Immigration
Congresswoman Jackson Lee is one of the most outspoken proponents of comprehensive immigration reform in the Congress. She strongly believes that only a comprehensive approach to solving the current immigration crisis in the U.S. will produce results. While a strong supporter of securing our borders, she considers essential the need for bringing close to 12 million illegal immigrants out of the shadows of society through earned access to legalization. She also believes that unity of families is an essential American value and should be one of the fundamentals of immigration reform, along with increasing the diversity of immigration from parts of the world that have been historically underrepresented such as the Caribbean, Africa or treated unequally such as Haiti. Congresswoman Jackson Lee has introduced a comprehensive Immigration reform bill, "The Save America Comprehensive Reform Act," H.R. 750, which incorporates these principles.
Congresswoman Jackson Lee has a long record of intervention to advance humanitarian causes in the immigration context, from preventing the break up of individual families as a result of a wrongful deportation, to ensuring that victims of civil wars and national disasters around the globe receive a temporary protected status under the U.S. immigration Laws. Congresswoman Jackson Lee has also consistently advocated better protection for American workers and employers within the immigration context and in August of 2007 wrote personally to President Bush asking for his leadership in protecting small, mid-size and minority-owned business from enforcement of a burdensome new worksite enforcement rule targeting employers.
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