Stop De Facto Amnisty with Immigration Reform: Senate Bill 744 Secures Border

US Senate Bill 744 is a Bipartisan Immigration Reform Bill which increases our border infrastructure and security. S.744 protects America by providing a guest worker program that manages the temporary entrance of any foreign worker into the country to assure our economy has the workers we need through background checks, traceability and other standards. This legislation contains the toughest border immigration enforcement measures in US history.

Under S.744, six security triggers are required before newly legalized people are allowed green card applications. Triggers include a border security plan, border fence plan, border security metrics, a Border Commission whose responsibility is 100 percent border awareness and at least 90% apprehension rates in high-risk sectors of the US-Mexican border.  It requires implementation of universal employment verification and an exit system to stop visa overstays.

Senate Bill 744 is not amnesty. In fact, S.744 eliminates today’s de facto amnesty. There are 11 million undocumented immigrants in the US about whom we know nothing. Once the first security triggers are achieved, undocumented immigrants must submit to and pass background checks, be fingerprinted, pay fines and taxes, prove employment, prove they have had a physical presence in the US since before 2012 and go to the back of the line for citizenship.  Criminals and those who don’t meet the criteria will be deported. Under S.744 undocumented immigrants will not be eligible for federal benefits and legalization is not immediate, or irrevocable. If they commit a serious crime, fail to comply with employment requirements, pay tax obligations or comply with physical presence obligations status is revoked.

Our country needs Senate Bill 744. To research the facts on S.744, this website has accurate information: http://www.rubio.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/get-the-facts1. Please join me in calling on Representative Tom Rice, Senator Lindsey Graham and Senator Tim Scott to support S.744.