Posted on 06/22/2006 8:05:20 AM PDT by sinkspur
The Republicans running the House may not be as smart as they think they are.
They may have misread the public mood, which prompted them to press GOP Speaker Dennis Hastert to put off immigration negotiations with the Senate until September.
They also may have misread some in their very own party.
A poll being released today by the conservative Manhattan Institute and conducted by the Republican Tarrance Group shows most of the 800 likely GOP voters questioned want a solution now, even one that deals with the 12 million illegal immigrants here. Some of those surveyed even will accept a plan they consider amnesty.
Those views are much more in line with the legislation the Senate has put on the negotiating table. That bill, which passed with Republican and Democratic votes, adds agents to the border, offers many illegal immigrants a chance to earn citizenship and creates a guest worker program for future foreign workers.
The Senate plan doesn't focus on a wall, like the House bill, nor does it call for deporting illegal immigrants.
But Mr. Hastert has ignored these voices and gone with his party's most vocal immigration opponents. It's no coincidence that the fall elections are fast approaching.
(Excerpt) Read more at dallasnews.com ...
You mean the same "compromise" that's based on Tancredo's 2003 "compromise?"
The Manhattan Institute ran with a poll they did last March and suprisingly came up with similar results. Don't these open border hacks always do? The Wall St. Journal and Cato Institute are no different.
It's not quite as hard-line as Tancredo's, but still acceptable to me.
What's stopping foreigners from standing in line awaiting citizenship without going through the guest-worker rigoramore? What's the difference?
Pence's "path to citizenship" is the same procedure used by the USCIS.
The only difference between Pence and Tancredo's plans are the length of the guest-worker stay. Everything else is identical.
No, it's not hard-line at all. For the first three years there are no caps or visa limits. So if businesses want to bring in 500 million "guests" and their families to flood the labor market to the Atlantic ocean saturation point that's hunky dory with Mike.
I looked at the source and discounted most of the article from there on. Dallas County has one of the largest hispanic populations in the country and this paper is one of the biggest supporters of amnesty.
"Pence's "path to citizenship" is the same procedure used by the USCIS."
No it is not. It extends to illegals.
I heard a suggestion yesterday that perhaps our senators and congressmen should actually return to their elected states, hold town halls, and really listen to their constituents for a change. Of course, when it comes to McCain, those town halls are usually stacked and it's difficult to get in or to ask serious questions, because Mr. McCain doesn't like people to disagree with him.
If the House holds hearings, they should pick the states where Republican Senators voted for amnesty. Might surprise some of them.
The owners of DMN are probably just PO'd because that means sales of their "El Dia" paper will stay flat for a while.
IMO if they get millions more legalized the day won't be too far off where the hispanic leaders will do everything possible to create a new third party.....the name will most likely be a takeoff on La Raza.....and why not?.....they have THEIR own community, their own media, etc. plus all the help they need from the Mexican fedgov plus their own useful idiots in our fedgov and Congress.
Like start right here in Arizona -- or how about Tennessee where an illegal who had 11 drunk driving convictions just hit a couple head on (while he was drunk) and killed them... the first state to say we should give drivers' licenses to illegals and all those judges who let him go because they didn't want to deal with his illegal status. Wonder how Frist feels about that!
"The End."
You make some good points in your post. But in the end, greed wins out. It costs nothing for Messssico to just ship their social problems up north.
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As I mentioned, Mexico's ruling class is too preditory for their own good. In order to make that country a world class country the USA would have to force change there. The way to force change there is to send 12 million americanized mexicans back to mexico.
think they'll put up with the old ways of their rulers?
I don't.
IMO, this doesn't hurt them at all.
The wusses in the Senate for amnesty are those who will be hurt, IMO.
Its funny hopw many go along get along "conservatives" there are. Anyone who says they can convince conservatives that the plan Bush supports is good after 5 minuites is a grade A LIAR.
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