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Enrique

(27,461 posts) Mon Mar 11, 2013, 10:09 PM Mar 2013

New Senate plan: legalize serfdom

http://www.salon.com/2013/03/11/new_senate_plan_legalize_serfdom/

“Senators Agree on Legalized Serfdom.” That should have been the headline. Instead, the Los Angeles Times reads: “Senators agree on path to legal status for illegal immigrants.”

When it comes to proposals for granting legal status to most of the more than 10 million illegal immigrants in the U.S., the devil is in the details — and the details of this reported deal are particularly satanic:

Still undecided is how long illegal immigrants would need to wait before they could apply for permanent resident status and eventually become citizens. The delay for a green card probably would be 10 years or longer, the aides said.

Let’s do the math. A green card permits a foreign national to live and work in the U.S., while applying for U.S. citizenship. Once a foreign worker gets a green card, it takes a minimum of five years to become a U.S. citizen.

So if the report is accurate, then the real proposal is that it will take at least 15 years before today’s illegal immigrants can become citizens — 10 years in legalized limbo status, waiting to get a green card, and then five more years as a green card holder, before being eligible to become a citizen. And that’s a minimum.

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New Senate plan: legalize serfdom (Original Post) Enrique Mar 2013 OP

The more things change, the more they stay the same. OnyxCollie Mar 2013 #1

OnyxCollie

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1. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Reply to Enrique (Original post)

Mon Mar 11, 2013, 10:27 PM

Mar 2013

In 1913 the California state legislature passed the Alien Land Act, which prohibited
ownership of land to aliens “ineligible to citizenship” (Daniels, Taylor, & Kitano, 1986, p. xv).
The author of the Alien Land Act, California Attorney General Ulysses S. Webb, had this to say:

The fundamental basis of all legislation upon this subject, State and Federal, has been and
is, race undesirability. It is unimportant and foreign to the question under discussion
whether a particular race is inferior. The simple and single question is, is the race
desirable... It [the law] seeks to limit their presence by curtailing their privileges which
they may enjoy here; for they will not come in large numbers and long abide with us if
they may not acquire land. And it seeks to limit the numbers who will come by limiting
the opportunities for their activity here when they arrive (War Relocation Authority,
1947, p. 37 as quoted in Okihiro & Drummond, 1986, p. 168).

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