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McCain immigration bill to be challenged
KVOA Tucson TV ^ | 15 May 2005 0632AM AZ Local Time | Peter Busch

Posted on 05/15/2005 7:30:54 AM PDT by axes_of_weezles

High B/W video here: http://www.kvoa.com/global/video/WorldNowASX.asp?playerType=native&ClipID1=422977&h1=McCain%20immigration%20bill%20to%20be%20challenged&vt1=v&at1=Agriculture&d1=75200&LaunchPageAdTag=News&activePane=info&playerVersion=6 Estimates place more than 10 million illegal immigrants inside American lines.

Senator John McCain wants to match many of them with the work they seek.

"Our proposal is earmarked for jobs that Americans won't do, and there are clearly jobs that Americans will not do," says McCain.

McCain's new immigration reform bill would allow qualifying illegal immigrants to receive worker-visas after they pay a $2,000 fine.

Several years later, the immigrants and their families could become U.S. citizens.

"This has widespread support, it has broad bi-partisan support," the Senator says.

But some politicians say just the idea granting citizenship to people who unlawfully entered the country, is wrong.

"What does it tell the rest of the world? What does it tell the people who are trying to come here legally," asks former Arizona State Senator Randy Graf.

President Bush has publicly favored immigration measures similar to those McCain is proposing, but some lawmakers, like Colorado's Tom Tancredo, say the bill doesn't do enough to seal off the border, and they say the President will never see the bill, unless that becomes priority one.

Graf is mounting a second challenge to U.S. Rep. Jim Kolbe, R-Tucson. Kolbe is a top backer of guest worker programs and is liberal on immigration issues while Graf, a former state legislator, is conservative and was a top advocate of Prop. 200.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; US: Arizona; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 2008; aliens; arizona; border; graf; illegalimmigration; immigrantlist; kolbe; mccain; minutemen; soros
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To: axes_of_weezles

After CFR that McCain pushed on the United States citizens enabling money from sources like George Soros and other ‘foreign entities’ and anti-American private organizations to further erode the abused campaign laws in this country, and one that President Bush should have vetoed, I wouldn’t trust anything John McCain puts his short sighted hand to. All Americans need to carefully dissect a McCain bill, whatever that puffed up senator does is not in America’s best interest – we have seen what he can and does do and it isn’t a pretty picture. CFR should be rescinded, made null and void – never forget who wrote it and why.


41 posted on 05/15/2005 10:40:57 AM PDT by yoe
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To: o_zarkman44

I voted for Bush, but would support his impeachment for his lack of effort on behalf of American workers. The leaky border is the result of treason....period.


42 posted on 05/15/2005 10:41:19 AM PDT by jeremiah (Is it not treason, to allow the flow of illegals to be unchecked?)
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To: Travis McGee

How did that picture come about?


43 posted on 05/15/2005 10:42:08 AM PDT by riri
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To: riri

I think the picture is from 2000, when McCainiac was asked a question he didn't like. It's a real picture, unretouched.


44 posted on 05/15/2005 10:55:54 AM PDT by Travis McGee (----- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com -----)
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To: Travis McGee
Yeah, I knew it was real. But, I wondered if he was really melting down or if he was "joking". He's certifiable anyway you slice it.

But, the picture is classic.

45 posted on 05/15/2005 10:58:37 AM PDT by riri
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To: Travis McGee

Amnesty will just touch off another big round of illegal immigration from all countries.
All you have to do is travel to CHina, India or Mexico to see why there are millions of people who will lie, cheat, steal and take enormous risks to come to the US.
We need to weed out the Rhino's..hunt them down and sell their horns to the Chinese.


46 posted on 05/15/2005 11:02:42 AM PDT by Oldexpat
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To: 1_Inch_Group; 2sheep; 2Trievers; 3AngelaD; 4.1O dana super trac pak; 4Freedom; 4ourprogeny; ...

ping


47 posted on 05/15/2005 12:39:41 PM PDT by gubamyster
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To: shebacal
Every time I see this guy:

I think of this guy:


48 posted on 05/15/2005 1:47:27 PM PDT by raybbr
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To: Noachian
RE your Post #11.

Very well put. You hit the nail on the head!

49 posted on 05/15/2005 1:47:43 PM PDT by Gritty ("The illusion of permanence is the curse of post-Christian civilization"-Mark Steyn)
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To: o_zarkman44
Tell me a job an American will not do when faced with losing the home or eating?
 
I would like to hear that myself. I live in north Idaho. We don't have an illegal population, yet we still get all the jobs done around here that every other community has. How can that be possible Mr McCain?
 
I have news for this boob, Americans do what has to be done. If the illegal poulation didn't exist in his home state, does he seriously believe the jobs would be left sitting there? What an idiot!

50 posted on 05/15/2005 1:58:04 PM PDT by Allosaurs_r_us (for a fee........I'm happy to be........Your BACKDOOR MAN!....Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap!)
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To: o_zarkman44
Remember the corruption and conspiracy of the Keating 7?
McCain was right in the middle of that.
 
Hmmm, wasn't aware of that. Got any background info?

51 posted on 05/15/2005 2:09:31 PM PDT by Allosaurs_r_us (for a fee........I'm happy to be........Your BACKDOOR MAN!....Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap!)
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To: axes_of_weezles
McCain should resign. He is useless to Arizona.

We have all seen the pictures of the destruction of the Arizona desert caused by the constant invasion of illegal aliens. He hasn't said ONE WORD or done ONE THING to change it, and now he comes up with a harebrained idea to reward the invaders even further.

We don't need MORE laws, we want the existing ones to be enforced. Is anyone in Washington listening??

52 posted on 05/15/2005 2:20:10 PM PDT by janetgreen (Minuteman Project = American Patriotism)
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To: Regulator
They say, well, he's been there a long time, he must be doing something right. Huh?!

I heard a lot of that too when I was campaigning for Randy. I don't understand it either - I've always been able to see through Kolbe's insincere speeches.

53 posted on 05/15/2005 2:28:15 PM PDT by Borax Queen
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To: AZHua87

Graf is the only reason I'm voting next time. I was about to take the next election off until I heard he was running again against that homo, Kolbe.


54 posted on 05/15/2005 2:31:29 PM PDT by Luke21
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To: Borax Queen
I've always been able to see through Kolbe's insincere speeches

He is rather amazing to watch. He's smirks all the time, like it's all a big joke to him.

He's got northside Tucson calibrated, I'll give him that. He smirks out some platitudes, issues a press release or two, and walks away with the votes of all those retirees up in the foothills. Wonder if they ever see him or actually read what he says and does.

55 posted on 05/15/2005 2:31:48 PM PDT by Regulator
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To: Allosaurs_r_us

It was the Keating Five. McCain and DeConcini, both from Arizona, were up to their elbows in it. McCain was the only Republican involved and escaped press scrutiny in a way few Republicans ever do. Turned out it was because the press really knew he was a commie bozo like them.


56 posted on 05/15/2005 2:34:26 PM PDT by Luke21
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To: Regulator

Did you see his "Howdy neighbor" brochures last time? I almost had a heart attack I laughed so hard. The guy is a liberal, a homosexual, and a beloved Republican to the press because he sells out his party and his people continually. Yet he gets re-elected in this silk stocking district. It might as well be Manhattan here it's so cotton picking liberal.


57 posted on 05/15/2005 2:37:50 PM PDT by Luke21
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To: Regulator
He's smirks all the time, like it's all a big joke to him.

Except the time he got off my parents' flight - he was in First Class, of course. He looked like a perv with his trench coat and running shoes! His goons were scary last year at the Manning House and other places they gathered. Randy's people looked down-to-earth and not reprogrammed-brainwashed.

58 posted on 05/15/2005 2:38:41 PM PDT by Borax Queen
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To: yoe
Great post, good summary.

Don't forget that aliens legal and illegal are also required to register for selective service, and pay income tax. Another pair of rather serious felonies they commit.

Well at least not registering for the draft was a serious problem when I was a teenager. Maybe not now...

Note also that any amnesty granted is not just an amnesty for the "entry without inspection" crime, but for a laundry list of associated crimes in your list and mine.

When do Bush, McCain and Kennedy plan on granting mass amnesties to us citizens for all of our horrid transgressions? Why does their sympathy only extend to foreigners here illegally?

I think the phrase is that they are "xenophilic and ethnophobic".

59 posted on 05/15/2005 2:39:29 PM PDT by Regulator
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To: gubamyster

Protect our borders and coastlines from all foreign invaders!

Be Ever Vigilant!

Minutemen Patriots ~ Bump!


60 posted on 05/15/2005 2:41:04 PM PDT by blackie (Be Well~Be Armed~Be Safe~Molon Labe!)
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