Donna Anderson
Infowars.com
May 20, 2013
According to
Center for Immigration Studies,
if the amnesty bill proposed by Senators Schumer and Rubio should pass
as it stands, tens of thousands of illegal immigrants with criminal
convictions will automatically become full-fledged United States
citizens. Who knows? One of them might become your neighbor.
Jessica Vaugh, Center for Immigration Studies, examined the most
recent data from ICE’s Secure Communities program. This program alerts
ICE when a non-citizen with a record in the DHS databases is arrested by
a local or federal law enforcement agency.
“I found that nearly half of the criminal aliens who were removed
under this program in the last six months are offenders who would
qualify for legal status under the terms of the Schumer-Rubio bill. This
amnesty would significantly curtail ICE’s interior enforcement
programs, benefiting tens of thousands of criminal aliens.”
“In the most recent six-month reporting period (October 1, 2012, to
March 31, 2013), ICE removed 38,547 aliens who had been identified as a
result of an arrest by another agency. Of these, 45 percent (17,208)
were lesser offenders who would be eligible for legalization under the
Schumer-Rubio amnesty. These were classified as Level 3 offenders in ICE
parlance (convicted of fewer than three misdemeanors on separate
occasions), fugitives, prior removals and returns, illegal
border-crossers, and over-stayers and visa violators.”
Vaughn also found that, of the total, 55 percent (21,339) were
convicted of a felony or at least three misdemeanors, categorized as
Level 1 and Level 2. The majority of these offenders would still be
deportable, unless the Homeland Security Secretary waived their
ineligibility for amnesty, which is entirely allowable under the bill.
Under the Schumer-Rubio bill, the DHS can waive ineligibility if the
applicant was convicted when he was under the age of 18, or if he was
originally admited as a refugee or someone seeking asylum. But it can
also be waived if the offender was convicted under state laws aimed at
immigration crimes, “such as alien smuggling, human trafficking,
harboring illegal aliens, or identity theft, and anyone convicted after
pleading ‘no contest’ instead of ‘guilty.’”
Vaughn also says the bill includes provisions that would require ICE
to offer a bond hearing every 90 days to allow higher level offenders
the opportunity to challenge deportation in court, and even aggravated
felons would be eligible for options such as home confinement instead of
actually going to jail.
According to Vaughn, Texas has the highest number of convicted
criminals who would be granted amnesty instead of deported, followed by
California, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, New York, Washington, North
Carolina, Colorado, Virginia, Tennessee, South Carolina, Oklahoma,
Nevada, and Illinois.
Not only are these people illegal aliens, they’ve also committed violent crimes while they’ve been hiding out in our country.
Kenneth Palinkas,
the president of the National Citizenship and Immigration Services
Council, issued a statement today explaining why his union has
officially decided to oppose the Schumer-Rubio amnesty bill.
“The USCIS Council was not consulted in the crafting of the Gang of
Eight’s legislation,” Palinkas writes. “Instead, the legislation was
written with special interests, producing a bill that makes the current
system worse, not better. S. 744 will damage public safety and national
security and should be opposed by lawmakers.”
And all those interviews, miles of paperwork and astronomical fees that
Sanderson and Silber think will block the “Pathway to Citizenship?”
Not to worry. Palinkas says the Department for Homeland Security and
the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services are already waiving fees
for illegal aliens applying for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.
Currently there’s a 95 percent approval rating, so it would appear that
the requirements to become a legal, law-abiding U.S. citizen really
aren’t all that steep, after all.
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