House Panel Says It Will Offer Series of Immigration Bills
Source: New York Times
The House Judiciary Committee announced Thursday that it would introduce a series of bills beginning this week to overhaul the nation’s immigration system. The move was designed to keep the committee in the middle of the debate over the issue, which is now percolating on Capitol Hill, and to press a bipartisan group in the House that has been working in private on its own broad legislation.
Representative Robert W. Goodlatte, Republican of Virginia and the chairman of the committee, said the first of several proposals in the coming weeks would create a guest worker program for agriculture and require employers to use an electronic verification system to check the immigration status of employees.
Mr. Goodlatte made it clear that his committee’s intention was to jump-start the debate in the House. The bipartisan House group studying immigration, which has been meeting in secret on and off for about four years, has yet to offer its own proposal.
“At this point in time, we think we can help move the process forward by beginning to examine the legislative details of various ideas that members have brought forward,” he said.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/26/us/politics/house-panel-says-it-will-offer-series-of-immigration-bills.html
Goodlatte represents Virginia's 6th district that covers the northwestern region including Roanoke, Lynchburg (home of Jerry Falwell's Liberty University and another evangelical Christian college, Lynchburg College), and Harrisonburg (home of James Madison University). He was also an original sponsor of SOPA.
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