PROPOSED RESTRICTIONS FOR PARENTS

[scarlethawk 0]

Using Chris Parker's thoughts, here is what I email my House Rep and two Senators, please help refining it ....

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Honorable Senator <name>,

I am writing to inform you of my strong displeasure of the proposed immigration bill. While this bill helps a lot of illegal aliens, it penalizes law abiding citizens who intend to sponsor their parents or siblings. I hope you reconsider the impact on legal law abiding citizens compared to illegal folks who have little respect for immigration laws.

My thoughts...

- Which is better for America, 12 million illegal immigrants or 12 million legalized illegal immigrants?

- Don't make U.S. citizens give up valuable immigration petitioning rights just to offer illegal immigrants (mostly from Mexico) the privilege of lawful status despite their disregard of our laws.

- Parents are not chain migrants, they are from the past generation and cannot bring any of their own family members (i.e. derivatives) with them, and they are often elderly and retired and will die of old age before a visa number becomes available.

- Parents with adult children who are naturalized U.S. citizens are also very often grandparents [of U.S. citizens] and deserve very much a chance to meet and live with them in their final years.

- On the subject of chain migration in recent congressional hearings, expert witnesses had only a brief word or two to say about parents compared to a considerable amount more on other immigrant categories.

Please Senator, don't stand for Congress alienating our citizens and our country with this bill.

Thank you very much.

Regards,

<My Name>

Your voting constituent

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Hopefully others will help refine the letter above, spread the word, and at the very least email their elected representatives.

[BJZags 17]

Title V (500's section numbers) is what particularly upsets me and perhaps most others in this forum.

What is so bad about our government trying to control the numbers and "types" of people coming across our borders? While illegals will still be flooding unchecked across the river, its a symbolic attempt at least. As for the Title V stuff, I see nothing wrong with capping family-based visas. The immigration process in my mind is largely an individuals attempt to come to our country and start a new life and contribute to our country. Immigration policies are not intended to be a "lets bring the whole family over" system. If an immigrant didn't want to leave their family behind, then they never would chose to live in America (I would think).

[Chris Parker 11]

Title V (500's section numbers) is what particularly upsets me and perhaps most others in this forum.

What is so bad about our government trying to control the numbers and "types" of people coming across our borders? While illegals will still be flooding unchecked across the river, its a symbolic attempt at least. As for the Title V stuff, I see nothing wrong with capping family-based visas. The immigration process in my mind is largely an individuals attempt to come to our country and start a new life and contribute to our country. Immigration policies are not intended to be a "lets bring the whole family over" system. If an immigrant didn't want to leave their family behind, then they never would chose to live in America (I would think).

With all due respect, the immigration system already controls numbers and types of people coming here. The current system does allow family-preference immigrants to bring the rest of their family with them, and the current bill doesn't stop that, but instead entirely removes most categories (though not all, and now moves parents to a new category where they can bring spouse/children for the first time). Furthermore, the categories removed are all U.S. citizen-only benefits. Illegal immigrants, on the other hand, get immediate lawful status just for being here illegally, without regard to their numbers. There is nothing fair about any of this!

Edited May 26, 2007 by Chris Parker

[G&A 1]

Any ideas when will this be in effect if passed? If i submit an I-130 for my parent before the bill is passed, will it apply?

Any sample letter to send to my reps? the one above seems good but wondering if there are others floating...