He urged Americans to call their senators and oppose amnesty.
“Did you think senators might be too smart this year — or too moral or at least too embarrassed — to push for more foreign workers while millions of Americans are losing their jobs?” he asked.
“The Senate Judiciary Committee in a first hearing of its immigration panel dashed such modest faith in U.S. senators [on April 30]. Senators made it clear that they are hopeful that the American people will let them pass the amnesty this year that was blocked in 2007. And the senators made it clear that the only thing that will stop the Senate from passing an amnesty for illegal foreign workers this year is if regular citizens like you mount immediate and sustained protest,” Beck added.
Fellow foreign workers, this will surely affect the quest of long-time foreign workers for a better immigration status.
Obviously, all of us did not cross the border in entering the CNMI nor are we undocumented.
We’ve gone through the legal immigration processes.
Dr. Arkle, in his letter to the editor dated May 11, stated: “If the law is to be applied without discrimination throughout the U.S, then those NMI non-residents who cannot or do not qualify under normal immigration pathways to remain, need to start planning for their future; a future that will probably send them (and their children) home — for now.”
This is a true picture for all foreign workers in the CNMI.
But now is the time to unite in calling for the Department of Homeland Security to consider granting permanent status to all foreign nationals in the CNMI who served as the arms, legs and brains of the economy even when it is experiencing a downturn.
CARLITO J. MARQUEZ
Puerto Rico, Saipan
