Posted on 12/15/2005 7:03:13 AM PST by Reaganwuzthebest
The last-minute addition of language that expresses congressional support for a guest worker program into the immigration bill headed for the House floor Thursday has a group of Republican members up in arms.
For months, House GOP leaders have said they plan to go to the floor with an immigration bill that deals with border security and doesn't include the kind of temporary guest worker program that many Senate Republicans and the White House have been calling for.
But early Wednesday, House staffers learned that a one-paragraph section discussing the need for foreign workers to help the U.S. economy was being added to the bill. It was being included as part of a wide-ranging amendment by the bill's author, Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis.
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"My peons are so estupido, they'll believe anything."
Gringo Mexico Bush Peso
To train a dog the first thing one has to do is get the dog's attention. Unfortunately we have to wait for the next election to make our point.
I suggest that everybody burn up their Congress Critter phone lines if they start voting against the enforcement provisions.
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It sure didn't take long for the House bill to get polluted did it?
Who could have seen this coming? / sarcasm /
Thanks for link, unless Flake's language is removed conservatives should work to kill the whole scamnesty.
My Congress Critter has already gotten that message. Actually Barbara Cubin (R-WY) is a pretty good conservative and she is excellent on the illegal immigration issue. I have met her a few times and she comes across as dumb as a post. But I have no complaints about her voting record.
It's reps like Barbara Cubin many of us conservatives in the Northeast rely on since there's so few up here. This is the land of Rockefeller Republicans.
Most of the bills being considered include both enforcement and guest worker measures.
Call your representatives and demand NO language is present in the final House bill that mentions "guest worker program or plan". Our hope lies with having debate on the enforcement amendments that provide actual border security, passage of the bill.Having the final conference report containing the same tough U.S. code that Americans are calling for is the goal.
The House is where we will obtain border security and enforcement.....NOT the Senate.
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Please FReepmail me if you want on or off this South Texas/Mexico ping list.
The scam upon American taxpayers continues. Call your state's con artist today and let him/her know that you know what they're doing. Resentment is growing in America.
And right there is the HEART of the problem. The illegals do not believe anything will happen to them when they flip the finger at our laws which is why their crime rate is astronomical.
The time has come for America to enforce the law and round up all the illegals and ship them out (no they can not take there illegally gotten possessions) and arrest the employers that caused so much hardship on the American Citizens that lost jobs, houses, cars, marriages, etc due to greedy employers illegally hiring aliens that have no business being in this country.
I'm not sure what point you are trying to make. I had hoped that the House would pass a solid enforcement bill. But if it passes with this bill with "sense of the House is that we need a guest worker shamnesty" language in it, it is an invitation for the House Leadership to include whatever shamnesty language the Senate comes up with next spring during the Joint Senate/House Reconciliation Conference. The House Leadership is almost universally pro-open borders. That includes Hastert, Dreier, and now Sensenbrenner. Given language like this to work with, it is pretty obvious what they will do.
I agree with the idea that if the final bill from the House includes this shamnesty language we are better off with no bill from the House. We'll just let the problem fester and throw a few open borders Republicans out of office next Fall and see if the rest get the message.
The problem is the NAM (National Association of Manufacturers) the Chamber of Commerce and the NAHB (National Association of Home Builders). They all are addicted to cheap labor
"How about lobby to reverse the text?"
Conversely, you have people like Terry McAuliffe who will lobby to keep the "guest workers" program.
From "Do As I Say" by Peter Schweizer:
"Watching television one night, I saw Terry McAuliffe, then chairman of the Democratic National Committee, expounding on the importance of labor unions as an essential check on corporate power and to guarantee a living wage for American workers. Living in Florida, I knew that McAuliffe had been in the homebuilding business around Orlando. Did he use union labor when he was chairman of Orlando-based American Heritage Homes? A quick call to the Carpenter's and Lather's Local No. 1765 revealed that McAuliffe was using "cheap immigrant labor" instead of union employees, paying them six to seven dollars an hour. The Florida Building and Construction Trades Council confirmed that under McAuliffe, there was "little or no union relationship" with American Heritage Homes. (This is a double slap to organized labor: In addition to championing unions, McAuliffe has made millions over the years through business dealings with union pension funds -- unions who members he himself would not hire.)
I'm watching CSPAN for upcoming debate in the House.
Exactly. You took those words right out of my mouth. I predicted the RINOS would pass Bush's plan BEFORE they went home for the Holidays, figuring we would all forget about it by the time they are in session again. Have you got any rope? I have some, but obviously not enough. Maybe Santa will bring me more for Christmas. LOL
Absolutly! What's so hard to understand here. The "Two-Party Cartel" has played this game for years now & the sheeple keep voting these scumbags in white shirts back in. Further, this cartel has only to put up the worst candidate in one faction to create a win for the other weak candidate. A large 3rd party vote would really shake'um up in D.C. They must EARN their vote.
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