New Bills To Reform The Immigration System.

The House Judiciary Committee announced this Thursday that new bills will be introduced to reform the nation’s immigration system.

Rober W. Goodlatte, a representative of the Republic of Virginia, said the first proposal is aimed at introducing an electronic verification system to detect immigration status of employees of agricultural firms. It has been four years of meeting inconsistently, of the House group, and still they have not yet submitted any proposal.

Goodlatte said that the process need to be moved forward, and they were working with various proposals that have come up from different members.

This announcement is expected to introduce broad legislation, especially by the House Democrats. Numerous republicans support the bit-by-bit approach. But this makes the life of a Democrat tougher who want to ensure a pathway to legalization. The announcement was given after the Senate Judiciary Committee decided to tighten border security and ensure citizenship of 11 million unauthorized immigrants.

Senators John McCain, Republican of Arizona, and Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York, both claimed on Thursday to win 70 votes in the Senate. They also hoped that the majority of senators in both parties would lend them their support.

On May 9th, Senator Patrick J. Leahy confirmed, the committee will begin the markup of the immigration bill, right after Congress resumes after recess. Possibly all of MAY will be devoted to discussing its various aspects.

Mr Schumer hoped that the new bill will serve as a model for the upcoming bipartisan agreements. He further expressed that two separate bills for the immigration would not achieve much but that one comprehensive bill was indeed the way to go. He failed to confirm what might be expected of the final legislation, but did not deny that ideas of some kind legal status were being mulled over. He expected that this would be accepted by both parties and would address the problems of legal immigration reform, enforcement and the legal status of the illegal 11million.

The House Democrats have expressed hope that a comprehensive bill will emerge from the group.

A House aide said that the delay was due to the House Republicans blaming the establishment republicans, who have been getting big labor deals like the Chamber of Commerce. Aides further said that differences should be expected to exist between the House group’s legislation and the Senate legislation. For example, the House bill offers a 15 year path, and the Senate a 13-year path, to citizenship. Both are similar in that they allow a green card to be achieved within 10 years.

There have been many suggestions over the years that the committee was unnecessarily increasing the delay by its part-by-part approach. This was trashed by Mr Goodlatte who pointed out that negotiations have continued for over 2 years as of now, and something productive was expected from the group. As the issue is so vital to the state, it is expected that some time will be required to arrive at a solution the please most, if not all.

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