skiing Page 14 THE FIRST ENGLISH LANGUAGE DAILY IN FREE KUWAIT markets Established in 1977 / www.arabtimesonline.com Page 9 FRIDAY-SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19-20, 2021 / RAJAB 8-9, 1442 AH emergency number 112 NO. 17618 16 PAGES 150 FILS Biden immigration bill to up per-country family caps Broad priorities Staring down Saddam ... who still won’t go away WASHINGTON, Feb 18, — Details Page 2 — (AP): President Joe Biden’s administration is joining Dem- ocrats on Capitol Hill to unveil a major immigration overhaul that would offer an eight-year pathway to citizenship to the estimated 11 million people living in the US without legal ‘Constitution ... Constitution’ status. The legislation, to be re- leased in detail Thursday ‘Let MPs play their role’ morning, will reflect the broad Opinion priorities for immigration re- form that Biden laid out on his By Saeed Mahmoud Saleh first day in office, including an Arab Times Staff increase in visas, funding to Are Gog, Magog back process asylum applications and new technology at the KUWAIT CITY, Feb 18: A total of 12 MPs signed a statement in response to the southern border. decree issued by His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- But while the plan offers to wreck our Earth? Sabah to suspend the National Assembly sessions for 30 days. one of the fastest pathways to The MPs stressed that the heads of the executive and legislative authorities are responsible for worsen- citizenship of any proposed ing the crisis by manipulating the Constitution and challenging the people’s will. measure in recent years, it They enumerated three ways does so without offering any By Ahmed Al-Jarallah this country avoid public work for this to overcome the crisis as follows: enhanced border security, Editor-in-Chief, the Arab Times reason. respect the Constitution, allow which past immigration ne- This situation has continued since af- Partial curfew on the cards the MPs to play their role and gotiations have used as a way HAS Kuwaiti democracy exhausted it- ter the liberation of the country from the use their parliamentary tools, and to win Republican votes. self and reached a stage where it suffers Iraqi occupation. Talking about libera- — Details Page 4 — activate the separation of powers Without enhanced security, it from illnesses related to early aging? Or tion, it was a historical opportunity that principle. faces tough odds in a closely is there still any room to remedy and re- could have been properly utilized to re- The MPs emphasized the need build the state on clear and modern foun- divided Congress. form what has been spoiled by the mis- to avoid dragging the judicial The bill would immediately conception about this kind of system that dations, instead of slipping into the cur- authority in political disputes to rent situation. provide green cards to farm elevates nations instead of dragging them protect its dignity and maintain workers, those with temporary into ruin and downfall? The image of our country is distorted its status as a trustful haven for This question is for all officials who abroad, be it through the many reports on all parties. protected status and young seem to have not realized the high price human trafficking (visa trading) or money In conclusion, the MPs people who arrived in the US that the country will pay as a result of the laundering scandals, and blatant bribery, stressed that reform is possible illegally as children. For oth- current crisis, let alone the fact that the which has become a source of bragging only through social reconcilia- ers living in the US as of Jan loss expands with every new dawn. Rais- for the culprits. We have seen this in a tion and combating corruption. 1, 2021, the plan establishes ing the ceiling of aggravation and escala- number of files, some of which are with The lawmakers who signed the a five-year path to tempo- tion would definitely lead to suicide. the courts. statement include Muhammad rary legal status, if they pass Undoubtedly, we all know the actual It is really unfortunate that Kuwait, Al-Mutair, Mubarak Al-Hajraf, which was the pearl of the Gulf, is lag- background checks, pay taxes reason that led Kuwait to choose demo- Musaed Al-Ardi, Soud Bu Sleeb, and fulfill other basic require- cratic system as its source of authority. In ging behind and descending into a very Badr Al-Dahoum, Shuaib Al- ugly depth. There are neighboring coun- ments. Then, after three years, 1961 when the then Iraqi President Abdul Muwaizri, Thamer Al-Suwait, they can pursue citizenship. Qasim attempted to derail Kuwait’s inde- tries that are on their way to leadership, Marzouq Al-Khalifa, Abdulka- pendence with the support of the Soviet and have plans that their institutions are reem Al-Kandari, Khalid Al- Raise working on implementing under the guid- Union, the British advised Kuwait about Otaibi, Fares Al-Otaibi and Al- The plan would raise the the need to establish institutions and ance of enlightened rulers who are aware Saifi Mubarak Al-Saifi. draw up a constitution on the basis of the of the needs of their people. Their doors In a related development, sev- current per-country caps for democratic system in order to facilitate are open to all, and they choose “shura” eral MPs reacted to the Amiri family and employment-based its admission into the United Nations as (consultation) councils from a social and Decree on the suspension of immigrant visas. It would a modern country. scientific elite. parliamentary sessions for one eliminate the penalty barring Indeed, great men drafted a great Under this system, the state’s path is month; while affirming their those immigrants who live in constitution, but if only the generations not hindered by the National Assembly, commitment to the Constitution the US without authorization would better its implementation. Un- where the majority of its representatives and full respect for the decision and who then leave the coun- fortunately, that generation is gone, and are dedicated to squandering public mon- which is part of the powers grant- try from returning for three to after it, the popular representation began ey and controlling state institutions for ed to His Highness the Amir as their own interests, and not the interest of 10 years. It also would provide to decline until we reached the point of per the Constitution resources for more judges, prevalence of tribalism, sectarianism, the citizens, let alone the nation. In fact, MP Yousef Al-Fadala em- their sessions are disgusting. support staff and technology and regionalism because there are those phasized the need for HH the to address the backlog in pro- who do not have any culture that qualifies What is happening in Kuwait is not Snow covers the Dome of the Rock Mosque in the Al Aqsa Mosque Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al- them to be legislated. the democracy that the first generation compound in the Old City of Jerusalem, Feb 18. (AP) Khalid to fulfill his obligations, cessing asylum seekers. In fact, the language of speech has be- wanted. Rather, it is the fight of a group particularly the formation of the The bill would expand come bigotry in many aspects. MPs ex- to seize the powers of other authorities, new government; regardless of transnational anti-drug task ploited their authority to employ kins and and this leads to the destruction of the the reasons behind the suspen- forces in Central America and kiths, and spread corruption. Institutions country. sion of the sessions. He said the enhances technology at the turned into farms for some ministers and Ladies and gentlemen, see what the new government formation must border. And it would try to influential people. defective and distorted democracy based reflect the will of the public and reduce the burden at the bor- On the other hand, some dark forces on sectarianism and tribalism has done in meet the demands of the MPs. Iraq, Lebanon, and other countries. You der by setting up refugee pro- have been exploiting democracy to creep MP Muhammad Al-Mutair cessing in Central America, over the legislative authority and domi- should also look at the enlightened dicta- argued the suspension of the torships in some Gulf countries in order to try to prevent some of the nate it but to later reveal its ugly face sessions will not end the crisis, to learn from them. immigrant caravans that have when it began seeking to make Kuwait a unless social reconciliation is The current crisis will continue if overwhelmed border security religious state by amending article No. 2 achieved and the Constitution is of the constitution. nothing is done to stop it and amend the in recent years. crooked standards to conform with the respected. They bullied ministers who were not MP Saleh Ziab Al-Mutairi af- The plan includes $4 billion at the level of responsibility, rendering enlightened rulers “who gave God what spread over four years to try belongs to God and to Caesar what be- firmed his respect for the Amiri them to yield to them. They worked on Decree, while clarifying that to boost economic develop- changing the open cultural approach, im- longs to Caesar”, and thus managed to ment and tackle corruption in lift their countries to the highest levels. In suspending the sessions does posing on the institutions all the desires of not prevent MPs from practicing Latin American countries, to the dwellers of the Taleban’s Tora Bora Kuwait on the other hand, we made de- mocracy a knife with which we peel the their monitoring role and attend- try to address some of the root caves.