Posted on 06/01/2007 11:45:12 AM PDT by bd476
Edited on 06/01/2007 2:31:18 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
WASHINGTON -- Beware legislative behemoths. Beware "comprehensive immigration reform." Any bill that is 380 pages long is bound to have nooks and crannies reflecting private deals, quiet paybacks and ad hoc arrangements that you often don't learn about until it's too late.Excerpt http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2007/06/01/the_immigration_reform_monsterThe main provisions of the immigration reform monster are well known. But how many knew, before reading last Saturday's Washington Post, that if Einstein were trying to get a green card, he would have to get in line with Argentine plumbers and Taiwanese accountants to qualify under the new "point system" that gives credit for such things as English proficiency and reliable work history? Good thing Albert was a patent office clerk, and that grooming isn't part of the new point system.
Until now we've had a special category for highly skilled, world-renowned and indispensable talent. Great musicians, athletes and high-tech managers come in today under the EB-1 visa. This apparently is going to be abolished in the name of an idiotic egalitarianism.
I suspect this provision is a kind of apology for one of the few very good ideas in the bill -- taking skill, education and English proficiency into account rather just family ties, and thus cutting back on a chain migration system in which the Yemeni laborer can bring over an entire clan while the engineers and teachers desperate to get here languish in the old country.
A word not heard in the National Spelling Bee:
*mendacity
1. the condition of being mendacious; untruthfulness.Answers.com
2. A lie; a falsehood.
Only by Sherlock Holmes...
When "the Kraut" speaks, people should listen.
Exactly. That's why the bill does not advocate building one long wall or fence. By adding electronic surveillance and such they can spread the tax payer funded money around to all the special interests.
At least Krauthammer and Noonan get it. This unfortunate position Bush has put us in will at least separate us from our enemies,,yes, I said enemies. This is the flash point.
We need to riot.
Someone important..make the call!
Noonan yes, Krauthammer seems a bit hesitant. At the end of the editorial Krauthammer does think the bill can be "fixed" with strong border control component. I disagree with him on that point. This bill needs to be KILLED. Border Control must be first - a wall must be constructed from across the entire border.
Before we secure our borders there is no point in talking about immigration.
That's true, evad.
Good point, Freedom_Is_Good.
” A Rasmussen poll had shown that 72 percent of Americans thought border enforcement and reducing illegal immigration to be very important. Only 29 percent thought legalization to be very important. Indeed, when a different question in the Times poll — one that did not make the front page — asked respondents if they wanted to see illegal immigrants prosecuted and deported, 69 percent said yes.”
There you are!!!!
I almost think that if we were to insert in this bill something like, “If the President (or Cabinet official) certifies that ‘the borders are now secure’ and 60% (or 66%) of both houses of Congress agree with that certification, the remainder of this bill will go into effect.”, I would be willing to support this attempt. I don’t see that happening.
Therefore we need several individual, smaller, more comprehensible bills:
SECURE THE BORDER FIRST!
DEMAND SECURE ID for ALL employment, and that ALL employers supply the IRS with those credentials for any income deductions.
STOP allowing benefits and handouts of ANY type for anyone who doesn’t have SECURE ID and who is not legal. Stop federal kickbacks to states and cities that choose to do otherwise.
Give hospitals and emergency services explit permission to deny service to illegals and shield them from lawsuits from illegals, or those unable to prove their legal status.
PENALIZE all who are not in compliance, including such as apple and lettuce growers, and individuals hiring illegals for yard work or nanny work.
After this, I’ll be happy to entertain the “guest worker” notion.
Agree but unfortunately among conservatives there's indifference to securing our borders. It's as if they are shrugging their shoulders over enforcing our current immigration laws, and whether or not to allow the millions of illegal immigrants to remain here.
Until the indifferent conservatives in unaffected States have the negative impacts of illegal immigration set upon their doorsteps, until their local emergency rooms overflow, until their local crime rates rise, until their local schools are affected, until their local jails overflow with illegal immigrants, it looks like the doors will remain wide open.
Hopefully you are directing this word to the bill rather than Krauthammer.
Big Daddy knows all about that word!
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Chain migration—that’s very scary.
Apparently you did not read Mr. Krauthammer's editorial before you posted the above.
Also, when I first posted this, I had placed a large * asterisk next to the word mendacity which was within Mr. Krauthammer's editorial.
However, Mods excerpted the editorial after I posted it, and apparently the very large * asterisk was removed.
If you have time, it would be well worth your effort to read the article so that you don't miss all of the other fine points raised by Mr. Krauthammer.
>>I almost think that if we were to insert in this bill something like, “If the President (or Cabinet official) certifies that ‘the borders are now secure’ and 60% (or 66%) of both houses of Congress agree with that certification, the remainder of this bill will go into effect.”, I would be willing to support this attempt. I don’t see that happening.<<
I don’t think many of us would trust the President, or DHS (lied under oath about Ramos/Compean), or 60% of the Senate. There would have to be an independent, truly nonbiased committee.
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