http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills info@washingtonwatch.com http://www.pjdoland.com/chai/?v=0.1 http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/history/110_SN_9.html?rev=295 <p><b>Another bill, <a class="" href="http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_SN_1348.html#">S. 1348</a>, has superceded this one as the lead bill for debate in the Senate. <a class="" href="http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_SN_1348.html#">Click here</a> to view S. 1348.</b></p> <p>S. 9 would recognize the heritage of the United States as a nation of immigrants, amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for more effective border and employment enforcement, prevent illegal immigration, and reform and rationalize avenues for legal immigration.</p> <h2 id="toc0"> Detailed Summary </h2> <p>Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007 - Expresses the sense of Congress that the Senate and the House of Representatives should pass, and the President should sign, legislation to recognize the heritage of the United States as a nation of immigrants and to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for more effective border and employment enforcement, to prevent illegal immigration, and to reform and rationalize avenues for legal immigration.</p> <h2 id="toc1"> Status of the Legislation </h2> <p>The Senate is poised to introduce the Comprehensive Immigration Reform bill again this year and it is expected to be introduced in mid-April, with hearings and mark-up in the Senate Judiciary Committee likely scheduled for the last week in April.</p> <h2 id="toc2"> Points in Favor </h2> <p>This bill has been long awaited and will help solve the immigration problems in the country. Both legal and illegal. From the legal standpoint, the employment-based green card process is badly broken. It imposes great costs on industry and subjects the best and brightest of the world to unconscionable delays and career stagnation. Organizations like http://www.immigrationvoice.org are working hard to represent high skilled immigrants in DC.</p> <h2 id="toc3"> Points Against </h2> <p>This bill explicitly authorizes the creation and mandatory use of a new, &quot;hardened&quot; Social Security Card for the purposes of verifying a person's eligibility for employment. The Social Security Administration has testified that issuing a new card to the public would cost $9 billion and require the size of the current Social Security Administration staff -- 60,000 employees -- to double to 120,000. The card will be expensive and include biometric features, perhaps including a fingerprint or iris/retinal scan.</p> <p>The utility and social benefit of such a mandate is questionable. How will we get 300 million people a new card? How will we obtain a biometric sample from everyone? Will unscrupulous employers just continue to hire undocumented workers off the books and pay them in cash? How will remote worksites be able to link up to a central database? And, how will the database be protected against sophisticated identity thieves, smugglers and terrorists? All of these unanswered questions make this proposal unwise.</p> 295@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Wed, 16 May 2007 09:42:08 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/history/110_SN_9.html?rev=285 <p>S. 9 would recognize the heritage of the United States as a nation of immigrants, amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for more effective border and employment enforcement, prevent illegal immigration, and reform and rationalize avenues for legal immigration.</p> <p><b>Another bill, <a class="" href="http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_SN_1348.html#">S. 1348</a>, has superceded this one as the lead bill for debate in the Senate.</b></p> <h2 id="toc4"> Detailed Summary </h2> <p>Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007 - Expresses the sense of Congress that the Senate and the House of Representatives should pass, and the President should sign, legislation to recognize the heritage of the United States as a nation of immigrants and to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for more effective border and employment enforcement, to prevent illegal immigration, and to reform and rationalize avenues for legal immigration.</p> <h2 id="toc5"> Status of the Legislation </h2> <p>The Senate is poised to introduce the Comprehensive Immigration Reform bill again this year and it is expected to be introduced in mid-April, with hearings and mark-up in the Senate Judiciary Committee likely scheduled for the last week in April.</p> <h2 id="toc6"> Points in Favor </h2> <p>This bill has been long awaited and will help solve the immigration problems in the country. Both legal and illegal. From the legal standpoint, the employment-based green card process is badly broken. It imposes great costs on industry and subjects the best and brightest of the world to unconscionable delays and career stagnation. Organizations like http://www.immigrationvoice.org are working hard to represent high skilled immigrants in DC.</p> <h2 id="toc7"> Points Against </h2> <p>This bill explicitly authorizes the creation and mandatory use of a new, &quot;hardened&quot; Social Security Card for the purposes of verifying a person's eligibility for employment. The Social Security Administration has testified that issuing a new card to the public would cost $9 billion and require the size of the current Social Security Administration staff -- 60,000 employees -- to double to 120,000. The card will be expensive and include biometric features, perhaps including a fingerprint or iris/retinal scan.</p> <p>The utility and social benefit of such a mandate is questionable. How will we get 300 million people a new card? How will we obtain a biometric sample from everyone? Will unscrupulous employers just continue to hire undocumented workers off the books and pay them in cash? How will remote worksites be able to link up to a central database? And, how will the database be protected against sophisticated identity thieves, smugglers and terrorists? All of these unanswered questions make this proposal unwise.</p> 285@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Wed, 16 May 2007 07:18:44 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/history/110_SN_9.html?rev=234 <p>S. 9 would recognize the heritage of the United States as a nation of immigrants, amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for more effective border and employment enforcement, prevent illegal immigration, and reform and rationalize avenues for legal immigration.</p> <h2 id="toc8"> Detailed Summary </h2> <p>Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007 - Expresses the sense of Congress that the Senate and the House of Representatives should pass, and the President should sign, legislation to recognize the heritage of the United States as a nation of immigrants and to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for more effective border and employment enforcement, to prevent illegal immigration, and to reform and rationalize avenues for legal immigration.</p> <h2 id="toc9"> Status of the Legislation </h2> <p>The Senate is poised to introduce the Comprehensive Immigration Reform bill again this year and it is expected to be introduced in mid-April, with hearings and mark-up in the Senate Judiciary Committee likely scheduled for the last week in April.</p> <h2 id="toc10"> Points in Favor </h2> <p>This bill has been long awaited and will help solve the immigration problems in the country. Both legal and illegal. From the legal standpoint, the employment-based green card process is badly broken. It imposes great costs on industry and subjects the best and brightest of the world to unconscionable delays and career stagnation. Organizations like http://www.immigrationvoice.org are working hard to represent high skilled immigrants in DC.</p> <h2 id="toc11"> Points Against </h2> <p>This bill explicitly authorizes the creation and mandatory use of a new, &quot;hardened&quot; Social Security Card for the purposes of verifying a person's eligibility for employment. The Social Security Administration has testified that issuing a new card to the public would cost $9 billion and require the size of the current Social Security Administration staff -- 60,000 employees -- to double to 120,000. The card will be expensive and include biometric features, perhaps including a fingerprint or iris/retinal scan.</p> <p>The utility and social benefit of such a mandate is questionable. How will we get 300 million people a new card? How will we obtain a biometric sample from everyone? Will unscrupulous employers just continue to hire undocumented workers off the books and pay them in cash? How will remote worksites be able to link up to a central database? And, how will the database be protected against sophisticated identity thieves, smugglers and terrorists? All of these unanswered questions make this proposal unwise.</p> 234@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Thu, 12 Apr 2007 17:29:42 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/history/110_SN_9.html?rev=210 <p>S. 9 would recognize the heritage of the United States as a nation of immigrants, amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for more effective border and employment enforcement, prevent illegal immigration, and reform and rationalize avenues for legal immigration.</p> <h2 id="toc12"> Detailed Summary </h2> <p>Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007 - Expresses the sense of Congress that the Senate and the House of Representatives should pass, and the President should sign, legislation to recognize the heritage of the United States as a nation of immigrants and to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for more effective border and employment enforcement, to prevent illegal immigration, and to reform and rationalize avenues for legal immigration.</p> <h2 id="toc13"> Status of the Legislation </h2> <p>The Senate is poised to introduce the Comprehensive Immigration Reform bill again this year and it is expected to be in the Senate Judiciary Committee in March 2007. The hearings in senate would begin on Feb 28th.</p> <h2 id="toc14"> Points in Favor </h2> <p>This bill has been long awaited and will help solve the immigration problems in the country. Both legal and illegal. From the legal standpoint, the employment-based green card process is badly broken. It imposes great costs on industry and subjects the best and brightest of the world to unconscionable delays and career stagnation. Organizations like http://www.immigrationvoice.org are working hard to represent high skilled immigrants in DC.</p> <h2 id="toc15"> Points Against </h2> <p>(Log in to edit the wiki and be the first to show why the bill should not pass!)<br /> <!-- First editor: Go ahead and take out the sentence in parentheses, and this notice! --> </p> 210@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Mon, 26 Feb 2007 10:56:05 EST http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/history/110_SN_9.html?rev=209 <p>S. 9 would recognize the heritage of the United States as a nation of immigrants, amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for more effective border and employment enforcement, prevent illegal immigration, and reform and rationalize avenues for legal immigration.</p> <h2 id="toc16"> Detailed Summary </h2> <p>Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007 - Expresses the sense of Congress that the Senate and the House of Representatives should pass, and the President should sign, legislation to recognize the heritage of the United States as a nation of immigrants and to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for more effective border and employment enforcement, to prevent illegal immigration, and to reform and rationalize avenues for legal immigration.</p> <h2 id="toc17"> Status of the Legislation </h2> <p>The Senate is poised to introduce the Comprehensive Immigration Reform bill again this year and it is expected to be in the Senate Judiciary Committee in March 2007. The hearings in senate would begin on Feb 28th.</p> <h2 id="toc18"> Points in Favor </h2> <p>This bill has been long awaited and will help solve the immigration problems in the country. Both legal and illegal. From the legal standpoint, the employment-based green card process is badly broken. It imposes great costs on industry and subjects the best and brightest of the world to unconscionable delays and career stagnation. Organizations like [URL=&quot;http:<em>immigrationvoice.org&quot;]http:</em>www.immigrationvoice.org[/URL] are working hard to represent high skilled immigrants in DC.</p> <h2 id="toc19"> Points Against </h2> <p>(Log in to edit the wiki and be the first to show why the bill should not pass!)<br /> <!-- First editor: Go ahead and take out the sentence in parentheses, and this notice! --> </p> 209@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Mon, 26 Feb 2007 10:55:40 EST http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/history/110_SN_9.html?rev=208 <p>S. 9 would recognize the heritage of the United States as a nation of immigrants, amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for more effective border and employment enforcement, prevent illegal immigration, and reform and rationalize avenues for legal immigration.</p> <h2 id="toc20"> Detailed Summary </h2> <p>Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007 - Expresses the sense of Congress that the Senate and the House of Representatives should pass, and the President should sign, legislation to recognize the heritage of the United States as a nation of immigrants and to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for more effective border and employment enforcement, to prevent illegal immigration, and to reform and rationalize avenues for legal immigration.</p> <h2 id="toc21"> Status of the Legislation </h2> <p>The Senate is poised to introduce the Comprehensive Immigration Reform bill again this year and it is expected to be in the Senate Judiciary Committee in March 2007. The hearings in senate would begin on Feb 28th.</p> <h2 id="toc22"> Points in Favor </h2> <p>This bill has been long awaited and will help solve the immigration problems in the country. Both legal and illegal. From the legal standpoint, the employment-based green card process is badly broken. It imposes great costs on industry and subjects the best and brightest of the world to unconscionable delays and career stagnation. Organizations like http://www.immigrationvoice.org are working hard to represent high skilled immigrants in DC.</p> <h2 id="toc23"> Points Against </h2> <p>(Log in to edit the wiki and be the first to show why the bill should not pass!)<br /> <!-- First editor: Go ahead and take out the sentence in parentheses, and this notice! --> </p> 208@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Mon, 26 Feb 2007 10:54:12 EST http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/history/110_SN_9.html?rev=206 <p>S. 9 would recognize the heritage of the United States as a nation of immigrants, amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for more effective border and employment enforcement, prevent illegal immigration, and reform and rationalize avenues for legal immigration.</p> <h2 id="toc24"> Detailed Summary </h2> <p>Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007 - Expresses the sense of Congress that the Senate and the House of Representatives should pass, and the President should sign, legislation to recognize the heritage of the United States as a nation of immigrants and to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for more effective border and employment enforcement, to prevent illegal immigration, and to reform and rationalize avenues for legal immigration.</p> <h2 id="toc25"> Status of the Legislation </h2> <p>(Log in to edit the wiki and be the first to update the status of the bill!)<br /> <!-- First editor: Go ahead and take out the sentence in parentheses, and this notice! --> </p> <h2 id="toc26"> Points in Favor </h2> <p>(Log in to edit the wiki and be the first to show why the bill should pass!)<br /> <!-- First editor: Go ahead and take out the sentence in parentheses, and this notice! --> </p> <h2 id="toc27"> Points Against </h2> <p>(Log in to edit the wiki and be the first to show why the bill should not pass!)<br /> <!-- First editor: Go ahead and take out the sentence in parentheses, and this notice! --> </p> 206@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Mon, 26 Feb 2007 10:47:51 EST http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/history/110_SN_9.html?rev=207 <p>S. 9 would recognize the heritage of the United States as a nation of immigrants, amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for more effective border and employment enforcement, prevent illegal immigration, and reform and rationalize avenues for legal immigration.</p> <h2 id="toc28"> Detailed Summary </h2> <p>Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007 - Expresses the sense of Congress that the Senate and the House of Representatives should pass, and the President should sign, legislation to recognize the heritage of the United States as a nation of immigrants and to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for more effective border and employment enforcement, to prevent illegal immigration, and to reform and rationalize avenues for legal immigration.</p> <h2 id="toc29"> Status of the Legislation </h2> <p>The Senate is poised to introduce the Comprehensive Immigration Reform bill again this year and it is expected to be in the Senate Judiciary Committee in March 2007. The hearings in senate would begin on Feb 28th.</p> <h2 id="toc30"> Points in Favor </h2> <p>(Log in to edit the wiki and be the first to show why the bill should pass!)<br /> <!-- First editor: Go ahead and take out the sentence in parentheses, and this notice! --> </p> <h2 id="toc31"> Points Against </h2> <p>(Log in to edit the wiki and be the first to show why the bill should not pass!)<br /> <!-- First editor: Go ahead and take out the sentence in parentheses, and this notice! --> </p> 207@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Mon, 26 Feb 2007 10:47:51 EST