Full Text of HR0849 94th General Assembly
HR0849 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The United States was founded by immigrants who | 3 |
| traveled from around the world seeking a better life; and
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| WHEREAS, The United States has an undocumented population | 5 |
| of eleven million immigrants, including half a million in | 6 |
| Illinois; and
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| WHEREAS, Immigrants in Illinois fill key roles in the | 8 |
| State's economy by paying taxes, including contributions to | 9 |
| Social Security that they cannot receive back, raising | 10 |
| families, and contributing to Illinois schools, churches, | 11 |
| neighborhoods, and communities; and
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| WHEREAS, The current immigration system contributes to | 13 |
| long backlogs, labor abuses, countless deaths on the border, | 14 |
| and vigilante violence and is in dire need of reform to meet | 15 |
| the challenges of the 21st Century; and
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| WHEREAS, Comprehensive immigration reform must involve a | 17 |
| path to citizenship for these hard-working immigrants, as well | 18 |
| as reunification of families and a safe and orderly process for | 19 |
| enabling willing immigrant workers to fill essential jobs in | 20 |
| the economy and to ensure full labor rights; and
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| WHEREAS, The Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act of | 22 |
| 2005 severely punishes illegal employment practices while | 23 |
| creating a path to earned permanent legal status for | 24 |
| individuals who have been working in the United States, paying | 25 |
| taxes, obeying the law, and learning English and protects | 26 |
| workers by ensuring the right to change jobs, join a union, and | 27 |
| report abusive employment situations; and | 28 |
| WHEREAS, Modernizing the antiquated and dysfunctional | 29 |
| immigration system will uphold our nation's basic values of |
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| fairness, equal opportunity, and respect for the law; | 2 |
| therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 4 |
| NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 5 |
| we support comprehensive immigration reform and urge the | 6 |
| passage by the United States Congress of the Secure America and | 7 |
| Orderly Immigration Act of 2005, which allows every | 8 |
| hard-working, law-abiding individual to achieve the American | 9 |
| dream; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be | 11 |
| forwarded to the President of the United States, the Speaker of | 12 |
| the United States House of Representatives, the President pro | 13 |
| tempore of the United States Senate, and to each member of the | 14 |
| Illinois Congressional delegation.
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