sort of check now that they don’t do?)
The Bill has all these provisions and stages of second class citizenry. The temporary worker would have to apply for a work visa at “Ellis Island Centers” (isn’t that a nice term) in their home country. These centers would be privately owned and operated but licensed by the DHS in countries that are a part of NAFTA and CAFTA-DR.
HERE COMES THE HATE PART!
From the Discussion Draft provided to the Washington Post:
No Amnesty:
Undocumented residents currently in the U.S. must return to their country of origin in order to apply for participation in the Good Neighbor SAFE Visa Program.
Undocumented residents currently in the U.S. will not received an automatic path to citizenship by virtue of participating in the Good Neighbor SAFE Visa Program. However, participation is the program will not preclude participants from returning to their country of origin at any time, surrendering their Good Neighbor SAFE Visa and applying for legal permanent residence under current law.
Basically Kay Bailey Hutchison is saying: All you people from Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador… you don’t have to go home, but you got to get the hell out of here. Oh – it’s called self-deportation.
We might let you come back in the country if you are willing to work for low wages and be forever indebted to the company that brought you over here. Oh, you can leave at any time, but you have to use the existing immigration process to get back in the country.
Which means, you probably won’t be back.
This is wrong on so many levels. These are just a few:
1. It is racially motivated and targets only undocumented immigrants from the Americas.
2. It is an attempt to combine two immigration bills that were nothing but partisan politics to begin with.
3. It’s a stall tactic. (You know as well as I do that the Republicans are not going to vote on anything they can carry over into November. It is their attempt to hang on to every divisive non-issue they can.)
4. It does absolutely nothing to actually solve the non-issue of immigration.
Kay Bailey could have called her Bill “Stop the Invasion” and had just as much of an impact.
Texas, this is how your Senator represents you.
Now I ask you, is she being a Good Neighbor?
I think it’s time for her go. She has outlived her usefulness. I think she should self-deport from the U.S. Senate, but she won’t, so we have to vote her out. |
