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Bush backs restraints on illegal immigrants
The Orange County Register ^ | Wednesday, February 9, 2005 | By DENA BUNIS

Posted on 02/09/2005 3:23:08 PM PST by So Cal Rocket

White House sides with bill to bar illegal immigrants from using driver's licenses to board planes or enter federal facilities.

WASHINGTON – The Bush administration today gave a boost to a Republican-backed measure being debated on the House floor this week that would bar illegal immigrants from using driver's licenses to board airplanes or enter federal facilities.

All five GOP House members from Orange County have co-sponsored the measure.

"The administration strongly supports House passage of HR418, to strengthen the ability of the United States to protect against terrorist entry into and activities within the United States," said a policy statement issued today.

This is the first such sweeping support of the bill by President George W. Bush. How members vote on this measure could be the first indication of where lawmakers stand on the broader, more controversial issue of immigration reform.

(Excerpt) Read more at ocregister.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government
KEYWORDS: aliens; hr418; immigration; nationalid; statesrights; unappeasable; whinybabiesunite
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To: raybbr

The answer to your questions is in the bill.


81 posted on 02/09/2005 6:54:32 PM PST by Marine Inspector (Customs & Border Protection Officer)
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To: curiosity
"What's wrong with a national ID card?"

It's always been presumed that gun-banners wanted a National ID card in order to enforce almost hidden, gradual encroachments against gun ownership by requiring gun shops to accept only national ID's (which could be denied, confiscated, or marked as ineligible on flimsy pretexts based upon whichever Party was in power at the moment).

It's also generally considered un-American to give federal agents the power to demand ID from law-abiding citizens ("Your papers, please").

82 posted on 02/09/2005 6:55:20 PM PST by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: Marine Inspector
"BTW, no apologies are needed."

Thanks, but it *was* my error.

83 posted on 02/09/2005 6:57:16 PM PST by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: COEXERJ145; Howlin; Poohbah; Southack

I back him, but I do NOT like the notion of a national ID card, either. My concern is about what this opens the door for down the road.


84 posted on 02/09/2005 7:05:09 PM PST by hchutch (A pro-artificial turf, pro-designated hitter baseball fan.)
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To: hchutch

You and I agree on this topic. I see the national ID or networked state IDs as very troubling. Down the road is the key. The govnerment never gives back power. I continues to amass it. This is just a stepping stone to total control IMO.


85 posted on 02/09/2005 7:10:45 PM PST by DoughtyOne (US socialist liberalism would be dead without the help of politicians who claim to be conservative.)
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To: Southack
No National ID Card

A drivers license is NOT just a drivers license. It is the most accepted form of identification in this or any country. It is your identity. Your picture to collaberate the Social Security Number on the card.

Q: Can you buy beer or a pack of cigarrettes without a license? Can you get into a club without a license? Rent a car or a carpet cleaner? Write a check? Visit a doctor or a dentist? You cannot rent a hotel room, or take a blood test without a drivers license

A: You're not supposed to. In most cases, the establishment can get hefty fines from the government if they don't ask you to produce PROPER identification. The status quo is a DRIVERS LICENSE.

86 posted on 02/09/2005 7:13:32 PM PST by ijcr
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To: DoughtyOne

Well, it's happening - and conservatives are being suckered into going along on claims that it will stop illegal immgiration. It won't. People will eventually find a way around this.

I would prefer an out-and-out amnesty (as opposed to the President's plan) to this first step to a national ID card, and I believe those who bought into Michelle Malkin's fear-mongering and who fought the President on this issue deserve some of the blame for this bill even seeing the light of day.

I hope you don't mind, but I'm going to hope this gets filibustered in the Senate.


87 posted on 02/09/2005 7:19:02 PM PST by hchutch (A pro-artificial turf, pro-designated hitter baseball fan.)
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To: hchutch

I do mind, but that's what make life interesting.

Could you tell me what volume of illegal immigration per year might constitute an invasion? Would you ever agree that it is an invasion?

1 million?
3 million?
5 million?
10 million?
20 million?


88 posted on 02/09/2005 7:21:49 PM PST by DoughtyOne (US socialist liberalism would be dead without the help of politicians who claim to be conservative.)
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To: Southack
The real zinger which should please some folks is Sec 202, p. (a) Minimum Standards for Federal Use-

No airport travel,no FDIC bank accounts,no FHA mortgages,no Medicare,no Medicaid,etc.etc.

89 posted on 02/09/2005 7:38:24 PM PST by ijcr
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To: DoughtyOne; Southack

You're not addressing the issue.

What level of encroachment on civil liberites is an acceptable tradeoff to stop this supposed "invasion" (I just do not think that maids, nannies, honor students, construction workers, and gardeners and janitors, among others are remotely comparable to an invasion force)? How much liberty is worth trading for the government's promise that it will stop the "invasion"?

Do you mind telling me that?


90 posted on 02/09/2005 7:43:59 PM PST by hchutch (A pro-artificial turf, pro-designated hitter baseball fan.)
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To: hchutch

When you answer my question, I'll answer yours.

What I like about you OBL trolls, is that you won't carry on a discussion. You avoid answering questions because you know you're dead wrong. I'm not playing that game.

Answer up!


91 posted on 02/09/2005 7:47:01 PM PST by DoughtyOne (US socialist liberalism would be dead without the help of politicians who claim to be conservative.)
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To: ijcr
Q: Can you buy beer or a pack of cigarrettes without a license?

Yes.

92 posted on 02/09/2005 9:17:36 PM PST by Marine Inspector (Customs & Border Protection Officer)
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To: T.L.Sink

If the President is changing his tune on immigration reform, he still has a long long way to go to convince this conservative he is serious about reversing the status quo policy of the federal government.


93 posted on 02/09/2005 9:20:48 PM PST by Reagan Man ("Don't let the bastards grind you down." General "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell)
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To: Southack

I hope the government does try to take our guns away. Perhaps then "the people" will decide they have had enough of the bloated monstrosity we now call a government, we can revolt, and return our government to what it was meant to be.


94 posted on 02/09/2005 10:24:04 PM PST by teenyelliott (Soilent green is made of liberals...)
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To: Marine Inspector

Fear of law suits for profiling is changing this,they are carding seasoned citizens nowadays.


95 posted on 02/09/2005 10:26:23 PM PST by ijcr
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To: Marine Inspector
More 'Bush' "symbolism over substance" as Rush likes to say.

Wow, this will stop terrorists from taking advantage of our asylum laws. What about the ones that just want to cross our porous borders, kill Americans and leave?

How does this deter gang-bangers, drug-smugglers, murderers, car thieves, assassins, hit-men, foreign agents and members of foreign criminal organizations i.e., the Russian Mafia, Yakuza or the Chinese Triads?

Bush's antics in office are as insulting to the intelligence of the American people as anything the Clintons ever did.

96 posted on 02/10/2005 1:21:22 AM PST by 4Freedom (America is no longer the 'Land of Opportunity', it's the 'Land of Illegal Alien Opportunists'!!!>)
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To: 4Freedom
More 'Bush' "symbolism over substance" as Rush likes to say. Wow, this will stop terrorists from taking advantage of our asylum laws. What about the ones that just want to cross our porous borders, kill Americans and leave? How does this deter gang-bangers, drug-smugglers, murderers, car thieves, assassins, hit-men, foreign agents and members of foreign criminal organizations i.e., the Russian Mafia, Yakuza or the Chinese Triads? Bush's antics in office are as insulting to the intelligence of the American people as anything the Clintons ever did.

Couldn't have said it better myself! Blackbird.

97 posted on 02/10/2005 3:22:15 AM PST by BlackbirdSST
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To: Southack

Are you serious?

Wonder how long before false "national ID cards" flood the market.


98 posted on 02/10/2005 3:56:58 AM PST by stopem
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To: Southack
Hi :-)
I've been reading your comments on this thread and there's one additional thing to consider regrading this Bill and the term "ID", and that is - not everyone (citizen) has a DL. Hundreds of thousands across the USA have and use a State issued Photo ID Card instead, especially the disabled.

All states issue them (DMV or Sec of State office) and IMHO its a good idea for everyone to have them - yes even if you have a DL. After all, how many times a week, or month, is one asked for their DL when cashing a check and such, and you're pulling your DL in and out of your wallet. A state issued ID eliminates this and the chance of leaving your DL on some counter. Then there's those who give their DL up as bond for a moving violation and are then left WITHOUT a photo ID until the court date, again the state ID comes to the rescue.

Okay, that's all, gotta go. Have a nice day :-)

99 posted on 02/10/2005 6:04:46 AM PST by Condor51 (May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't. - Gen G Patton)
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To: Bush_Democrat

"OMG, what will the Bush-Bashers complain about NOW???"

....a serious lack of common sense and testicular fortitude.


100 posted on 02/10/2005 7:15:13 AM PST by taxed2death (A few billion here, a few trillion there...we're all friends right?)
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