CA Preposition 187: –Designed to block illegal immigrants from receiving most public services. –This preposition has passed. E-Verify system –Devised by Home Land Security –Used to check the residency status of emloyees. The H-2A visa program –For visiting agricultural workers –It hasn’t been efficient. Framers use H-2A visas only to cover an estimated 2 percent of farm workers.

DREAM Act –Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors) Act. The bill would protect students from deportation and allow adults (up to age 30) to qualify for permanent legal status if they completed high school and at least two years of college or military service. – Was killed in a Senate’s “filibuster”. SAVE Act –Secure America With Verification Enforcement Act. –It would require all employers to use an electronic verification system to check the legal status of all workers –Still in the process (Introduced in House) AgJobs bill –Temporary guest worker program –Was failed in House and would drop this issue until 2008

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Immigrant issue cuts through party line “Republicans want to deport 12 million people while starting a guest worker program…With Democrats, it’s the reverse.” by Frank Sharry, executive director of the National immigration Forum.

Immigrant issue cuts through party line (continued) “Conservative, anti immigration think tanks teamed up with liberal labor unions and environmentalists favoring tighter restrictions on immigration. Pro-growth and business groups joined forces with longtime adversaries in the Hispanic and civil rights communities to oppose the legislation” P.331

Lou Dobbs vs. Vicente Fox The U.S.–Mexico border