Posted on 03/27/2006 3:03:45 PM PST by SC33
CNN reporting...More details later.
Sensenbrenner is on Lou Dobbs right now.
What should be done with illegal immigrants?
They should be rounded up and deported
72%
They should become part of a guest worker program
28%
Let us know what he says about amnesty. :)
The battlegrounds are set.
The House bill HR 4437 is in direct opposition to what the Senate wants.
Cong Jim Sensenbrenner on Lou Dobbs right now. Said the Senate behavior today was appalling. Same mistake that was made 20 years ago, is being made again.
He is ripping the Senate apart right now. Says that Senate is allowing illegal immigrants to jump to the front of the line. "That's not what America is all about."
Write your two senators and include these words:
1) support in its entirety the House of representatives border enforcement and control Act. aka HR 4437
2) reject Kennedy-McCain amnesty proposals.
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
This can be just as important as actually voting. We must let them know what we want them to do.
The senate judiciary in the late afternoon passed a Amnesty path to citizenship. We need a last push to fight back. $500 dollar citizenship is outragious!
Local news is reporting the vote today as a "path to citizenship for undocumented workers."
Today's vote was a BIG GREEN LIGHT for more illegals to come here!
Now, they will get out in the street to celebrate, to shove it in our faces.
More Mexican flags! If I see someone waving a Mexican flag, I will tear it down and stomp on it.
I stomp on Mexico!
I'd have to get a large ego implant first.
OUTRAGEOUS!
Just in time, they give the President what he wants for his meeting with Fox tomorrow or the next day.
What did they get in return?
Reagan never should have gone along with that first amnesty but I know he wouldn't do it again. Fool me once...
5 million more is what I heard...
"Sen. John Cornyn (R.-Tex.), a member of the Judiciary Committee and chairman of the Immigration and Border Security Subcommittee, just announced he would vote against the proposed amnesty “compromise” offered at today’s committee meeting on immigration reform."
http://www.humaneventsonline.com/blog-detail.php?id=13546
Let's hope he can stop in the House.
I've forgotten by H.S. civics on this one.
The IRCA of 1986 was a one time only amnesty deal. With serious employer sanctions of up to a million dollar fine and jail time. Ted Kennedy worked to undermine the bills enforcement provisions.
From FoxNews, June 10 2004
In exchange for legal status for the group, Reagan insisted that the magnet attracting illegal aliens to the United States be removed by extinguishing any incentive for U.S. employers to hire illegal aliens. In tandem with the amnesty, Reagan campaigned for employer sanctions for hiring illegal aliens, sanctions so stringent that many at the time regarded them as draconian.
Reagan reasoned that if an employer were fined for hiring an illegal alien (as much as $1 million in the worst cases), any payroll savings achieved by the hiring would be wiped out by the fine. In effect, it would be more expensive to hire illegal aliens than to hire Americans or lawful permanent residents. The few illegal aliens who continued to take the gamble and cross the border would be intercepted by a robust and more generously funded Border Patrol.
While Reagan’s 1986 immigration reforms (search) can at least be called rational, they were a failure. Today, there are between 8 million and 11 million illegal aliens in the United States. The majority of them crossed our southern border and has found employment — illegal employment, but employment nonetheless. This is attributed to Sen. Ted Kennedy’s eventual gutting of the enforcement mechanism for Reagan's employer sanctions, and successive administrations refusing to give our Border Patrol the resources it needs to achieve its mission.
In 1986, though, President Reagan showed a clear recognition between wrong and right. If U.S. employers were to gain from the employment of people whose very presence in our country was a crime, then they would at least have to pay for it.
How far we’ve come since 1986. At the moment, there are two amnesty bills pending in Congress, and both predicate an illegal aliens’ eligibility on the very thing that President Reagan fought so hard to stamp out: illegal alien employment.
After conference it goes back to both chambers to vote up or down. It could never get through without democrat votes.
Not sure about House procedures, but I am sure that I'm wary of Boehner being our speaker of the house- he's voted with the RINOs on this issue.
Illegals must be in charge at 'KNX'...they have the market closing at around 8200.
Boehner is no gift to us. DeLay was better on illegal immigration.
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