2013-2014 Bill 1015: National Immigration Group Numbers USA - South Carolina Legislature Online

1 South Carolina General Assembly 2 120th Session, 2013-2014 3 4 S. 1015 5 6 STATUS INFORMATION 7 8 Senate Resolution 9 Sponsors: Senators Corbin and Bright 10 Document Path: l:\s-res\tdc\003immi.mrh.tdc.docx 11 12 Introduced in the Senate on February 6, 2014 13 Currently residing in the Senate Committee on Judiciary 14 15 Summary: National Immigration Group Numbers USA 16 17 18 HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS 19 20 Date Body Action Description with journal page number 21 2/6/2014 Senate Introduced ( Senate Journalpage 11) 22 2/6/2014 Senate Referred to Committee on Judiciary ( Senate Journalpage 11) 23 24 25 VERSIONS OF THIS BILL 26 27 2/6/2014 28 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A SENATE RESOLUTION 10 11 TO SUPPORT THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE 12 NATIONAL IMMIGRATION GROUP NUMBERS USA AND 13 ENCOURAGE SOLUTIONS TO IMMIGRATION POLICY. 14 15 Whereas, the United States is a nation of immigrants and has the 16 most liberal and accepting immigration and citizenship laws of any 17 western democracy; and 18 19 Whereas, the Federal Government has refused to enforce the rule 20 of law or any enforcement provisions of the 1986 immigration bill 21 or implement any part of the recommendations of the 1995 United 22 States Commission on immigration reform chaired by former 23 Congresswoman Barbara Jordan of Texas. These proposals 24 included a verifiable visa entry and exit system. Over fifty percent 25 of illegal aliens currently in the United States arrived here with 26 visas and overstayed them upon expiration. These include radical 27 Islamic Jihad students who come here under the pretext of study 28 only to instigate acts of terror; and 29 30 Whereas, according to the United States Census Bureau, the 31 United States population is expected to rise to 439 million by 2050 32 or 135 million more than today. By comparison, the United States 33 population was 203 million in 1970. More than eighty percent of 34 this is driven by legal and illegal immigration; and 35 36 Whereas, former Senator Gaylord Nelson, the founder of Earth 37 Day, stated that “it is phony to say you are for the environment but 38 not for limiting immigration.” Senator Nelson also said “those 39 environmentalists who think we can double or triple the United 40 States population without wiping out wildlife and scalping our last 41 wilderness are living in a fool’s paradise”; and 42

[1015] 2 1 Whereas, the proposed immigration bill would legalize between 2 ten and fifteen million new citizens and continue chain migration 3 which would allow them to bring extended family members, thus 4 ultimately legalizing over thirty million new immigrants; and 5 6 Whereas, a new Heritage Foundation Study says that the ultimate 7 cost of this bill would exceed 6.3 trillion; and 8 9 Whereas, the burden placed upon our nation’s governmental 10 services, taxpayers, environment, and infrastructure is on a 11 disastrously unsustainable path due to massive population growth 12 directly attributable to immigration; and 13 14 Whereas, the Surry County Board of Commissioners in North 15 Carolina supports an immigration policy that serves the national 16 interest instead of the interest of political parties and opposes the 17 “Gang of Eight” Senate immigration proposal; and 18 19 Whereas, solutions to immigration policy include ending chain 20 migration, verifying the visa entry and exit system, ending the visa 21 lottery, ending birthright citizenship, and offering federal 22 assistance for states to combat immigration problems. Now, 23 therefore, 24 25 Be it resolved by the Senate: 26 27 That the members of the Senate, by this resolution, support the 28 recommendations of the national immigration group Numbers 29 USA and encourage solutions to immigration policy. 30 -XX 31

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