{"id":491,"date":"2008-05-23T15:14:58","date_gmt":"2008-05-23T20:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinbryant.com\/2008\/05\/23\/immigration-legislation-our-last-bite-at-the-apple\/"},"modified":"2008-05-23T15:14:58","modified_gmt":"2008-05-23T20:14:58","slug":"immigration-legislation-our-last-bite-at-the-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/immigration-legislation-our-last-bite-at-the-apple\/","title":{"rendered":"immigration legislation, our last bite at the apple"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Thursday (05.22.08) the Senate voted again to put H. 4400 on special order and interrupted debate for immediate consideration on Tuesday (05.27.08)
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\n<\/span>We worked on several bills this week, may good worthy projects, but the 1,000 pound orangutan in the middle of the chamber is immigration.
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\n<\/span>Are there any \u201cpoison pills\u201d or loopholes? So far, I haven\u2019t been able to find anything worthy of voting against it.\u00a0I’ve always voted against\u00a0weak bills on immigration. We can\u2019t take this issue incrementally, this is the last chomp at the apple. There is a very tender agreement with Senate & House Leadership with this amendment. Governor Sanford hasn\u2019t weighed in publicly, but my sources say the office is cautiously\u00a0<\/span>optimistic.
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\n<\/span>I\u2019ve been scrutinizing over the proposed amendment this weekend and am confident this is the best proposal we\u2019ve seen to date. This bill mandates the strengths of the Arizona legislation. Why not pass the exact <\/span>AZ law? The Arizona law\u2019s main bludgeon is the revocation of the Arizona\u2019s state license. SC does not have a state business license, so we created an \u201cimplied\u201d license to hire. This virtual license is nothing any business needs to apply for or pay for, but this \u201clicense to hire\u201d will be stripped if the employer fails to comply with the required verifications. AZ has no fines, yet the effects of the AZ legislation has caused voluntary deportation by illegals.
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\n<\/span>Here\u2019s some highlights. Here is a link to the complete summary compiled by Senate Staff<\/a>. Since the actual amendment hasn\u2019t been read across the desk, I\u2019m going to refrain from publishing it as some \u201ctweaking\u201d may occur over the weekend, but stay tuned. When the final draft is introduced, I\u2019ll let ya\u2019ll know.
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\n<\/span><\/span><\/o:p><\/span>-The proposed bill:<\/strong>
\n<\/span><\/o:p><\/span>-creates a 24-hour website and hotline to receive and record information pertaining to violations of any laws or regulations by any non-US citizen.
\n<\/span><\/span>-creates implementation phases depending on number of employees and whether or not the employer has government contracts. Verification will be required of all employers by July 1, 2010.
\n<\/span><\/o:p><\/span>-creates a welfare verification process. E-verify cannot be used for any other purpose except for employment verification, so we have to use a different verification for benefits.
\n<\/span><\/o:p><\/span>-creates a felony for harboring or transporting illegal aliens
\n<\/span><\/o:p><\/span>-creates a need for registration of immigration assistance services. Don\u2019t understand why businesses assisting employers need to register with LLR, but maybe helps enforcement.
\n<\/span><\/o:p><\/span>-Makes it a felony to knowingly and willfully make, aid and abet in making, or solicit to make a false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or representation in any document in an immigration related matter while providing immigration assistance services.\u00a0 <\/span>A person convicted of a violation could receive a sentence of confinement of up to five years and a fine.\u00a0
\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/o:p><\/span>-Expands jurisdiction of State Grand Jury to include immigration fraud
\n<\/o:p><\/span>-Prohibits illegals from buying, selling, possessing, or transporting firearms. Sorry, but the Constitutional right to bear arms doesn\u2019t apply to foreigners.
\n<\/span><\/o:p><\/span>-Prohibits sanctuary and state preemption (sanctuary cities)<\/o:p><\/span>\u00a0
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\n<\/o:p><\/span><\/o:p><\/span>Penalties:<\/strong>
\n<\/o:p><\/span>1st offense – suspend all business licenses INCLUDING the employer\u2019s SC employment license, prohibiting it from doing business or hiring new employees for 10-30 days, terminate all illegal alien employees, and pay reinstatement fee up to $1000 (to cover costs of investigation and enforcement);<\/o:p><\/span>\u00a0
\n<\/o:p><\/span>2nd offense – suspend all business licenses INCLUDING the employer\u2019s SC employment license, prohibiting him from doing business or hiring new employees for 30-60 days, terminate all illegal alien employees, and pay reinstatement fee up to $1000 (to cover costs of investigation and enforcement);<\/o:p><\/span>\u00a0
\n<\/o:p><\/span>3rd and subsequent offenses – revocation of business and employment license (5 year minimum), can only be reinstated after 5 years if employer terminates all illegal alien employees, goes on probation for 3 years and submits compliance reports, and pays reinstatement fee of up to $1000 (to cover costs of investigation and enforcement); <\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Thursday (05.22.08) the Senate voted again to put H. 4400 on special order and interrupted debate for immediate consideration on Tuesday (05.27.08) \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We worked on several bills this week, may good worthy projects, but the 1,000 pound orangutan in the middle of the chamber is immigration. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Are there any \u201cpoison pills\u201d or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-491","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2gEQ0-7V","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}