The following proposal if passed will benefit the vast majority of
illegal immigrants in the U.S.  If you happen to be illegally in the
country, please read and track the proposal.  Thanks

Morro K. Ceesay
CEESAY & ASSOCIATES
740 Burnside Avenue South
Suite 228
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Tel 323-965-1252

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Bush's immigration reform basics
Published 1/7/2004 11:53 AM
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 (UPI) -- President George W. Bush was announcing
Wednesday an immigration reform proposal to stanch the flow of illegal
immigrants into the country and change the status of those already in
the United States.
Administration officials, speaking on background prior to Bush's
mid-afternoon remarks in the East Room of the White House, said the
proposal for a temporary worker program was based on several principles:
control of U.S. borders to protect the homeland, help the economy by
matching unfilled jobs with willing foreign workers, and compassion for
illegal aliens having to live in a shadowy world of a black economy.
Here are the main points of the initiative:
PROGRAM OVERVIEW: A guest worker arrangement under which foreign workers
are given special visas to enter the United States to take a specific
job which has gone unfilled by U.S. workers. It is a temporary
arrangement - the worker is given a 3-year permit, which can be renewed
for a not-yet-specified number of times, after which the worker must
return to his home country.
The program applies not only to prospective workers abroad, but also to
the estimated 8 million illegal aliens already in the United States.
Illegal immigrants now working in the country would be deemed filling an
employer need by virtue of their employment.
The illegal worker coming forward to join the program will not face
deportation for having violated immigration rules. The current employer
would not be penalized either.
Those under the program would be allowed to travel freely in and out of
the country.
WAGES AND BENEFITS. All workers under the program must be paid at least
the legal minimum wage. Social security would also be deducted, and the
workers would be eligible for normal workmen benefits under U.S. law.
Then plan calls for creation of special savings accounts for temporary
workers to help provide them with a nest egg when they return to their
home countries. There would also be other incentives for eventually
returning home.
FAMILY ACCOMPANIMENT. Workers under the program would be allowed to
bring their immediate family to the country providing they could prove
they could support them. The family would also be governed by the
temporary residence status of the permitted worker.
CITIZENSHIP/PERMANENT RESIDENCY. The temporary worker program would not
be linked to normal permanent residency and citizenship immigration
tracks, nor would it be considered an advantage in applying for a green
card. Temporary workers who wanted to settle permanently in the United
States would have to follow normal procedures already in place.
Copyright C 2001-2004 United Press International

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