Immigration bill amendments: 3 misdemeanors=felony

[RealGun]

The Senate just passed by 99 votes an amendment to deny citizenship to one convicted of a felony OR [3 misdemeanors]. In that context, I believe it would be widely supported that we would have no interest in importing criminals. What I am uncomfortable with is the 3 misdemeanor rule becoming the new de facto standard for stripping a citizen of a privilege of citizenship. If this rule were used to strip one of the right of self defense with a firearm, I suspect we would be all over it.

I believe what I would change is to make the [3 misdemeanor] test subject to appeal. That when you consider how many things are declared "felonies" and especially how relatively trivial some misdemeanors really are. Immigrants are not even aware of what is illegal. It is certainly not the case that knowledge of all misdemeanors is intuitive regardless of cultural value system.

 

[ball3006]

The House has it just about right.......

It is the Senate that is dancing, to the President's music, around the issue.......chris3

 

[CAnnoneer]

More laws, less enforcement. The senate is truly Wonderland, the March Hare's tea party to be exact. We are turning into imperial Rome with every passing day.

 

[zoom6zoom]

I hope they'll at least count the illegal entry as one of the strikes!

 

[RealGun]

I hope they'll at least count the illegal entry as one of the strikes!

Well, some in the House wanted that to be a felony, end of story.

 

[Standing Wolf]

What I am uncomfortable with is the 3 misdemeanor rule becoming the new de facto standard for stripping a citizen of a privilege of citizenship.

How does one strip a citizen of the privilege of citizenship?

 

[RealGun]

How does one strip a citizen of the privilege of citizenship?

That would be an interesting question except that I think it makes a difference to read or quote what I wrote accurately "stripping a citizen of a privilege of citizenship". The word privilege is not misused, having sound precedent in "privileges and immunities" (14A).