Although Latino groups and undocumented rights groups see this bill as a victory, they will, in the long run, be hurt too. First of all they still will have had to flee their home-countries because of the wealth disparity created by the economic deals their 1% run government makes with our 1% run government (NAFTA/CAFTA/TPP). Remember the lesson from Clinton's NAFTA: more Mexican undocumented flooded to the US after the passage of NAFTA than at any other previous time.
This new immigration bill creates another sub-class of immigrant laborers' visa, the so called Registered Provisional Immigrant visa (RPI). The eleven or twelve million undocumented who entered and remained in the country prior to December 31, 2011 will be able to apply for RPI.
Side note: Don't forget the amount of fraud during Reagan's Amnesty. Depending upon who you believe, estimates range from 30% to 70% of the near 3 million applicants lied on their applications. Crooks made up phony rental receipts, school records, utility records, and employment records to "prove" that their customers were present in the US during the qualifying dates. INS investigators knew about this widespread fraud as did their Washington offices. The Reagan Administration rubber stamped the fraudulent applications through. It was more important to the Reagan Administration to look politically successful than to tell the truth. And so you know, I actually was an INS criminal investigator in San Diego during the Amnesty implementation years. I know about the overwhelming fraud from my personal experience.
The most significant and insidious brainstorm of the Gang of 8 is that these RPI immigrants cannot adjust to Lawfully Admitted Permanent Registered Alien Status until several goals are met by DHS. Of course DHS will need only 3 or 4 or many more billion dollars to implement this program. God only knows how much they will scam us out of in order to and reach these goals.
This bill calls for funding for the Department of Defense to be in charge of surveillance on the border. How many drones will they need at the cost of 16.9 million each and some 4 thousand an hour to fly to reach their "Effectiveness Range of 90%"?
What becomes of these RPI immigrants if DHS never reaches their goals? Are RPI immigrants eligible to vote in US elections?
The adjustment of status of this RPI class of immigrant to actual "green card" holders (Lawfully Admitted Permanent Residents) depends upon billions of US tax dollars being allotted to pump up border security until it is 90% effective.
No one knows if this is even possible, but they will spend (and profit from) billions of tax dollars trying to reach their goal. If the goal is not reached, they will reap the profits from the labor of the 11 or 12 million RPI legal laborers the bill creates.
Who has stepped up to advocate for US taxpayers? At this point very few people have. I think that both Democratic and Republican political groups feel and fear that any immigration reform (no matter how convoluted) is better for their political lives than none.
Finally, why does Washington continue to fail to address the home-county disparity of wealth as the cause of our illegal immigration? Simple. The 1% who run Washington as well as the home-country 1% conspirators all profit off of this undocumented laborers' merry-go-round. For example, the Mexican 1% will continue to export their poor in exchange for billions pumped back into their country via remittances. The US 1% will continue to lure a fresh supply of laborers while profiting from future immigration political platforms and their border security industrial complex which insatiably needs more to never to stop the problem.
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