The Social Security Administration admits that there is a high error rate in its database, with and estimated 17.8 million errors related to name, date of birth, or citizenship status. Of these, 12.7 million of its records contain errors related to U.S. citizens, which will result in 2.5 million citizens a year at risk of losing their jobs because their will be miscategorized as unauthorized to work.
The bill would also formally approve the detention of CHILDREN, and would not address the deplorable conditions in which many immigrants are held. If you don't know what this means, you should look up the Hutto Detention Facility in Texas.
Furthermore, the bill would require local police act as immigration agents. This is a policy that has been shown to foster distrust between law enforcement and the communities they are meant to protect. People will not want to call the police when they witness a crime or are victims of a crime.
Finally, it would put religious and humanitarian workers behind bars for so-called "alien smuggling", what some would call being a Good Samaritan.
This is a misguided bill which will negatively impact all people in the United States, not just undocumented immigrants, but citizens as well. Please write to your Representatives demanding they oppose this bill. You NEED to do this NOW. Click here for a sample letter you can use (thank you B. Mitchell for writing it up and sharing).
