Posted on 01/13/2004 8:55:32 AM PST by Happy2BMe
Poll Hints Bush Immigrant Plans Unpopular Just over half, 55 percent, said they oppose the plan, while 42 percent favor it, according to a CNN-USA Today-Gallup poll out Monday. By a 2-1 margin, those in the poll said immigrants hurt the economy by driving wages down for many Americans rather than help the economy by providing low-cost labor. In 2000, people were split on that question. When people were asked whether the United States should make it easier for illegal immigrants to become citizens, 74 percent said no - up from 67 percent in August 2001. The poll of 1,003 adults was taken Jan. 9-11 and had a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points. NewsMax.com Wires
WASHINGTON -- More than half of Americans oppose President Bush's plan that would allow some illegal immigrants to stay for several years to work jobs U.S. citizens don't want, a poll indicates.
Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2004
Lots of things are wrong yet sometimes cops let people go with a warning or DA chose not to prosecute where common sense dictates.
rewarding illegal immigration is also wrong and encourages more illegal immigration,
Under this plan people who are already here illegally are not given any preference, indeed they pay a fine nobody else pays. That doesn't sound like a reward to me.
do you honestly believe the illegals will happily "register", pay fines, and promptly leave the country after 3 years?
That's why we need a carrot and stick approach. The idea here is that given a legal pool of foreign labor employers will stay out of the black market and illegals won't be able to find work and will deport themselves. That requires enforcement of course, but there's still plenty of room for that in this proposal. In fact this plan would remove a lot of the pressures both external and internal to the bureaucracy that prevent enforcement.
Tancredo Blasts Immigration Plan
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Tom Tancredo's version of Immigration Reform - H.R. 3534 (introduced by Rep. Tom Tancredo)
A very high percentage will.
An even higher number are seeing red in multiple technicolor.
Nails are being spit across the room and there is lots of hog tying going on.
Other than that, everybody's happy - business as usual.
I agree. I can swallow the other if they would address tge border problems to keep this from just creating another influx.
I don't think Mexico waited a single minute in turning that information over to Washington.
Because employers would have a legal pool of labor and wouldn't want to risk hiring illegals. Thus illegals will have reason to come over.
Does an illegal immigrant who arrives after this thing would start get to apply for this also, therefore becoming a guest worker too?
Not as currently conceived. If that were to be the case the whole thing would be pointless. I suppose Congress could screw it up though.
Now every single construction company in the U.S has to only pay its workers minimum wage.
If construction work is really so economically valuable then we could just raise the minimum wage.
There is just a little info online.
Brian , You can't seriously believe that the illegals won't, out of gratitude, pack up and leave after three years or six.
All it takes is one anchor baby and the go home clause becomes toilet paper.
The reason GWB is in office today is because many liberals opposed Gore's stance on environmental issues and voted Nader.
Tell me about. I live near a liberal mecca and their shrill cries are damaging my high frequency hearing.
What would be the risk in hiring illegals as opposed to the risk Now?
If construction work is really so economically valuable then we could just raise the minimum wage.
Well I know I worked as a surveyor when I was in my twenties on a 5 mile piece of highway in Dallas that was bid at $250,000,000 and that was only one of three sections. I know there is highway construction right now going on north of Dallas that is certainly bid more than that. I know home builders have been building like crazy for the last 5 or so years putting up quarter of a million dollar houses all over in the DFW metroplex. I assume that is happening in other cities as well so I would say that is a lot of money flowing into the system.
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