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> 7 Principles of True Comprehensive Immigration Reform
>
>
> It is critical to distinguish the reform that the public seeks from
> the deceptive package of measures that the immigration lobby is
> peddling. We feel it time the nation's largest immigration reform
> organization speak out about "true comprehensive immigration reform."
>
> The evidence that illegal immigration and mass immigration are harming
> our country is overwhelming and irrefutable. Congestion, environment,
> crime, health care, education - the costs are too high for the
> American family to continue to bear.
>
> Since immigration burst on the scene as a major national issue some 20
> years ago, the term "reform" has been associated with those who
> believe that large-scale illegal immigration is a serious problem and
> overall levels of immigration need to be reduced. We've been educating
> the public for the last 25 years on the need for true and
> comprehensive reform, so when it comes to defining "reform", we've
> written the book on it. Opponents of these reforms claimed that a
> problem did not exist and therefore reform was unnecessary.
>
> Recently the political winds have shifted. As opponents of reform
> learned that the majority of the public were "pro-reform", they
> changed their tune and have tried to wrap their defense of unchecked
> illegal immigration and record levels of legal immigration as being
> "reform measures" when, in fact, they are measures that will "deform"
> our already broken system.
>
> True comprehensive immigration reform, as FAIR - the nation's largest
> immigration reform organization - and the overwhelming majority of
> Americans believe it to be, must adhere to this set of immutable
> principles:
>
> First Principle: Cut the Numbers
> Any level of illegal immigration is unacceptable, and current legal
> immigrant admissions of about one million persons each year are
> entirely too many.
> Any measure that increases either illegal or legal immigration
> violates this principle. Immigration is a discretionary public policy.
> Its primary purpose, since our founding, is to advance the interests
> and security of the nation.
>
> Second Principle: No Amnesty or Mass Guest-Worker Program
> The 1986 amnesty was a failure; rather than reducing illegal
> immigration, it led to an increase. Any new amnesty measure will
> further weaken respect for our immigration law. Therefore, all amnesty
> measures must be defeated.
> Laws against illegal immigration must be enforced, if they are going
> to act as a deterrent. Redefining illegal aliens as "guest-workers" or
> anything else is just that: a redefinition that attempts to hide the
> fact it is an amnesty, not reform.
>
> Third Principle: Protect Wages and Standards of Living
> Immigration policy should not be permitted to undermine opportunities
> for America's poor and vulnerable citizens to improve their working
> conditions and wages. The need for guest workers must be determined by
> objective indicators that a shortage of workers exists, i.e., extreme
> wage inflation in a particular sector of the labor market.
> The current system accepts self-serving attestations of employers who
> seek lower labor costs as protections of American workers. True reform
> requires an objective test of labor shortage demonstrated by rising
> wages to attract more American workers.
>
> Fourth Principle: Major Upgrade in Interior Enforcement, Led by Strong
> Employers Penalties
> Employers who knowingly employ unauthorized workers are the magnet
> that attracts illegal entry into the U.S. These employers are
> complicit in the illegal alien cartel activity of smuggling,
> trafficking, harboring, and employing and must be punished. We must
> reform the current system by enforcing employer sanctions and fully
> punishing employers who break the laws of this country. These
> punishments will be fines, jailing for repeat offenders, and loss of
> corporate charters.
> Employers who knowingly or unknowingly employ illegal workers must be
> weaned off of their growing use of such workers by assuring a level
> playing field for all employers and demonstrating effective
> enforcement actions against employers who continue to exploit illegal
> workers. No U.S. industry has jobs in which there are no American
> workers. If illegal workers are decreased over time, wages offered
> will rise to attract back more American workers. Real shortages, as
> noted above, can be met with short-term temporary foreign workers.
>
> The Basic Pilot Employment Verification program must be made mandatory
> and at no extra cost to employers.
>
> Effective immigration enforcement on the border and the interior of
> the country requires that staffing, equipment, detention facilities,
> and removal capabilities be adequate to fully meet current needs. The
> measures needed to identify and remove illegal aliens will also remove
> the ability of potential terrorists to operate freely in our country
> as they plot the next catastrophic attack on our people.
>
> Fifth Principle: Stop Special Interest Asylum Abuse
> Reforming the refugee and asylum system means returning to the
> original purpose and definition of the program: "any person who... is
> unable or unwilling to return to, and is unable or unwilling to avail
> himself or herself of the protection of that country because of
> persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race,
> religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or
> political opinion...."
> America must honor it responsibilities to protect people who are
> fleeing true political persecution as defined by U.S. and
> international law. Efforts to expand those definitions to include all
> forms of "social persecution" invite massive fraud and endanger the
> security of this nation. Similarly, treating aliens illegally residing
> in the country the same as foreigners on legal visitor visas for
> purposes of the Temporary Protected Status designation is illogical
> and a form of amnesty that must be ended.
>
> Sixth Principle: Immigration Time Out
> We must restore moderation to legal immigration. Beginning with the
> recommendations of the Jordan Commission in 1995, we need to restrict
> immigration to the minimum consistent with stabilizing the U.S.
> population.
> Overall immigration must be reduced to balance out-migration, i.e.,
> about 300,000 per year while still permitting nuclear family
> reunification and a narrowly focused refugee resettlement program. A
> moratorium on all other immigration should be immediately adopted
> pending true comprehensive immigration reform. We should abolish the
> extended relation preferences.
>
> Seventh Principle: Equal Under the Law
> There should be no favoritism toward or discrimination against any
> person on the basis of race, color, creed, or nationality.
> All admission of immigrants should come within a single, stable
> ceiling which is periodically reviewed on the basis of a reasoned,
> explicit goal of achieving population stability. We should abolish
> special preferences such as the Cuban Adjustment Act.
>
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