Photoshop courtesy of the Stein Report
Posted on 03/07/2006 11:06:15 AM PST by ajolympian2004
Photoshop courtesy of the Stein Report
I'm not making this up:
Key provisions of the Senate's main immigration bill would create a "gold card" program for illegal immigrants who entered the United States before Jan. 4, 2004, and create a guest worker program to bring in more foreign laborers, according to Senate Judiciary Committee staff members.
The committee is to begin debating the measure Wednesday under a three-week timetable aimed at producing a final version for the full Senate by March 27.
Sponsored by the committee chairman, Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., the legislation is designed to strike a middle course between a bill passed by the House that calls for tougher immigration enforcement and the wishes of pro-immigration advocates who call for permanent legal status -- and eventual citizenship -- for an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants.
President Bush, defying objections from conservatives, has called for an overhaul of the nation's immigration laws and the creation of a temporary guest worker program to ensure a steady source of labor for U.S. businesses. Under Bush's plan, qualified workers, including residents now living here illegally, could stay in jobs for up to six years, then would be required to return home.
Committee staff members, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said applicants for the gold card would undergo a background check by the Homeland Security Department, then be eligible for two-year work visas that could be renewed indefinitely.
The Stein Report learned of a briefing on the program yesterday:
In a move to build support for Bush's guest worker amnesty plan, administration officials talked about how they would actually implement the program. Jaws dropped as the administration reps explained the centerpiece of the program, a "Gold Card" that would enable illegal aliens to enter the U.S. at will, and work at any job with no labor market or other tests needed but would deny them citizenship. "Gold Card" would be valid forever, similar to current "Green Cards" but illegal aliens holding a "Gold Card" would not be able to adjust their status through naturalization.
For those deluded enough to think that the Department of Homeland Security would be able to competently conduct the background checks and police abuse of this massive amnesty plan, I point you to yesterday's post.
The cluelessness of Beltway elite Republicans continues to amaze. If you thought the port deal was a P.R disaster, just wait.
Gold card. For crying out loud.
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Over at The Immigration Blog, Juan Mann reports: Chertoff fiddles, while deportation system burns.
Me too, I got one of the worthless RNC fundraising questionnaires and letters. I filled it out in RED with the most "wall-the-border" choices I could find and liberally peppered it with pithy comments.
I read that they are proposing an ID card for US CITIZENS to cross the Canadian border. I pointed out that I used to live in Minnesota, and the border there was fine: and that if any blonde, tall, Canadian snow bunnies wanted to sneak across the Canadian border, I'd be glad to help them assimilate. As long as my wife would allow me to do so, I hasten to add... ;-)
And I finished with a reference to Jorge Arbusto.
Cheers!
Maybe bayourant and bayourod are twins separated at birth. ???
To be honest the whole amnesty issue confuses me. Every time I bring it up I get blasted when I ask a question about the pro and cons. I keep hearing amnesty butI think that means alot of things to different people. So in fact I not sure I have taken a stand on the amnesty issue because I am not sure what it means and the whole dynamics of it. There are prob about 100 different amnesty proposals out there that differ in substance. As to the your feeling of Deja vu I have no idea what you are talking about
Gold card. For crying out loud.
Doubtless, the Dims will work with the RiNO's to ensure a $2,000 balance is applied to each to make sure they get a fair shake in our country.
You're doin' a great job Cherty Another vertabra declared missing from our government's backbone....
(thanks, aj!)
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This reminds me of another card...
ping to above
IMO, which DMC, amnesty is any proposal which bends the LAW to meet the criminal.
If this program is The President's secret plan to infuse social security with immigrant-worker S.S. taxes, it really, really sucks.
This "gold card" certainly sounds like to answer to correcting the problems we have on our southern border.
NOT!
There are already organized criminal gangs operating on our side of the border, and they seem to have spread widely through many of urban regions of our country. What the heck, you scoff at one set of laws, not much to be lost if you scoff at them all.
ALERT! ALERT! There is a major terrorist operation going on RIGHT NOW in Nuevo Laredo, with the local police force under siege, unable to move to contain the thugs, the "federales" are unwilling to move in, and the newspaper there will print nothing of the events that are going on, because of execution-type slayings of various reporters who have been so daring. And all done under the guise of maintaining an "open" border.
Now, consider the possibility that some of these "gold cards" end up in the hands of some of these organized thugs.
The Mafia never operated under such protection.
We need to stop the flow of illegal immigration into this country.
Period. End of discussion.
Enforce the immigration laws. Build the fence, give the BP the people they need.
Then we can talk about what to do with the people already here.
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You forgot the cut-rate deal on new subsidized housing.
Sorry, Katrina victims. Those folks from Mexico are getting your old city.
Why does the President, the man I voted for...ignore his core base? Why does he go against what conservatives demand and believe in? Does he know better? Or is it ego?
He is a globalist, obedient to the timetable of his internationalist and world socialist masters.
He may not even realize he is doing their bidding. But, as with his father, there it is.
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