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New substitute S.744 immigration bill?

http://www.cnsnews.com/sites/default...ion%20Bill.pdf

In an e-mail shared with "The Right Views" by a Senate staffer, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) introduces a substitute bill to the controversial immigration bill and provides a PDF and a Word text file highlighting changes to the bill.

The e-mail from Schumer's office reads:

"Senators Schumer, Graham, Durbin, and Flake, or another Senator, may offer the attached amendment as a substitute to S. 744 at the markup scheduled for Thursday, May 9, 2013. A redline summary of the changes made to S.744, as filed on April 17, 2013, is attached. A document containing a summary of the changes made will be provided as soon as possible.

http://www.cnsnews.com/blog/craig-ba...migration-bill

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“(iii) has earned a high school diploma or , a commensurate alternative 36 award from a public or private high school or secondary school, or has 37
obtained a general education development certificate recognized under State 1 law, or a high school equivalency diploma in the United States;

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i) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in clause (ii), the Secretary may not 19 adjust the status of an alien to lawful permanent resident status under this section 20 unless the alien demonstrates that the alien satisfies the requirements of under 21 section 312(a) o̶f̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶I̶m̶m̶i̶g̶r̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶N̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶a̶l̶i̶t̶y̶ ̶A̶c̶t̶ ̶(̶8̶ ̶U̶.̶S̶.̶C̶.̶ ̶1̶4̶2̶3̶(̶a̶)̶)̶.̶

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“(i) REQUIREMENT FOR BACKGROUND CHECKS.—The Secretary shall utilize 33 biometric, biographic, and other data that the Secretary determines appropriate— 34
“(I) to conduct national security and law enforcement background checks 35 of an alien applying for lawful permanent resident status under this section; 36 and

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TO REGISTERED PROVISIONAL IMMIGRANTS AND 11 OTHERS. 12
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to 23 examine any individual application for lawful status under section 245B, 245C, or 24 245D.

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“(A) a law enforcement agency, intelligence agency, national security agency, a 29 component of the Department of Homeland Security, court, or grand jury if such 30 information is requested by such entity, consistent with law, in connection with— 31
“(i) a criminal investigation or prosecution of any matter felony not related to 32 the applicant’s immigration status; or

a lot of changes, they dont look too bad

too many to post

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Read the comments on that page lol

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It maintains the entry requirement age at 16, no age cap, DREAM Act beneficiaries as well as those already granted DACA qualify after 5 years for Permanent Residency with the preceeding time in provisional status automatically pro-rated to count as 5 years of lawful status towards citizenship.

Only thing that sucks (for me, at least) is that if you have a final order you do have to file a motion to reopen rather than it being automatically void/invalidated when you're granted provisional status.

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Originally Posted by dtrt09 (Post 469500)

if you have a final order you do have to file a motion to reopen rather than it being automatically void/invalidated when you're granted provisional status.

ah crap

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I hope this is enough to appease the House.

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Originally Posted by g33k (Post 469498)

Read the comments on that page lol

lol one dude says 20 million people are out of work lol wow red neck news

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Originally Posted by dude33 (Post 469587)

lol one dude says 20 million people are out of work lol wow red neck news

I know, sometimes I can't believe how much smarter we are than these 'Americans'. It's like, bitch you don't deserve your citizenship gimme that ishhh.

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oh crap x3 on the motion to re open thing, i wanted to travel before the end of the year :D

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Forcing individuals to file a motion to reopen and terminate/dismiss a deportation order is a burden to the courts and to the immigrant, plus it will divert the thousands of dollars that the incompetent immigration bar members (lawyers) will want to charge people to "file" it.

Really, people will have to have thousands to apply, to pay their back taxes, to save for school, to save to start their own businesses now that they won't be allowed to "not work" for more than 60 days in a decade, etc, etc. Whose bright idea was this?

Has anyone else read most of the new Senate bill? I did this afternoon, and now I want the previous version back. Still, better than the ridiculous House bill custom-build for the GOP instead of immigration reform. Sigh...