Posted on 11/10/2004 12:51:19 PM PST by VU4G10
(Washington, DC—November 10, 2004) It wasn't quite "Read my lips," but in the last presidential debate in Arizona, George W. Bush clearly stated that he would not support amnesty for illegal aliens. One week after being narrowly returned to office, the president has reneged on that pledge. Bush has dispatched Secretary of State Colin Powell to Mexico City to open discussions with the Mexican government about the size and scope of amnesty for illegal immigrants and for a massive new guest worker program.
"President Bush and Karl Rove have seemingly missed the message of their own, and the Republican Party's, success at the polls last week," said Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR). "In spite of a poor record on jobs, further erosion of the middle class, and staggering budget deficits, the people returned the GOP to office because they believed that the Republican Party was more in tune with them on values and respect for the law. One of those gut issues that led voters to ignore the administration's poor record in other areas was the belief that Bush and the Republicans would enforce laws against illegal immigration, not reward illegal immigrants and auction off every job in America to the lowest bidder."
The immigration plan being dusted off in Washington and Mexico City is essentially the same one the administration introduced last January, which proved to be so wildly unpopular among voters that they were forced to shelve it. "Who is the president seeking to reward by reintroducing his amnesty/guest worker proposal?" asked Stein. "Not middle class workers who made it very clear that they are feeling squeezed. Not the millions of families who have lost their health insurance benefits because their employers no longer feel that it is necessary to offer such benefits to attract American workers. Not Hispanic voters, whom polls indicate do not consider this to be high priority and who voted in significant numbers in favor of an Arizona ballot measure that bars illegal aliens from receiving most public benefits.
"The only interest group, besides the estimated 10 to 12 million illegal aliens and their families who could be in line for legal U.S. residency, are cheap labor employers who have come to believe that it is their right to have workers who will work at whatever wages they wish to pay," Stein said.
The latest White House announcement will touch off yet another surge in illegal immigration and further compromise homeland security, predicted FAIR. Last January, when the president first proposed this plan, the U.S. Border Patrol reported a marked increase in the number of people attempting to enter the U.S. illegally in order to benefit from the proposed amnesty. "Aside from betraying the interests of millions of people who voted for him because they believed the president shared their core values, this irresponsible renewal of talk of amnesty will betray those who voted for him because they believed the Republicans were the party that could be entrusted to protect homeland security. You cannot have homeland security and chaos at the border. You cannot have homeland security while granting amnesty to millions of people with only minimal background checks. And you certainly cannot have amnesty and unlimited guest workers, and preserve a solid middle class," asserted Stein.
Nah, your union leadership does that for you.
Deport these people, give the airlines a boost.
Are you Tom Dashcle?
It's unseemly to talk about physical labor and hourly wages.
That's little people commie-talk
"This comes from much higher than US presidents"....
Like whom, pray tell?
An amnesty exonerates a criminal prior to ever being charged, so as to avoid the negative effects of wearing a criminal record, which generally would disqualify anyone from immigrating legally to the United States, let alone being naturalized.
No such blanket amnesty for citizens of the United States is being proposed for any other broad category of crimes.
Don't you think it just a tad odd that the President of the United States would reserve such extraordinary treatment for foreign nationals, and not the citizens he allegedly represents?
A tiny little note: I met an amnestied illegal alien in Los Angeles the other day (yeah, I asked him). He's now a security guard. He had a rather large semi-auto pistol strapped to his waist. It was truly surreal: knowing that this guy broke a laundry list of laws to get into, and stay in the United States, and he has nothing - nothing - in his background now that would point to such. Clean as a newborn baby, walking around with a big ol' hog-leg. "Yo soy Norteamericano".
And you think a lousy administrative fee is all its worth?
I might buy a little gastarbeiter program. Here's the conditions (only for those who apply from inside the U.S., while here illegally):
Are antivirals not drugs, Jorge?
So I take it you're a white-collar kinda guy, read the Wall St. Journal and all? In case you're unaware, blue-collar working class built the Republican party and elected Ronald Reagan. It's the corporate slugs who are along for the ride, not the other way around.
They won't return to Mexico, of course. Enforcement? The enforcement will resemble the current enforcement of immigration laws, nil.
With an estimated 15 million illegal aliens already here, and with some states going broke trying to support them, and with the knowledge that millions more will come to get in on the freebies, who will pay the bills? American taxpayers?
Will we have more of our hospitals closed? Will Americans have to build new schools? Will our welfare system go belly up? Will Americans have to build new prisons to house our guests? Gee, maybe we can send the bills to Vicente Fox, he'll be sure to write a check to cover it. If you live in a border state you'll know what I'm talking about. If not, it's coming to your state soon.
I don't know. Are they?
Look at your prescriptions and tell us.
And if you don't see them on your list perhaps you should try them.
In any case I don't take antivirals.
Sorry to disappoint you.
Youre welcome.
Maybe somebody lurking out there can take these thoughts and develop them further.
I do believe we can address this issue successfully with committment and will, and a carefully constructed plan.
Looks like Bush just ignored what the people of Arizona just said through their votes on 200. This crap is never ending.
Well .. that's a separate issue and since I don't know anything about what Fox wants or doesn't want .. I will not argue with you.
I was discussing the wording of the document - that's all.
You bet it is.
But "they" claim to be the "real" Conservatives. It just boggles the mind.
How do you figure that?
Strange they would trot this crap out while a big battle is going on. Probably hoped no one would notice.
Are you paying attention to things people post to you?
I hope your not saying that landscaping is skilled-labor. Its hard work, but hardly a necessity.
Hell, my son and me do our own landscaping.
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