SB 9101: Consistency in Immigration Status Act Thread II (Passed)

[Former President tack50]

This seems like an amnesty bill of sorts right? Where illegal inmigrants will be protected from deportation (even if it also doesn't give them a path to citizenship).

I generally disagree on amnesty but this is a fairly harmless bill overall I'd say.

[Former President tack50]

I am unsure what to vote here. On one hand I am generally opposed to amnesty and think we should deport illegal inmigrants. On the other hand, in this bill we are talking about people who have spent the last 12 years at the very least in Atlasia, a really long period of time where they've already had their lives sorted out.

So I'm very conflicted on this.

I generally think that illegal inmigrants should be deported as soon as possible; otherwise you run into problems like this one.

[Former President tack50]

After thinking about it:

Abstain (vote changed)

I can't possibly vote in good faith for a bill that refuses to deport illegal inmigrants, but on the other hand, these are people who have spent more than a decade in Atlasia and deporting them would cause many hardships and problems. Thus abstaining is the only viable option.

[Former President tack50]

After reading Yankee's concerns as well as my original ones plus realizing the fact that a blanket bill might not be the best course of action, I'm changing my vote to

Nay