IMAGINE THE CONSEQUENCES OF THIS FOR USA:ECONOMICALLY,SOCIALLY

CIRA - WHAT A STUPID IMMIGRATION BILL !!!

May 15, 2006
Senate Immigration Bill Would Allow 100 Million New Legal Immigrants over the Next Twenty Years
by Robert Rector
WebMemo #1076
Statement on Immigration Research

(Update: On Tuesday, May 16, the Senate passed Sen. Jeff Bingaman's (D-NM) amendment to S. 2611 that significantly reduced the number of legal immigrants who could enter under the bill's "guest worker" program. As a result of this change, our estimate of the number of legal immigrants who would enter the country or would gain legal status under S. 2611 falls from 103 million to around 66 million over the next 20 years.)



If enacted, the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act (CIRA, S.2611) would be the most dramatic change in immigration law in 80 years, allowing an estimated 103 million persons to legally immigrate to the U.S. over the next 20 years—fully one-third of the current population of the United States.



Much attention has been given to the fact that the bill grants amnesty to some 10 million illegal immigrants. Little or no attention has been given to the fact that the bill would quintuple the rate of legal immigration into the United States, raising, over time, the inflow of legal immigrants from around one million per year to over five million per year. The impact of this increase in legal immigration dwarfs the magnitude of the amnesty provisions.



In contrast to the 103 million immigrants permitted under CIRA, current law allows 19 million legal immigrants over the next twenty years. Relative to current law, then, CIRA would add an extra 84 million legal immigrants to the nation’s population.



The figure of 103 million legal immigrants is a reasonable estimate of the actual immigration inflow under the bill and not the maximum number that would be legally permitted to enter. The maximum number that could legally enter would be almost 200 million over twenty years—over 180 million more legal immigrants than current law permits.



Immigration Status

To understand the provisions of CIRA, largely based on a compromise by Senators Chuck Hagel (R–Nebraska) and Mel Martinez (R–Florida), it is useful to distinguish between the three legal statuses that a legal immigrant might hold:



Temporary Status: Persons in this category enter the U.S. temporarily and are required to leave after a period of time.

Near-Permanent, Convertible Status: Persons in this category enter the U.S. and are given the opportunity to “adjust” or convert to legal permanent residence after a few years.

Legal Permanent Residence (LPR): Persons in this category have the right to remain in the United States for their entire lives. After five years, they have the right to naturalize and become citizens. As naturalized citizens, they have the constitutional rights to vote and to receive any government benefits given to native-born citizens

READ MORE :
http://www.heritage.org/Research/Immigration/wm1076.cfm

and why is it stupid?

The bill is "stupid" for other reasons: namely, parts of it, like the path to citizenship are unworkable. But as for the point system, as America ages, it needs immigrants if it wants to be the dominant power on the globe. To me it looks like the US Congress has grudingly accepted that immigration cannot be stopped so the focus is not on stopping such immigration as much as it is on trying to control what type of immigrants get in.

If the numbers get out of control as the Heritage Foundation article suggests, I am sure Congress will step in to make ammends.

Also, for those not aware, the Heritage Foundation is a right wing think tank with a generally unfriendly attitute towards immigration so such an analysis coming from them has to be taken with a grain of salt.

This from wikipedia:

"the Heritage's stated mission is to "formulate and promote conservative public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national defense." Its operations have transformed the traditional concept of the "think tank" and have had a significant impact on the domestic and foreign policies of the United States government."

I admit The Heritage foundation is right wing but their projection is not incorrect.We need to drop wings and see for legal immigrants who are pursuing legal path ,also to average american citizens..Is it fair?

Why is this stupid ?

for many reasons:If you read the article you would understand .but lets see from a immigrant point of view which the article doesn't enlighten:
Why immigrants come to USA?
- For Quality of Life, For better chances to make it in US economically and materially.
how does it impact - if it was quantity not quality isn't there India and china ahead?

If you have to compete for the job with 100 millions would it be fun ?(not even looking from perspective of american citizen just immigrant )
Will the jobs being outsourced stop just because there is more people?was it ever the reason of being outsourced?If the wages is same in USA and INDIA ..then what is the incentive?incentive was quality - but when quantity overlaps this forget about quality.
the main cause of India and china- quantity (population ) not being able to provide quality of life.

This bill is also unfair in many aspects as well as in Point system.You need to read the complete article.Unfair to people who are working already in US and who are not labors.

For US citizen : this is bill is just path to hell for immigrants also it is not the good.
looks like some stupid senators don't want to come back to senate.