Tuesday, February 02, 2010

Anti-Immigration Reform - What Are They Saying?

I was curious, after my post yesterday, about what anti-immigration groups think about the proposed bill so today I spent some time reading the Federation of American Immigration Reform (FAIR)'s website.

This is what FAIR and other anti-migration groups are campaigning for:

Reduce migration numbers - currently at about one million (legal and illegal) migrants per yer.

Moderate legal immigration numbers - moderate refers to "stabilizing the U.S. population by limiting legal immigrants to less than 500 000" per annum.

Eliminate amnesty - FAIR argues that immigration options that re-label illegal imigrants' status weakens immigration policies.

Abolish asylum abuse - asylum must be reserved for genuine cases of immigrants fleeing persecution in their home country. See IzIzWe.com's humanitarian visa section on refugees and asylees.

Protect wages and quality of life - it is argued that the current guest worker program may be undermining opportunities for poor Americans, i.e. immigrants avail themselves for exploitation by agreeing to work for lower wages, thus undermining opportunities for equally qualified Americans. I read an article in The Observer a few weeks ago, and the same argument is being made in United Kingdom.

Penalize employers - enforce greater employer policing as a means to reduce illegal immigration.

Migration equality - abolish migration discrimination which results from migration preferences. For example:
The Cuban Adjustment Act of 1996 which states that "any native or citizen of Cuba who has been inspected and admitted or paroled into the United States after January 1, 1959 and has been physically present for at least one year; and is admissible to the United States for Permanent Residence."

Thoughts?

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