MUST READ Comments from Dem candidates on Pres Bush's Immigration Initiative -- Starting w/DEAN

Democrat Presidential campaign press releases (links follow each release) | January 7, 2004 | PhiKapMom

[PhiKapMom]

The bold and underline are mine. For anyone that still doesn't think there is a difference between Republicans and Democrats, please read the comments of the Democrat contenders for President. If their ideas don't scare you, nothing will.

[PhiKapMom]

Will you please leave these comments by the Democrat Presidential candidates in Breaking News for this evening at least so people can compare what the democrats have to say and realize just how far left these people are.

If you have any questions, please freep mail me.

Many thanks!

PKM

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[PhiKapMom]

Please read these comments from the democrat Presidential candidates and you will realize that Pres Bush's initiative on Immigration Reform not only doesn't please any of them but they want to make illegals citizens. President Bush does not!

[PRND21]

President Bush's plan would move millions of people into a second-class status with no real promise of citizenship.

John Edwards wanted an amnesty. Bush didn't give him what he wanted and he's pouting...sounds familiar.

[NeoCaveman]

Everyone of them ran to the left of where Bush went, talk about idiots who could have exploited the situation by going right. They never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

[Maynerd]

Thank you. Good post.

[Zipporah]

..they're all in bed together..

[Cold Heat]

They are all trapped in the leftist box!

Just like Rush said today on his show.

Bush has pushed them slap of the map.

[Bella]

..they're all in bed together..

One big orgy.

[KantianBurke]

They and Bush are wrong. It'll be cold comfort to those blue collar folks who have played by the rules to know that all of the candidates for President think as they do.

[woodyinscc]

Thanks for the ping.

I wish the purists would take some time to read what the other side of the coin is.

As for me, I do not think President Bush is doing any pandering. I think he is trying to stop an out of control situation, created, blessed, and condoned by the left in this country.

[Shermy]

They're trying to sound different. They are all conspiring against Americans - and feeling good about it.

[Zipporah]

..there will be some token opposition ..but this is a done deal...

[deport]

Poor Howard doesn't know what he wants or what he's going to say next...... The following is his bashing of the President for doing nothing on immigration and a list of what he would do...

Respecting Immigrants' Vital Role In Rebuilding The American Community

America is an immigrant nation. As President, I will recognize and respect the vital role immigrants have played in building the American community.

Candidate Bush promised that he would be a different kind of Republican, supportive of immigrants and their desires to achieve the American Dream. Candidate Bush promised to revamp the naturalization process so that immigrants who met the requirements could obtain their citizenship in six months or less. In 2001, President Bush said he would work with President Fox of Mexico to develop a new immigration policy that recognized the economic contribution of immigrants, particularly those from Mexico, and that would respect the human rights of these migrants.

Unfortunately, President Bush has not kept these promises.

While he made these promises and invited mariachis to play at the White House, his Attorney General, John Ashcroft, was deputizing local police authorities as junior INS agents to track down undocumented immigrants. Instead of exercising leadership to achieve comprehensive immigration reform, President Bush has turned his back on Mexico and other Latin American countries. He has ignored the dreams of millions of immigrants to become a legitimate part of our society, and not simply its unseen workforce. Instead of revamping and streamlining the immigration agency and its processes, the President has allowed the agency to be swallowed up into the Department of Homeland Security, where immigrants are routinely treated as terrorists until proven otherwise.

We need a White House that will lead Congress to enact real immigration reform. As President, I will work tirelessly to achieve that goal.


I will work to ensure that people who work hard, pay taxes, and otherwise obey the rules can become full participants in our society, including becoming citizens.

I will work to regularize the inevitable future migration of labor in a way that makes economic and humanitarian sense. Deaths in the desert do neither.

I will propose reforms that ensure we can meet our economy?s need for workers at all skill levels, without pitting foreign workers against U.S. workers and while respecting workers' rights including the right to organize.

I will work to forge stronger partnerships with countries from which immigrants migrate -- especially Mexico -- so that in the long run, fewer people will be driven by desperation to break laws and risk their lives for basic opportunities that every human being deserves.

I will work to ensure that immigrants who are detained by the Department of Homeland Security are afforded their basic civil rights and that our concern for national security does not become another excuse for racial profiling.

I will build on our country?s long history of welcoming immigrants in ways that reflect our need for security but do not sacrifice the basic ideals upon which this nation was founded.

[William McKinley]

One of the problems is that what we'll end up with is that in order to get something passed, Bush will end up having to move towards their positions, from a starting point which is already pretty bad.

[RUSure]

More pandering.

[Egon]

...allow undocumented immigrants to apply for permanent residency if they have lived in the U.S. for at least five years, worked hard, obeyed the law, and pay taxes....

This seems to be a common theme with the Democratic contenders. But I'm just a bit confused:

1. We don't know how long they've been here -- they're undocumented!
2. Who cares if they've worked hard? So have I!
3. They haven't obeyed the law -- they're here illegally!
4. How can they pay taxes? They're undocumented!

Holy Hannah.

[madprof98]

Nice try, but as you can see from the hundreds of comments this subject engendered today, there are people here who hate immigrants so much that they have already pledged to sit out the election altogether. If Dean offered to shoot these Mexicans--or abort their kids--he'd probably win their support.

[Reagan Man]

The Demlib candidates want full amnesty and citizenship for all illegals and they want it NOW!

OTOH, I believe PresBush`s new policy inititive on immigration will eventually lead to the same outcome. Granting legal status to illegal aliens is tantamount to granting a pardon. Amnesty means, granting a pardon.

The Reagan amnesty of 1986 was supposed to be a one shot deal and it was suppose to stop illegal immigration into the US. It actually did the opposite. It raised illegal immigration to higher and higher levels.

If we don't secure our borders, more and more aliens will keep entering the US illegally. The cycle will never end. Therefore, any idea of an amnesty is hopeless and an effort in futility.