Congressman Elton Gallegly today introduced six bills to fight illegal immigration in the United States.
“A top priority for this new Congress and any Congress, for that matter, should be to reduce the high levels of illegal immigrants entering this nation,” Gallegly said when introducing the bills. “This is a problem that goes directly to our responsibilities as a sovereign nation to secure our borders and enforce our laws.”
Gallegly’s bills are designed to remove incentives for immigrants to enter the United States illegally, bring fairness to federal immigration laws, and close loopholes illegal immigrants use to flout U.S. laws. Two of Gallegly’s bills address the crux of the illegal immigration problem: jobs. To get a job, a person must provide his employer with a Social Security number. Illegal immigrants often provide fictitious Social Security numbers, many times adopting the identity of a hardworking American who is unaware his identity has been stolen until he is
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