Trafic de idei

Prin Camera Reprezentanţilor a trecut un proiect de lege care va schimba radical legislaţia din domeniul imigraţiei ilegale. Mai trebuie sa treacă şi prin Senat.

A look at provisions in the border security bill approved by the House Friday:
– Requires all employers to use within six years a database to verify Social Security numbers of employees or face civil or criminal penalties for hiring illegal workers.
– Requires mandatory detention for all non-Mexican illegal immigrants arrested at ports of entry or at land and sea borders by Oct. 1, 2006.
– Establishes mandatory sentences for smuggling illegal immigrants and for re-entering the country illegally after deportation.
– Makes illegal presence in the country a crime.
– Makes a drunken driving conviction a deportable offense.
– Requires building five two-layer fences in parts of California, Texas, New Mexico and Arizona on the U.S.-Mexican border. Places priority on fence at Laredo, Texas.
– Requires the departments of Defense and Homeland Security to develop a joint plan on increased use of military surveillance equipment on the border.
– Requires Border Patrol uniforms to be made in the United States, not Mexico.
– Prohibits the attorney general from providing grant money to any federal, state or local government agency or entity that fails to provide the Department of Homeland Security with information on a person’s citizenship or immigration status.
– Eliminates the visa lottery program.
– Makes wording of oath of citizenship recited in naturalization ceremonies law to prevent changes without congressional action.

Trebuie remarcat că legislaţia încă în vigoare este substanţial mai tolerantă decât cea existentă în UE. Să nu uităm acest lucru atunci când comparăm integrarea magrebienilor în Franţa cu cea a hispanicilor în SUA.