Here is the latest update on immigration. At the bottom of this email please read through the latest actions occurring in the Senate, and attached documents. As you know the Senate has resumed debate on the immigration bill. This week is going to be a VERY intense week on the Hill.
As you know the President is very passionate about this issue and feels confident he will have a bill by the end of the summer. (see attached)
ACTION ALERT:
The House of Representatives is likely to take up the legislation by the end of this month or July. Yet we need your help to push this legislation forward. We STRONGLY encourage all RNHA members and friends to talk to their Senators and Representative:
1) Call their Members of Congress (www.congress.org)
2) Meet with Members of Congress in your local district (VERY VERY IMPORTANT!!)
3) Meet with Members of Congress in
- While the Senate Immigration bill is not perfect, it is a compromise, and will be the only opportunity we have to fix the broken immigration system for decades to come.
- We can not sacrifice the good for the sake of the perfect. We must do the right thing and pass comprehensive immigration reform now. Our country can not afford to do nothing for another 20 years.
- Those that do not want this bill to pass are in fact imposing a silent amnesty. They would prefer to ignore the problem, continue having a porous border, have millions living in the shadows and doing nothing to improve our national security.
- The Senate Immigration bill focuses on border security and places our national security first. (It builds on past success, President Bush’s border initiative has significantly decreased border crossings, sent over 1.2 million back to their country of origins and ended catch and release.
- This Senate Immigration bill assures that our economy will continue to grow; it assures that the labor force will meet the needs of our economy. It creates a legal regulated way to work in the
- The Senate Immigration bill creates a system to get 10-12 million out of the shadows, has consequences for those that broke the law yet also provides a capacity for immigrants staying in our country to assimilate in American society.
From the Office of the Republican Leader, Senator Mitch McConnell (Lanier Swann, Policy Advisor)
The Senate returned from the Memorial Day break on Monday and resumed consideration of the Immigration Bill. There were no votes on Monday, but 4 amendments were adopted to the bill by unanimous consent.
The four amendments adopted are listed below:
- Grassley #1166 as modified (visa revocation)
- Cornyn #1238 (Border Relief Grant Program)
- Alexander #1163 (recognizing companies for efforts in English literacy and civics)
- Cantwell #1167 (Northern Border Prosecution Imitative)
Amendments are expected throughout the afternoon. Included is a list of the pending amendments.
Amendments pending to the bill (13)
- Cornyn #1184 (bar criminals, terrorist, and other criminals)
- McConnell #1170 (voter ID)
- Feingold #1176 (study on treatment of WW II refugees)
- Sessions #1234 (limitation on claiming earned income tax credit)
- Sessions #1235 (5 yr limitation on claiming earned income tax credit)
- Durbin #1231 (ensure employers make efforts to recruit American workers)
- Dodd #1199 (green cards for parents of US citizens)
- Menendez #1194 (family backlog deadlines)
- Lieberman #1191 (asylum and detention standards)
- Allard #1189 (eliminate preferences given to people who entered the
- Cornyn #1250 (mandatory disclosure of information)
- Obama #1202 (termination of merit based system)
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