Posted on 12/27/2004 9:23:23 AM PST by calcowgirl
I intend to fight my hardest to make sure the shamesty does not go thru.
Ditto
Agree. Been through a major airport lately ?
Count me in on the side of the line drawn in the sand by Tancredo. Going to do everything I can to bring as many with me as possible.
What is so hard about sealing the border?
If its a good idea to have a million new immigrants each year, then fine, make the argument. Lets have that discussion, nationally, publicly. What we must not do is simply accept that number because that happens to be the number that walk across the border.
Immigration policy must serve the interests of citizens. It should never be simply a tool for adjusting wages, or a means for undermining labor law, or a way to adjust voter demographics. It should serve the interests of citizens, and whatever number we arrive at, whether 300,000 a year, or ten times that number, the leadership should be able to explain how that number was arrived at, and why that number is the right one, and not some other.
Far from installing a guest-worker program, I would favor a moratorium on new immigrants for a few years, restricting it to family members of citizens, and a very few others.
The notion that immigrants take jobs that Americans don't want is a distortion of truth; they take jobs that Americans don't want at the price offered, and the conditions offered. Close off illegal immigration and wages for these jobs will exceed legal minimums without any need for a minimum wage law, as employers suddenly have to compete for workers.
Tancredo isn't going to become President or anything else. His support is about as strong as Pat Buchanan's was which is about 1%-2%.
With GOP help like this, we'll never solve California's financial problems.
"What is so hard about sealing the border?"
Do our politicians and our soldiers have the guts to shoot all Mexican males approaching the border?
Over the years Bush has displayed a lot of good old-fashioned common sense. But not on this issue. He has yet to explain why he supports giving US citizenship to people that have broken our laws. Bush said: "Family values do not stop at the Rio Grande River..." <--What the heck does that mean? Where did he get that line? From Bill Clinton? Criminal intent does not stop at the borders, various diseases do not stop at the borders, etc.
One thing that MUST BE CHANGED is the asinine idea that whenever someone enters this country illegally and then has a child that child automatically become a US citizen. What a stupid idea that has always been.
"Every 10 minutes"??? As far as I could determine, it wasn't posted before.
Travelling this Christmas holiday, every clerk and helper in Seattle and Mpls was hearing some kind of middle eastern head scarf. Reminded me of Toronto.
The details are not yet available but I am totally against what is said so far. However I am against wholesale expulsions. New laws would just mean our government and business leaders have more laws to ignore as it suits their personal benefit.
The evidence of a 1990's explosion of ILLEGAL immigration is both quantifiable and tangible. The SSA's Earnings Suspense File (ESF) of W-2 data reported for phony / stolen SSNs jumped from a yearly average of around 10 billions in earrings to over 50 billions in earnings reported per year.
Given an average of $20,000 there would be 2.5 million ILLEGAL aliens working "on the books" by 2000. (There couldn't been that many marriages and other name changes without notifying SSA in the 1990s.)
Our government and businesses invited them in. IMO.
To me if a theater chain's governing board speaks publicly about the people's right to see good movies and then hinders management from always having a ticket seller at the door, well.. personally I don't call it criminal for the public to just walk in. The governing board effectively decreed that the rules be suspended.
Most probably don't agree but surely most will consider separating the real criminals among the ILLEGAL aliens from the workers. The workers can be further refined into "off books" and "on books". There's also a breakout of seasonal and permanent jobholders.
A one-size-fits-all solutions will not work.
It is a good thing there are still some in Washington that give a damn about our borders, our laws, our soverignty, our taxpayers, and our culture.
This is the U.S. of A...not Mexico!!! Why should the citizens of the U.S. tolerate law breakers, and Washington politicians that just want to pander for votes and paybacks at the expense of the REAL U.S. CITIZEN ???
BIG QUESTION: Why should I have to meet the requirements of citizenship if these Mexicans don't??? Are there TWO SETS OF LAWS IN WASHINGTON????
I am with you. I am just getting outraged over this nonsense. My Wife came from China, LELGALLY. She come with nothing, received her green card, learned the language, worked,paid taxes and never asked the govt for anything but a chance. She now runs her own business. She is just a PO'd about illegals this as I am.
That makes too much sense. Who are you? Are you from around these parts? :)
Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo. He heads a group of 70 lawmakers who are against easing immigration laws.
Tancredo doesn't have to be the President to have an impact.
This caucus didn't even exist until about six years ago. He started it and it has grown. He will be a force to be reckoned with if any legislation is to get through the House.
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