Posted on 07/19/2005 3:06:47 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Lawmakers in the US Senate introduced legislation designed to stem a flood of illegal immigration across America's southern borders.
"This bill strengthens our border enforcement and comprehensively reforms our immigration system, said Republican Senator John Cornyn, one of the authors of the bill, The Comprehensive Enforcement and Immigration Reform Act of 2005.
"We need both stronger enforcement and reasonable reform of our immigration laws," he said.
"In the past, we have not devoted the funds, the resources, or the manpower to enforce our immigration laws or protect our borders," said Cornyn, of the southwestern state of Texas, which shares a long border with Mexico.
The bill's co-sponsor, Republican Jon Kyl of Arizona, said the legislation's goal is "returning the rule of law to the border."
"The single most important aspect of this bill is that it does not reward those who have broken the law, and does not constitute amnesty," said the Republican from Arizona, another southwestern US state bordering Mexico.
"As a nation, we have made both of those mistakes and learned from them. They are the reason we now have an undocumented population as high as 15 million," Kyl said.
Among numerous provisions, the bill would provide funding for 10,000 border patrol agents and 1,250 new customs officers.
It also would devote five billion dollars over five years for high-tech cameras and sensors and infrastructural improvementss at border stations and checkpoints to help stop illegal border crossing
The bill also strengthens US-VISIT entry-exit system to identify aliens who enter the United States illegally and better track those who fail to depart.
The legislation also increases penalties for alien smuggling, document fraud, drug trafficking and gang violence.
The bill also establishes a temporary worker program, creating a new visa category that allows aliens to enter the United States to work for up to two years when there are no available US workers.
I hear ya,, FRom the NAALCP to the NCLR,, he has the unfortunate task of reaching out to vipers and gators, not exactly an easy one to pull off.
Is the insane asylum offering you day passes?
It was one of your fellow travelers who played the race card, Einstein, and none of the borderitos bothered to call him on his racism.
You have a short memory.
You don't represent conservatives or Christians. The Buchanan/Tancredo crowd is the furtherest thing from conservative or Christian.
You are anti-business, anti-Catholic church, pro-abortion, anti-business, anti-war in Iraq, anti-Republicans, pro-Hillary Clinton, anti-Walmart, anti-Wall Street Journal. Anti-American Chamber of Commerce, anti-states rights, anti-education for children, anti-14th Amendment, anti-Department of Homeland Security, anti-President Bush, anti-free trade, pro-police state, pro-national ID card, anti-National Association of Manufacturers; anti-freedom of speech.....
There has never been a less conservative or religious group than the Buchanan/Tancredo crowd.
Sasafras,
Please dont take what bayourod says seriously. This individual purposefully lies on a daily basis and has been banned from FR in the past. A veteran poster here is currently working on efforts to get this liar banned very soon.....
ScreamingFist, pay no attention to Cultural Jihad. She is an Iraqi Shi'te who is sympathetic to jihadists and refers to the conservatives as "Satanic Right".
I guess five years will be the "decent interval" needed for the Open-Border lobby to cook up yet another, still broader amnesty.
Even without more legislation in five years, the invaders can just stay anyway, as they know the US government isn't going to lift a finger to enforce departure requirements in 2010, anymore than they enforce them now.
Amnesty Bill. Trash it.
They are breaking our laws to be here, CJ.
Does this not infuriate you?
And BTW.
Still looking for stats. Dept of homeland security and BP must have them buried somewhere deep. Still looking....
Adios America.
No surprise from a propagandist such as yourself, as the jihadists you sympathize with as an Iraqi Shi'te are satanic in their own right.
Lookie who is flaunting the rules after having his posts removed less than an hour ago.
That was a disagreement between jveritas and myself, with the majority of the slinging from jveritas calling me an "evil person".
Your continual attacks on those who support Tancredos opinions, lumping them in with the Buchanan crowd, calling them the "satanic right", along with all of your other anti american sentiment is recognized by many. If you or the admin moderator would like me to post the freepmails from people who have agreed with my sentiments I will be glad to post them.
Now here is the freepmail from a trusted veteran poster who said this about Cultural Jihad:
"Some years back, CJ had her pix on her page. Iraqi Shi'te. Against Saddam, but soft on other jihadists. Other freepers may have more info."
other freepmails cut and pasted from individuals who agree with me:
"I am trying to be nice here.. ;-)
texasforever ,, what a clueless doof, and CJ is a hoot, lie a broken record."
"for God's sake we practically have a terrorist sympathizer in our midst. On FR for heavens sake!
Crikey!!!"
"I or someone needs to post a thread threatening to pull the monthly contribution to FR if this crap continues, and considering, Im on the FR fundraiser committee(for whatever that is worth) , it may get the AMs or JimRob's attention. CJ and a few others are acting as shiolls for madness, it's enough we have to battle the democrats and MOveOn and Dane,God knows who else.
Seems like Jim Rob and the AMs are silent as long as language and assaults are not too nasty, but this is getting tiresome. "
" The rest of the quislings I do take seriously. There are 6 to 9 of the hardcore variety. You can easily figure out which ones they are. "
"He's also an American hater, just as Cultural Jihad is.
he's intent on the dilution, subversion and perversion of our culture and heritage. He does so by denying, besmirching, denigrading and belittling the heritage of our Founding Fathers.
Thanks for standing up to these enemies of America."
other freepmails cut and pasted from individuals who agree with me:
"I am trying to be nice here.. ;-)
texasforever ,, what a clueless doof, and CJ is a hoot, lie a broken record."
"for God's sake we practically have a terrorist sympathizer in our midst. On FR for heavens sake!
Crikey!!!"
"I or someone needs to post a thread threatening to pull the monthly contribution to FR if this crap continues, and considering, Im on the FR fundraiser committee(for whatever that is worth) , it may get the AMs or JimRob's attention. CJ and a few others are acting as shiolls for madness, it's enough we have to battle the democrats and MOveOn and Dane,God knows who else.
Seems like Jim Rob and the AMs are silent as long as language and assaults are not too nasty, but this is getting tiresome. "
" The rest of the quislings I do take seriously. There are 6 to 9 of the hardcore variety. You can easily figure out which ones they are. "
"He's also an American hater, just as Cultural Jihad is.
he's intent on the dilution, subversion and perversion of our culture and heritage. He does so by denying, besmirching, denigrading and belittling the heritage of our Founding Fathers.
Thanks for standing up to these enemies of America."
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