Bill Text: TX HCR154 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Urging Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform that creates a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-15 - Referred to State Affairs [HCR154 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HCR154-Introduced.html
86R24000 KSM-D | ||
By: Reynolds | H.C.R. No. 154 |
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WHEREAS, In an increasingly complex global economy, | ||
transnational labor mobility is crucial to the prosperity of the | ||
United States, but our rigid, outmoded immigration policies are | ||
making it difficult for the nation to compete; and | ||
WHEREAS, The United States Congress last enacted major | ||
immigration legislation more than a quarter century ago; since that | ||
time, piecemeal attempts at reform have failed to create the kind of | ||
rational and effective system we need to maintain competitiveness, | ||
whether in industries like agriculture, construction, and | ||
manufacturing, which require large numbers of workers able to | ||
perform physically demanding tasks, or in technology, where there | ||
is increasing demand for employees with advanced degrees in math | ||
and science; and | ||
WHEREAS, The U.S. is home to millions of unauthorized | ||
immigrants, including children brought to this country illegally | ||
who have grown up here and know no other home; a commonsense road | ||
map to earned legal status for these residents would create | ||
additional tax revenue and stimulate the economy by allowing them | ||
to open bank accounts, obtain college degrees, buy homes, establish | ||
new American companies, and create jobs; and | ||
WHEREAS, A rational overhaul of the immigration system | ||
requires a tough, fair, and practical program to address the status | ||
of unauthorized immigrants, stopping real threats and contingent on | ||
bringing accountability to border enforcement programs, providing | ||
additional funding for border communities that bear a | ||
disproportionate burden in the enforcement of immigration laws, and | ||
addressing visa overstays; federal policy must also be designed to | ||
develop a guest worker program to respond to the future labor needs | ||
of U.S. business by matching willing workers with willing American | ||
employers; and | ||
WHEREAS, National security and our national interests are | ||
poorly served by an embattled immigration system, and patchwork | ||
attempts to mend its deficiencies undermine our potential for | ||
prosperity and leave us ill-prepared to meet the challenges of the | ||
modern world; now, therefore, be it | ||
RESOLVED, That the 86th Legislature of the State of Texas | ||
hereby respectfully urge the United States Congress to pass | ||
comprehensive immigration reform that creates a path to citizenship | ||
for undocumented immigrants; and, be it further | ||
RESOLVED, That the Texas secretary of state forward official | ||
copies of this resolution to the president of the United States, to | ||
the president of the Senate and the speaker of the House of | ||
Representatives of the United States Congress, and to all the | ||
members of the Texas delegation to Congress with the request that | ||
this resolution be entered in the Congressional Record as a | ||
memorial to the Congress of the United States of America. |