Arizona Amnesty Bill: Two Disasters In One!

Date: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 3:17 PM

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When I first read this article I contacted the author, Juan Mann,
because I noticed he used the "three stooges" metaphor that I have been
using for McCain, Kolbe, and Flake. Here is his reply:

"All I can say is that great minds think alike. I independently
engineered it myself!....honest!"

Even though Juan came up with the idea on his own, he graciously
contacted the Vdare webmaster to include a link to the Stooges
newsletter. These three politicians are truly "Three Stooges From
Arizona"!

Bush may talk real tough about National Security and how he is going to
knock out terrorists like Al Qaeda, but he speaks with a forked tongue.
While in Arizona, Bush endorsed the Stooges "Illegal Alien and
September 11th Hijacker Adjustment Act of 2003." This bill, besides the
fact that it's the largest guest-worker bill in the history of mankind,
is a red-carpet welcome to aspiring terrorists. The H-4 visa will
welcome illegal aliens from all countries, not just Mexico.

(If possible, go to the webpage because this article contains several
interesting links.)

http://www.vdare.com/mann/arizona_amnesty.htm

VDARE.COM - http://www.vdare.com/mann/arizona_amnesty.htm

August 11, 2003

The Arizona Amnesty Bill Two Disasters In One!

By Juan Mann

The so-called temporary worker scheme currently lurking in Congress
could be a knockout punch for the American worker and one of the most
prolific illegal alien amnesties of all time.

Under the ludicrously misnamed Border Security and Immigration
Improvement Act, H.R. 2899 and S. 1461 conceal a deadly one-two punch
against America:

a massive scheme to import new foreign workers into the United States,

and

an amnesty plan for illegal aliens already in the United States.

This lunacy is the brainchild of three Arizona Republicans House
members Jim Kolbe and Jeff Flake, and Senator John McCain. With the
introduction of these bills in the House and Senate last month, this
trio deserves all-time lows on the most horriblest clowns list
maintained by the invaluable immigration reform radio talkshow host
Terry Anderson.

The plan adds two new visa categories to the existing laundry list of
non-immigrant visas in section 101(a)(15) of the Immigration Act.

The plan will allow an apparently unlimited number of brand-new foreign
workers under a new H-4A category, and will grant new H-4B visas - also
apparently unlimited to illegal aliens and to visa over-stayers who
are already working in the United States without authorization.

Heres a handy memory aid for the proposed new visas:

H-4A visa The Foreign Worker Importation Act of 2003.

H-4B visa The Illegal Alien and September 11th Hijacker Adjustment Act
of 2003.

The H-4A aliens will be new arrivals who apply for their visas at U.S.
consulates abroad in order to take pre-arranged jobs in the United
States that Americans supposedly wont do or wont do for what the
employers are willing to pay, more accurately.

The H-4A applicants will miraculously apply and be hired for American
jobs while theyre still in their home countries, and while Americans
are unemployed at home. Amazing, isnt it?

Successful H-4A applicants will be imported for three years, renewable
for another three years. Corporations employing more than 500 workers
can get in on the H-4A action for a one-time fee of $1,000. Smaller
companies can buy the privilege of importing foreign workers for even
fewer pieces of silver $500. Each lucky H-4A alien will pay an
additional application fee, to be determined later.

After getting a foot in the door with non-immigrant status, the next
step for these newly-minted non-immigrants will be to file for
permanent residence through the very same employer or perhaps through a
new-found family member.

And after seven years with a green card voila! United States
citizenship.

Non-immigrant visas are intended for foreign tourists, students,
diplomats, journalists, crewmen, nurses, artists, entertainers,
language students, cultural exchange visitors, and certain of their
spouses and children. The visas allow foreign nationals into the
country legally for limited purposes, without resorting to sneaking in
through someones ranch, or in the trunk of a car.

Whether any non-immigrants ever actually leave the United States is
another story. But under this new temporary worker plan, non-immigrants
who let their status expire (along with those who never had status in
the first place) can apply for an H-4B visa and become legal again.

Amazingly, the H-4B visa program is reserved for illegal aliens only.
It snubs the law-abiding student and tourist to reward scofflaws who
take American jobs without authorization. Being illegal is a
requirement for the H-4B visa!

Illegal aliens who claim to have been living and working illegally in
the United States prior to August 1, 2003, can apply for a three-year
H-4B visa for $1,500. And if they cant afford the $1,500 fee all at
once, Secretary Tom Ridges friendly Department of Homeland Security
will extend them credit at market rates. [H.R. 2899, pages 27-28
honest!]

The three-year H-4B visa allows aliens and their willing American
employers an extension for as long as it takes to change status over to
the H-4A category. And once the former illegal aliens cleansed by their
H-4B visa make the jump over to the H-4A status, the clock starts all
over again. As newly-minted H-4A aliens theyll get three more years
of employment, renewable for yet another three years, increasing their
chances of finding a way to petition for permanent resident status.

But who will get the H-4B visa amnesty?

Remember the September 11th terrorists who came to the United States
claiming to be foreign students, but never attended class or were
tourists who just disappeared?

If the jihad fanatics managed to find willing H-4B employers, they
would have been eligible to change back to legal non-immigrant status
under this insane plan. They also could have prolonged their stay even
longer by adjusting again from H-4B to H-4A.

But the H-4B Illegal Alien and September 11th Hijacker Adjustment Act
gets even worse. The H-4B visas throw a gigantic monkey-wrench into the
already ludicrous and delay-ridden Immigration Court system of the
Executive Office for Immigration Review EOIR.

Thanks to the three stooges from Arizona, aliens will be able to stop
their deportation proceedings, file for a three-year H-4B visa, and
walk out of Immigration Court with lawful status all from the very same
process that was supposed to be deporting them! [See H.R. 2899, page
30]

And if an aliens H-4B application gets denied due to Immigration
Act section 212(a)(2), (3), and (4) inadmissibility who cares!
Theyve just successfully tied up their own deportation for an
eternity while waiting for their fellow 8.4 million illegal alien
workers to have their H-4B adjustment applications decided too.

Eduardo Aguirres crack team at the Bureau of Citizenship and
Immigration Services (BCIS) will be ready for all those new H-4B
applications, right?

Unfortunately, non-deportation of aliens in the federal immigration
bureaucracy is nothing new. The H-4B visa is just one more
below-the-radar amnesty program, and yet another get-out-of-jail-free
card in the ongoing permanent amnesty that is the Justice
Departments EOIR Immigration Court.

The Grand Canyon state trio have only just introduced this bill. No
word yet on where the Bush Administration stands. Lets be hopeful,
but watchful.

Juan Mann [send him email] is a lawyer and the proprietor of
DeportAliens.com.

http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breaking/8_11_03bush330.html

August 11, 2003

Bush says he supports Kolbe-McCain-Flake immigrant worker bill

DAVID PITTMAN
Tucson Citizen

President George Bush discussed more than the nation's forest fire
policy yesterday during a visit to Tucson.
Bush, while flying by helicopter to the top of Mount Lemmon, discussed
the Border Security and Immigration Improvement Act with Sen. John
McCain and Rep. Jim Kolbe, two Arizona Republicans who introduced the
bill.

"The president was enthusiastic about the bill," said Kolbe. "He is
supportive and told us to take the legislation up with his staff."

The controversial guest-worker proposal would allow millions of
foreigners including illegal immigrants already in the United States
to live and work here with temporary visas.

McCain said Bush has always considered immigration policy "a high
priority" and said the president assured him "he would be looking at it
very carefully and working with us."

Kolbe, McCain and the other sponsor, Rep. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., say the
bill would reduce migrant deaths on the U.S.-Arizona border, fill needs
for low-skilled labor nationwide and improve national security.

However, the issue dominating talk during the presidential visit was
the need to thin U.S. Forests. Bush believes his Healthy Forests
Initiative which calls for reducing red tape associated with thinning
public forests and allowing lumber companies to contract more freely
with the federal government is the answer to abating the recent rash
of rampant wildfires roaring across Arizona and the West.

"The president's remarks were right on target," said Kolbe. "We must
begin the process of thinning forests all over the United States and
not just near urban areas.

"By suppressing forest fires for so many years we have created a
monster."

McCain said Bush has become very knowledgable about the need to thin
U.S. forests.

"I think it's very helpful to have the president here to see first hand
the effects of these fires and the necessity for passage of this
Healthy Forests Initiative," he said.

The Healthy Forests Initiative has passed the House and is awaiting a
vote in the Senate.

"We've still got to get 60 votes," said McCain, pointing to the need to
get backing from Democrats to get the bill to the president's desk.

Kolbe said overgrowth in the nation's forests is the result of decades
of neglect and that it will take decades to fix the problem. However,
he said the Bush administration is on the right track and that the
federal government has done twice as much forest thinning this year as
it did two years ago.

Getting timber companies involved means forest thinning can be
accomplished at no cost to taxpayers, Kolbe said. He said timber
companies will not be allowed to clear cut forests under the
initiative.

Kolbe said a healthy forest is much better able to fight off diseases
and other problems, such as the beetle infestation that has attacked
trees in Arizona.

Many people were on hand at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base to see Bush
after he flew back from Mount Lemmon by helicopter. After getting off
the copter, Bush went over to the edge of the runway to meet and greet
onlookers.

"I was right up there. I got to shake the president's hand," said Bill
Underwood, a retired Air Force colonel. "He's a very charismatic
character."

Dick Steele, also a retired Air Force colonel, said he was "excited" to
see the president.

"We wish him all the best," said Steele.

Among those shaking Bush's hand before he departed on Air Force One
were Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik and Tucson Police Chief
Richard Miranda.

http://phoenix.bizjournals.com/phoenix/stories/2003/07/28/daily37.html

LATEST NEWS
July 30, 2003
Napolitano lauds guest worker bill, cool towards amnesty

Mike Sunnucks
The Business Journal
Gov. Janet Napolitano said Wednesday that she is supportive of a guest
worker program and licensing and documenting foreign immigrants wishing
to work in the U.S.

But Napolitano also said she was not yet on board with an amnesty
program for illegal immigrants already in the U.S. The governor's
sentiments echo those put forward by Republicans in the Arizona
congressional delegation.

Congressmen Jeff Flake and Jim Kolbe and Sen. John McCain have
introduced legislation creating a guest worker program. Congressmen
J.D. Hayworth and Sen. Jon Kyl are also interested in immigration and
border security issues.

The Democratic governor would not comment on the specifics of the
Flake/Kolbe/McCain bill, but Napolitano voiced general support a guest
worker program.

Napolitano said the question of amnesty is so complicated, especially
with what to do with individuals and families who have entered the U.S.
illegally. Latino groups and the Mexican government support some of
kind of amnesty for illegal immigrants.

Congress is expected to begin to tackle immigration and border security
issues after its summer recess. McCain and other guest worker
proponents acknowledge the issue has plenty of challenges stemming from
the amnesty question and homeland security issues.

Napolitano spokesman Paul Allvin said the governor does not have any
current plans to testify before Congress on immigration issues. The
governor went to Washington in July to testify before a Senate
Committee on forest health issues and federal funding to help prevent
wildfires.

Napolitano and Republicans such as U.S. Rep. J.D. Hayworth and Jeff
Flake have been sparring over a controversial forest-thinning plan
backed by the White House.

The subject of guest workers is not the only issue where Napolitano is
in the same dugout as some of her GOP rivals. Republican members of the
Congressional delegation and Napolitano oppose a proposed referendum
that would require state agencies to report illegal aliens to federal
immigration officials. The proposition would also require prospective
voters and those seeking government services to prove their
citizenship.

Hispanics make up 25 percent of the state's population and are being
heavily courted by both parties both at the state level and for the
2004 presidential race.

For more: www.governor.state.az.us.

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