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To: BOBTHENAILER
Is there even any proof that this will gain Bush all that many votes? The last amnesty didn't really help the Republicans --- it actually went the other way. Hispanics in this are (which there are a lot of) voted Silvestre Reyes into office just because they liked his firm stance on border control.
107 posted on 01/03/2004 11:47:13 PM PST by FITZ
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To: FITZ
Is there even any proof that this will gain Bush all that many votes?


Did you watch the hispanic vote in the CA recall?

Obviously NOT.
111 posted on 01/03/2004 11:49:57 PM PST by BOBTHENAILER (<P>)
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To: FITZ
2003 was the year of "The Citizen" and our power to change things! We will fight hard to change this too!
120 posted on 01/03/2004 11:55:55 PM PST by JustPiper (Bush+Ridge=TagTeam for Amnesty! Write-In Tom Tancredo in March!!!)
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To: FITZ
Here is something I remember reading several years ago that was trying to compare the cost of deporting illegals to offering them some way to become legal aliens.

The first problem we face is that we do not know who or where these people are. So in order to deport them would require the implementation of a massive screening program of Employers, Public Vendors, Banks, and landlords. The idea of a National ID card is not a popular proposal, so that leaves the screening to be done by Law enforcement officials whenever they come into contact with illegal aliens, this is not the answer.

This is why I support a limited guest worker program that requires them to register with the INS, so that we know who they are what they are doing here by means of the taxes they pay.

The other thing that has to be done, is to jail those who hire illegals. We show a few Hotel Managers and Farm owners doing the Perp Walk and things will change.<p.But in my mind, the only way we will ever solve the immigration problems we have on our southern border is when the Mexican economy improves enough that it's no longer so attractive to come here and work. This is why I am so against an increase in the minimum wage. Every time it has gone up in the past, the amount of illegals crossing the border goes up 2 fold

133 posted on 01/04/2004 12:04:49 AM PST by MJY1288 (WITHOUT DOUBLE STANDARDS, LIBERALS WOULDN'T HAVE ANY !)
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