Perhaps. But I know I won't find the answer to the illegal immigration problem in the bill. 
Posted on 05/25/2005 3:58:46 PM PDT by lonewacko_dot_com
It's April Fools' Day and Congressman Tom Tancredo... sparks a prolonged standing ovation from the hundred or so assembled volunteers of the Minuteman Project as they kick off their month-long campaign to close down the Arizona-Mexico border. His presence here, at what is most definitely a fringe political event involving armed citizen patrols, is validation -- at least in the minds of the project organizers -- that their seal-the-borders message is finally resonating in Washington. The avenging angel of America's anti-immigrant movement, Tancredo leads seventy mostly back-bench, restrictionist House members in the Immigration Reform Caucus...
...It shouldn't be surprising that George W. Bush, rather than liberal Democrats, should be the target of so much cranked-up ire from the nativist right...
...After a barrage of anti-immigration bills fired off earlier in this legislative season, Senators McCain and Kennedy introduced in mid-May their much-awaited immigration overhaul proposal -- the first step toward comprehensive and bipartisan reform...
...The GOP's share of the Arizona Latino vote climbed to an all-time high of more than 40 percent in last November's presidential election. Pissing off a few Minuteman types might be a small price to pay to have the President become the champion of historic immigration liberalization and the elected official most responsible for delivering the Latino vote to the GOP...
...The danger is that the longer meaningful federal action lags, the more the populist right, the Minuteman-style groups and the Congressional Tancredos will be energized into action. Anti-immigration drives are now under way in about a dozen states...
...While Arizona's Democratic attorney general interpreted the law in a vary narrow way, rendering its effects minimal, Arizona's anti-immigration crusaders are hardly deterred; they believe they are surfing the crest of a breaking national political wave...
...While Pearce sees "momentum, lots of momentum" for his immigrant-crackdown message, other evidence indicates the restrictionist cause isn't quite as compelling at the grassroots. In spite of extraordinary media hype, including millions of dollars in free publicity doled out on a daily basis on CNN as Lou Dobbs aggressively championed its cause, the Minuteman Project was an unmitigated flop...
[Read the full four pages at the link]
Tom Tancredo in 2008.
Tom Tancredo the backstabber in 2008 you mean. He and mccain could run on the same ticket. :^)
The bill states that any assigned military must go thru a trainng course before they could be assigned. Why not just hire someone and train them? The employees would have to worry about posse comitatus.
Are they overqualified to guard the borders in every other country in the world? It's a matter of national security, you might even find the military agrees they need to do this even if the globalist Senate doesn't.
If thats what you want to do, have at it.
If it were up to me I would. It's in the Senate's hands and people are watching.
Great, another proposal to reward foreigners for violating our immigration laws.
AS long as our chief federal law enforcement officer willfully declines to enforce our immigration laws he has sworn to faithully execute, we will risk mass murder from terrorists who will have illegally crossed the border.
As long as we tolerate mass illegal immigration we will never secure jobs wrongfully taken by illegals from Americans eager to work.
As long as our immigration policy is hostage to misguided and selfishly motivated politics, industry after industry like Florida's construction industry, will be corrupted by employers forced by illegal immigrant competition to hire illegals.
As long as we tolerate tens of millions of illegals within our birthright, we will not be able to effectively conduct social policy.
Perhaps. But I know I won't find the answer to the illegal immigration problem in the bill.
You really have to learn how to de-personalize these issues. The correct & moral course is still correct & moral regardless of who supports it.
nice job on carrying the scum water for the socialist MSM there. amazing how they can twist Tancredo's real words: "If he chose to resign as majority leader until these matters are resolved, that's probably not the worst idea." to: "DeLay should not stay in office".
let me be clear - i don't agree with Tancredo's comment on DeLay and wish like heck he had never said that at all. but notice his comments that he believed these were all "trumped up charges" against DeLay are overlooked by the media and their scum carriers.
this is so far from being on par with McVain that it's laughable. unless of course you want to believe the routers version..
a whole lot of nothing. but then that never stops the conservative bashing MSM from their hate frenzies.
You state that as if they wont be eligible for Green Cards. They will be just like in the McKennedy bill only it will be by a separate mechanism.
I've worked for over a dozen employers and have employed hundreds of employees.
Any one who believes that he "owns" his job, won't last long in the private nonunion sector. If a person shows up for work everyday and has a good attitude, he won't have to worry about anyone "wrongfully taking" hid job.
Really?
And you can ensure that his sunny disposition and "good attitude" will prevent his employer from replacing him with someone for whom no witholding is paid? And you can ensure that the employer will not lose business to competitors hiring cheaper, tax free illegals?
Remarkable.
Sign us all up for work there, I have a nice smile.
Any experienced employer will confirm what I am saying.
Training, skills, experience and education are important, but dependability and a good attitiude are far more important.
An atomic weapon would weigh several tons and would be extremely difficult to smuggle from Syria or Estonia to El Paso.
Our government has concentrated on stopping the smuggling of a nuclear bomb at its source, at ports in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East; at ports in South and Central America; at the Southern border of Mexico and finally at our own border. We even board ships headed toward Mexican ports.
At most official crossing points we have installed x-ray equipment and equipment that can detect nuclear particles. To protect our border between official crossing points we have areal surveillance (manned, unmanned and satellite) and ground sensors.
But most of the people complaining about nukes crossing the Mexican border really aren't concerned about nukes, they really just want to keep Mexican laborers from crossing. But the way you prevent nukes from reaching the U.S. is different than the way you stop Mexican laborers.
The fact that millions of Mexican laborers can climb over mountains, swim rivers, and trek across desserts does not mean that an eighteen wheeler can get across unnoticed.
The biggest threat of a nuclear weapon crossing the southern border is corrupt border guards. I've heard that corruption is very common regarding drug smuggling and human smuggling, but I would hope no set of guards would conspire to allow a nuke to pass through.
Bayoufraud is back.
Why do you let this clown stink up your forum?
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