Hidden gems from the Hagel-Martinez amnesty scam

Posted Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 10:11 pm
Last year's Hagel-Martinez amnesty - the one that passed the Senate - had so many loopholes and hidden "features" it's hard to keep track of them. Here's a discussion from June 2006 by Rosemary Jenks of Numbers USA:
...in fact there are three other – at least three other, maybe more – amnesties, including one for anyone who entered the United States illegally before the age of 16, one for members of persecuted religious minorities who have applied for amnesty by 2003, and believe it or not, there's one buried in here for sheep herders, goat herders, and dairy workers. So it's sort of a smorgasbord for everyone.

The first one that I want to talk about is one that I'm pretty sure was not included in the estimates that Senator Sessions' office did on the numerical impact of this bill, and I know that it wasn't included in Robert Rector's estimates, and it was actually in the committee markup by Senator Brownback. It's mislabeled "widows and orphans," but what it says is that – and I'm going to read you the actual language here because it's too good to pass up – it essentially invites any alien outside the United States who's determined by a consular or immigration official to be a minor under the age of 18, "for whom no parent or legal guardian is able to provide adequate care, who faces a credible fear of harm related to his or her age, who lacks adequate protection from such harm and for whom it has been determined to be in his or her best interest, to be admitted to the United States, or who is determined by such official to be a female who has a credible fear of harm related to her sex, and a lack of adequate protection from such harm to come to the United States as a non-immigrant," to get refugee cash benefits and then adjust to legal permanent residence pretty much immediately.

So we're talking about women at risk of harm in the world and children without someone to adequately support them in the world coming here. Well, if women are just over half the population of the world, we can exclude: the United States, Canada, Australia, most of Western Europe, and then I hit a blank. You know, you could argue that women in just about the rest of the world have a credible fear of harm. So, that is a provision that is mind boggling, the impact that that could have, and I have not heard word one about this...

Comments

D Flinchum (not verified)

Thu, 04/26/2007 - 12:04

Sen. Brownbak will, I'm sure, make sure that none of the billions of people that this would lead to entering the US as regugees landed in Kansas, just as he did for the Somoli Bantu that he dumped here a few years back.

expat (not verified)

Thu, 04/26/2007 - 12:25

The Norwegian blogger Fjordman speaks to our national mental illness on the issue of immigration: http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2007/04/mexification-and-future-of-united.html (...) _The United States may well have signed its own death warrant as a country when it decided to be a “universal” nation. There is no such thing. Either you abandon that idea or it will kill your country and kill the American dream. It is pretty bad when California, which has attracted people from all over the United States for 150 years and has been the economic engine not just of the US, but of the world for generations, now starts becoming a region where educated, dynamic people leave because they can no longer stand living there._ _I know many people believe that the 21st century will be a contest between China and the United States. Yes, China faces many internal challenges, corruption, environmental problems and political censorship. However, I am pretty sure that an entity recognizable as China will still exist in the middle or second half of this century. I cannot say that with equal confidence about the USA. You are much less ethnically homogeneous than China, and risk clinging to this near-religious idea that all cultures are equally compatible with US dynamism and that all religious, ethnic, cultural and racial tensions that plague the rest of mankind will somehow magically disappear the second immigrants set foot on US soil. They won’t._ (...)

expat (not verified)

Thu, 04/26/2007 - 12:41

It is important to remember that while there are many fine individual Mexicans, the Mexican people as a whole are hostile to the United States: http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=Nationarchive200603NAT20060320b.html _Why is the United States a wealthier nation than Mexico? A new Zogby poll asked Mexican and American citizens that question and others. Seventy percent of Americans said the U.S. is wealthier because there is plenty of opportunity and work available in the United States, but 62 percent of Mexicans said the U.S. is wealthier because it exploits others, the Zogby poll said. As for why Mexico is poorer, 38 percent of Mexicans blamed corruption and 36 percent blamed government policies. Likewise, 36 percent of Americans said Mexico is poorer because of government policies and 35 percent blamed corruption. The Zogby poll examined how Americans and Mexicans regard each other. It found that 62 percent of Americans believe a strong relationship between the two countries is important for America's future; but only 52 percent of Mexicans said it was important for their country to have a good relationship with the United States. Immigration Both Americans and Mexicans agreed that the U.S. economy benefits from the labor of immigrant Mexicans. Nevertheless, a majority of Americans want U.S. lawmakers to crack down on illegal immigration. Sixty-two percent of Americans said they favor "more restrictive" immigration policies, the Zogby poll said. Fifty-seven percent of Americans said they would favor a U.S. economic development program for Mexico if Mexico agreed to accept more controls on immigration. But 53 percent of Mexicans opposed that idea. And while 69 percent of Americans oppose a U.S. proposal to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexican border, 90 percent of Mexicans oppose the idea. Personal attributes On a personal level, 84 percent of Americans said they held a positive view of the Mexican people, but only 36 percent of Mexicans had a positive view of Americans. Other findings: -- 78 percent of Americans consider Mexicans hard-working, but only 26 percent of Mexicans consider Americans hard-working. -- 18 percent of Americans consider Mexicans racist, while 73 percent of Mexicans see American as racist. -- 42 percent of Americans see Mexicans as honest, while only 16 percent of Mexicans see Americans as honest._ (...)

Fred Dawes (not verified)

Thu, 04/26/2007 - 22:03

The enemy is not fine the Mexican people hate us as a people and will be used for the execution of this nation and its people. START TO BUILD YOUR STRONGHOLDS THE TIME IS COMING OF MASS HELL. I Love it so when people don't get what is and will happen to a Nation under attack by its enemies.

eh (not verified)

Fri, 04/27/2007 - 03:15

The irresponsibility of federal legislators knows no bounds.