US Immigration Reform
Posted: August 31st, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: Americas | 1 Comment »The American Immigration Lawyers Association advised members today that the US House of Representative's Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law is tentatively scheduled to hold a hearing on the STRIVE Act on September 6.
The Security Through Regularized Immigration and a Vibrant Economy or STRIVE Act includes both enforcement measures and a legalization process for qualified foreign nationals unlawfully in the US. The complete text can be found online here.
A summary of the STRIVE Act is available at http://www.nafsa.org/_/File/_/strive_summary.pdf, courtesy of the National Association of Foreign Student Advisors.
The fact that my wife, an Alien doesn’t have an Immigrant Waiver available to her for her deportation with criminal convictions amounting to more than one count of 30 grams of marijuana (she WAS a drug addict) but she does have a Non-Immigrant Waiver available to her such as the 212(d)(3) Waiver if she wishes to re-enter the U.S. to work is a clear indication that the existing bias is against both me, a US Citizen and her US Citizen son – the only ones she’s able to immigrate through as our Immediate Relative. As it stands, Aliens deported with criminal convictions amounting to more than one count of 30 grams of marijuana have the 212(d)(3) Non-Immigrant Waiver available to and permitting them reintegration in U.S. society by obtaining a Work Visa when U.S. Citizens who wish to successfully petition for and claim their Alien Immediate Relatives (parents, children and spouses), also deported with criminal convictions amounting to more than one count of 30 grams of marijuana don’t have an Immigrant Waiver available to their Immediate Relatives so that their Immediate Relatives may also reintegrate in U.S. society.
Shouldn’t U.S. Citizens’ needs come first in their own country?
I propose U.S. Congress supports a bill also making an Immigrant Waiver available to U.S. Citizens’ Alien Immediate Relatives deported with criminal convictions amounting to more than one count of 30 grams of marijuana so that U.S. Citizens may successfully petition for and claim or re-claim their Alien spouse, child or parent and so that Immigrant Aliens may also reintegrate in U.S. society. Presently, U.S. Citizens are able to petition for and claim these Immediate Relatives but not successfully because U.S. Immigration doesn’t pardon Immigrants’ criminal convictions amounting to more than one count of 30 grams of marijuana, only those of Non-Immigrants who are practicing professionals and have a U.S. job offer. The way things are now U.S. Citizens with Alien Immediate Relatives are being discriminated against by their own government. The needs of deported Aliens with criminal convictions are being placed before their own.
The U.S. government’s violation of my civil human rights to liberty, freedom of expression and equal treatment under the law of all people regarding enjoyment of life, guaranteed by the Bill of Rights, is unwarranted. My liberty to exercise the right to petition without government (or even private) interference or restraints, given to the people by the First Amendment to the Constitution is being discriminated against. I am not receiving fair treatment.