GOP aims to block immigration reform

staugustine.com ^ | 01/02/2005 | MICHAEL FLETCHER

[ClaireSolt]

Is this for real?
"It wont take long to track them down, put them on a bus and send them home. Make sure we charge their Home Country for their tickets home too along with any medical and food bills! If the Mother and/or father is illegal, the child is illegal. Regardless if they were born on US soil or not"
It is a nightmare to even try to contemplate processing 10 million people through the current immigration courts. The advantage I see to the guest worker program is that it starts by registering aliens and their employers. Take an unrealistic hard line, if you want. The devil is in the details of enforcement, and that will require local, state, and federal cooperation which is now lacking.

[Sterco]

Was this before they cut the prevailing wage or after?

[Sterco]

The best indicator of the status of a nation is the rise or fall of it's middle class. Illegal immigration is not going to do anything to prosper the middle class. The upper class will reap the benefits of this "cheap labor" but there will be little of the profit passed on to the consumer. We need to make the President and Congress know that we are well aware of what is at stake here!!!

[26lemoncharlie]

It's about time they start cooperating. Court system? For what? If they are illegal aliens, cannot produce proof of citizenship, or a vise to the Police or Immigration Officials they are on the bus.

[Arpege92]

Maybe we should send Bush a hearing aid, because it's obvious he's not listening to the people who put him into office TWICE!!!!

[JustAnotherSavage]

BTT

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

One reason why the illegal alien problem is mushrooming is because the Boosh administration is holding out to border jumpers the tantalizing promise of a partial amnesty.

[JustAnotherSavage]

Current POLL~~!!!!
http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/lou.dobbs.tonight/


What do you believe should be the top priority for Congress this year?

Immigration reform 30% 741 votes

Social Security reform 4% 90 votes

Trade/outsourcing 36% 882 votes

Federal deficit 31% 753 votes

Total: 2466 votes

[CaptainK]

When the new Congress commences this month, key House Republicans are promising to push legislation to complete a controversial fence along the Mexican border near San Diego, to make it tougher for immigrants to attain asylum and to prevent illegal immigrants from receiving driver's licenses. At the insistence of Judiciary Chairman F. James Sensenbrenner Jr., R-Wis. -- and with the White House's approval -- Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., has promised to attach those measures "to the first must-pass legislation" that moves in the House next month.

Watch. If this legislation passes it will probably be the first veto Bush uses.

[CharliefromKS]

It is really sad when your only option is to punish your party for leaving the gate open by voting for the oppostion in the next election. It is however "leverage". One way or another the gate will be open. Punish the party in power when the issue is not dealt with. I only wish now that the issue would have been brought to a "head" prior to the election.

Agreed, sadly but wholeheartedly.