Posted on 03/26/2006 6:37:32 AM PST by Sharks
Question: Who has the most influence with President Bush on the volatile issue of immigration reform?
(A) The employing elites who are addicted to the cheap and docile labor pool that illegal immigrants provide?
(B) The working-class and middle-class voters, including many legal immigrants, in the Republican Party's base who are frustrated with the lax controls on illegals?
(C) The mostly minority backlash voters who, if Congress passes the sort of a tough, enforcement-only immigration bill that Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) suggests, could cost the Grand Old Party support in Florida and Southwestern states for years to come?
Yea, they're shaking in their boots given Madame Cankles wants la migra more than anyone else in the Senate, Clarence
"Clearly, we have to make some tough decisions as a country, and one of them ought to be coming up with a much better entry-and-exit system so that if we're going to let people in for the work that otherwise would not be done, let's have a system that keeps track of them." -- Hillary Rodham Clinton
What a great protest sign :)
Please check out what Frist is actually proposing. Here it is according to Bay Buchannan. Take it for what it's worth.
There was another source explaining this last week on FR.
Here is the really bad news. While Senator Frists bill has little to no
amnesty in it, it is NOT an enforcement only bill. It more than doubles
green cardsit would take our legal immigration numbers from 1 million to
over 2 million a year!!
If you take the two bills out 10 years, Kennedy/McCain/Specter would
legalize 25 million foreigners during the next decade and Frist would
legalize over 20 million! And the Frist bill goes on forever with those
huge annual numbers.
Both bills would be disastrous for a country!!
And these numbers dont include the increase in H1B visas and the like.
Kennedys bill wants to take the 65,000 that come in today and increase it
to 165,000 annuallya 100,000 more a year! Thats nothing compared to
Frists plan. He wants to increase these visas by 400,000, so nearly
500,000 foreigners could come take American jobs every year!!
baybuchanan@teamamericapac.org
Frist also went wobbly on fetal stem cell cloning, so he is no longer considered a pro-life candidate. Frist can't lean on the support of cultural conservatives.
I understand.
That will not be the case, especially in Florida.
No I don't think so most of the legalized hispanics also want immigration reform. Prop 200 passed in Arizona with almost 57% of the vote and over 50% of the legal citizen hispanics voted for it. (Prop 200 makes it mandatory for all voters to show valid ID at the polls).
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