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Bill: Immigration Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Talmorian Labor Liberation Party
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: December 2489
Description[?]:
| By the term 'Talmorian', we mean not those who have been merely born in Talmoria. All men and women who come to these shores - with a clean record - and who leave behind them the memory of the class-distinctions and the religous differences of the old world, all men who leave the tyrant-ridden lands of Selaya for freedom of speech and the right of personal liberty are Talmorians before they set foot on the ship that brings them here. Talmorian and republican are the same thing. No Indralan, no Selayan, no purveyor of cheap labour is a Talmorian. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy concerning immigration.
Old value:: Everyone is allowed to reside permanently in this nation.
Current: Everyone is allowed to reside permanently in this nation.
Proposed: Quotas are based on individual applicant's qualifications.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Government policy concerning granting nationality (national of this state without implication of having citizenship rights).
Old value:: Anyone receives nationality but immigrants must pass a test to gain nationality.
Current: Only those born to nationals become nationals.
Proposed: Anyone is able to claim nationality.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 17:06:13, November 20, 2007 CET | From |  Peoples' Fist Party | To | Debating the Immigration Bill |
| Message | This bill seems contradictory--only certain numbers of certain peoples can come, but all can claim nationality? |
| Date | 23:55:20, November 20, 2007 CET | From | Talmorian Labor Liberation Party | To | Debating the Immigration Bill |
| Message | By placing limits on those who can come, i.e. only selecting those worthy of being Talmorian, we can safely grant them nationality. By testing them before they can even migrate to the country, we don't have to a whole bunch of foreigners in our country who could never pass the test to gain nationality, thus making their whole migration pointless, whilst also burdening our economy and resources. It may appear contradictory, but on closer examination it would be impossible to not see how much common sense is in this bill. |
| Date | 00:03:54, November 21, 2007 CET | From | Totalitarian Capitalist Party | To | Debating the Immigration Bill |
| Message | More skilled workers? Fine by us. Supported. |
| Date | 00:08:19, November 21, 2007 CET | From | Totalitarian Capitalist Party | To | Debating the Immigration Bill |
| Message | And more desirable citizens of course. We would like to point that out to other parties - if we let everyone in the country we also let people we don't want in the country. People with no skills, people who weigh several tonnes, people with terrible diseases... If we want a healthy Talmoria, we have to let people in based on how healthy they are as an individual, in both mind and body. Something like that. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 429 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 70 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 226 |
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