H/T One Old Vet

Like a healthy community self-helping after a natural disaster, Patriots continue to dig each other out after the avalanche of the 2013 Amnesty/Immigration Acceleration Bill publication.

H/T One Old Vet for Amnesty Bill is a Multi-Million Dollar Fraud By Alan Caruba ExpertClick.com Saturday, May 04, 2013

As Roy Beck, the founder and president of NumbersUSA, points out, "If Congress passes the Senate Gang of Eight bill, it would be like re-creating ALL of the Top 20 cities in the United States, filling them entirely with foreign citizens and giving them lifetime work permits to compete with America's struggling workers—in just ten years' time."

NumbersUSA analysts spent two weeks reading the 844-page bill, concluding that 33 million lifetime work permits would be given to foreign citizens in the first decade if the bill passes. A revised bill has 867 pages and, according to a Daily Caller article, "contains 999 references to waivers, exemptions, and political discretion", more even than Obamacare.

Caruba notes that

The Center for Immigration Studies also analyzed the Gang of Eight amnesty bill and discovered that it is essentially a Get Out of Jail card:

...Ronald Mortensen, a Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, shows that the token penalties, when they do exist, are not commensurate with the employment-related felonies committed by the majority of illegal aliens, nor are they commensurate with the benefits received by illegal aliens.

"Illegal aliens will be rewarded for breaking laws for which American citizens are routinely punished," said Mark Krikorian, Executive Director of the Center for Immigration Studies. "For example, an American citizen would face a maximum penalty of ten years in prison and fines of up to $250,000 for using a fraudulent Social Security card, but under this bill the illegal alien would face a $1,000 penalty covering all his many offenses, a penalty which in many cases will be waived. Then, they would be issued a new Social Security number without any past bad credit or arrest records."

(VDARE.com emphasis)

The Mortensen study (here) identifies 7 specific amnesties offered illegals covering different offences and 4 protecting the Cheap Labor Lobby

• Amnesty for employers found to have employed illegal aliens or who are currently employing illegal aliens. Moreover, employers may continue to employ illegal aliens, accept fraudulent Social Security numbers, and renew falsified I-9 forms for those who apply for provisional status.

• Amnesty for employers who did not withhold and/or submit payroll taxes for individuals illegally in the United States.

• Amnesty for employers who violated labor laws by paying unfair wages, who failed to pay wages, etc.

• Amnesty for employers who facilitated Social Security fraud and identity theft by providing or accepting false Social Security numbers.

The only meaningful punishment proposed is to enforce non-enforcement -

…government employees who find that employers violated the law while reviewing applications for temporary status would be prohibited from notifying the appropriate law enforcement authorities. If government employees do report tax or labor violations, they could face a fine of $10,000. 

(Vdare.com emphasis)

Basically this legislation is best thought of as the Unconditional Surrender To Open Borders Bill of 2013.

No doubt the next Immigration Bill will be in Spanish.