Tell Your Members of Congress Why the Schumer-Rubio Amnesty is Horrible

[Patricia M. McBride]

I know many of us are struggling to keep up with the letters and constant writing over the onslaught off horrid bills.  Numbers USA has come up with lots of info and a letter you can use for the "gang of 8" immigration bill if you wish.

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Info from NumberUSA:

BREAKING: Our Capitol Hill team has finished crunching the numbers of the new amnesty bill and found that the bill would grant 33 million new green cards in the first 10 years after enactment. Look for more details to come...

The 844-page bill filed by the Senate's Gang of Eight is filled with so many waivers, exemptions, loopholes, and broken promises that it's almost too much to keep up with. The most recent item that can be filed in the "broken promises" category has to do with back taxes.

Some more digging through the bill has found that illegal aliens will not have to pay back taxes before applying for and receiving amnesty. Sec. 2101 of the bill describes the process by which most of the nation's 11-18 million illegal aliens can apply for Registered Provisional Immigrant Status (including work permits).

Under a subsection entitled "Payment of Taxes", the bill states that illegal aliens will have to satisfy "any applicable Federal tax liability." The next paragraph defines "applicable Federal tax liability" as any income taxes that have been assessed by the IRS. So, f or those illegal aliens that haven't filed a tax return, they won't have to pay any taxes on any work they may have been paid for in the past.

Why is this important? For starters, when the Gang of Eight released their "framework" for immigration reform back in January, they said that illegal aliens would have to "pay back taxes" in order to receive an amnesty. The next day, Sen. Marco Rubio spoke on the Senate floor and said that illegal aliens would have to "pay back taxes." Now that there's a bill - there's no requirement to pay back taxes unless the illegal alien has already been flagged by the IRS for owing back taxes.

We're seeing this become a trend with the Gang of Eight. We were told there would be triggers. Now we know the triggers are meaningless. We were told there would be enforcement before legalization. Now we know it's legalization before
enforcement. We were told there would be an entry/exit system. Now we know the exit system excludes all land ports. What else will we learn in the upcoming weeks?

In light of this development, we've posted new faxes on your Action Board to send to your Three Members of Congress.

HOUSE TAKES DIFFERENT APPROACH

House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte indicated this week that he would take a much different approach on immigration than what's going on in the Senate. He said there would be three pieces of legislation: 1) mandatory E-Verify, 2) a new guest worker program for agriculture, and 3) changes to the high-skilled visa program.

The first bill was introduced today, and it's a good one! Rep. Lamar Smith has reintroduced the Legal Workforce Act, H.R.1772, which would require all employers to use the E-Verify system. The bill is similar to the version introduced and passed by the Judiciary Committee during the last Congress but with a few modest changes.

Rep. Smith's bill would require most employers to use E-Verify within the first 6 months of enactment. It would phase it in for smaller employers over a two-year period. (The Gang of Eight's bill takes 5 years to phase in E-Verify.) The bill also contains provisions that would close up a fe w of the known issues within the E-Verify system and allow employers to run current employees through the system.

We've posted new faxes on your Action Board to send to your House Rep. asking them to cosponsor the bill.

THIS IS THE LETTER POSTED ON THE ACTION BOARD IF YOU WISH TO USE IT OR EDIT TO PERSONALIZE IT TO SEND OR YOU CAN LINK OVER AND FAX IT FROM THE NUMBERSUSA WEBSITE (LINK ABOVE):

 

Your Members of Congress Street Address City, State Zip

Dear Your Members of Congress,

The Schumer-Rubio amnesty bill is bad for a host of reasons, but especially because it assumes that the United States has a severe labor shortage. I hope you oppose the bill for this reason if no other.

It truly is disappointing that this bill was written with such callous disregard for the plight of jobless Americans and for those who truly want to secure the border and end illegal immigration.

The bill is written as if the United States is facing a severe labor shortage. American business, from a multitude of industries, have made it clear that Americans from the high-school dropout to the laid-off engineer are simply not fit for purpose and need to be displaced by foreign workers -- far more than the current 1 million that are brought in each year.

The Gang of Eight also promised to make border security a priority, while holding off on amnesty until the border is secure and illegal aliens can't take U.S. jobs. Sen Rubio even said he would walk away if this did not occur. Sadly, Sen. Rubio forgot this promise as the bill gives illegal aliens their amnesty before any additional border security is achieved. As USA Today puts it: "There are no measurements of border security that must be reached before the nation's unauthorized immigrants could apply to become legal residents."

This bill is also supposed to solve our nation's illegal immigration problem. Unfortunately, it does not address what is to be done about the illegal aliens who came after December 31, 2011. Will the bill ramp up enforcement so non-amnestied illegal aliens are found and removed from the U.S. or will the status quo remain? We both know what will likely occur.

This legislation is just plain bad. It's bad for America's jobless and it's bad for those who want a secure America without future illegal immigration. Please oppose it.

Sincerely,

First Name Last Name

 

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