| Border Security, Economic Opportunity, And Immigration Modernization Act |
June 18, 2013 |
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John Cornyn, R-TX
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"My amendment is necessary. My results amendment, which I will describe further, is necessary because in its current form, the underlying bill does not include a genuine border security trigger. You do not have to take my word for it. Last week, the assistant Democratic leader, Senator Durbin of Illinois, himself said quite explicitly that while the original proposal—as he described it in January 2013, he said: “A pathway to citizenship needs to be contingent upon securing the border.” He said that in the context of the bipartisan framework for comprehensive immigration reform."
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| Immigration Reform |
June 17, 2013 |
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Harry Reid, D-NV
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"The directive does not address the 10 million people living in this country without the proper documentation who do not qualify for deferred action. Many of these individuals are the parents or siblings of DREAMers such as Blanca. The bipartisan legislation before the Senate is the opportunity they have been waiting for. This bill offers a pathway to earned citizenship that begins by going to the back of the line, paying penalties and fines, working, paying taxes, staying out of trouble, learning English, getting right with the law."
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| The Dream Act |
June 17, 2013 |
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Jeff Sessions, R-AL
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"The fact is that 30 million people will be given legal status as an immigrant on a pathway to citizenship over the next 10 years—that 30 million is three times the current legal flow of 1 million a year, which would be 10 million a year. It would triple the number of people put on a path to permanent legal residence and citizenship. Only 2.5 million of those would be admitted under this new, small, actually weak, merit-based section of the bill. This is nowhere close to the truly effective and popular merit-based immigration system which Canada adopted a decade—maybe more—ago and which is being followed and adopted in other developed countries around the world."
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| Jobs |
June 17, 2013 |
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Randy Hultgren, R-IL
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"Mr. Speaker, the pathway to a growing economy and putting people back to work is clear. The small business job creators in my district and around the country have spoken: they want to get rid of burdensome and unnecessary red tape; they want lower taxes and a simpler Tax Code that lends to certainty and encourages growth and investment; and they want the Federal Government to exercise fiscal discipline and to serve as a facilitator for American innovation, product development, and marketing."
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