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Return to Article: Border bill backers seek boost in enforcement provisions

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  If you are going to make us verify social security numbers without giving us another source of labor, the crops will rot in the field and your family's food cost will sky rocket. If we can get them in to work and then send them home it might be OK, but we'll need more than 200,000 workers if all the undocumented are taken away.

  Bob Mathison Posted June 25, 2007 5:14 PM
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  Can we the USA, not learn a lesson from France,England and Germany? They have had this open border for years, for yes the same reason "cheap labor". Now it is coming back to bite them in the back side. Come on Graham, Kennedy and McCain get your head out of the sand and look at whats happened in Europe.

  David Taylor Posted June 25, 2007 2:33 PM
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  People want the legal immigration system to work; we want the border secured and immigration laws enforced, and we do NOT want unlimited immigration, legal or illegal. The Z visa amnesty/legalization will undercut these pillars, and voters do not trust the Congress and Government to keep promises on enforcement that were broken by the 1986 amnesty. To repeat that travesty is a terrible and flawed idea. This amnesty repeats the mistakes of 1986 on a grand scale, as Senators Cornyn and Hutchison have warned.

  It undermines rule of law in immigration, invites huge fraud in amnesty applications and further illegal immigration via weak document requirements and a mere 24-hour turnaround on provisional acceptance; crowds out higher-skill legal immigrants; creates a massive increased burden on taxpayers ($2.5 Trillion estimate from Heritage) along with unfunded mandates on states and local Governments. And for what, exactly? CBO has indicated that illegal immigration in the next 10 years will still be significant with this bill - a huge amnesty, but more illegal immigration. Pathetic!

  The Z visa legalization/amnesty is a slap in the face to legal immigrants, taxpayers, and anyone who cares about the rule of law.

  60% of Americans support a better answer than the Senators can come up with. it is this: 1. secure the borders by building the fence. 2. Enforce immigration law with employer verification, real deportation of criminal aliens and a US Visit system to know who comes and goes from this country. 3. DONT DO AMNESTY. It only makes things worse.

  Patrick M Posted June 23, 2007 3:24 AM
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  If Burr votes for cloture and this bill passes, he will have helped hand out amnesty to criminals that will be voting against me in the next election.

  Burr, who are you working for? The illegal aliens or me?

  Jo Knos Posted June 23, 2007 12:38 AM
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  No Type of Amnesty, the US Government allowed this to go unchecked for years, plus outsourced the good jobs to foreiegners. Now they can secure the border, clean up the mess and then we'll talk about other things. Like retirement benefits, to include SS for Congress and the Senate.

  Derek Elevier Posted June 22, 2007 5:52 PM
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  This is a terribly flawed bill allowing too many people to advantage the loose language of the bill and the legal loopholes so that at least the 20-40 million illegals here will be joined by another 100 million illegal family members. This surge will make the current Social Securiy, Medicare, Medicaid problems look like piggy bank change.

  Rick Berlinrut Posted June 22, 2007 10:35 AM