White House verifies immigration review

The Washington Times ^ | December 12, 2003 | Jerry Seper

[yonif]

The White House yesterday said a new immigration review is under way that could lead to amnesty for millions of illegal aliens living and working in the United States.

Confirmation of the review came during a White House briefing, just two days after Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said during a town hall meeting in Miami that the government had to "afford some kind of legal status" to the 8 million to 12 million illegal aliens in the country.

[jeremiah]

Professional wrestlers, that is good. Both sides look good as gold to their fans, but can switch between villain and hero, at the whim of Vince...........Wonder who is Chairman of the board of USA today? Who is paying the refs(SC Justices) off?

[Central_Floridian]

What's so funny about that? Is it unreasonable or wrong to demand that someone has a basic understanding of how the US government should work before they vote?
As for GW Bush, and most other politicians, it does seem that they are exceedingly ignorant of the Constitution and the concepts this country was founded to protect.

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

...Bush is a 'work in progress.' Basically, he has 2 passions: the war on terrorism and getting the hispanic vote...

Why didn't he just move to stinkin mexico? He could have bought the presidency there for an insignificant sum and been president of Mexico for life.

[texastoo]

George Bush was lucky he was born in the US. Imagine fighting the war on terrorism from Mexico.

[ought-six]

This could (and should) cost Bush a victory in 2004. If he rewards lawbreakers and those who hold our laws and our values and our culture in contempt, then why should we support him? Some on this thread will say I am being too rigid, that my reluctance to vote for Bush if he passes this amnesty will just put a Dim in the White House. My answer is this: If he passes this, he IS A DIM! Only a Dim would sell out the country in such a way.

[ought-six]

"If Bush drops the amnesty bomb, it will call into question everything he has done. I can't trust a guy who places personal power above the future of the country."

Yup, it would be his biggest, most monumental mistake, and it will likely cost him the White House. The vast majority of AMERICANS oppose amnesty or legalization! How can he be so blind?

[ought-six]

"Most days I am an optimist but sometimes you have to wonder if America is in the same situation as late Imperial Rome prior to being overrun by the barbarians in the Fourth Century CE."

The parallel could not be more clear. We are, indeed, revisiting the Fall of Rome, writ large.

[ought-six]

I could not disagree with you more. You are surrendering because you think it might be "too hard" to correct and reverse this disastrous invasion by the illegals. Thank God you were not at Valley Forge, or Bastogne, or Belleau Wood. We can indeed "throw them out." I will only take a leader with some big brass danglers to get it done.

[ravingnutter]

Put additional agents on the border, possibly initially assisted by National Guard

Done:

INS Signs Memorandum of Agreement with Department of Defense

Agents Added to U.S.-Canada Border to Enhance Homeland Security

President's Budget requests $75 million to fund 570 new agents per year in each of 2002 and 2003. With the new agents to be added, it is estimated that about 11,000 agents will be deployed along the Nation's Northern and Southern borders by the end of 2003.

Also of interest from 1999:

[Clinton] Administration Cuts Border Patrol Deployment

Fence additional areas of the border

The plan is there, but the environmentalists and state agencies are screaming about damage to the environment.

Begin an agressive policy of prosecuting scofflaw employers (start with landscaping and cleaning companies)

President Bush signs workplace verification bill to prevent hiring of illegal aliens

Require local law enforcement to cooperate with DHS and turn over illegals that they encounter... Forbid illegals from obtaining benefits at the federal and state levels (pass legislation overturning Plyler v. Doe, if possible)

Federal law already prohibits food stamps, unemployment benefits and welfare assistance. They are eligible for Medicare on an emergency basis only. However, some states, most notably NY, have waived these federal restrictions. Some illegals are using false SS cards to get benefits though.

Create a bracero-type program, but require applicants to apply at a U.S. Embassy in their home country

President George Bush is negotiating immigration reform with Mexican President Vicente Fox. But the main reform under consideration in the post 9/11 era is no longer an amnesty for undocumented immigrants. Both governments propose a temporary worker program that looks hauntingly like the bracero program of 1941-1964.

Source

And according to the Center on Immigration Studies the bracero program is not a good thing. However, Bush is supporting another guest worker bill

[ravingnutter]

Different agencies.

Maybe you did not read AIT's statement...

If we as a nation have the power to 'go around and round up and deport' (or imprison) middle Eastern terrorists in AQ cells and what not currently in the United States, we darned well have the federal and state administrative capabilities to do it for the illegal aliens, friend.

She WAS talking about federal agencies. My point was that we cannot pull federal or state agents whose task it is to hunt down terrorists in order to apprehend two bit illegals. The enforcement needs to be done at the local level, we need a way to force the locals into action.

[ought-six]

"Rhetoric like that pushes hard working and family oriented hispanics(legal ones who were born here) right into the arms of Hillary."

Where are you from? Hispanics vote the Dim ticket almost as religiously as blacks do! That's not a racist comment (but I'm fairly certain you will take it as one), but is merely fact. I was born and raised in Southern California, and left for good in the late 1970s when I saw what was happening. I know of what I speak.

[ought-six]

The fact of the matter is that Americans of Mexican descent are very willing to help and assist their illegal brethren in breaking American laws. Ever been to Southern California?

[Mark Felton]

"Under President Bush, it would simply be slower but the outlook is still grim.",

All evidence is to the contrary of your assertion. Bush has accelerated US statist expansion.

[Bulldog1967]

It's SO nice we have a conservative (woops, I mean republican) in the WH.

This makes me sick.

[swarthyguy]

Next step to seal the election is to help American business by offloading their employees health care costs to the government.

Implementing National Health Care will cut the Democrats off at their knees.

Can't happen? Maybe, but if it is presented as a competitive enhancing tool for the American business and corporations, it would be a master stroke.

Compassionate Conservatism will have reached its heyday.

[Mo1]

You are surrendering because you think it might be "too hard" to correct and reverse this disastrous invasion by the illegals

Excuse me, but I don't recall saying anything about surrendering

But nice try

[swarthyguy]

>>Illegals won't prop up the federal entitlement systems. Making them legal taxpayers, will.

Yup. That's the true motivation.

[Spiff]

Implementing National Health Care will cut the Democrats off at their knees.

Oh, yeah! Great. The Democrats will win by losing. They'll lose power but their socialist agenda will continue unabated. And in the end it will be the socialists that win the most and the people who will lose (whether they realize it or not).

[SUSSA]

Reagan Man is absolutely right. This is a trial balloon.

You are right that the American people don’t want an amnesty for these criminals. And you are right that every politician knows it. You are mistaken if you think that matters a whit to Lyndon Baines Bush. The one thing he cares about is his political career. There is NOTHING more important to him than staying in power. He is only interested in seeing if doing this before the election will take so many votes that it might keep him from getting reelected.

If doing this only costs a few votes, and will gain him enough illegal alien votes to offset the loss, he will do it now. If not he will wait until after the election and do it then. (Some of the Bots and apologists for the criminals will claim that criminal aliens don’t vote. Just ask Bob Dornen. He was defeated by the criminal alien vote.)

This is not a trial balloon to see if people want this. It is a trial balloon about timing. Will Lyndon Baines Bush declare amnesty now, or after the election? That is the question being asked.

If he can get away with it now, he will do it now. If not, he will wait.

[Mo1]

It seems to me that a govt, of which GW is executive, that can enforce a drinking age of 21, a speed limit of 55 and pull the strings of the education marionette, can force compliance on such a simple matter as this. ,

And I believe he has the help from City and Local Gov. to help him enforce those laws .. he isn't getting that help in a number of cities regarding the illegals

As for cutting of funds to them .. what do you think the chances of Congress going along with that are?