Summary
The more you look at the Senate immigration bill, the more troubling loopholes you find. Two of the most pernicious: One would severely damage the government's ability to conduct background checks, while the other would provide amnesty to illegal-alien gang members and absconders.
Section 601 (h)(1) of the bill, titled the "Secure Borders, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Reform Act of 2007," gives the government only one business day to conduct a background check to determine whether an applicant is a criminal or a terrorist. "Unless the government can find a reason not to grant it by the end of the next business day after the alien applies, the alien receives a probationary Z visa (good from the time of approval until six months after the date Z visas begin to be approved, however long that may be) that lets him roam through the country and seek employment legally," write Kris Kobach, a law professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and Heritage Foundation scholar Matthew Spalding. It is impossible, of course, to determine in a single day whether someone is a terrorist or a criminal. Although the federal government has computer databases containing the names of terrorists and criminals, the information is hardly comprehensive. Much of it is kept by foreign governments or in the form of paper records that cannot be carefully searched in just 24 hours.See the full content of this document
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Loopholes for Terrorists and Fugitives
"The need for effective background checks is real. During the 1986 amnesty, the United Sta...
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