URGENT: From Numbers USA: During the consideration of the Department of Defense authorization bill (H.R. 1585) next week, open-borders Senators will attempt to attach three proposals that would give amnesty to millions of illegal aliens and dramatically increase the importation of additional foreign labor for American jobs.
Senate Amendment 2237 to the bill, sponsored by Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), is the DREAM Act, which would grant amnesty to illegal aliens that:
have maintained continuous presence in the United Statesfor five years and was not yet 16 years old upon initial entry;
are of "good moral character" and is not inadmissible or deportable on certain criminal grounds or on the basis of being a risk to national security; and
have been admitted to an institution of higher education, has attained a high school diploma, or has obtained a GED in the United States.
Another key component of this measure is that it would repeal existing statutory provisions denying illegal aliens’ eligibility for in-state tuition unless a U.S. national was similarly eligible without regard to state residence, thus placing the rights of those in our country illegally above those of our own citizens, and, as a result, encouraging even more illegal immigration to the United States.
In addition, amendments increasing availability of H-1B "high-skill" foreign worker visas and permanent residence for foreign workers and increasing the number of H-2B "low-skill" nonagricultural worker visas for seasonal foreign workers are expected to be brought up.
Efforts to add an amnesty for illegal farmworkers (AgJOBS) to the farm bill (H.R. 2419) have been delayed. However, pro-amnesty advocacy groups have been promised that AgJOBS will be attached to that measure this fall and signed into law.
Learn more about upcoming action in the Senate and recent action in the House.
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