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US to crack down on illegal immigrants, ease visa rule
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 10 - 08 - 2007


The US government will crack down harder on
illegal immigrants and companies that employ them, but ease visa
rules for professionals from Mexico and Canada, officials said
Friday, according to dpa.
The steps come after US lawmakers this year failed to pass
sweeping immigration reforms backed by President George W Bush,
including ways to legalise an estimated 11-12 million illegal US
residents. Mexicans who fill low-wage US jobs are at the centre of
the debate.
"These reforms represent steps my administration can take within
the boundaries of existing law to better secure our borders, improve
worksite enforcement, streamline existing temporary worker
programmes, and help new immigrants assimilate into American
society," Bush said.
Building on the administration's previous border enforcement
plans, 19,000 border patrol agents will be in deployed by 2009 and
nearly 600 kilometres of border fence will be in place by the end of
2008, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said.
Funding for detention centres will be further increased so the US
can hold up to 31,500 illegal aliens until they can be deported.
The Bush administration will also press "recalcitrant countries"
to repatriate citizens who are in the US illegally, the department
said.
Other steps announced Friday are designed to make it harder for
illegal immigrants to appeal their deportation and increase pressure
on US employers, partly by raising the maximum fine against those who
knowingly and repeatedly hire illegal immigrants.
US officials are also preparing a rule change that will sharply
reduce the number of documents that can be used to establish identity
and work eligibility. The aim is to cut down on document fraud.
Meanwhile, the government will provide additional training for
instructors and volunteers who lead immigrants through the
citizenship process, DHS said.
And the visa term for professional workers from Canada and Mexico
is to be extended from one year to three years, reducing bureaucracy
for some 65,000 workers coming to the US each year.
"The United States must compete for foreign professional workers,
and those who elect to lend their talents to the US economy should be
welcomed with open arms," a DHS statement said.


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