[Sabertooth]

The Bush proposal would reportedly allow employers to advertise jobs on a taxpayer sponsored website. The jobs would first be made available to U.S. citizens but, if there were no takers, could then be opened up to citizens of other countries. The plan would also allow many, if not most, of the nine to 11 million illegal immigrants currently living in the U.S. to be "reclassified" as "guest workers."

"The White House diligently avoided using the 'A' word in its announcement," Stein said. "But no matter how much Karl Rove wishes to torture the English language, a program that rewards millions upon millions of people who have cheated to get into this country, who have cheated by working off-the-books and avoided paying taxes, and who have cheated by using billions of dollars in public services ... is still an amnesty."

[Sabertooth]

The leak of Bush's plan to reporters came two weeks after Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said current immigration law, which mandates that illegal aliens return to their home countries to apply for legal status in the U.S. is "not workable."

"The bottom line is, as a country we have to come to grips with the presence of 8 to 12 million illegals, afford them some kind of legal status some way," Ridge told those attending a town hall meeting in Miami Dec. 10. "But also as a country [we have to] decide what our immigration policy is and then enforce it."

[Reaganwuzthebest]

Time to start blasting Congress with our displeasure and disgust over such a proposal. As anyone who's paying attention knows, the H1-b scam displaced thousands of tech workers, and a program like this would extend that sellout to almost every industry in the country.

Lump of coal?? That's putting it mildly.

[Zipporah]

"White House has put "a lump of coal in the stockings of American workers""

Make sense of the UAW etc. supporting this ..

[kimoajax]

I am just waiting for someone to propose that U.S. Citizenships be put up for sale...sort of like the Romans in ancient times used to do. After all, it makes far more sense to me than allowing a political party to simply give them away in exchage for hoped for votes.

[waterstraat]

"The bottom line is, as a country we have to come to grips with the presence of 8 to 12 million illegals, afford them some kind of legal status some way,"

No, what we need to do is deport them.

[MissAmericanPie]

Bush knows this could cost him the election, yet it is this important to him. The Republican Party is just a tool to get his globalist agenda through while he's in office.

[Travis McGee]

"This administration is firmly against blanket amnesty."

(We are however strong advocates of serape amnestia.)

[autoresponder]

Question to GW:

"Will Mexico fully reciprocate?"

"100%?"

[ZULU]

Is there a "Petition on Line" anyplace to stop this flood of illegals into here ????

If not, there should be. I'd be more than happy to put my signature on a piece of paper to shove down Tom Ridge's and Karl Rove's rotten throats.

This continual rape of our national borders must end.

[goldstategop]

My friend, the Wall Street Journal has already assailed us as being the restrictionist right. This American will wear the intended label of derision as a badge of honor.

[Pelham]

But.. but... Karl Rove is a genius, and we little people will never notice that the illegals are getting amnesty. Plus, we Have No Place To Go, and have to vote for the Stupid Party, so they can offend us as much as they please. Or something like that.

[A. Pole]

The Bush proposal would reportedly allow employers to advertise jobs on a taxpayer sponsored website. The jobs would first be made available to U.S. citizens but, if there were no takers, could then be opened up to citizens of other countries.
[...]
Bush tried to avert such criticism at a Dec. 16 press conference in which he teased the proposal. "We need to have an immigration policy that helps match any willing employer with any willing employee,"
[...]
Stein warned that the Bush proposal would have a serious economic impact on American citizens and immigrants who have entered the country and obtained permission to work legally.
[...]
"In addition to legalizing millions of illegal aliens and countless additional family members, the 'guest worker' provision of this proposal will sound the death knell of the American middle class," Stein predicted. "Employers will never again have to compete for workers by offering better pay or benefits. They will simply have to look across the border, or across the ocean to find an unlimited supply of workers willing to accept whatever they are willing to pay."

Free trade bump.

[WhiteGuy]

"White House also wants to find some way to grant amnesty to at least some of the nine to 11 million illegal aliens currently in the U.S."

The real problem is very simple.

Whatever Bush wants, he gets.

I wish he wanted what was best for Americans.

Ron Paul 2004

[winker]

Citizen Alert! Here is proof positive of the Administration and Congress's intention to go against the will of "WE THE PEOPLE" The Traitors never mention the fact that all these illegal aliens are not registered and even they don't know how many of them they are; and now they want to open the flood gates on immigration soley for favorable votes in the upcoming election. This is socialist political strategy at its finest and natural born Americans are being played the fool in this. If they end up doing this against the will of the electorate then I am calling for impeachment of every one who votes for this socialist nightmare. America FIRST nothing less!

[ninenot]

"The bottom line is, as a country we have to come to grips with the presence of 8 to 12 million illegals, afford them some kind of legal status some way," Ridge told those attending a town hall meeting in Miami Dec. 10.

Why, Mr. Ridge?

[searchandrecovery]

Every illegal alien (not deported) lowers my standard of living.

[Henchman]

Legal Aliens have to waive any public assistance for 5 years. In essence legalizing these sneaky thieving cheats is taking away US taxpayers money and telling "legals" they were stupid. IF the story is true, I won't vote Democrat, but I surely won't vote for Bush.