DYLAN WILLIAMSON RESEARCH:

THE HOLY GRAIL OF ALL SOURCES: http://immigration.procon.org/

IMMIGRATION AND CRIME RATES:
In rebuttal, I cite the federal United States Sentencing Commission, which found thatn, out of
74,911 FY2014 federal court sentencing cases, illegal aliens committed 17% of drug trafficking,
20% of kidnapping and hostage taking, 74% of drug possession, 12% of money laundering, and
12% of murder offenses even though illegal aliens are only 3.5% of America's population
http://www.al.com/opinion/index.ssf/2015/07/rep_mo_brooks_to_alcoms_kyle_w.html#_ftn12
Only a tiny percentage of the nations violent crimes are handled by the federal court system.
Yes, undocumented immigrants accounted for 9.2% of federal murder convictions in 2013, but
that represents a grand total of eight murder cases. When you consider that the FBI estimates
there were 14,196 murders in the U.S. in 2013, those few cases handled by the federal court
system dont quite register as a reliable sample
set.http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/07/16/voices-gomez-undocumentedimmigrant-crime-san-francisco-shooting/30159479/
Between 1990 and 2013, the foreign-born share of the U.S. population grew from 7.9 percent to
13.1 percent and the number of unauthorized immigrants more than tripled from 3.5 million to
11.2 million.
During the same period, FBI data indicate that the violent crime rate declined 48 percentwhich
included falling rates of aggravated assault, robbery, rape, and murder. Likewise, the property
crime rate fell 41 percent, including declining rates of motor vehicle theft, larceny/robbery, and
burglary.
https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/criminalization-immigration-united-states

Report on Illegal Reentry Offenses:

http://www.ussc.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/research-and-publications/research-projects-andsurveys/immigration/2015_Illegal-Reentry-Report.pdf

IMMIGRATION REFORM:
The evidence that illegal immigration 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.
Any level of illegal immigration is unacceptable, and current legal immigrant admissions of
about one million persons each year are entirely too many. Any measure that increases either
illegal or legal immigration violates this principle. Immigration is a discretionary public policy. Its
primary purpose, since our founding, is to advance the interests and security of the nation.
The 1986 amnesty was a failure; rather than reducing illegal immigration, it led to an increase.
Any new amnesty measure will further weaken respect for our immigration law. Therefore, all
amnesty measures must be defeated. Laws against illegal immigration must be enforced, if they

are going to act as a deterrent. Redefining illegal aliens as guest-workers or anything else is
just that: a redefinition that attempts to hide the fact it is an amnesty, not reform.
Immigration policy should not be permitted to undermine opportunities for America's poor and
vulnerable citizens to improve their working conditions and wages. The need for guest workers
must be determined by objective indicators that a shortage of workers exists, i.e., extreme wage
inflation in a particular sector of the labor market. The current system accepts self-serving
attestations of employers who seek lower labor costs as protections of American workers. True
reform requires an objective test of labor shortage demonstrated by rising wages to attract more
American workers.
Effective immigration enforcement on the border and the interior of the country requires that
staffing, equipment, detention facilities, and removal capabilities be adequate to fully meet
current needs. The measures needed to identify and remove illegal aliens will also remove the
ability of potential terrorists to operate freely in our country as they plot the next catastrophic
attack on our people.
Reforming the refugee and asylum system means returning to the original purpose and
definition of the program: any person who... is unable or unwilling to return to, and is unable or
unwilling to avail himself or herself of the protection of that country because of persecution or a
well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a
particular social group, or political opinion....
America must honor it responsibilities to protect people who are fleeing true political persecution
as defined by U.S. and international law. Efforts to expand those definitions to include all forms
of social persecution invite massive fraud and endanger the security of this nation. Similarly,
treating aliens illegally residing in the country the same as foreigners on legal visitor visas for
purposes of the Temporary Protected Status designation is illogical and a form of amnesty that
must be ended.
We must restore moderation to legal immigration. Beginning with the recommendations of the
Jordan Commission in 1995, we need to restrict immigration to the minimum consistent with
stabilizing the U.S. population.
Overall immigration must be reduced to balance out-migration, i.e., about 300,000 per year
while still permitting nuclear family reunification and a narrowly focused refugee resettlement
program. A moratorium on all other immigration should be immediately adopted pending true
comprehensive immigration reform. We should abolish the extended relation preferences.
There should be no favoritism toward or discrimination against any person on the basis of race,
color, creed, or nationality.
All admission of immigrants should come within a single, stable ceiling which is periodically
reviewed on the basis of a reasoned, explicit goal of achieving population stability. We should
abolish special preferences such as the Cuban Adjustment Act.
http://www.fairus.org/about/7-principles-of-true-comprehensive-immigration-reform

PATHWAY TO CITIZENSHIP:
Create strict requirements to qualify for lawful permanent resident status.
Those applying for green cards must pay their taxes, pass additional criminal background and
national security checks, register for Selective Service (where applicable), pay additional fees
and penalties, and learn English and U.S. civics. As under current law, five years after receiving
a green card, individuals will be eligible to apply for U.S. citizenship like every other legal
permanent resident.
Earned citizenship for DREAMers.
Children brought here illegally through no fault of their own by their parent will be eligible for
earned citizenship. By going to college or serving honorably in the Armed Forces for at least two
years, these children should be given an expedited opportunity to earn their citizenship. The
Presidents proposal brings these undocumented immigrants out of the shadows.
Create administrative and judicial review.
An individual whose provisional lawful status has been revoked or denied, or whose application
for adjustment has been denied, will have the opportunity to seek administrative and judicial
review of those decisions.
Provide new resources to combat fraud. The Presidents proposal authorizes funding to
enable DHS, the Department of State, and other relevant federal agencies to establish fraud
prevention programs that will provide training for adjudicators, allow regular audits of
applications to identify patterns of fraud and abuse, and incorporate other proven fraud
prevention measures.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/immigration/earned-citizenship
Relevant Quotes for and Against Immigrant Plans:

Angelo I. Amador, MLL, Director of Immigration Policy at the US Chamber of Commerce, in a

Feb. 12, 2007 website section titled "Comprehensive Immigration Reform," from the US
Chamber of Commerce Radio Actuality show, stated: "Any immigration reform package must
promote increased security, earned adjustment for undocumented workers already in the U.S.
and an essential workers program to address future labor shortages. Enforcement alone is not
the solution. The reality is that even the most anti-immigrant legislators in this country are
not talking about deporting 12 million undocumented workers, which make up about 5%
of the American workforce. The business community supports giving these workers legal
status, so they will not be subject to exploitation by allowing them to become more able to
exercise their rights under U.S. laws."

Matthew Spalding, PhD, Director of the B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies at the
Heritage Foundation, in a July 2, 2007 National Review Online article titled "One Step at a
Time," offered the following: "Enforce the laws. There already exist on the books numerous
laws that, if enforced in a reasonable and targeted manner, would discourage illegal immigration
and the employment of illegal labor. Lawbreakers must be deterred, and law-abiding
Americans must be reassured, that Congress and the administration are completely
serious about enforcing our laws. Recent actions by the administration prove that reasonable
enforcement measures (well short of massive deportations) can significantly reduce the number
of illegal border crossings. Continued crackdowns on businesses that have hired hundreds and
sometimes thousands of illegals would also help government regain credibility in this area."

The Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council, in a May 6, 2008 letter to Congress from
Karen Kerrigan, President & CEO, titled "Oppose SAVE Act Discharge Petition," wrote: "The
Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council (SBE Council) has been a strong and consistent
voice for the entrepreneurial community on the issue of immigration reform... Unfortunately,
enforcement-only measures will not work. Therefore, we strongly oppose the discharge
petition on H.R. 4088, the Secure America Through Verification and Enforcement Act
(SAVE Act). This measure ignores the fact that our current immigration system does not
adequately address the labor needs of consumers and businesses. H.R. 4088 also would
worsen the current situation whereby America's small businesses are forced to take on
the role of playing immigration police. That is the job of the federal government, not U.S.
entrepreneurs."

Mark Krikorian, MA, Executive Director of the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), in a Nov.
2003 Center for Immigration Studies article titled "Fewer Immigrants, a Warmer Welcome,
Fixing a Broken Immigration Policy," wrote: "The starting point of immigration policy must be
adequate capacity, and willingness, to actually enforce the law, whatever the content of the
law happens to be. Lack of enforcement has been the central problem of immigration policy
Congress can design the most elegant legal and administrative framework imaginable,
but it wont matter if the immigration authorities are not permitted to use it to enforce the
law."

VISAS: Non Immigrant Types: There are over 340 types of nonimmigrant visas

VISAS: Immigrant: There are over 380 types of immigrant visas

https://travel.state.gov/content/visas/en/general/all-visa-categories.html

Common Types of Visas:

CR- conditional resident IR1, IR6

spousal visa (or Family Visas)

residency based on marriage (unlimited)

Diversity visas

Students F1 visas

General Foreign VIsas

Athlete visas

Lottery visas

USCIS.com- visa types or classifications