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Bill to Legalize Migrant Farmworkers Gets Support
Tucson Citizen ^
| March 25,2004
| Sergio Bustos
Posted on 03/28/2004 4:07:21 PM PST by NewRomeTacitus
Edited on 05/07/2004 5:38:08 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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WASHINGTON - House and Senate lawmakers rallied yesterday behind legislation that would legalize as many as 500,000 illegal immigrants employed as farmworkers, but the Bush administration has yet to endorse the measure.
Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, and Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., the bill's chief sponsors, are urgently working to get the measure onto the Senate floor before the end of the year. They are trying for support from at least 60 senators. So far, the bill has attracted 54 sponsors from both parties.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; Mexico
KEYWORDS: agbill; aliens; amnesty; berman; cannon; craig; farmworkers; hastert; illegalimmigrants; kennedy; laraza; migrants; ufw
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If this goes through (and it looks like it will) how many more hundreds of thousands of illegals will inundate our country?
To: NewRomeTacitus
Hundreds of thousands? You are a conservative...
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posted on
03/28/2004 4:08:20 PM PST
by
ECM
To: ECM
Hundreds of thousands? You are a conservative... I'm sure he meant per month. Or maybe per week.
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posted on
03/28/2004 4:09:40 PM PST
by
neutrino
(Oderint dum metuant: Let them hate us, so long as they fear us.)
To: neutrino
Touche.
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posted on
03/28/2004 4:16:54 PM PST
by
ECM
To: NewRomeTacitus
But in January, he [Bush] outlined a "set of principles"...He could use a "set".
To: NewRomeTacitus
How many microseconds would a proposal to legalize migrant attorneys last?
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posted on
03/28/2004 4:24:17 PM PST
by
SpaceBar
To: NewRomeTacitus
It would be interesting to see Rove's numbers on this. Is it really true that he will gain more votes than he will lose? I think it is foolish from a political point of view; it is certainly a disaster from any other point of view.
Bad policy makes for bad politics, as they say.
To: NewRomeTacitus
Regarding Chris Cannon:
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,595051170,00.html He has a challenger who pledges to oppose illegal immigration and other Cannon favorites:
http://www.matt4utah.com/ From this: www.vdare.com/guzzardi/californication.htm
"most Utahns are deeply offended by the flagrant violation of the Articles of Faith of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints... Throckmorton, a Church member himself, said: The Articles of Faith are of great importance to Utahns. Article 12 states clearly that we must obey, honor and sustain the law." (One of Throckmorton's supporters got into trouble by falsely claiming that because of this the LDS had endorsed Throckmorton, but the way he states it is probably quite OK.)
Also see www.vdare.com/guzzardi/cannon.htm
To: NewRomeTacitus
The lawmakers have spent more than seven years crafting the legislation - the Agricultural Job Opportunity, Benefits and Security Act - and have assembled an unusual coalition of groups to back it. They include the American Farm Bureau, the United Farm Workers, the AFL-CIO, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Council of La Raza.Well, it appears as though at least one racist organization, the National Council of La Raza, has come out in support of this bill. I wonder if any other racist organizations, such as the Ku Klux Klan or the White Aryan Brotherhood, will also support this bill.
To: SpaceBar
The NAFTA has pretty much done that already, and it passed about ten years ago now.
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posted on
03/28/2004 4:49:19 PM PST
by
Il Duce
To: NewRomeTacitus
Way to go Hastert. Sheesh.
To: gubamyster; HiJinx; A Navy Vet; Lion Den Dan; Free the USA; Libertarianize the GOP; madfly; ...
More government fun.
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posted on
03/28/2004 4:52:55 PM PST
by
NewRomeTacitus
(Considering leaving to return as an illegal alien so I can get citizen's benefits.)
To: NewRomeTacitus
How is this different from the laws that exist to let temporary sugar can pickers into this country? It is not.
We need to use this as an opportunity to build our borders.
To: CasearianDaoist
"It would be interesting to see Rove's numbers on this. Is it really true that he will gain more votes than he will lose?"
I'm firmly convinced Bush would pick up more Hispanic votes by cracking down instead of pandering. The majority of Hispanic-descended citizens are sick of it and watch their wages undercut like everyone else.
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posted on
03/28/2004 5:01:24 PM PST
by
NewRomeTacitus
(Considering leaving to return as an illegal alien so I can get citizen's benefits.)
To: longtermmemmory
I can remember when most migrant farm workers were white. At least they were in California.
To: NewRomeTacitus
I agree, at least for the ones inclined to vote Republican in the first place. I get the feeling that the GOP leadership is getting more and more out of touch with what people want - not some "conservative base" but just regular people. Most of the country has strong feelings about certain issues and not a lot of ideological motivations. This is one of those issues.
I am often puzzled by their tin ear for this.
If Bush would just come out and say that he was going to close the borders he would be a shoe-in. I thought they buried this issue but they cannot leave well enough alone. One step forward and two step back.
To: NewRomeTacitus
I agree, at least for the ones inclined to vote Republican in the first place. I get the feeling that the GOP leadership is getting more and more out of touch with what people want - not some "conservative base" but just regular people. Most of the country has strong feelings about certain issues and not a lot of ideological motivations. This is one of those issues.
I am often puzzled by their tin ear for this.
If Bush would just come out and say that he was going to close the borders he would be a shoe-in. I thought they buried this issue but they cannot leave well enough alone. One step forward and two step back.
To: NewRomeTacitus
To: judgeandjury
"it appears as though at least one racist organization...has come out in support of this bill"
It's worse than you know. OSHA has embraced the Council of La Raza in their Partnerships program. They want to go beyond insuring safety by providing illegals "help up the ladder of success". OSHA has never done that for citizens.
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posted on
03/28/2004 5:18:17 PM PST
by
NewRomeTacitus
(Considering leaving to return as an illegal alien so I can enjoy what I helped pay for.)
To: CasearianDaoist
Is it a tin ear, or do they just not care a whit what you or I think? They mean to impose this on Americans whether we like it or not. Its good for agribusiness donors, even if it is a bit hard on taxpayers.
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posted on
03/28/2004 5:22:45 PM PST
by
Ahban
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