[dennisw]

More bullshit rolling amnesties that never end. This is a fraud same as GW Bush's guest worker programs will turn into

[Stellar Dendrite]

ping

[WatchingInAmazement]

We're always being told that the president/WH can't do anything about or change immigration policy. Looks like he can do this - just extend expired visas on a whim. Stroke of the pen.

When Hurricane Mitch struck Honduras and Nicaragua in 1998, President Bill Clinton granted something called temporary protective status, allowing more than 100,000 people to stay here another 18 months without risk of deportation. Eight years and five extensions later, a majority of those with temporary status remain. Seventy thousand Hondurans and 3,600 Nicaraguans are still here, with the right to work. And 222,000 Salvadorans are still here, temporarily working, five years after two earthquakes devastated El Salvador. But even if their status expires, there's little chance they will be deported, since Immigration and Customs Enforcement's stated focus is national security and violent criminals. It raises questions about just how workable any so-called guest or temporary worker program can be." A government spokesman states that no decision has been made yet whether to grant another extension on these temporary permits. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0602/06/ldt.01.html aired 2/6/06

[mthom]

You think he'd refuse to extend this thing if only to make people believe he intends the "temporary" worker program to actually be "temporary".