Posted on 06/25/2005 9:52:06 PM PDT by Happy2BMe
Associated Press
EL PASO, Texas - An amnesty program to legalize undocumented immigrants in the United States is not a viable method to reform immigration, U.S. Sen. John Cornyn said Saturday.
Such a plan is not going to pass in Congress, Cornyn told a group at the bi-national U.S.-Mexico Bishops conference on migration in this West Texas border town.
Instead, a guest worker program to allow millions of migrants from Mexico and Latin America to enter the country and work legally is a better solution, said Cornyn, chairman of the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on immigration. The program would allow workers to step out of a shadow economy that can often leave illegal immigrants the victims of violence and exploitation, he said.
While a blanket amnesty, similar to a 1986 program that Cornyn said was designed to penalize employers for hiring undocumented workers, was out the question right now, the Texas Republican did not rule out a plan to allow workers to eventually gain legal residency or even citizenship. But the details of such a plan, Cornyn said, have not been worked out in a bill that he plans to introduce to the Senate next month.
Orlando, Fla. Bishop Thomas Wenski, a former chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Committee on Migration, said the church supports the type of initiative that rewards workers who follow the law by providing them avenues to become a legal residents.
Also on Saturday, Cornyn said the Minuteman Project and other volunteer groups that have pledged to patrol the country's southern border are a sign of the federal government's failure to control illegal immigration and a manifestation of the public's frustration.
However, civilian patrols also represent a danger on the border because they are not trained law enforcement officers, he said.
"Their intentions not withstanding...I think it is a dangerous situation," Cornyn said.
"Newt's TV special on cable/satellite feed earlier tonight on "gangs" in the USA - MS13 and other illegal aliens mostly + terrorists was great
Former MS-13 gang member said (in darkened profile) that MS-13 will - a do -smuggle anyone and/or anything into the USA - for a price
Including Al Quaeda or any other terrorist scum across the Mexican-USA border.....
Including any drugs, biologicals, weapons, radioactive materials.....
The heat is on - cable, web, talk radio - this is exploding and resonating with liberals and minorities here in America also -
Like the SCROTUS recision "take" on private property - this is a bipartisan bomb with an ever-shorting burning fuse."=================================
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A guest worker program before we've secured the borders and deported the present ilegal alien population and their so-called anchor babies [which one-third of illegal alien families reportedly have] is no solution.
He repeated the "Vigilante" slur without saying the word. Ain't politicians slick? Blackbird.
Allow them to enter the country? They Are Already Here! And why just from Mexico and Latin America and not other countries?
While a blanket amnesty, similar to a 1986 program that Cornyn said was designed to penalize employers for hiring undocumented workers, was out the question right now
Oh, I see. A blanket amnesty is out of the question right now. When will this blanket amnesty no longer be out of the question?
the Texas Republican did not rule out a plan to allow workers to eventually gain legal residency or even citizenship.
The Texas Republican can ESAD.
Don't you just love it when U.S> Senator claims AMERICANS are exploiting and hurting these poor illegals.
Not a WORD about the violence and exploitation by the Messian Government.
Guess Cornyn needs a letter.
You know those high interest rates hard working AMERICANs pay (unless you have AAAA+++++ credit) get. I had an immigrant worker (legal) say that some of his friends buy brand new cars and then when they return to their country of origin just abandon it, rather than turn it in or sell it to pay off the loan.
It's not that they are untrained security wise. It's his contention that they are untrained in POLITICS of may I KYA diplomacy.
No Amnesty!
Protect our borders and coastlines from all foreign invaders!
Be Ever Vigilant!
Minutemen Patriots ~ Bump!
I gather you're referring to word games? And nonsense it is, BUT it has worked for decades now, maybe generations. Actually, forever would likely be more accurate. Politicos have sliced and diced the language to their advantage and the unwashed's disadvantage since there have been politicos would be my guess. A quote I keep on my Freeper home page and modified for my tag line comes to mind:
A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly. But the traitor moves among those within the gates freely...his sly whispers heard in the very halls of government itself.
For the traitor appears to be no traitor; he speaks in the accents familar to his victims...and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation; he works secretly and unknown in the night...to infect the body politic so that it can no longer resist..." - Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 - 43 B.C.)
A good fit for supreme courts also, eh?
FGS
Neither will his traitorist plans.
The following is from the PDF file on his site, I will post a link at the bottom of this page.
bttt
Well, he may in fact be right, but the statement is so broad it loses any real meaning. I'd be interested to learn exactly what he sees as the potential danger. But the good judge knows how to parse words and we won't likely be privy to his true meaning.
It seems to me our hired help in DeeCee spend most of their waking hours trying to defer, delay and deflect trouble. What we need are more statesmen like Thomas Paine:
If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
Or more Patrick Henrys??? Conservatives are starving for principled leaders. Someone, or a few someones to carry the battle flag and lead the charge. Will any rise to the occasion?
FGS
He meant that they are a danger to the status quo and govt., since they aren't under their control. It was just double speak. None of them have the power to tell the Minutemen to stand down, for instance.
Ditto.
One could only hope it doesn't pass. Imagine the flood gate open even wider if there were a hint it would or did.
Thanks for that info JAA, I will send Cornan an e-mail asking him to explain his statements advocating for ILLEGALS.
The same sentiment goes to all the other Republicrats who are encouraging this invasion!
http://www.cornyn.senate.gov/contact/index_1.html
Everybody is talking out both sides of their mouths.
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