Dems Want to Halt the HALT Act

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New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jul 21, 2011

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Seventy-five Democratic members of Congress signed a letter to President Obama in opposition to the HALT Act, which they described to Obama as "an attack on your integrity that should not pass unnoticed or unopposed." 

The HALT Act ("Hinder the Administration's Legalization Temptation" Act, HR 2497) was introduced last week by Rep. Lamar Smith, D-Tex., Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. A companion bill was introduced in the Senate this week by Sen. David Vitter, R-La. The bill would suspend until January 2013 certain powers the president has under current law to prioritize the deportation of criminals and suspend the deportation of individuals whose countries have been decimated by natural disasters, whose families serve in the U.S. military, or for whom other circumstances warrant leniency or special consideration.

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Anonymous

Posted May 2 2012

The HALT act by congressman Lamar Smith (also author of SOPA) is an attempt to kill our values in the U.S. U.S is by far the only country in history knows as the land of immigrants. The HALT act is fundamentally an attack on our immigration system. Deportations, bars on re-entry and removal proceedings should be stopped. For all those who do not have criminal records, are of good character and hardworking people. They deserve to be united with their families.

Abolish the 3year 10 year bars to re-entry into the US
Abolish deportation .

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