Okay. This I've heard before. Do you happen to have a link where I can examine Tancredo's plan to contrast it with what the President is wanting?
Okay. This I've heard before. Do you happen to have a link where I can examine Tancredo's plan to contrast it with what the President is wanting?
http://www.mnforsustain.org/immg_congressional_immigration_reform_tancredo.htm
Establish a Genuine Guest Worker Program"Enact a genuine Guest Worker Bill (HR 3534) to allow any foreign national to enter the US legally to work for up to one year in a job that cannot be filled by a citizen.
Require employers to advertise all jobs on an internet bulletin board and for two weeks before hiring a Guest Worker.
Require illegal aliens already in the U.S. to first return home and apply for jobs through the legal processes."
There is a *myth* that Tancredo's program is not available to illegals already here. As you can see in the last line above, it is available to them, they just have to go back home temporarily to apply.
That's the difference in Tancredo's plan from Bush's. Under President Bush's plan, illegals can pay a fine and register themselves and their employers while here, *or* they can return to their home countries, apply, and avoid the fine.
Under either plan, all illegals are eligible; the difference is in from where they *must* apply.
That tiny difference will be compromised, and an immigration plan will be passed.
The news media will point to this issue as being a great "wedge" in the Republican Party. In reality, one difference in two immigration proposals (Bush's and Tancredo's) is hardly enough to drive Republicans into the waiting arms of Democrats and fringe-Party radicals.
Won't happen.
FR Thread with details: Tom Tancredo’s Four-Point Plan for Immigration Control
Southack posted Point 3 of the 4 points.