{"id":5536,"date":"2013-12-23T13:02:59","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T18:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=5536"},"modified":"2018-12-28T15:20:16","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T20:20:16","slug":"the-12-days-of-amnesty-the-11th-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2013\/12\/23\/the-12-days-of-amnesty-the-11th-day\/","title":{"rendered":"The 12 Days of Amnesty…the 11th Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the 11th<\/sup> Day of Amnesty, the Senate passed\u2026<\/b><\/p>\n

a 1,190 page amnesty bill.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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It\u2019s incredible that such a behemoth of a bill could do so little to improve the lives of Americans. However, S. 744<\/a>, the Senate-passed amnesty bill, devotes 1,190<\/a> pages to outlining how to forgive illegal immigration and invite more foreign workers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Special interests ranging from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce<\/a> and AFL-CIO<\/a>, to the big agriculture<\/a> and illegal alien lobbyists, spent much of last spring pow-wowing with the Senate Gang of Eight. All were trying to cram in their sweeteners and exemptions. No wonder the bill ended up reaching nearly 1,200 pages!<\/p>\n

Long bills don\u2019t necessarily mean bad legislation, but when the most important stakeholders \u2013 the American people \u2013 are left out of the backroom deal those 1,000 plus pages are filled with provisions benefiting a few self-interested parties rather than the whole.<\/p>\n

If recent news surrounding Obama\u2019s healthcare rollout serves one lesson it\u2019s that we should, in fact, know what\u2019s in a bill and it\u2019s implications before we adopt massive changes. Now the administration is going back<\/a> and taking questionably legal<\/a> actions to \u201cfix\u201d Obamacare. Who\u2019s to say the same wouldn\u2019t happen when an amnesty begins? How many companies would be exempted from the Senate bill\u2019s already flimsy E-Verify requirements? Would protections for U.S. workers be eroded even further?<\/p>\n

There are a lot of unanswered questions about these 1,190 pages. And unlike the healthcare bill, we shouldn\u2019t let Congress pass it just so we can find out what\u2019s in it<\/a>.<\/p>\n