Path to What, and When?

Article author: 
Dan Kowalski
Article publisher: 
Huffington Post
Article date: 
22 January 2014
Article category: 
National News
Tags: 
illegal immigration
amnesty
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House Speaker John Boehner is set to unveil his counter to the Senate's comprehensive immigration reform [amnesty for illegal aliens] bill...

...the real question is at once more subtle and more important: Will the GOP plan lead to 'green cards,' and if so, when?

Current immigration law divides all visas into two main groups: temporary visas such as tourist, student and some temporary work visas such as H-1B for high tech and H-2A for crop pickers, and permanent immigrant visas, a.k.a. 'green cards,' that allow the bearer to work for anyone (or for herself) and to live in the U.S. for life.

A significant feature of a 'green card' is the owner's right, after three to five years, to apply for U.S. citizenship. Thus, if the GOP plan leads, sooner or later, to 'green cards,' then it also leads, in time, to the right to apply for citizenship.

If the GOP is intent on shutting off any potential 'path to citizenship' for new immigrants, it will have to create something new in immigration law, a type of 'permanent temporary' visa...

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