Senate Votes to Enact "Immigrant Exit Exam"

As part of far reaching immigration reform legislation, the Senate today voted to include a provision requiring all potential immigrants to pass an "Immigrant Exit Exam", which would demonstrate that the potential future US citizens had at least rudimentary English language skills, a basic knowledge of American law, and leanings toward the Conservative Republican way of thinking. Passing the test will allow the immigrant to "exit" their current country of residence.

Test centers, spaced about 20 miles apart along the proposed 350 miles of new fencing on the Mexican border, will be set up to accommodate the expected hoards. The so-called Minutemen watchdog group has volunteered to administer all testing.

"We're a nation of immigrants," said Republican John Cornyn of Texas. "And by God, we should be a nation of Republican immigrants."