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Visitor Comments
ja07
A good step towar fixing our broken immigration system.
Microsoft Employee
We need some more skilled workers up here. Reform it is!!!!
let's see
have you seen who's co sponsoring this bill? its almost all hispanics. i smell amnesty for millions in there somewhere!
lmr
its human, comprehensive. i really like it.
kellincali
it's bulls***! it's amnesty,welfare,social security,healthcare,government subsidized housing,voting rights,free college tuition,and a whole host of other benefit's for people who are here illegally. illegally!
humane would be to give em one of sherriff lee arpaio's sack lunches to eat on thier bus ride down to the border! no amnesty/no anchor babies.
CRH
This is amnesty. As a member of the 300 million REAL citizens in this country, I sum up my thoughts for HR 1645 by saying any politician who votes for this bill, will not be getting my vote next election.
AP
REAL and UNREAL citizens: Everyone in the US is an immigrant. The "aboriginal" are now the minorities. We need more skilled immigrants in the country, as they are the people who will also spend an awful lot of money on consumer goods, air tickets, apartments, car rentals, and so on, which will actually help this economy.
kellyncali
ap your a real visionary!however condeluded it is. the majority of the people sneaking across our borders don't even flush thier wastepaper! there's some real skilled worker's for you!
fact's be told most money is sent back to thier country of origin,and if they do stay and start a family the cost to the taxpayer is so enormous that you cannot even begin to justify why we should let them stay.
Kool Indy
It's legalizing the law-abiding tax paying folks who have poured millions into the empty coffers of the Social Security.
It offers relief to highly skilled professionals that are being lured away by competing countries. It's about time, but its still not doing enough. The middle men in the immigration process will eventually kill this bill before it gets passed, but hope is high that common sense will prevail.
kellyncali
it puts illegal aliens living in our neighborhoods it means that those of us that cant afford to live in gated communities are forced to live with the problems encompassed by the actions of illegal aliens,and only the few who benefit from thier employment have anything to gain!
so while the impoverished and middle class of america already struggle here is another added burden for them in the job market along with being exposed to violent street criminals,paying for career welfare moms,and all for the benfit of some employer!
William Boykin
As usual Gutierrez and Flake have tried to look good while working for essentially zero border protection substance. Throughout HR 1645 the words like plan, assess, describe, work with Mexico (undefined), enhance consultation, evaluate training, encourage Central America, reduce deaths, use National Guard for 21 days (or less), establish an independent commission (to check boxes), ensure more expeditious data searches, etc. etc. This "Bill" will only weaken the USA further while sounding good to those that think verbs need not imply firm actions.
This "STRIVE" Bill also hints at a vibrant national economy while only increasing the wealth of their usual supporters. If you want a vibrant economy that will produce enough wealth to save social programs - support HR 25.
joe chen
this is a good fair bill with humanity.
dLee M.
For the survival of this country, hr-1645 needs to be defeated soundly..
gud
This is the way to give away America for good and ruin our economy. Stick a fork in the United States if anything like this passes. It is done .....
t edward
I am tired of subsidizing corporate profit margins thru taxpayer social benefits for illegal aliens. This bill will break the back of low income citizens thru job loss to now legalized uneducated illegal aliens. The taxpayers will have to pay more and more in social welfare so corps can make more profits. They don't clean my pool, babysit my kids, or mow my lawn.
Dave D
It is easy to get caught up in the human element, but the economic unraveling is at hand. As much focus needs to be on the greedy business owners who exploit the illegals as does the illegals themselves. We are importing, if you will, millions of uneducated, ignorant and sick illegals. Ask anyone in healthcare and they will tell you how devastating this is. If paid a fair wage, Americans would do most of these jobs. We need the best and brightest to compete in the new global enconomy, not Mexico and S.A.'s poorest and least educated. If H.R. 1645 passes, it is the beginning of the end for this country I love so dearly.
Wombat66614
This will indeed be the end for America as we know it! STRIVE will give us as NORTH AMERICANS “a common security perimeter” The border between US mexico and canada will be virtually gone! The powers that be want a EU style gov't for north america
Red Lief
This bill needs to be crushed.
This is the bastard child of the liaison between post-national corporations and the post-national left.
The only thing that people have been asking for is enforcement, and our representatives replied with insult, telling us what we really want is more, and more, and more.
No, we have not been asking to be overwhelmed by 10's of millions of unassimilables.
This insult, bundled up with special chain migration provisions, plus substantial boosting of other foreign visa programs, would pretty much finish off the country in terms of cultural consensus and unity.
Only idiots and the corrupt want it.
It is not what we asked for.
RL
Please differentiate between LEGAL and ILLEGAL immigrants. The highly skilled and educated immigrants are almost all LEGAL. These immigrants are proficient in English, earn more than the national median income and pay taxes. Parts of this reform bill is good when it welcomes this highly skilled workers and attempt to eliminate visa backlog so that these millions of productive immigrants can naturalized. As for the illegals, mostly unskilled ones - they tend to be welfare recipients and are a burden on our social services and schools. I applaud the emphasis for immigrants to learn English, US history and civics. I would urge the lawmakers to go further and make them mandatory as a stringent uncompromising prerequisite for naturalization, thus eliminating the need for multi-lingual ballots (since only citizens can vote and you need to know English in order to be a citizen).
Dark-Star
Nothing more than yet another disguised amnesty. "Comprehensive Reform" - aka trying to solve all the problems in one shot - is a disasterous idea.
This bill spits in the face of every immigrant who has gone through legal procedures to become a U.S. citizen.
The wording also gives employers who hire illegals a monopoly-style 'get out of jail free' card in essence if they show good faith to comply.
There are backdoors for almost every item listed. And they will be used in large numbers.
Read this bill for yourself and decide if the law will be enforced!
PatRivCa.
The Federal Government in this country arrogantly ignores its people anymore. Its time form massive change in government before they completely ruin our country!!!
U.S. Navy Veteran
This proposed legislation is every bit as treacherous as S. 1348! H.R. 4437 was passed by the House last year to the applause of the majority of the American people. This is NOT a question of racism, rather it is a question of whether or not this country governs by the rule of law for the benefit and protection of America and her legal citizens. Our Founding Fathers pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to secure the blessings of Liberty for the American people. Should we now demonstate by passing S. 1348 or H.R. 1645 that they were fools in doing so? WAKE UP PEOPLE!
win
You figure even Congress would learn after a while...
The House will drop this now if they have any brains. The Senate at least had a chance of passing their amnesty bill, in the House it is very unlikely, and getting close to elections,. I'll be calling and sending emails to stop the thing already,
Enforce NOW! Enforce!
Douglas
A recent U.N. report shows once again American workers are the most productive in the world with Ireland a distant second. This bill proposes to absorb 180,000 H1-B applicants from parts of the world with the least efficient work forces. Is it ethical to draw them away from impoverished parts of the world where their skills are desperately needed? What is the enviromental and social impact of absorbing each year a predominately male workforce with a footprint roughly equal to Spokane Washington?