Posted on 12/04/2005 4:11:33 PM PST by Crackingham
President Bush's proposal for a guest worker program as a way of addressing illegal immigration is gaining support from Gov. Mitch Daniels, but doubts from officials with agencies that work with northwestern Indiana's growing immigrant population.
Bush's desire for a guest worker program has been stalled in Congress since he proposed it while running for re-election, although at least two competing bills would establish temporary worker visas. He made immigration the subject of his weekly radio address Saturday and addressed the issue during appearances in Arizona and Texas last week, saying it will top his legislative agenda next year.
"These people are here and are prepared to work hard," Daniels told the Post-Tribune of Merrillville. "We need to find a way to deal with those issues" that keep them from staying legally.
Adelina Torres of the Roman Catholic Office of Hispanic Ministries helps recent immigrants find jobs and services in the four-county Diocese of Gary. She doesn't ask her clients whether they're documented or not.
"We don't have to, and who's to say that some day (immigration officials) won't come in and say, 'Let me see what you got on this guy,'" she said.
Bush's proposal to give guest workers legal status for up to six years would help them, Torres said. Workers would not break the law, would pay more taxes, and would be able to move freely and integrate with society.
They also would be able to get out from under abusive employers and landlords without worrying about being deported, she said.
Torres and other advocates say northwest Indiana is home mainly to legal residents whose roots in the region go back to the 1920s, when steel companies' owners recruited Mexicans to work in the booming lakeshore steel mills. Over generations, that population has spread from urban Hammond, East Chicago and Gary into suburban and rural parts of the region.
and there are some more recent immigrants who, no matter what else can be said of them, have a magnificent hustle to them; in fact, they dominate the labor force because they get the job done.
Well, if one looks, he may see the party of the second part inadvertently getting on the nerves of the party of the first part, and otherwise making them uncomfortable by demonstrating silently, but effectively, the difference between diligence and sloth for anyone who cares to look.
the party of the second part seems to seek only an opportunity to work, and quietly does so with vigor, while the party of the first part is known mainly for complaining and even less virtuous activities. and the diligence of the second party makes the first party very uncomfortable in its sloth.
The Bush plan is a non-starter.
this is one governor who doesn't want to be president, and isn't afraid to willfully disqualify oneself from that office...
I don't believe another amnesty proposal is going to sneak by the American people.
That provides an incentive for illegals to deport themselves, and is more fair to those who want to immigrate, but are trying to do so legally.
The Bush/Kennedy plan rewards those who have broken the law, and gives them an advantage over the law-abiding.
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But then it's not their neighborhoods, not their schools, and certainly not their jobs that are at risk. They need to get out of their gated communities a little more often.
The word from the Ruling Class to we peons is "Let them eat pan dulce"
It's a fair bet that they don't point it out because telling the truth about the hazards of the Bush amnesty program would torpedo their political career.
As usual, our "representatives" are serving none save their own careers. And we're told we're supposed to put up with this bullcrap. To hell with that.
I guess this is how he figures to fix the Daylight Savings Time fiasco.
Just put us all on the same time as Mexico City.
ATTN ALL: (ESP PEOPLE FROM INDIANA):
!DANIELS IS A LIBERAL~!
I DIDN'T VOTE FOR HIM "NOT MY MAN" MITCH: AND I AM PROUD OF THAT FACT!@
The politician from Indiana that does matter is the one who sits on the Immigration subcommittee in the House and that's Congressman Hostettler. Like most Americans he's against the guest worker program because he sees it for what it is, a way to undercut wages and displace legal citizens from their jobs.
...And Congressman Mike Pence (who has a solid Conservative Credentials on Immigration, as well as fiscal/federal budgets, social issues, constitutional isses, military issues, you name it..) I will agree with you that Hostettler is a gem though..and coincidently I have met him twice ;)!
That's right, Mike Pence is another excellent conservative from Indiana, I'm sure we can count on him not to go along with any amnesty schemes.
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In 25 years when the American people are seeing Juan Arturo Mendo Hernandez running for the presidency as a proud American citizen who was born, the anchor baby of two illegal aliens working in a beef slaughterhouse in Nebraska, are people going to remember how strongly President Bush advocated his Temporary Workers Plan?
Will the voters care that his parents aren't yet American citizens?
Will the voters care that his relatives who snuck across the border carrying illegal drugs for one of the cartels were never arrested, tried or jailed?
Will the voters care that America has sunk below the levels of expectation that our Founders had fought and died for?
Will the voters care?
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