Does Schumer still believe in his immigration reform from 2009?

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• Illegal immigration is wrong. And a primary goal of comprehensive immigration reform must be to dramatically curtail future illegal immigration
• Operational control of our borders through significant additional increases in infrastructure, technology and border personnel must be achieved within a year of enactment
• Biometric based employer verification system with tough enforcement and auditing is necessary to significantly diminish the job magnet that attracts illegal immigrants to the U.S. And to provide certainity and simplicity to employers
• All illegal aliens present in the U.S. in the date of enactment of our bill, must quickly register their presence with U.S. government and submit to a rigorous process to converting to illegal status and earning a path to citizenship or face imminent deportation
• Family reunification is a cornerstone value of our immigration system by dramatically reducing illegal immigration we can create more room for both family immigration and employer based immigration
• We must encourage the world’s best and brightest individuals to come to the U.S. and create the new technologies and businesses that will employ countless American workers. But must discourage businesses from using our immigration laws as means to obtain temporary and less expensive foreign labor to replace capable American workers
• We must create a system that converts the current flow of primarily low skilled illegal immigrants into the US, into a more manageable and controlled flow of legal immigrants that can be absorbed by our economy

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