Full Text of SR0578 94th General Assembly
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| SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 578
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| WHEREAS, The Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act of | 3 |
| 2005 (S. 1033 and H.R. 2330) would require the Secretary of | 4 |
| Homeland Security to develop and implement a National Strategy | 5 |
| for Border Security, establish a H-5A essential worker visa | 6 |
| program for low-skilled workers, and exempt immediate | 7 |
| relatives of U.S. citizens from the annual cap on | 8 |
| family-sponsored immigrant visas; and | 9 |
| WHEREAS, The United States House of Representatives passed | 10 |
| H.R.4437 that would criminalize the undocumented, their | 11 |
| employers, and asylum-seekers alike, tear apart families, and | 12 |
| needlessly devastate our economy; and | 13 |
| WHEREAS, The United States of America was founded by | 14 |
| immigrants who traveled from around the world to seek a better | 15 |
| life; and
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| WHEREAS, The United States has an undocumented population | 17 |
| of 11 million immigrants, including half a million in Illinois; | 18 |
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| WHEREAS, Illinois immigrants fill key roles in our economy | 20 |
| such as paying taxes, including contributions to Social | 21 |
| Security that they cannot receive back, raising families, and | 22 |
| contributing to our schools, churches, neighborhoods, and | 23 |
| communities; and | 24 |
| WHEREAS, Our current immigration system contributes to | 25 |
| long backlogs, labor abuses, countless deaths on the border, | 26 |
| and vigilante violence and is in dire need of reform to meet | 27 |
| the challenges of the 21st century; and
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| WHEREAS, Any comprehensive reform must involve a path to | 29 |
| citizenship for these hardworking immigrants, as well as |
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| reunification of families and a safe and orderly process for | 2 |
| enabling willing immigrant workers to fill essential jobs in | 3 |
| our economy and ensure full labor rights; and
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| WHEREAS, The immigration initiative severely punishes | 5 |
| illegal employment practices while creating a path to earned | 6 |
| permanent legal status for individuals who have been working in | 7 |
| the United States, paying taxes, obeying the law, and learning | 8 |
| English, and protecting workers by ensuring the right to change | 9 |
| jobs, join a union, and report abusive employment situations; | 10 |
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| WHEREAS, Modernizing our antiquated and dysfunctional | 12 |
| immigration system will uphold our nation's basic values of | 13 |
| fairness, equal opportunity, and respect for the law; | 14 |
| therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL | 16 |
| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we urge the Illinois | 17 |
| Congressional Delegation and all of Congress to support "The | 18 |
| Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act of 2005" (S.1033 and | 19 |
| H.R.2330), which allows every hardworking, law-abiding | 20 |
| individual to achieve the American Dream; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That copies of this resolution be delivered to | 22 |
| the President of the United States, the President of the | 23 |
| Senate, the Majority and Minority Leaders of the Senate, the | 24 |
| Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Majority and | 25 |
| Minority Leaders of the House of Representatives, and each | 26 |
| member of the Illinois Congressional Delegation.
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