Ginty for U.S. Senate

Ginty Opposes Proposed "Guest-Worker"
Component of Senate Immigration Bill

Senate Bill Would Admit 200 Million
New Legal Immigrants Over 20 Years

Ginty Opposes Proposed "Guest-Worker"
Component of Senate Immigration Bill

Senate Bill Would Admit 200 Million
New Legal Immigrants Over 20 Years

(Sparta, May 22, 2006) - John Ginty, the conservative candidate in this year's Republican U.S. Senate primary election in New Jersey, voiced his opposition to the "guest-worker" component of the U.S. Senate bill sponsored by Senator Charles Hagel (R-NE) and Mel Martinez (R-FL), the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act (CIRA). The proposed bill, supported by President Bush, sets up a massive "guest-worker" program that seeks to admit almost 200 million new legal immigrants into the country over the next 20 years.

Speaking at the Sparta Republican Club’s monthly meeting, Ginty noted that CIRA, a bill largely written by the staff of Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA), if enacted, would be the most dramatic change in immigration law in 80 years.

The bill creates an entirely new "temporary guest worker" program, called the H-2C program. Ginty said, "[I]ndependent analysis of the bill shows that there is nothing temporary about the guest worker program or those who participate in it. Nearly all 'guest workers' under this unprecedented proposal will become permanent residents on track to citizenship and entitled to the right to bring numerous relatives into the country with them."

Ginty continued, "The American people want our government to secure the borders immediately and they demand that illegal immigration be reduced to virtually zero. This is a national security problem. While welcoming of legal immigrants, most people are not interested in radically exploding the size of the U.S. population over the next 20 years through this proposed bogus 'guest-worker' scheme."

An independent analysis of CIRA by Robert Rector of the Heritage Foundation (www.heritage.org), shows that if the "guest-worker" provisions are enacted into law and the level of participation grows at the maximum rate allowed by the law, the total number of new immigrants entering the U.S. between 2006 and 2026 would be 193 million.

While speaking in Sparta, Ginty also voiced his opposition to multi-lingual ballots, contending that ballots should only be written in one language: English. "Since citizenship is a requirement to vote, and the law requires that a person be able to understand and speak English at an eighth grade level in order to gain citizenship, it makes no sense to print multi-lingual ballots," Ginty said. He added that multi-lingual ballots enhance prospects for vote fraud.

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