Posted on 03/29/2006 4:55:49 AM PST by SJackson
Now that the Senate Judiciary Committee has passed its own version of immigration reform — a bipartisan effort that won support from four Republicans and all eight Democrats on the panel — a real national debate on this important issue can begin. Last December, the GOP-controlled House passed punitive legislation that would criminalize the 12 million illegal aliens, along with anyone else who provides them with shelter, medical or other services. Both bills also promise beefed-up border security. The House version seems more likely to generate popular support among American citizens, but it is a shortsighted measure, which, if it becomes law, won't solve the current crisis.
Our immigration mess is like a three-legged stool. Fixing one leg is no better than doing nothing. We need immigration reform that addresses all three parts of this vexing problem: increased border security; a plan to deal with the illegal aliens already here (the vast majority of whom are hard-working, tax-paying and otherwise law-abiding members of our communities); and more flexible and realistic legal immigration policies that allow us to admit more permanent residents and guest workers as our labor needs require.
I know this approach drives the anti-immigrant crowd crazy — but they are a small though noisy fraction of the public concerned with immigration. Unfortunately, these voices are driving the current debate, especially on conservative talk radio and cable news shows. I wonder how many conservatives who embrace the anti-immigrant message know that their fellow travelers' roots are in the pro-abortion, population-control movement.
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NOT!!!!! NONE of the above.
"passed punitive legislation "
Gee, Linda injected her bias into the debate in the very first paragraph. Senate noble and bipartisan. House mean-spirited and punitive.
That's the biggest joke yet, if Linda would bother to read the polling on this.
Ahhh a Linda Chavez making these remarks on Jewish Review.
CHAVEZ no wonder she said what she did, it figures. Another mexican flag waver.
Funny. Someone told me Linda Chavez' radio program was canceled and replaced by a Spanish language broadcast...
Where do they get these ideas?
Is the fog really that thick that they can't see past the Potomac?
Response: This is the 'problem;' debate, discussion and the expression of different points of view.
This woman is out of her mind. Law-abiding? No, Linda, they are lawbreakers by the fact that they are here illegally.
Huh I guess that the truth that the anti-immigrantion side is also pro- abortion, population control movement hurts to you.
If illicit drug dealers would admit their complicity and pay fine and promise to stop, we could then clamp down on any new drug dealers who might crop up in the future. What is important is that we would have a registry of users and dealers which would help in identifying the new and predatory drug dealers who might appear to break our laws in the future.
She ought to leave DC and move somewhere in so CA, Arizona, etc. A place where the illegals seem to outnumber citizens, where accidents regularly involve illegals and where, if you go hiking, you can run into parties headed north.
Maybe then she wouldn't be so stupid.
The debate can begin when they are kicked out and the wall built.
And if you think that I am a 'small fraction,' then you have a surprise coming very soon.
1-It's not relevant to the issue.
2-anti-illegal immigration doesn't equate to anti-immigration.
Jews, Mexicans, what can you do!
And to think the neocon Bush once considered giving her a job.
Imagine if Clinton or Tom Foley had proposed that plan.
What I fear is that emotion-based reaction to illegal immigration (and those demonstrations in L.A.) will cause an unnecessary loss of freedom for the rest us.
I think the House plan will end up being Sarbanes Oxley for the private citizen.
JWR is a little late to the party. The debate is over. The illegals have won. A new class of voters is being created by our elected officials that is designed to replace the uncomfortable Christian/Conservative majorty that has slowly grown up since 1964. Not only will a whole new and very large group be transformed into votes for welfare and socialism but a loud public invitation is being made to all in Latin America to join the New American Order. I am sure the flood has already begun in earnest as Latin-Americans all receive the news that they are so welcome in the land of milk and honey where they can live like kings, at least until they succeed in converting it to the corrupt, poverty stricken, oligarchic system they have left.
Really? Then using your logic Planned Parenthood isn't relevant to the abortion debate.
Dane, that is a bald-faced lie, even by your limited standards of truthfulness. First of all, it's anti-ILLEGAL-immigration - you tried the standard trick of dropping "illegal" to change the debate.
And second, most of the folks I see on FR who are anti-illegal immigration are also pro-life. So you can stuff that slanderous lie, Dane. There might be a few folks on our side who are pro-abort. But they are a distinct minority.
But given the number of pro-illegal Dems, I'd say you have a much more severe infestion of pro-aborts on your side of this issue.
Just out of curiousity, what taxpayer ID does an illegal alien use to pay taxes?
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