Congressman issues dire warning about amnesty fallout

Congressman issues dire warning about amnesty fallout

A Virginia congressman says the so-called "comprehensive immigration reform" proposal in the U.S. Senate is an "awful" bill that will encourage more illegal immigration and eventually turn the U.S. into a Third World country.

The bill being debated by the Senate would grant legal status to the approximately 12 million to 20 million illegal aliens currently living in the U.S. It also includes provisions that would "accelerate" the Security and Prosperity Partnership, a Bush administration plan to merge the U.S. with Mexico and Canada in a North American Union.

Representative Virgil Goode (R-Virginia) hopes the bill's backers will be unable to obtain cloture in the Senate and the bill fails. He says the overwhelming majority of Americans oppose amnesty for illegal aliens.

"They recognize what many in Washington do not recognize," Goode asserts, "and that's the street parlance for saying, 'If we can get to the United States and stay for a few years, they will give us amnesty.' That's exactly what's happening here, and this is just going to be more of the same; it will increase, not decrease illegal immigration."

And with regard to the Security and Prosperity Partnership, the Virginia congressman believes such a merger with Mexico and Canada would only serve to undermine the sovereignty of the United States.

"It will lead us on a path to likely have a North American currency, will further break down the borders between our countries, and it really undermines the concept of the United States of America in favor of something called North America," Goode predicts. "And it will harm the lifestyles and the status and standing of most American citizens," he says.

Congress should have learned its lesson from the 1986 Reagan-backed amnesty and the amnesties of the 1990s, Goode contends. He says if the U.S. had a strict no-amnesty policy, criminalized and enforced it, illegal immigrants would not try to slip into the country as they do now.