Action? Action? Giving illegals legal status for six years and counting on the next Administration (possibly Democrat) to execute the deportation is action?
Note there is action here, too, but don't expect to get anything.
Posted on 11/28/2005 4:47:34 PM PST by VU4G10
President Bush spoke this afternoon in Arizona, trying, once again, to sell the idea of a massive illegal alien amnesty and the admission of millions of additional foreign “guest” workers as “immigration reform.” While the president’s address includes tougher-than-usual talk on border security and immigration enforcement, the administration’s continuing actions over the past several months reveal he has no intention of carrying through on his promises to the American public. Immigration reform organizations are calling on the White House to follow the lead of members of Congress who have shown they are serious about getting immigration laws enforced, pointing in particular to the Hunter-Goode immigration reform bill introduced last week.
Under the Bush proposal, the estimated 11 million illegal aliens currently in the U.S. would be reclassified as “temporary workers,” and be allowed to remain here for up to six years. In addition, the president and top members of his administration have repeatedly called for the unlimited admission of additional foreign workers in an effort to “match willing workers in other countries with willing employers in this country,” at whatever wages the employer wishes to pay.
“This administration has a sustained track record of ignoring reality when it conflicts with what the corporate interests want it to do,” charged Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR). “The president’s plan is nothing more than a massive illegal alien amnesty on a six year time delay, while his temporary worker program which will be anything but temporary is the death knell for America’s middle class.”
Bowing to massive public pressure, the Bush administration is now talking about coupling amnesty and guest workers with a weak enforcement plan. The president and top administration officials have pledged enforcement at the border, the interior of the country and at the work site. “Don’t read their lips, watch what they do,” Stein responded. “The Department of Labor is actively working with the Mexican government to protect illegal alien workers in this country. Peter Accolla, a DOL spokesman told the Associated Press earlier this month, ‘It’s not the policy of the DOL to penalize and expose workers’ irrespective of their legal status in this country.
“Moreover, the administration’s idea of workplace enforcement is based on voluntary self-enforcement by employers,” Stein continued. “A recent Department of Homeland Security fact sheet states, ‘DHS will implement an employer self-compliance program that will link government and business in a united effort to reduce the employment of unauthorized aliens in specific industries.’ Translation: The administration is placing the foxes in charge of the henhouse.
“Unless the president throws his support behind genuine immigration enforcement, such as H.R. 4313, Duncan Hunter and Virgil Goode’s TRUE Enforcement Act, there is no reason to believe he is leveling with the American public,” said Stein. “The White House may have read some polls and reworked the president’s rhetoric, but the bottom line is that Mr. Bush is touting a plan that will be full of rewards for illegal aliens and employers, and full of empty promises for the American public.”
FAIR said the following three items should be administration priorities:
Require employers to verify work eligibility and penalize non-compliance Integrate state-federal immigration law enforcement Cut overall levels of immigration “Unless the American people see real, tangible immigration law enforcement in the interior, no one will believe there is a serious commitment from this president,” said Stein.
If it allows those in the country illegally to remain then it's amnesty no matter what POTUS says!
Amnesty Ping!
Please FReepmail me if you want on or off this South Texas/Mexico ping list.
What if the ILLEGAL immigrants already own homes and businesses or buy them? What if their children are all 14th Amendment citizens?
What if their elderly family members are all here getting SSI, housing subsidies, medical care, food . . . .
My, isn't that a surprise?
Throw them out. All 11,000,000 of them.
And as for amnesty - forget about it.
November 2006 cometh.
Sounds like Bush's latest take on immigration reform is nothing more than an attempt at spinning "legalized" illegal immigration as reform...uh...we'll halt illegal immigration by legalizing it. What the hell kind of snake oil is he selling? This guy is reaching new heights as a snake oil salesman. He's out-clintonisting clintoon.
But then our restaurants in Houston would have anybody in the kitchens.
A new entry for the Quisling roster?
Closer to reality...
Action? Action? Giving illegals legal status for six years and counting on the next Administration (possibly Democrat) to execute the deportation is action?
Note there is action here, too, but don't expect to get anything.
Your post may be the best I've ever read on this site.
Bush is out of phase with the public on this issue, but he may have been warned by Fox that if he enforces the law, they will cut off oil supplies. We buy a lot of oil from Mexico and a cut-off would be a serious problem. Nevertheless, illegals must be removed and the border closed. The wall idea and search and deport are the obvious method of solving the problem. Mexico claims that such a move would destroy their country. No mention of how the illegals are destroying ours.
It certainly seems that someone is blackmailing him.
I think we need to go to dubya's site and read the transcript
FYI, transcript on FR
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1530130/posts
Do you believe President Bush on Monday articulated a plan to secure our nation's borders and to deal substantively with the issue of illegal immigration?
http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/lou.dobbs.tonight/
I'm really sick and tired of hearing about it going to cost too much to round them all up and send them back....also that the truck farmers in Ca. just can't find anyone to do their labor, and after all, we all know that's the only jobs the illegals are taking...NOT! They've long since branched out into just about every job you can name, I'm thinking of construction, for one. It's way past time to fine the living heck out of anyone or any corporation that hires an illegal.And we all know that would take some spine, backbone from Congress and this Administration. Don't hold your breath.
Ditto's to all of that!
Is this thread being reserved for know nothing anti immigration remedial economics types?
Is Bush's guest worker plan a good strategy for curbing illegal immigration?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10243566/
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