The House of Congress Needs to Address The Pathway to Citizenship

1. The House of Congress Needs to Address The Pathway to Citizenship Celina Navarro Writing 10 Kris Van Bebber

2. The United States Immigration System is broken! House of Congress The House of Congress Disagrees Support from majority House members • It is operating under old adversarial principles that have not adapted to benefit the country economically. • Economically Self-Deteriorating

3. Senates Passes Comprehensive Immigration Reform Main Principles • Offers Extensive Border Security • Punishes companies that hire illegal immigrants • Holds immigrants accountable for coming to this country illegally; withholds full citizenship rights until some conditions are met, such passing background check, paying taxes, fees, learning English

4. Congress disagrees with Senate’s immigration reform Too Broad Piecemeal Approach Own Version Focus on Border Security Comprehensive Immigration reform Source: Northwest Asian Weekly

5. House Representatives Believe a Piecemeal approach is The Best Way to Address Our Broken Immigration System Definition Why this Process? • It gets easier to address the pathway to citizenship if they deal with other issues first; such as border security • Common- Sense Step-by Step Process • Series of bills Source: The Washington times

6. Never ending Goal Post? • Is the Bill not Offering Enough? • What Do Republicans Really want? • Is it A Way to Avoid the big picture? • Will they get away with it? X Enforce Border Security X Double Border Security X Triple Border Security Source: Congressional Research Service

7. Economic prosperity goes beyond legalization Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free; The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, Tempest-tossed to me I lift my lamp beside the golden door “We cannot afford a system that creates a group which can never become fully American, denying equal rights to people who pay the same taxes and play by the same rules even after they've paid a penalty and gotten on the right side of the law.” Source: The White House Blog

8. Benefits to the Pathway to citizenship

10. Myth Vs. Fact Requirements Wait at Back of the line Amnesty Pathway to citizenship Apathway to citizenship is based on requirements that undocumented immigrants have to meet in order to receive permanent residency and eventually receive citizenship Learn English Pay Fees Pay Taxes Background Check • Amnesty for illegal immigrants is a government pardon for violating policies specifically related to immigration and grants immediate relief to all undocumented immigrants without criminal prosecution

11. Will The Government Reward Other Law Breakers as well? • “We have criminals who broke the law to enter the country and most of them continue to break the laws daily as they refuse to meet the same standards as other workers do…are law breakers going to be given the benefits that people who obey the law don't get?” - Beaufort Observer Faulty Assumptions Fact • President Obama recognizes that this is not a free ride for undocumented immigrants. He emphasizes that while undocumented immigrants are illegal, majority of them have a strong allegiance to the country’s founding principles, and actually are willing to contribute to the country, as well as willing to pay for coming here illegally. NO

12. Ideal Concept Expedient Secure Protects human rights of illegal immigrants Uphold confidentiality Fair • Attainable • Flexible • Affordable • Unifying Source: CHIRLA

13. Comprehensive Immigration Reform is falling behind schedule • The longer we wait the more dysfunctional it becomes • House representatives keep pushing it aside • Hope to take action by middle next year • President Obama Is okay with Piecemeal Approach as long as all core elements get done.

14. Solution • More Solid Economic Benefits for the country • Expedient and Secure Immigration Reform HOWEVER • Due to the House of Representative wanting to focus on Stricter Border Security • I am Left to Proposed, for the House of Senate to Consider the Pathway to Citizenship one of their main points

15. Works cited • "CHIRLA." Principles on Immigration Reform. Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles, n.d. Web. 15 Nov. 2013. • Elliott, Philip. "Immigration Bill Faces Uncertain Future in House." Northwest Asian Weekly: 4. Jul 2013. ProQuest. Web. 9 Dec. 2013 • Koslowski, Rey. "Hey, Congress: It's comprehensive immigration reform or nothing." Christian Science Monitor 21 May 2013: N.PAG. Academic Search Complete. Web. 9 Dec. 2013. • Poe, Catherine. "Senate Passes Immigration Reform: What's Next?" Washington Times Communities. N.p., 30 June 2013. Web. 26 Nov. 2013 • Roseblum, Marc R., and Ruth Ellen Wasem. "Comprehensive Immigration Reform in the 113th Congress: Short Summary of Senate-Passed S. 744." ProQuest. Congressional Research Service, 10 July 2013. Web. 06 Dec. 2013 • Seguritan, Reuben S., Esq. "Despite Lopsided Senate Vote, Immigration Bill Faces Rough Road in House." The Filipino Express: 10. Jul 2013. ProQuest. Web. 9 Dec. 2013 • USA. The White House. “Creating an Immigration System for the 21st Century.” Immigration N.p., n.d. Web. 30 Nov. 2013. • USA. The White House. Executive Office of the President. “The Economic Benefits of Fixing Our Broken Immigration System.” By National Economic Council, Domestic Policy Council, and Office of Management And Budget. Washington: n.p., 2013.