Posted on 01/19/2006 5:13:36 PM PST by lonewacko_dot_com
A U.S. coalition of business, labor unions and religious groups launched a campaign on Thursday to defeat a bill backed by Republicans that would turn some 11 million illegal immigrants into felons. [NOTE: I believe that was downgraded to a misdemeanor.]
The coalition of 24 organizations, many of which rarely agree on politics or economics, denounced the bill passed by the House of Representatives last month [HR 4437] and called on the Senate to enact legislation to include a guest worker program and a path for illegal aliens to gain legal status.
... "We are extremely disappointed with the proposal that passed the House last month," said Thomas Donohue, president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce which represents some 3 million businesses...
... Andy Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union, which has 1.8 million members, called for comprehensive reform to take control of the border and provided a way for illegal aliens to gain legal status...
... Other groups joining the coalition include associations representing builders and contractors, health care providers, the hotel and restaurant industries, Latino organizations, farm workers, the American Jewish Committee and Catholic bishops...
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I don't like Draconian immigration laws that ignore the very freedom that made this country great.
Nice try but unlike some of those today I'm convinced Reagan would not make that same mistake over since all it did was encourage more of those you sympathize with to invade our country. As they say, fool me once...
I am more convinced Reagan would not make the same mistakes he did re: terrorists actually. Did you see my list of a few "more important" domestic issues than illegal immigration - are ANY of those more important to you?
Never forget McStain is one of the Keating 5 that skated during the S&L scandal...and he's funded by George Soros!
'Nuff said!
Nope, illegal immigration is the number one issue facing this country today. Washington politicos have no choice but to deal with it because most of us complaining millions aren't going away.
"U.S. Chamber of Commerce"
Ah, our old checked-pants, cheap-labor-at-any-cost friends are now weighing in. Why not sell out the country in order to be able to hire coolies at bargain basement wages?
Well, we will just have to agree to disagree on that and whether Reagan would think it was a mistake too.
True enough, but every once in a while I ponder the following; what if McCain were to get the nomination? I then try to find the silver-lining. And when I do that, I tell myself that there is at least a small chance he might make good SCOTUS picks, but then again he hasn't exactly been out there championing the cause of Roberts and Alito, and had he lent his influence to ending filibusters last spring, then perhaps we'd be on the verge of an Emilio Garza or Edith Jones or Janice Rogers Brown or Mark Pryor nomination should there be another vacancy.
And then I think, 'he can't be any worse than Bush on immigration', but then things like this tell me, 'yes, yes he can be.'
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