First of all, there is the laughable gimmick of calling the initial legalization of illegal immigrants “probation” instead of the Senate bill’s “registered provisional immigrant” (RPI) status. You can call the immediate legalization of illegal immigrants anything you want, including “flying spaghetti monster” status, but it still won’t change what the bill really is: amnesty-now-for-enforcement-later.
Sargent also notes the bill includes a fancy new “trigger” centered around establishing a brand new E-Verify program. But then Sargent writes: “I was unable to determine who gets to say whether E-Verify is fully operational. But experts following this debate fully expect there to be no problems with getting it to that point in only several years.”
Oh well, if “experts” say there will be “no problems” getting a brand new system that requires every employer in the United States to check the citizenship status of every working American (all 144 million of them) in just five years, then it must be true.
Will these “experts” be the same people charged with saying whether or not the E-verify provision has been met so “probationary” illegal immigrants can become citizens?
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