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Bilbray: "Senate 'Compromise' Rewards Illegal Immigrants with Amnesty"

Statement

Date: May 17, 2007
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Immigration


BILBRAY: "SENATE ‘COMPROMISE' REWARDS ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS WITH AMNESTY"

Congressman Brian Bilbray (R-CA), Chairman of the Immigration Reform Caucus, released the following statement today following the announcement of a deal reached in the United States for a "comprehensive" illegal immigration reform bill:

"The ‘compromise' announced today by Senator Kennedy will reward 12 million illegal immigrants with a path to citizenship - what part of illegal does the Senate not understand? Any plan that rewards illegal behavior is amnesty. You would think that the Senate would have learned their lesson after the 1986 amnesty debacle, but it looks like their idea of a ‘compromise' is to repeat the failed policies of the past."

In 1986, Congress passed and the President signed the Simpson-Mazzoli Immigration Reform and Control Act into law which granted amnesty overnight to more than three million illegal immigrants. The bill was passed with the promise of implementing border security and employer enforcement provisions that were never adopted.


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