L.C. 9.13 - Lincoln Is A Place For All Act - STATUTE

[Attorney General, Senator-Elect, & Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

I. TITLE: This bill shall be known as the "Lincoln Is A Place for All Act."

II: OUR MOST VULNERABLE RESIDENTS DESERVE A CHANCE TO WORK

A. Section 7 of Title 11 of the Consolidated Laws of Lincoln Omnibus Act shall not apply to agricultural jobs, housekeeping/custodian jobs, or similar positions.


III: PROTECTING OUR MOST VULNERABLE

A. No municipality, county, or state in the region of Lincoln shall be required to comply with federal law enforcement in nonviolent immigration cases

B. Local law enforcement may not cooperate with federal authorities, if they are forbidden to by legislation passed by the local government in the area of their jurisdiction

IV: FEDERAL ENFORCEMENT IS UNFAIR

A. Any cases of violent criminals shall be dealt with as criminal cases by local law enforcement, only if a guilty verdict is reached, may federal law enforcement get involved and begin deportation proceeding

V: Implementation

A. This law will begin to be implemented immediately after being signed by the Governor and will be fully implemented after two years.

Sponsor: S019
Occupying: Government Slot 3 of 12

Sponsor, please advocate for your bill

[S019]

Okay, so the South is debating an anti-immigrant proposal, and I actually had this idea for a while, so figured what better time to introduce it now. Anyways this bill would allow undocumented people to not live in constant fear of deportation and get jobs and start contributing to the economy including paying taxes and also buying goods. This bill basically turns Lincoln into a sanctuary region, I don't think there's much more to be said here.

[Attorney General, Senator-Elect, & Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

I'm skeptical about allowing illegal immigrants to work, especially since this wouldn't restrict their jobs to certain industries that may have legitimate temporary needs, such as farming, but instead give them carte blanche to obtain any job, without having to obtain a green card or work visa, provided that their local jurisdiction does not cooperate with the federal government. This could impact Atlasian employment [of non illegals] negatively.

However I do like the rest of the bill.

If the rest of the council appears receptive, I'll probably offer an amendment to strike the second section.

[S019]

I'm skeptical about allowing illegal immigrants to work, especially since this wouldn't restrict their jobs to certain industries that may have legitimate temporary needs, such as farming, but instead give them carte blanche to obtain any job, without having to obtain a green card or work visa, provided that their local jurisdiction does not cooperate with the federal government. This could impact Atlasian employment [of non illegals] negatively.

However I do like the rest of the bill.

If the rest of the council appears receptive, I'll probably offer an amendment to strike the second section.

I guess we're running on the assumption that say a research lab, a hospital, a law firm, etc. would not hire undocumented people, unless they were very skilled, in which case they probably have expired work visas, I don't really see this being a problem. If it is then you can just say no high-skilled jobs or whatever, but most of the times these people do menial jobs, such as landscaping (and no not owning a company, but working as a landscaper).

[Attorney General, Senator-Elect, & Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

I'm skeptical about allowing illegal immigrants to work, especially since this wouldn't restrict their jobs to certain industries that may have legitimate temporary needs, such as farming, but instead give them carte blanche to obtain any job, without having to obtain a green card or work visa, provided that their local jurisdiction does not cooperate with the federal government. This could impact Atlasian employment [of non illegals] negatively.

However I do like the rest of the bill.

If the rest of the council appears receptive, I'll probably offer an amendment to strike the second section.

I guess we're running on the assumption that say a research lab, a hospital, a law firm, etc. would not hire undocumented people, unless they were very skilled, in which case they probably have expired work visas, I don't really see this being a problem. If it is then you can just say no high-skilled jobs or whatever, but most of the times these people do menial jobs, such as landscaping (and no not owning a company, but working as a landscaper).

Meh, some companies would hire illegals if allowed, some wouldn't. I don't think we can make assumptions about who would and who wouldn't. I'd be receptive to some sort of industry-based limitation, however.

[Attorney General, Senator-Elect, & Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

Amendment:

II: OUR MOST VULNERABLE RESIDENTS DESERVE A CHANCE TO WORK

A. Section 7 of Title 11 of the Consolidated Laws of Lincoln Omnibus Act is hereby repealed in its entirety and the rest of the legislation shall be renumbered accordingly.  shall not apply to agricultural jobs, housekeeping/custodian jobs, or similar positions.

Any objection?

[S019]

No objections, mostly because I know that in practice, these are the only fields that would hire undocumented people to begin with, unless they were skilled workers, in which case they probably have work visas anyways

[Attorney General, Senator-Elect, & Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

Amendment is adopted.

[Attorney General, Senator-Elect, & Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

Motion for a final vote.

[Attorney General, Senator-Elect, & Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

Vote is beginning.

Aye

[Elcaspar]

Aye

[S019]

AYE

[KaiserDave]

Aye

[Brother Jonathan]

Nay

[Attorney General, Senator-Elect, & Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

The bill is passed, 4-1

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