Posted on 05/16/2005 5:47:01 AM PDT by SJackson
Hillary sucks! She can march right off a pier.
Long walk-short pier BUMP!
I believe Bubba gave not only amnesty but made citizens of thousands in Florida...just before his election.
This article should be in breaking news, where more "conservatives" would see it. Ain't likely to show up where most will see it with the sentiment around here.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
No offense, but if they are working, then they are going back to Mexico with THEIR money.
My issue with illegal immigration is the cost in terms of crime, healthcare, cultural warfare, vote fraud, etc. But the money they earn working is all theirs...
What confuses liberals is that they are so quick to race bait that they just assume anyone complaining about illegals MUST be a racist. This confusion is a product of the liberal's own making.
Say what you want, illegal immigration is an issue that is driving many people through the F'ing roof. I am against Hillary as much as anyone, but this issue will kill the GOP if they think we are going to go along with some BS worker program that is really amnesty.
GWB has me so disgusted with his nonsense that this is not amensty. In all his talk about his program, I have not heard one bit about sending criminal aliens home, sending home these "willing workers" home if they don't register, and on and on.
Just as in 1965, this bill, if passed, will leave a huge stain on our country the likes of which we now cannot even imagine.
Her and my liberal friend have the solutuion for illegal immigration, nail businesses.
And I told him, fine, beef up enforcement of the employment laws but also beef up border patrols, don't reimburse hopsitals for treating illegals, kick illegals out of schools and no drivers licences for illegals.
BUT NO all you gotta do is crack down on businesses. Look for this to be the leftist mantra.
Oh really?????? What about your money and your 50% partner, Uncle Sam???? These people do not pay FICA, do not pay Federal Income Taxes, etc etc. If these people could no longer be able to work for cash and be forced to endure that which everyone else does, they will be out of here so fast. They do not want to be legal. They want to work for cash to send home to "their country."
They are criminals. Under our system of law what a criminal makes plying his crime is not his, but is confiscatable by the state. It has always been this way, albeit nowadays it is being applied to actions that are not "crimes".
However, breaking and entering the US and violating its borders has always been and remains a malum in se offense.
If you want to come here, please come and settle here...come in legally and WORK for and with your family and contribute to the American Melting Pot not the Mexican Poverty Pit.
I agree with you. I am fed up with it also.
But if it is illegal for them to enter the country and work here, then the money they earn is the result of a crime.
Therefore, it would be logical for it to be forfeit to the government.
Since the illegal immigrants have probably already spent it, I suggest the businesses that hired them be fined an amount equal to the wages distributed.
Hillary will win on the immigration issue. She is being given a gift-wrapped issue that 90%+ of the American people support, and one that NO other major politician is willing to tackle.
It's almost as if the GOP wants her to win, they are setting her up so well. It's not as if she is a particularly skillful politician, she's just a dime-store panderer with heavy MSM support.
These people do pay FICA taxes but many file "exempt" and pay no income taxes. In addition, they flood hospitals with demands for free care, and have bankrupted many health care facilities.
Many Americans as well as illegals drive without insurance on stolen tags.
Having said that, even illegals with personal and work virtues are a pain in the butt; don't forget, however, about those refugees from Bosnia that we still subsidize.
This article assumes (incorrectly) that so-called liberals actually care about the blue collar American worker.
What neoliberals (and neocons) really care about is expanding the number of people in this country dependent on the federal government.
And keeping the borders open helps to do that
I have been around these people, they do not want to be legal and be registered and be required to pay taxes like everyone else. They want to work for cash and send it home.
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