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Default FAIR's Top Ten List of the Worst Provisions of the Senate's Kennedy-Bush-McCain Guest Worker Amnesty Bill


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> FAIR's Top Ten List of the Worst Provisions of the Senate's
> Kennedy-Bush-McCain Guest Worker Amnesty Bill
>
> While David Letterman's writing staff struggles to come up with ten
> funny things to say about a topical issue each night, FAIR's
> legislative staff took a long look at the immigration bill passed by
> the U.S. Senate late last month to pick out its worst provisions. The
> bill, S.2611, includes so many features that would damage the interests
> of American citizens we found it difficult to list just ten.
>
> In descending order (Letterman style), FAIR's list of the ten worst
> provisions of the Kennedy-McCain-Bush illegal alien guest worker
> amnesty:
>
> 10. Allows illegal aliens to claim Social Security benefits for work
> performed illegally.
>
> 9. Creates new foreign student visa programs with a direct path to
> legal permanent residence status and citizenship.
>
> 8. Requires consultation with the Mexican government before
> construction of fencing along the border.
>
> 7. Allows states to give illegal aliens in-state tuition benefits that
> they can deny to citizens who live in other states.
>
> 6. Gives the Department of Homeland Security the discretion to waive
> fines for employers who knowingly hire illegal aliens.
>
> 5. Increases the number of employment-based immigrants admitted to the
> U.S. each year by more than 400 percent.
>
> 4. Admits 1.5 million agricultural "guest workers" with a direct
> path to legal permanent residence status and citizenship.
>
> 3. Admits hundreds of thousands unskilled "guest workers" through a
> new guest worker program and gives them a direct path to legal
> permanent residence and citizenship.
>
> 2. Grants amnesty to family members of illegal aliens who live outside
> the country.
>
> 1. Grants amnesty to millions (nobody really knows how many millions)
> of illegal aliens living in the U.S.
>
> "It would certainly be reasonable to quibble over which provisions of
> this bill do the most damage to the interests of the nation and the
> American public," admitted Dan Stein, president of FAIR. "The
> bottom line is that should S. 2611 ever become law, America will face
> the largest influx of immigrants in human history, devastating
> overpopulation, destruction of the middle class, deep social and
> linguistic divisions, and crippling unfunded mandates.
>
> "We believe that as the American public learns about what is included
> in the Kennedy-McCain-Bush amnesty/guest worker bill, their anger at a
> Senate and an administration that is indifferent to their needs and
> interests will boil over," continued Stein. "The Senate bill is
> such a complete sell-out of American principles and interests that the
> voters will take their anger to the polls with them this November. Who
> knows? The topic for an upcoming Late Show program might be the "Top
> Ten Jobs Now Being Done by Former Members of Congress."


It's time to get rid of the old bloated gimps in the US Senate.

Hank
>



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