California - A group of former officials of the George W. Bush , together with a handful of conservative leaders , business and religious leaders, made public on Tuesday a letter to the House of Representatives in asking that this " genuinely conservative solutions propose the broken immigration system ," and in supporting the legalization " no special pathway to citizenship" and restrictive measures pending in the House, as the SAFE project .
The group is led by Alfonso Aguilar , former chief of USCIS during the Bush administration , the group " American Principles in Action " and Al Cardenas , the " American Conservative Union " , who has been leading the Florida Republican Party and the Committee RNC . Other signatories of the letter are Ed Gillespie , former aide to Mitt Romney and Rosario Marin , Los Angeles , U.S. extesorera .
The letter indicates that you have to take into account the needs of the country and immigration reform that " boost economic growth, good jobs for Americans , protect families , promote patriotic assimilation of immigrants and ensure that there is another wave of illegal immigration . "
What they propose
Among the solutions that drives the group are " legal status for the undocumented, no special path to citizenship , market mechanisms to meet the needs of our economy and border security conditions based on precise measurements and verified independently."
They point out that the measures approved in the House committees , among which there is the SAFE act, one of the clauses become federal law measures like Arizona ( further institutionalizing cooperation with immigration authorities ) , " would hard to solve many of the problems of immigration. "
The conservative impulse to immigration reform is not unified in its message but generally favors the legalization of undocumented immigrants . Last week , representatives of businesses, churches and law enforcement agencies met with congressional Republicans to push the reform, but the messages were different according to the interests of each.
" Each group has a different interest ," said Ali Noorani , National Immigration Forum , one of the main organizers of the coalition. " The business want a stable workforce , the police prefer chasing real criminals and religious are the most support the path to citizenship ."
