Powell Tackles Illegal Immigrant Issue

Yahoo News ^ | 9 Nov 04 | GEORGE GEDDA, Associated Press Writer

[Ginifer]

"will place a high priority in his second term on granting legal status to millions of migrants who live illegally in the United States"

This is ridiculous...we must not let this pass.

[Bikers4Bush]

Amnesty. Disgusting, we need to de-rail this.

[blowfish]

gosh I like Colin Powell, it's just so easy to hate every issue he is in favor of (or so it seems)

He's not the one setting policy here, Bush is.

[SJSAMPLE]

I guaran-frickin-tee you that right now, as I type, there is a STAMPEDE at the US-MEXICO border. Anybody care to guess which direction?

This has got to stop.

[StoneColdGOP]

Secretary of State Colin Powell said Tuesday that President Bush will place a high priority in his second term on granting legal status to millions of migrants who live illegally in the United States.

Yeah. Glad this guy got re-elected...

[Truth29]

www.fairus.org

[international american]

I knew this crap was coming...Bush wasted no time...one lousy week!!

[NJ_gent]

"Yeah. Glad this guy got re-elected..."

Cue the "but it's not amnesty!" drones in 5..4..3..2..

[dennisw]

This will fail again. Perhaps GW likes to go through the motions in order to pander to the Hispanic voters. I can live with that.

[Aut Pax Aut Bellum]

This is an insult to others who have struggled and waited and spent much money to come here legally. My wife is trying to get her sister (from Hong Kong) to come to visit, but she has been consistantly denied (they assume she will stay here, despite her good job, family there,etc). A press release like this will cause us to be overwelmed with illegals. Legalising all of them will overwelm our system that stinks now. It takes up to 180 days for legal immigrants to get a work visa and two years to get a green card...imagine dumping up to 15 million into that system...

Seems like illegal people get priority , and those who go through channels are made to wait, and rank second...

[persephone35]

You are not kidding this is ridiculous. If ever there was a blunt point indicating the total disconnect between the general public and their government, this has got to be one of the BIG ONES.

You are right. It has to be stopped. We've already had something like 8 previous amnesties. More than once was enough.

The question is: How do we convince the "powers that be" aka Bush, et al.

[NJ_gent]

"This has got to stop."

Good luck on that one. The two major parties have been in a race to pry our borders wide open for a while. It'll stop when every last resource of the US has been exhausted, our economy has collapsed, and the US is as poor as Mexico. That, of course, assumes we survive the WoT, which is a bit of a long shot so long as we maintain wide-open borders.

[dennisw]

How about a nice "matricula consular" card so you could stash funds in a bank without IRS knowing or caring. I'll bet you there are thousands of legal Hispanics who do this. Have above board accounts the IRS knows about and their secret "matricula consular" accounts. Works great since so many Spanish names are common. Such as Jose Rodriguez.

[NJ_gent]

"I would like a list of the federal laws I can break and have the goverment reward me for breaking them."

Well now that all depends. Do you work hard? Are you doing jobs that other Americans just don't want to do? Are you obeying at least some laws?

[Gefreiter]

Hmmm.

Maybe I'll be reimbursed for all the $$ I spent on allowing my wife to stay here legally over the years.

Let's see, hefty application fees for various visas (student, occupational training, permanent resident/probationary, lawful permanent resident), tons of missed work to do all this jazz in person, tolls/parking/ fuel (I live 100 miles from INS), some lawyer fees here and there when I had specific questions about forms...

I figger that an amnesty should get me about $ 2000 back. A conservative, and entirely reasonable, figure.

So I should submit my invoice straight to the head of Homeland Security, or to the White House?

[Politicalmom]

Illegal immigration should be our next target.

[skeeter]

How did they get this:

Secretary of State Colin Powell said Tuesday that President Bush will place a high priority in his second term on granting legal status to millions of migrants who live illegally in the United States.

From this:

"The president is committed to comprehensive immigration reform as a high priority in his second term, and he will work closely with our Congress to achieve this goal," Powell said