Posted on 02/01/2006 7:38:50 AM PST by Reagan Man
Sadly, the President missed yet another great opportunity to correct his course on immigration reform tonight. The President should have clarified his plan and joined the forces in Congress holding the line against amnesty. Instead, Americans will have to wait and wonder where the President stands on securing our borders, while he pushes for guest workers.
The President must enforce our immigration laws before we consider any guest worker proposal. Until we bring law and order to our border anarchy, importing more workers into the equation is out of the question.
In 1986, Congress passed a blanket amnesty on the promise that border security would come later. We all remember the 86 bait-and-switch, and we wont be fooled again. There is no way to determine if we need guest workers, and there is no way to gain control of this broken system until we seal our borders and control our countrys interior.
A Gallup poll released this week showed that a mere 25 percent of Americans approve of President Bushs handling of immigrationhis worst approval rating of all major issue areas that were surveyed.
The Houses get-tough immigration bill is in the Senates hands, where it is in jeopardy of being dropped or worse yet turned into a blanket amnesty. From his bully pulpit, President Bush could have broken the Washington stalemate and secured the most significant immigration reform in a decade. But tonight we got more of the samemore stalling, more roadblocks, more lax enforcement with no action in sight.
Border security is not an issue from which President Bush should run away. An overwhelming majority of Americans demand that their government secure the border now, and if we restore law and order, Republicans will be the political winners. As the President does in so many other areas, he must not retreat but lead.
The current "guest worker" plan calls for the illegal immigrants to come in and register for a three year pass. At the end of that 3 years, they register for a 3 year extension.
So, let's say 80% of the illegals do that, and it's six years later. Is the government going to kick any 8 or 10 million "guest workers" out? Not a chance. If the feds were going to do that, they would've done it by now.
So, the "guest worker" program is, IN EFFECT, an amnesty program. Those programs never work.
Plus, once the program is certain of being passed by Congress, the current flood of illegals will become a tsunami of illegals trying to get in here to be grandfathered into the program.
Huh? that came from the mouth of Rep. Tancredo himself, he said it on the air when he was being interviewed by John & Ken
You have nothing to worry about there. Absent in all the border security debate is the fact that the State Dept issues hundreds of thousands of tourist visas to Mexicans every year, knowing full well that they will be misused by the recipient who ends up living and working in the US. Many illegals have this document, and there's no talk of the government restricting access to it in the future - quite to the contrary.
US morphs into Mexico bump
for every year's delay, we get:
11 million illegal alien man years
divided by 75 years +/- life expectancy
that's 150,000 illegal aliens who in their lifetime in the US were not legally able to suck at the govt's teat
You're right, the status quo has its benefits
Businesses will prefer the illegals who didn't qualify for or preferred not to sign up for the guest worker program - they will be displacing the newly-legalized guest workers, who will then have to resort to crime or govt benefits to get by.
How many of the previous feeder countries had 60 million poor people and was a 24-hour bus ride from our border? We're not talking about a few million Irish here. We're talking about a country that has no economic plan other than to send their refuse to us.
they're on the same footing as future generations of US citizens, as far as that goes.
In how many centuries do you think Mexico will have achieved salary parity with the United States? Then you'll have fixed the problem with respect to Mexico only. The 3rd world is a huge place and the answer is not to rehabilitate their countries by accepting the dregs of each of their societies. Yours is just an utterly absurd fix to the problem.
is your reckoning of time in light years, or what?
Amnesty will also trigger massive family chain visas. No wonder Ted Kennedy worked to get that into immigration law, nothing like importing huge numbers of instant democrats.
Seems to me white liberals are the biggest problem in this nation; not legal Hispanic Roman Catholics.
All the problems in this nation can be traced right back to liberal white communist in the major cities where minorities can not be found.
The Bush plan to legalize legalize millions of illegal aliens is an amnesty according to Rep. James Sensenbrenner. Here is a link to an article in the Washington Times in which Rep. Sensenbrenner called it an amnesty: http://washingtontimes.com/national/20060124-111959-4121r.htm. Here is a copy of a portion of that article:
Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner Jr., the House point man on immigration, yesterday said that a guest-worker program like the one proposed by President Bush is amnesty and that he cannot accept it in a final immigration bill.
"A guest-worker program that applies to illegal aliens already here is an amnesty," the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee said in an interview with The Washington Times.
As the chief House negotiator in any House-Senate conference committee on immigration, he said voters will not accept a plan that amounts to amnesty, and said Mr. Bush's proposal would simply push the problem down the road.
"It seems to me that if you give these people the temporary cards, and the president talked a little bit about that yesterday out in Kansas, whether they are three-year cards or six-year cards or any other term, how do you get them to go back home when they expire?" he said. "We end up simply postponing the decision on what to do about illegal aliens until the end of the validity of these cards."
He also said when Congress and the White House agreed in December 2004 to increase the U.S. Border Patrol by 2,000 agents a year, then two months later the president only funded 210 positions, it "was embarrassing both to the administration and those of us who fought for increased assets for border protection in the intelligence bill and then were let down."
Now thats funny! LOL
That fence looks turd-worldish.
PWN3D!!!
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