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...bill provides for a guest-worker program but requires illegal immigrants to leave the U.S. before they apply for it. They must leave within five years; delaying departure cuts into their future U.S. stay. Those and any new immigrant laborers can apply for a two-year visa that can be renewed twice, with a one-year gap between renewals that must be spent outside the U.S. and a lifetime cap of six years. The visa offers no special path to permanent residency or citizenship. The bill doubles existing civil penalties for employers who hire illegal immigrants and authorizes the addition...
...keep prisoners beyond their original sentence. When Homeland Security agents fail to show up promptly, which is often, the alien convicts are released back into the community. In addition to all these, at least 4 million people who arrived in the U.S. legally on work, tourist or education visas have decided to ignore immigration laws and stay permanently. Again, Homeland Security does not have the slightest idea where these visa scofflaws...
These task forces would also work for the rehabilitation of victims of trafficking, including creating more safe houses specifically targeted towards trafficking victims and helping them get T-visas after they have been rescued, Itoh said. If someone is proven to be a victim of sex-trafficking, he or she is eligible for a T-visa that would allow him or her to stay in the country, she added...
Itoh mentioned the need for more access to bilingual attorneys who understood the T-visa process, citing the 37 T-visas that were awarded last year out of the 631 applied...
...people aren't rioting in the streets. Even the bickering in Washington, a lot of it feels tactical--there's not much that separates the two parties on economic policy or even foreign policy. I think from the perspective of a lot of foreigners it's kind of like Visa vs. MasterCard. It's not that different. So I think a lot of this is overwrought...