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Bush faces GOP fight over guest workers
AP via Bakersfield.com ^ | 12/27/2004 | TOM RAUM

Posted on 12/27/2004 9:23:23 AM PST by calcowgirl

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To: calcowgirl
Congress should just ignore Bush on this, and get to work on other things where they do agree--taxes, judges, military, social policy. If they don't hold hearings and send a bill to the floor, then nothing comes of it. He won't throw a hissy fit and veto bills that don't include immigration reform, so in the end he will do nothing except claim credit for trying.

Unfortunately, this means that good immigration reform, like sending illegal aliens back and real border control will go by the wayside in this administration. Hopefully, the next one will feel free to tackle this issue. Legal Hispanics benefit when illegals are minimized.

21 posted on 12/27/2004 10:12:04 AM PST by Defiant (Democrats: Don't go away mad, just go away.)
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To: calcowgirl

This is all based on the idea of filling "jobs that Americans don't want to do". You can put that problem right back to a welfare system that encourages able bodied slackers not to work at any job.


22 posted on 12/27/2004 10:18:44 AM PST by SWAMPSNIPER
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To: calcowgirl

I'm curious as to how Mexico deals with immigration? Is Vicente Fox as generous in regards to this in his country?


23 posted on 12/27/2004 10:20:14 AM PST by bushfamfan
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To: ghitma
BUMP!

My wife arrived from Colombia and endured 10 years of paperwork and waiting before she became a citizen finally. I stand in outrage against this travesty of justice with immigration laws.

24 posted on 12/27/2004 10:24:49 AM PST by Caipirabob (Democrats.. Socialists..Commies..Traitors...Who can tell the difference?)
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To: COEXERJ145

By "Go Tancredo" I meant "GO" in his position to have our immigration and border security laws beefed up and/or enforced before giving in to President Bush's request for this "guest worker" program.


25 posted on 12/27/2004 10:26:57 AM PST by DTogo (U.S. out of the U.N. & U.N out of the U.S.)
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To: DTogo

"Opposition is strongest among House Republicans."

No, opposition is strongest by the majority of Americans. GWB, for the life of me I cannot understand, is totally clueless about this issue.

Illegal aliens are destroying our country, period. They weaken the fabric of this country and contribute to lawlessness.

Although I campaigned for GWB, I will campaign against his program as much as I can.


26 posted on 12/27/2004 10:31:50 AM PST by chris1 ("Make the other guy die for his country" - George S. Patton Jr.)
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To: Missouri
You say: "Tancredo will be a force to be reckoned with if any legislation is to get thru the House".

Tancredo says: The immigration reform bill that comes out of Congress will be worse than the Bush plan

27 posted on 12/27/2004 10:32:34 AM PST by Ben Ficklin
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To: calcowgirl

Here is one posting:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1308365/posts


28 posted on 12/27/2004 10:32:55 AM PST by drt1
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To: chris1
I'm with you! Lawful and enforcable immigration? Sure! More of the situation we have now? HELL NO!!

Until immigration laws and border security are truly enforced, any guest worker program further undermines our national and economic security.

30 posted on 12/27/2004 10:38:15 AM PST by DTogo (U.S. out of the U.N. & U.N out of the U.S.)
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To: TonyRo76
Pro-polyglot multiculturalists can kiss my culata!

Well you sure put that muy grande culata out for everybody to see.

Oh BTW, you do know that hillary is flashing her grande culata to you all knee jerkers, and many on FR are more than willing to kiss it.

31 posted on 12/27/2004 10:40:50 AM PST by Dane
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Chigago is a joke of an AP to be in a civilized country.

It operates like it's managed by dope-heads.

Their "security" is laughable because suppliers of vendors in the concourses have access to unchecked aircraft handling areas supposedly reserved for AC handlers. There should never be plane handlers and vendor suppliers with cross-access in terminal areas.


32 posted on 12/27/2004 10:42:18 AM PST by azhenfud ("He who is always looking up seldom finds others' lost change...")
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To: TonyRo76

Go Try This, Go Ahead - I Dare You! If you have a Death Wish!



Enter Mexico illegally. Never mind immigration quotas, visas, international law, or any of that nonsense.

Once there, demand that the local government provide free medical care for you and your entire family.

Demand bilingual nurses and doctors.

Demand free bilingual local government forms, bulletins, etc. Procreate abundantly.

Deflect any criticism of this allegedly irresponsible reproductive behavior with,"It is a cultural United States thing. You would not understand, pal."

Keep your American identity strong. Fly Old Glory from your rooftop, or proudly display it in your front window or on your car bumper.

Speak only English at home and in public and insist that your children do likewise.

Demand classes on American culture in the Mexican school system.

Demand a local Mexican driver license. This will afford other legal rights and will go far to legitimize your unauthorized, illegal, presence in Mexico.

Insist that local Mexican law enforcement teach English to all its officers.

Good luck! You'll be demanding for the rest of time or soon dead. Because it will never happen.

It will not happen in Mexico or any other country in the world... Except right here. Land of the naive.

God Bless America--She needs it.



33 posted on 12/27/2004 10:43:10 AM PST by Sterco
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To: drt1

Thanks. I searched for it, but with everchanging AP titles, it is difficult to find them sometimes.
However, I do note that it was 48 hours ago, not 10 minutes ;-)


34 posted on 12/27/2004 10:43:15 AM PST by calcowgirl
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To: azhenfud

The worst part about the proposed program is that it will not work. Employers will continue to pay these people off the books. These wonderful creatures will continue to send money overseas and will continue to refuse to learn English and will continue to undermine America.


35 posted on 12/27/2004 10:44:22 AM PST by chris1 ("Make the other guy die for his country" - George S. Patton Jr.)
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To: DTogo
Let's just set the headline up the way it should be.

Bush faces GOP fight over illegal workers.

There, that gives an honest appraisal of the story. It is amazing how a little sugar coating effects the meaning and slant of the same story.

36 posted on 12/27/2004 10:46:00 AM PST by meenie
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To: Sterco

One of the best posts I have seen.

You forgot though:

Try to stand on a corner interferring with traffic and run up to cars asking to be paid wages without paying taxes to the gov't.


37 posted on 12/27/2004 10:46:05 AM PST by chris1 ("Make the other guy die for his country" - George S. Patton Jr.)
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To: chris1
These wonderful creatures will continue to send money overseas and will continue to refuse to learn English and will continue to undermine America

Huh, I guess an Iraishman or Italian sending money back to Dublin or Naples in 1906 is also the epitomie of evil.

38 posted on 12/27/2004 10:48:17 AM PST by Dane
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