До начала обсуждения судьбы нелегальных иммигрантов осталось меньше месяца

[Alex_3112]

Говорили после тханксгивинга выдвинут на рассмотрение в конгресс . пока все .

А там уже новый год, новые выборы... конгрессмены будут держаться за свои места обоими руками.

[KASTRYULYA]

А там уже новый год, новые выборы... конгрессмены будут держаться за свои места обоими руками.

Ну почему у всех такой пессимистичный настрой?

:confused:

[Lilu]

Ну почему у всех такой пессимистичный настрой?

:confused:

Почему пессимистичный? Реалистичный просто.

[masianechka]

Vsem privet.Eto nemnogko ne po teme,no vse ravno.

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В минувшую субботу президент Барак Обама был доволен - Палата представителей 220 голосами против 215 приняла законопроект о реформе системы здравоохранения.

Это, как говорят сами демократы, самый амбициозный план переустройства страны за последние, после создания программы Медикер, 40 лет. Это самый дорогой – на проведение реформы потребуется более триллиона долларов, самый путаный (около двух тысяч страниц текста) и, как ни странно, самый необходимый закон в стране, где почти 50 миллионов человек лишены медицинской страховки.
Основным положением реформы является обеспечение почти всех (95%) незастрахованных жителей страны медицинской страховкой с 2013 года. При этом страхование становится обязательным, и те, кто не получает медстраховку на работе, должны будут приобретать ее либо за свой счет, либо рассчитывать на помощь государства. Отказаться от страховки будет нельзя, за это предусмотрены крупные штрафы.
При этом оговаривается, что владельцы мелких компаний с годовым фондом зарплаты 500 тысяч долларов будут обязаны приобретать своим работникам страховку либо отчислять деньги в специальный фонд, который будет оплачивать эту страховку. Проект также предусматривает создание «бирж медстраховки» в каждом штате, где хозяева мелких компаний и обычные граждане смогут приобрести подходящую по цене медицинскую страховку. А чтобы снизить запредельные цены на рынке, проект предусматривает создание госстраховки. (То, к чему так стремились либералы и что так противно республиканцам и умеренным демократам).
Одним из основных положений нового закона является и то, что страховые компании уже не смогут отказывать в предоставлении полиса больным людям, а также вводить ограничения на медуслуги.
Расширятся также рамки программы медпомощи для бедных – Медикейд. Теперь он будет предоставляться семьям, доход которых превышает уровень бедности в полтора раза.
Деньги на проведение реформы предполагается получить от сокращения некоторых программ Медикера, а также за счет увеличения налогов на богатых. Семья с налогом выше миллиона долларов должна будет платить дополнительно 5.4 миллиона долларов. Ну и конечно, за счет штрафов как на работодателей, не приобретающих своим сотрудникам «квалифицированный» страховой план, так и на самих американцев, которые отказываются от страховки. Единственно„u исключение составят нелегалы – им штраф платить не придется.
«Это грандиозная победа, которая улучшит жизнь американцев», - заявила, подведя итоги голосования, спикер палаты Нэнси Пелоси и сравнила принятый билль с введением системы соцобеспечения (Social Security). Но Пелоси, хоть и доказала, что умеет управлять вверенными ей законодателями, все же выдает желаемое за действительное. Принятый палатой закон сильно отличается от сенатской версии. Да и на бумаге все выглядит не так гладко, как пытаются это представить либералы, а что же будет в действительности, когда огромная и неповоротливая государственная машина попытается оперировать больного (систему здравоохранения) без всякого наркоза.
К примеру, одна из статей нового закона предусматривает, что каждый гражданин обязан приобрести «квалифицированный» полис. При этом стоимость его должна быть определена министерством здравоохранения через полтора года. Это все равно, что брать в долг у банка под неизвестный процент. Кстати, независимые эксперты уже подсчитали, что одинокий американец с заработком 44 тысячи долларов в год должен будет платить за свою страховку 5300 долларов в год плюс 2000 на различные непокрытые страховкой медицинские расходы. Итого примерно 17 процентов годового дохода. А для семьи со средним доходом – 102 тысячи – стоимость страховки составит 20 процентов годового дохода. Это нужно будет покупать в обязательном порядке. Лишь те, кто зарабатывает меньше, могут рассчитывать на госпомощь, которая будет выплачиваться непосредственно страховой компании.
Кроме того придуманный законодателями единый «квалифицированный» план будет предоставлять одинаковые услуги всем застрахованным. Как тот же Медикейд. Неважно, кто оплачивает страховку – государство, работодатель или сам застрахованный. Неважно, какой это план – обычный, улучшенный или высшего сорта. Услуги одинаковы для всех, а разница лишь в том, сколько нужно будет доплачивать за визит к врачу.
И наконец, для таких «квалифицированных» планов придумано создание «привратника» - терапевта, который и будет решать, стоит ли направлять больного к специалисту или обойдется и нечего тратить деньги. Нечто подобное лет 15 назад придумали страховые компании типа Эйчэмо (HMO), за что подвергались яростной критике прессы. И компании были вынуждены отказаться от такой практики. Государство же от этого не откажется никогда.
Это лишь некоторые недостатки принятого закона. При том, что примерно 48 процентов американцев считают, что реформа системы здравоохранения необходима, большая часть из них высказывается за проект реформы, поддержанный обеими партиями. Принятый же Палатой представителей билль таким считать трудно, ведь за него проголосовал лишь один республиканец и как минимум тридцать демократов, в основном южан, голосовали против. Одно лишь может утешить скептиков, что свое слово не высказал Сенат.
Через 14 часов после того, как нижняя палата одобрила реформу, президент Обама назвал это первым шагом в нужном направлении и заявил, что теперь «Сенат должен принять эстафету и до конца года принять свою версию закона».
Но, кажется, сенаторы совсем не на пике своей спортивной формы и бежать навстречу реформе отнюдь не намерены. Даже глава палаты Гарри Рид, обещавший еще летом, что до конца года билль о реформе будет принят, сейчас не уверен, что его коллегам удастся прийти к компромиссу в этом году.
«Даже если либералы в Сенате пообещают умеренным изменить свое отношение к абортам, что они в последний момент проделали в Палате представителей и заставили большую часть колеблющихся проголосовать «за»,- считает политолог из Вашингтона Майкл Туни, - это не гарантирует им прохождения билля в Сенате». А сенатор-республиканец Линдси Грэхем заявил, что никаких шансов у принятого Палатой представителей варианта в его палате нет и не будет.
Версия Сената, кстати, много консервативней. Во-первых, он миллиардов на 200 дешевле. Во-вторых, вместо налога на богатых сенатский план находит источники финансирования в налогах на страховые компании. В-третьих, работодателей вместо угрозы огромных штрафов пытаются привлечь к предоставлению служащим страховок путем кредитов и снижения налогов. А есть еще и в-четвертых, и в-пятых... Но самое главное, республиканцы и примкнувший к ним независимый Джо Либерман настроены решительно против планов вмешательства государства в медицинское страхование. И присутствие в проекте такого пункта, а он считается ключевым для либералов, обрекает весь билль в целом на провал.
А принятие Сенатом закона без пункта госстраховки обрекает на неудачу попытку создания совместного двухпалатного проекта реформы.
Так что президент прав, шаг сделан, вот только куда?


:kos:

[kotomka]

White House adviser says immigration reform advancing

Sun Nov 15, 12:44 pm ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democrats and Republicans in Congress are working together to craft an immigration reform bill that could become law as early as next year, a senior White House adviser said on Sunday.
That legislation could create a path to citizenship for the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants already in the United States, David Axelrod, senior advisory to President Barak Obama, told CNN's State of the Union with John King.
"I think some good work is being done on both sides of the aisle to achieve that," Axelrod said, referring to the partisan divide on Capitol Hill.
"We have to have better security at our borders and we are developing that," he said, alluding to a key concern of conservative critics who scuttled an attempt at immigration reform under former President George W. Bush.
The most contentious question surrounding past and future attempts at immigration reform is whether to, and how to, ease rules governing the route to citizenship for people who have entered the country illegally.
"We have to hold accountable and responsible the 12 million people who are here illegally," Axelrod said. "And they have to pay a fine and a penalty, and have to meet certain requirements in order to get in line to earn citizenship," he told CNN.
(Reporting by Todd Eastham; Editing by Eric Walsh)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091115/..._immigration_2

[KASTRYULYA]

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December 15, 2009

Summary of the Comprehensive Immigration Reform for America's Security and
Prosperity Act of 2009 (CIR ASAP)

This summary highlights key provisions of the CIR ASAP Act and will be supplemented in the coming
weeks as the IPC conducts deeper analysis of the proposals contained in the Act.

Title I. Border Security, Detention and Enforcement

Border Security: The bill contains provisions which seek to enhance border security and achieve
effective immigration enforcement, including:
• Requires the Secretary of Homeland Security to formalize a national strategy for border security
consistent with the progress already made by the Department of Homeland Security and aligned
with a vision of effective and accountable enforcement for the 21st century.
• Creates a Southern Border Security Task Force composed of federal, state, and local law
enforcement officers to protect United States border cities and communities from violence and
crime along the U.S.-Mexico border.
• Requires the government to take an inventory of personnel and assets prior to increasing the
number of personnel or assets.
• Supports additional training, oversight and evaluation for border agents and works to ensure that
they have sufficient equipment and technology.
• Modernizes the ports of entry by requiring a study of port of entry infrastructure and operations
to identify necessary improvements and projects and improving infrastructure resources, and
training to allow for more effective screening of commercial goods and individuals as they cross
our borders so as to minimize threats to national security at ports of entry.
• Increases the numbers of full-time port of entry inspectors, agricultural specialists, and support
staff to improve the timely and safe flow of commercial goods and individuals.
• Improves collaboration with state law enforcement at the border in combating crime.
• Suspends the Operation Streamline program pending review of the goals, impacts and cost-
benefit analyses.
• Recognizes the importance of border communities as partners and allies in achieving effective
enforcement and establishes the U.S.-Mexico Border Enforcement Commission and the Border
Communities Liaison Office.
• Includes measures to combat human smuggling and migrant deaths including requiring the
development and implementation of a plan to improve coordination amongst federal and state
partners to combat human smuggling.

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Improving Conditions of Detention: The bill contains numerous provisions which seek to improve
detention conditions, and to protect U.S. citizens, LPRs, and vulnerable populations including:
• Requires DHS to meet certain requirements to ensure humane treatment of detainees, ensures
adequate medical treatment, requires access to telephones, and increases protections from sexual
and other abuse.
• Establishes an independent immigration detention commission to investigate and report on
compliance.
• Requires DHS to report any detainee death within 48 hours, and to report annually to Congress
on circumstances of all deaths in detention.
• Improves secure alternative to detention programs.
• Prohibits unnecessary detention of refugees.
• Protects family unity by prohibiting the separation of families with children and increasing
protections for detained parents, guardians, and caregivers.

Increasing protections during enforcement activities: The bill contains several provisions which
seek to ensure due process and other protections during enforcement activities:
• Provides temporary visas and work authorization for detained workers when they have been
targeted by their employer for asserting their rights if they agree to pursue labor claims against
their employer. Expands U visa protections for whistleblowers.
• Repeals the 287(g) program and clarifies that only the federal government has the authority to
enforce federal immigration law.
• Increases screening and protections during immigration-related enforcement activities for U.S.
citizens, LPRs, others lawfully present in the U.S., and vulnerable populations.
• Ensures social service agencies, translators, and legal services are available during enforcement
activities, and establishes access to legal orientation programs for all detained immigrants.
• Protects access to counsel during enforcement activities and for disabled individuals unable to
fully participate in removal proceedings.
• Requires reports to Congress from DHS on the impact of immigration-related enforcement
activities.
• Restores the federal courts of their jurisdiction to review the decisions and practices of DHS.

Title II. Employment Verification

Verifying employment authorization: The bill creates an employment verification system for
employers to verify the work authorization of new hires. The new system is to be rolled out in phases,
and will eventually apply to all employers and all new hires. The employment verification system:
• Creates significant civil penalties for employers who do not comply with the requirements under
the new system and establishes serious criminal penalties for knowingly hiring unauthorized
workers.
• Includes privacy protections, and prohibits the creation of a national ID card.
• Includes anti-discrimination provisions and forbids employers from using the new system to
discriminate against applicants or employees on the basis of nationality. Prohibits employers
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from terminating employment due to a tentative non-confirmation, using the system to screen
employees prior to offering employment, or using the system selectively.
• Allows an individual to register with the Social Security Administration and acquire a PIN that
would allow them electronic access to their file in the system, update their information, and lock
their file for purposes of employment.

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itle III. Visa Reforms

Family and employment backlog reduction: The bill contains several measures designed to reduce
long backlogs in family and employment immigrant and nonimmigrant visa processing:
• Permits the “recapture” of unused employment-based visas and family-sponsored visas from
fiscal years 1992-2008 and allows future unused visa numbers to roll over to next fiscal year.
• Exempts immediate relatives from the annual cap on the number of immigrant visas, and
increases the number of visas which may be issued per country per year.
• Permits qualified workers eligible for an employment based petition to receive work
authorization until a visa becomes available.
• Exempts from skilled worker numerical cap U.S. educated foreign nationals who receive
science, technology, engineering and math degrees and other critical workforce graduates.
• Exempts foreign nurses from current numerical limitations and provides new programs to fund
and develop domestic nursing supply and encourage training of other domestic health care
professionals.

Promotion of Family Unity: The bill includes various measures designed to keep U.S. families
together:
• Reclassifies spouses and children of lawful permanent residents as immediate relatives.
• Ensures that immediate relatives may continue to pursue their immigration petitions even if the
U.S. citizen or LPR who petitioned for them dies.
• Provides the government with greater discretionary authority to waive unlawful presence bars to
reunite families if there are U.S. citizen children involved.
• Provides relief for orphans and widows of U.S. citizens and legal immigrants by allowing them
to retain eligibility for waivers and other considerations that would have been available to them
at the time of the petitioner’s death.
• Permits immigration judges greater discretion in determining eligibility requirements for long-
term lawful permanent residents seeking cancellation of removal.
• Includes protections for refugees, parolees or asylees by prohibiting the removal of any
individual who fled his or her homeland for fear of persecution before the age of twelve and was
subsequently admitted into the United States as a parolee or refugee or was granted asylum in
the United States.
• Permits an immigration judge to decline to order the removal of the parent of a U.S. citizen child
if the judge determines that removal would not be in the child's best interests.
• Revises the eligibility requirements for sponsorship of immigrants by reducing the level of
support required from 125% of poverty level to 100% of poverty level.

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Preventing future illegal immigration: The bill creates the Prevent Unauthorized Migration Visa
(PUM Visa) that seeks to provide for safe, humanitarian migration during the three-year transition
period before the enactment of recommendations made by the new Labor Commission.
• Creates 100,000 PUM visas annually, for 3 years, to persons from those countries which
represent at least 5% of the total unauthorized migration population within the United States for
the past five years and will be distributed on a percentage basis through a lottery system.
• Individuals may apply to the lottery if they are not present in the United States at time of filing,
do not have other family or employment based means to immigrate, submit to criminal
background checks, and have completed less than a 4 year college degree program.
• Individuals awarded visas will be admitted to the United States as conditional residents and may
petition for LPR status after 3 years.

Title IV. Legalizing Undocumented Immigrants

Legalization: The bill creates a legalization program for qualified undocumented immigrants (and their
spouses and children):
• Those who qualify would receive a conditional nonimmigrant visa which is valid for six years.
This visa allows legalized immigrants with work and travel authorization and protection from
removal.
• To qualify, an applicant must:
o Establish they have been in the U.S. illegally before December 15, 2009.
o Attest to having made contributions to the U.S. through employment, education, military
service, or other volunteer/community service (with exemptions for minors, persons with
disabilities, the elderly, or other unusual circumstances).
o Pay an application fee and a $500 fine.
o Not have any convictions for a felony or for three or more misdemeanors.
• Certain immigrants who are in removal proceedings, facing removal, or ordered to depart
voluntarily would be able to apply for legalization.
• All bars related to undocumented status – such as using a false Social Security number -- will be
waived (but security and criminal bars cannot be waived).

Adjustment of Status to LPR: Qualified conditional nonimmigrants and their spouses and children
will be able to apply for lawful permanent resident status (green card) and eventual citizenship. The
bill:
• Assures that no green cards may be issued under this program earlier than six years after the date
of enactment unless existing immigrant backlogs have been cleared before that time.
• Provides that immigrants who adjust from a conditional nonimmigrant visa (including
dependents) to lawful permanent resident status shall not be counted against the worldwide
numerical visa caps.

DREAM Act: Undocumented individuals who were brought to the U.S. before the age of 16 will apply
for legal status through the same program outlined above.
• Eligible persons will not have to pay fines.
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• Such persons will be eligible for accelerated LPR status upon graduation from high school, and
completion of two years of college, military service, or employment. Persons granted LPR
status under this provision will be eligible for naturalization three years after the date LPR status
is granted.
• Individual states will be permitted to determine whether undocumented students can benefit
from in-state tuition rates.

Farmworkers: The AgJOBS Act of 2009 is included in the CIR ASAP Act, which allows unauthorized
farmworkers to legalize their status and reforms the H2-A temporary agricultural worker visa program.

Title V. Strengthening America’s Workforce

Commission on Immigration and Labor Markets: The bill creates an independent federal
Commission on Immigration and Labor Markets that:
• Will develop employment based-immigration policies for the promotion of economic growth,
competitiveness, and wage and labor protections.
• Will create a federal research agenda on the economic impact of immigration, analyze and
publish employment related immigration data, and make recommendation to Congress for
setting new levels of employment based migration as well as the numerical levels and
characteristics of procedures for future flows of workers to be admitted into the United States.

Security and Prosperity Account: Many of the fees and fines generated by new programs within this
bill will be deposited in a new Security and Prosperity Account.
• Funds in this account will be used to assist state based worker training programs, fund the
Electronic Employment Verification System, fund the Commission on Immigration and Labor
Markets, create additional funding programs to assist and train American workers, fund border
security, detention and enforcement activities and reduce visa backlogs.

American Worker Recruit and Match System: Establishes the American Worker Recruit and Match
System (AWRMS), a searchable database tied into state workforce agency networks that allows
employers to post job opportunities in fields that have traditionally relied on unauthorized labor.
AWRMS will match employers with qualified individuals who post their profiles on the website.

Revisions to Temporary Worker Programs: The bill seeks to increases protections on foreign
recruitment and makes other changes to existing temporary worker programs:
• Requires written notice of terms of employment to ensure that foreign recruiters do not mislead
prospective employees. Requires employers to identify recruiters working on their behalf to
Secretary of labor, to give notice of possible violations, and to be liable for recruitment
violations.
• Expands requirements for recruiting American workers before hiring foreign nationals, increases
authority for Department of Labor to investigate potential fraud and abuse, authorizes annual
audits of employers who rely heavily on H-1B program and increases penalties for violations.
• Authorizes DHS to audit L-1 visa participants. Penalties will be assessed for violations of the
provisions of the L-1 visa program.

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H-2B visa program: The bill establishes stricter requirements for recruitment of American workers
and prohibits participation of employers who have conducted a mass lay-off in the past year and
increases worker protections.

EB-5 Investor Visas: The bill:
• Permanently reauthorizes the EB-5 visa program and expands it to make available 10,000 visas.
• Permits expedited processing for an additional $2500 fee.
• Expands current definition of Targeted Employment Area to include among other characteristics
rural areas, areas of high unemployment, counties with 20 percent or more population decrease
since 1970.
• Authorizes DHS to study and recommend new strategies for job creation. Creates a new venture
capitalist visa.

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Title VI. Integration of New Americans

Immigration Fees: Ensures that future fee increase requests receive closer scrutiny and makes
citizenship more accessible and affordable.

Improving the Naturalization Process and Integration: Seeks to encourage citizenship among
immigrant communities by:
• Providing for uniform administration of the naturalization exam.
• Promoting citizenship of the elderly by adjusting the age requirements for English language
exemptions.
• Requiring timely response on background checks and evaluating their efficiency.
• Creating a grant program for community based organizations to promote and help immigrants
prepare for citizenship.
• Creating incentives for English language acquisition programs.
• Celebrating the citizenship of new Americans and encouraging them to integrate into their
communities.

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House Democrats push new comprehensive immigration bill

By Ben Pershing

A broad cross-section of House Democrats unveiled a new comprehensive immigration reform bill Tuesday, laying down an early marker for what they hope will be a major 2010 debate.

More than 80 co-sponsors have already signed on to the legislation, which is authored by Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) and titled the Comprehensive Immigration Reform for America's Security and Prosperity Act of 2009, or "CIR ASAP" for short. The bill includes provisions strengthening border security, creating a streamlined employment verification system, altering the visa program to promote the reunification of families and establishing a commission to recommend changes to the current system of H-1B and H-2B visas for skilled workers.

The measure, a summary of which is available here (PDF), also contains an "earned legalization program" for current undocumented workers, giving them the chance to get legal status if they pay a $500 fine, pass a criminal background check and show that they have made valuable contributions to American society "through employment, education, military service or other volunteer/community service."

Gutierrez and several members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus as well as the Congressional Black Caucus and other groups jammed into an overstuffed, sweltering House committee room Tuesday to release the bill and demand action.

Standing before a cadre of activists chanting "Si, se puede," and a group of children wearing shirts that said "future voter," Gutierrez said that years of hard work and negotiations on the issue had brought them "to this bill and to this meeting, which marks the final push toward comprehensive immigration reform."

Gutierrez added that the bill was "pro-family, pro-jobs and pro security ... and the time to pass it into law is right now."

Immigration reform was one of the most contentious issues of the 110th Congress, when a concerted effort to reach a compromise bill failed in the Senate despite the support of key members of both parties and President George W. Bush. Neither the House nor the Senate has addressed the topic in a substantive way in the 111th Congress, as health care, climate change and the struggling economy have all taken precedence. And with unemployment over 10 percent, there has been little political will to revisit such a controversial issue.

Reform advocates hope that calculus changes in 2010, even though Congress is often loathe to tackle tough issues in election years.

"As a candidate for president, Barack Obama promised comprehensive immigration reform, and we have brought him the road to success here with this bill," Gutierrez said.

Gutierrez is one of several House Democrats who have complained at times this year that the Obama administration was insufficiently committed to timely consideration of an immigration measure. He said in May that Obama had been "eerily silent" on the issue.

The White House did send a signal to reform advocates in November, when Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano delivered a speech predicting "we will see legislation beginning to move" in the first part of 2010. Napolitano said Obama wanted a "tough but fair" mechanism to allow illegal immigrants to apply for legal status, and said border security had already been improved significantly.

In the Senate, Sens. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Lindsey Graham (R-N.C.) are among those who have been working on reform measures for consideration in 2010. Democratic leaders expect immigration reform to be on the agenda, but it's not first in line.

"The administration has laid out several priorities including financial regulatory reform and clean energy legislation," said Jim Manley, spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.). "We hope to consider comprehensive immigration reform in addition to these issues in the first half of next year."

While Tuesday's unveiling was designed to showcase a wide range of support for the new reform bill, the measure quickly drew criticism from some quarters.

"Any bill without a temporary worker program is simply not comprehensive," said Rep. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) a reform supporter who has worked on legislation in the past with Gutierrez.

Flake added that he was "troubled by the weakened legalization requirements in the Gutierrez bill," which does not include the tougher penalties for illegal immigrants applying to become legal that some previous legislation did, such as larger fines and the "touchback" requirement that undocumented workers go back to their home countries and then return.

Rep. Lamar Smith (Texas), the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, was much more scathing.

"This is the kind of legislation that foreign governments would promote, not the U.S. Congress," Smith said. "The amnesty bill does not hold any surprises and lays out the same vision for amnesty that President Obama and the Democrats have promised to the illegal immigrant lobby.... The bill won't pass because the American people oppose rewarding lawbreakers, which then encourages even more illegal immigration."

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Кастрюля не мучай себя. Рано ещё. То что они предложили во 1х в этом году точно ничего не произойдёт. Во 2х даже если в 2010, а это огромное "если", то скорее всего ПОСЛЕ 2010 выборов в ноябре. Никто не поставит свою политическую ж*пу под удар не увидев результаты след. выборов в Конгресс.