According to Breitbart.com, a Republican amendment requiring illegal aliens to go home before they could apply for legal status in the United States was defeated.
The Senate on Wednesday killed a Republican proposal to require all adult illegal immigrants to return home temporarily in order to qualify for permanent lawful status in this country.
Surprisingly, I don't feel bad about the defeat of this amendment. It was stupid of Republicans to forward it.
Does anyone really think illegals are going to go home before applying for legal status? Most of them came here with just the shirt on their backs and are getting paid a pittance, and couldn't afford to pay any fees and/or go back home...even if they wanted to. Anyone who thinks they would is either woefully ignorant, or disingenuous.
A Washington Times article about an "amnesty documents" forgery ring that was busted shows how naive Congress is in piddling around with all these half-measures:
Julio Leija-Sanchez, who ran a $3 million-a-year forgery operation before he was arrested in April, was expecting Congress to pass a legalization program, which he called "amnesty," and said he could forge documents to fool the U.S. government into believing illegal aliens were in the country in time to qualify for amnesty, a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent said in the affidavit.
The solution is really simple, but it "eludes" these people who are blinded by their connections to special interests, whether those interests include Democrats looking for more "victim voters" or Republicans listening to businesses that like having a cheap labor pool.
That solution is to lock down the border, deport every illegal alien we can find, and maintain those actions while pursuing some sane immigration procedures.
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