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Cynthia McKinney shares a 88% similarity with your beliefs on Immigration
I strongly support a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants
"In the congressional office we had some people who were waiting a decade to reunite with their families. That's wrong, so we ought to have comprehensive immigration reform…"
Vote YES on a motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill that would extend by four months a law allowing some immigrants to remain in the country while pursuing legal residency
Voted NO on the Goodlatte Amendment to H.R. 4437, the Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005. The Goodlatte Amendment would eliminate the visa lottery.
Co-sponsored HR 3553 to provide to nationals of El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Haiti an opportunity to apply for legal immigration status.
Co-sponsored H.R. 2092, the Save America Comprehensive Immigration Act of 2005. The bill authorizes the Secretary of Homeland Security to adjust the status of aliens who would otherwise be inadmissible (due to unlawful presence, document fraud, or other specified grounds of inadmissibility) if such aliens have been in the United States for at least five years and meet other requirements.
"I have accepted as the platform of the Power to the People Campaign, the 10-Point Draft Manifesto of the Reconstruction Movement...Among its many specific public policy planks, the Draft Manifesto calls for justice for immigrant workers, including real immigration reform that provides amnesty for all undocumented immigrants."
Voted YES on the Stearns Amendment to H.R. 4437, the Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005. The Stearns Amendment prohibits any alien from being granted legal immigration status of any kind until criminal record databases are checked.
I support a temporary guest worker program
Voted NO to pass a bill to increase the number of temporary visas granted to highly skilled workers from 65,000 to 115,000
Voted NO to the Pombo Amendment to H.R.2202 which would have allowed agriculture businesses to import up to 250,000 foreign farm workers each year for a period of service of less than a year.
[McKinney] Recognizes that the way to address the problem is to address the cause; repeal NAFTA and CAFTA; in the interim make it easier for immigrants to obtain legal work permits.
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