The Immigration Reform- Its Not Amnesty

Man there is a lot of shouting into the internets over the new agreement reached between the Senate and the White House over immigration reform.  Loads of people on the right are royally pissed, calling it amnesty because it doesn’t round people up and ship them out of the country.  But what this bill does, I think, is far better and much more fair.

You can read the best description from the DHS website here.

One of the things I like is it requires all illegals to come out of the shadows, be fingerprinted and have their backgrounds checked.  If everything works out okay, they get the “Z” card and probationary status.  This will allow us to weed out the criminals and the terrorists and also require the ones here to go to the back of the line to get their green cards.

It will put in place an employee verification system so we can weed out illegals from the workforce.  And it continues to strengthen our borders, and it sets English as the official language of the US to help with assimilation.

At first I was also angry because I was reading the news reports about it and listening to the talking heads rail against it.  After reading the DHS description, I’m okay with it.  As long as it works.  And as long as we round up and eject anyone who doesn’t play by the rules.