Comprehensive Immigration Reform Bill In Senate | Tej Dhawan ...

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I guess I was wrong in guessing it would take Congress forever to get anywhere with Comprehensive Immigration Reform. ?Senator Harry Reid has introduced S.1 in the Senate, where it was read and sent to the Judiciary Committee for review. ?The official bill isn?t visible on Thomas.gov yet, but the text per The Oh Law Firm states -?

S. 1
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.: This Act may be cited as the ?Immigration Reform that Works for America?s Future Act?.

SEC. 2. SENSE OF THE SENATE:?It is the sense of the Senate that Congress should?
(1) create a roadmap for immigrants who are here without?legal status to earn citizenship, provided they pay taxes, complete a background check, learn English, and show a commitment to America;
(2) allow students who?came to America as children to earn citizenship?by attending college or joining the Armed Forces;
(3) protect the sustainability of the American agricultural industry, including the dairy industry, with a stable and legal?agricultural workforce;
(4) encourage those who seek to?invest?in the United States and create American jobs;
(5) permit and encourage individuals who?earn an advanced degree?from one of our world-class universities to remain in the United States, rather than using that education to work for our international competitors;
(6) fulfill and strengthen our Nation?s commitments regarding security along our?borders?and at our ports of entry;
(7) strengthen our Nation?s historic humanitarian tradition of welcoming?asylum?seekers and refugees and improve existing policies that support immigrant victims of crime and domestic violence;
(8) create an effective?electronic verification?system and strengthen enforcement to prevent employers from hiring people here illegally;
(9) implement a?rational legal immigration system that promotes job creation?by converting the current flow of illegal immigrants into the United States into a more manageable, controlled, and legal process for admitting immigrants while, at the same time, safeguarding the jobs, rights, and wages of American workers; and
(10) adopt practical and fair immigration reforms to help ensure that?all families are able to be together.

So, Items 1, 2, 3, and 8 address illegal immigration, #6 is a hattip to southern border states, 4, 5, 9 and 10 address legal, highly skilled immigrants and #7 is humanitarian.

The bill?s sponsor and co-sponsors are all democrats, so I am both frustrated at the likelihood of bickering (hoping I?m wrong again) and the likely death of the STEM Jobs Act.

Source: http://www.tejdhawan.com/2013/comprehensive-immigration-reform-bill-in-senate

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