Florida Senate - 2013                             (NP)    SR 816
       
       
       
       By Senator Garcia
       
       
       
       
       38-01467-13                                            2013816__
    1                          Senate Resolution                        
    2         A resolution encouraging the 113th Congress of the
    3         United States to consider the five principles embraced
    4         by the Partnership for a New American Economy as it
    5         works to develop comprehensive immigration reforms.
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    7         WHEREAS, the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act brought a
    8  Depression-era immigration system into the post-World War II,
    9  Civil Rights age, abandoning longstanding racial quotas in favor
   10  of a system that strives for equality and focuses on reuniting
   11  families and, to a lesser extent, meeting workplace needs, and
   12         WHEREAS, while the 1965 reforms at that time represented a
   13  significant advance for families and equality, what was modern
   14  in an age before the VCR, the heart transplant, or the moon
   15  landing is antiquated in a digital age marked by instantaneous
   16  access to information and the rise of a global marketplace, and
   17  this nation’s immigration system is once again outmoded,
   18  outdated, and ill-equipped for the demands of a modern society,
   19  and
   20         WHEREAS, as the 113th Congress takes up the call for
   21  immigration reform, the Partnership for a New American Economy
   22  offers five principles that are essential to a modern
   23  immigration system: attracting and retaining the world’s top
   24  innovators and entrepreneurs; recruiting talented workers needed
   25  to fill gaps in high- and low-skilled sectors of the economy;
   26  bringing 11 million undocumented immigrants into the legal
   27  economy so that they can pay taxes, attain better education, and
   28  contribute more to the economic growth of the United States;
   29  developing a state of the art system to ensure that immigration
   30  laws are enforced and obeyed; and ensuring that the immigration
   31  system is easy to understand, easy to navigate, and easy to
   32  implement, and
   33         WHEREAS, this great nation is long overdue for an equally
   34  significant overhaul of our immigration laws to advance our
   35  economy, NOW, THEREFORE,
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   37  Be It Resolved by the Senate of the State of Florida:
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   39         That we encourage the 113th Congress of the United States
   40  to consider the five principles embraced by the Partnership for
   41  a New American Economy as it works to develop a comprehensive
   42  immigration reform that will lead this nation in promoting
   43  innovation and entrepreneurship and maximizing the productivity
   44  of the workforce.
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