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SJM111.....................................................by STATE AFFAIRS
IMMIGRATION POLICY - Stating findings of the Legislature and requesting the
Congress of the United States to comprehensively review current immigration
policy, to examine enforcement of the policy and to actively seek
reasonable revisions to such policy.
03/24 Senate intro - 1st rdg - to printing
03/25 Rpt prt - to 10th Ord
03/29 10th Ord - ADOPTED - voice vote
Floor Sponsor - McGee
Title apvd - to House
03/30 House intro - 1st rdg - to St Aff
03/31 Rpt out - rec d/p - to 2nd rdg
04/01 2nd rdg - to 3rd rdg
04/04 3rd rdg - ADOPTED - 55-12-3
AYES -- Anderson, Andrus, Barraclough, Barrett, Bastian, Bayer,
Bedke, Bell, Bilbao, Black, Block, Bolz, Bradford, Cannon,
Chadderdon, Clark, Collins, Crow, Deal, Denney, Edmunson,
Ellsworth(Ellsworth), Eskridge, Field(18), Field(23), Garrett, Hart,
Harwood, Henderson, Jones, Kemp, Lake, Loertscher, Mathews,
McGeachin, McKague, Miller, Nielsen, Nonini, Raybould, Ring, Rydalch,
Sali, Schaefer, Shepherd(2), Shepherd(8), Shirley, Skippen,
Smith(24), Smylie, Snodgrass, Stevenson, Wills, Wood, Mr. Speaker
NAYS -- Boe, Henbest, Jaquet, LeFavour, Martinez, Mitchell,
Pasley-Stuart, Pence, Ringo, Rusche, Sayler(Callen), Smith(30)
Absent and excused -- Moyle, Roberts, Trail
Floor Sponsor - Bolz
Title apvd - To Senate
04/04 To enrol
04/05 Rpt enrol - Pres/Sp signed
04/06 To Secretary of State
]]]] LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO ]]]]
Fifty-eighth Legislature First Regular Session - 2005
IN THE SENATE
SENATE JOINT MEMORIAL NO. 111
BY STATE AFFAIRS COMMITTEE
1 A JOINT MEMORIAL
2 TO THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES IN CONGRESS
3 ASSEMBLED, AND TO THE CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION REPRESENTING THE STATE OF
4 IDAHO IN THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES.
5 We, your Memorialists, the Senate and the House of Representatives of the
6 State of Idaho assembled in the First Regular Session of the Fifty-eighth
7 Idaho Legislature, do hereby respectfully represent that:
8 WHEREAS, the power to control immigration and naturalization is exclu-
9 sively reserved to the federal government by the provisions of Section 8,
10 Article I of the United States Constitution, which places the power to set
11 rules for naturalization in the legislative branch; and
12 WHEREAS, Congress first exercised that power by passing the Act of March
13 26, 1790, which provided the first rules to be followed by all of the United
14 States in the granting of national citizenship; and
15 WHEREAS, immigration and naturalization laws have been revised from time
16 to time; and
17 WHEREAS, immigration was essentially unrestricted until a permanent quota
18 system was created in 1924; and
19 WHEREAS, the United States allows over 660,000 legal immigrants per year;
20 and
21 WHEREAS, the Immigration Act of 1990 allows for 480,000 immigrants with
22 family in the U.S.; 140,000 immigrants in needed employment fields; and 40,000
23 under per-country limits and diversity limits; and
24 WHEREAS, it is estimated there are ten million illegal aliens in the
25 United States; and
26 WHEREAS, because U.S. law has decreed that education and emergency medical
27 care cannot be denied even to those who have come here illegally; and
28 WHEREAS, the cost of medical care, education and incarceration of illegal
29 immigrants is monumental, being estimated at $10 billion a year in California
30 alone; and
31 WHEREAS, the costs of supporting illegal aliens in this country fall
32 directly on the states, counties and hospitals; and
33 WHEREAS, that burden has become overwhelming in some areas of the country
34 where high concentrations of illegal aliens have caused some hospitals in bor-
35 der states to declare bankruptcy; and
36 WHEREAS, current trade and immigration policies are threatening the Ameri-
37 can standard of living; and
38 WHEREAS, current immigration policy is fraught with unintended conse-
39 quences.
40 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the members of the First Regular Session
41 of the Fifty-eighth Idaho Legislature, the Senate and the House of Representa-
42 tives concurring therein, that we respectfully request the Congress to compre-
43 hensively review current immigration policy, to examine enforcement of that
44 policy, and further, to actively seek reasonable revisions to such policy.
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1 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Secretary of the Senate be, and she is
2 hereby authorized and directed to forward a copy of this Memorial to the Pres-
3 ident of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives of Con-
4 gress, and the congressional delegation representing the State of Idaho in the
5 Congress of the United States.
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
RS 15188
The purpose of this resolution is to ask Congress to review
current immigration policy and to examine enforcement of that
policy.
FISCAL IMPACT
None.
Contact
Name: Senator John McGee
Phone: 332-1336
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE/FISCAL NOTE SJM 111