Posted on 07/14/2005 11:25:08 AM PDT by Happy2BMe
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, portraying immigration policy as a vital weapon against terrorism, pledged Wednesday to tighten border security but also called on Congress to approve a guest worker program that would make it easier for foreign workers to enter the country legally.
"We must gain full control of our borders to prevent illegal immigration and security breaches," Chertoff said.
But, he added, "control of the border will also require reducing the demand for illegal border migration" by channeling needed workers through a new legal system. Implicit in the guest worker program would be an increase in the number of legal immigrants.
"Without question the most difficult problem the department has to face is immigration enforcement," said Rep. Christopher Cox (R-Newport Beach), chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security. "It's of vital importance.
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We are under no obligation to accept people who will not assimilate. We are under no obligation to accept people who want to replace the Constitution with Islamic law. We are under no obligation to accept people who think the Southwest should belong to Mexico. We are under no obligation to accept those who carry disease, who are mentally ill, or who are unable to work.
My father, and my mother's parents, were immigrants. They came in legally, and assimilted. I have no use for those who come here but who have no intention of becoming "one of us."
You're probably giving them too much credit. The fact there hasn't been another 9/11 is due not so much to anything the federal government has done, but rather blind stupid luck. We're 4 years down the road and we still have done virtually nothing about our porous borders. There is absolutely no excuse for this.
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I stopped reading here.
Protect our borders and coastlines from all foreign invaders!
Be Ever Vigilant!
Minutemen Patriots ~ Bump!
Inotherwords, up is down, black is white, etc. The usual.
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