Approximately 636,000 absconders now roam the country, having defied the law twice--first when they broke immigration laws and again when they ignored the removal orders.

That number has grown by an average of 68,184 a year from September 2003 to September 2006.

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Legal snares are scattered throughout the 400-plus-page bill. The most pernicious of them include:

1. Reopening the Absconder Files.

2. Creating a New Court of Amnesty Appeals.

3. Fraud in the Agricultural Fields.

4. Permanent Jobs for Agricultural Workers.

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On top of an already complicated immigration court system, S. 1639 would layer a complex mix of parallel administrative courts with nebulous standards and vulnerabilities to fraud. This new system would be an immigration lawyer's playground. Absconders would see their cases reopened, and the addition of poorly drafted new statutory language to already voluminous immigration laws and regulations would make the Internal Revenue Code look simple.
Aside from the 12 million to 20 million illegal aliens who would receive amnesty, the biggest beneficiaries of this legal morass are the immigration lawyers who would bill millions of dollars representing their clients as the cases drag on...

(... on the American taxpayers dime... - jillosophy)

read it all:

http://www.heritage.org/Research/Immigration/wm1522.cfm