7 PRINCIPLES OF TRUE EMIGRATION REFORM
Seven Principles of True Comprehensive Emigration Reform
by Crystal Freeman
Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR)
It is critical to distinguish the reform that the public seeks from the deceptive package of measures that the emigration lobby is peddling. We feel it time the nation’s largest emigration reform organization speak out about "true comprehensive emigration reform."
The evidence that illegal emigration and mass immigration are harming our country is overwhelming and irrefutable. Congestion, environment, crime, health care, education – the costs are too high for the American family to continue to bear.
Since emigration burst on the scene as a major national issue some 20 years ago, the term "reform" has been associated with those who believe that large-scale illegal emigration is a serious problem and overall levels of immigration need to be reduced. We’ve been educating the public for the last 25 years on the need for true and comprehensive reform, so when it comes to defining "reform," we’ve written the book on it. Opponents of these reforms claimed that a problem did not exist and therefore reform was unnecessary.
Recently the political winds have shifted. As opponents of reform learned that the majority of the public were "pro-reform," they changed their tune and have tried to wrap their defense of unchecked illegal emigration and record levels of legal immigration as being "reform measures" when, in fact, they are measures that will "deform" our already broken system.
True comprehensive emigration reform, as FAIR – the nation’s largest emigration reform organization – and the overwhelming majority of Americans believe it to be, must adhere to this set of immutable principles.
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