News From the Border: Bipartisan immigrant bill called a 'lie'

News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Monday, April 16, 2007

Bipartisan immigrant bill called a 'lie'

Tucson rights group says legalization path in plan is too strict
By Brady McCombs
ARIZONA DAILY STAR

Some immigrant-rights groups are voicing opposition to a bipartisan immigration proposal that includes a temporary-worker program and a path to legalization for some illegal entrants.

Members of the Tucson-based Coalición de Derechos Humanos say the proposal, by U.S. Reps. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., and Luis Guiterrez, D-Ill., contains 700 pages of policing measures that perpetuate border militarization and falsely advertise a "path to citizenship."

The House bill has been labeled "Security Through Regularized Immigration and a Vibrant Economy."

Even though the STRIVE Act is more all-encompassing than an enforcement-only House bill of 2006, Derechos Humanos also is calling it unacceptable.

Labels: Immigration, Whining