All for dirt-cheap illegal alien wages---what a cost!
Posted on 03/27/2006 7:28:21 AM PST by Daytyn71
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate tackles the hot-button election issue of what to do with the nation's estimated 11 million illegal immigrants this week, with President Bush coming down on the side of letting many of them stay if they have jobs.
Bush planned to use a naturalization ceremony set for Monday at 10 a.m. ET to swear in 30 new citizens to press his call for a "guest worker" program.
The president's appearance comes after a weekend when hundreds of thousands of people rallied in Los Angeles and many other U.S. cities demanding that Congress abandon legislation passed by the House. (Watch protesters give Ohio lawmakers a piece of their minds -- 1:10)
The House-passed measures would make being an undocumented immigrant a felony and erect a 700-mile fence along the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border.
The Senate Judiciary Committee, meanwhile, faced a midnight deadline for completing a similar bill.
"We must remember there are hardworking individuals, doing the jobs that Americans will not do, who are contributing the economic vitality of our country," the president said in his weekend radio address.
After the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, calls for tougher border security have dominated debate over the knotty problem of controlling immigration.
But a tough immigration-enforcement bill passed by the House last year has galvanized forces that want worker programs for illegal immigrants already in the country.
"We will not accept enforcement-only approaches," said Cecilia Munoz, vice president of the National Council of La Raza, a Hispanic advocacy group.
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Don't we need the criminalization bill, and the guest worker program? Certainly not the carrot without the stick.
As long as Congress is willing to put up with an executive that freely ignores the law, passing more laws will do nothing at all. Congress must confront the executive, until that happens this is all a dog-and-pony show.
The media was playing up the "huge" numbers of marchers, but what they seemed to not grasp was that, considering that there are something like 11 Million illegal aliens in the US, it's surprising the numbers weren't larger. And, how much weight should we put on illegals protesting in our streets suggesting that breaking laws are fine. Will the courts accept that were I to rob a bank?
The do-nothing but whine democrats are doing everything they can to undermine efforts to protect America from terrorists.
GWB just killed his poll numbers. Definitely below 40 after today. Problem is he may drag down the GOP in the 2006 Congressional elections.
From David Frum of National Review:
NOW IS THE TIME FOR ALL GOOD MEN ...
My forebodings of a year ago seem to be taking on my reality every day: Immigration truly is emerging as an issue that can shatter the Republican party. The president is determined to thrust upon the party an amnesty/guestworker approach that is opposed by the overwhelming majority of the Republican rank-and-file. He has come to believe - and tells visitors to the White House - that party opposition to him is based on irrational fear, ignorance, and prejudice. (Just like Dubai! Or for that matter, Harriet Miers.)
If anything were calculated to solidify the perception that this administration scorns the values and concerns of the ordinary Republican - if anything were designed to discourage ordinary Republican from turning out in November 2006 - it is what this administration is doing now. At a moment when the president needs his maximum strength to see his foreign policy through to success, he is gambling everything on a wager he cannot win. His version of immigration reform can only pass Congress with Democratic votes, and there is zero possibiilty that the Democrats will help him - but every likelihood that they will egg him on to incite a Republican civil war on the issue that most bitterly divides the president's party.
George W had an incredible opportunity right after September 11th to mobilize our national guard troops on the border to stop the influx of illegals (and terrorists) in the name of Homeland Security. There would have been little debate or outcry by the Left in the days after September 11th had he done what should have rightfully been done to protect Americans. What a wasted opportunity!!
I'm doubtful that any meaningful immigration legislation will be hammered out during the remainder of his presidency.
All for dirt-cheap illegal alien wages---what a cost!
The mass rallies for illegal alien "rights" tell us one thing, there are too many here. We need to catch them and quickly deport them.
Tell your senator you support the House's Sensenbrenner immigration bill.
The irony is, when the 'rats take congress, they're going to impeach him.
"We will not accept enforcement-only approaches," said Cecilia Munoz, vice president of the National Council of La Raza, a Hispanic advocacy group."
Its obvious who ownes this country. LaRaza (as in The Hispanic Race - as in "for our race everything for others nothing") has given the weak kneed RINOs a command.
Bush and the RINOs are nothing more than democrats - working to further divide this country and put the American people in harms way.
The danger now is things are to the point were any action to solve the problem will be very costly and possibly violent.
I can understand why so many politicians refused to deal with this.
It's always easier to do nothing in the face of tyranny, but I'm so thankful our Founding Fathers were real Patriots who didn't look at an issue as being easy or hard. They had the good sense to know what was right and what was wrong, and they bet their very lives on this principle.
"Where are the right-wing activists? I thought they were all up in arms?"
They are all in this thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1603937/posts
Planning a third party ross perot attack to once again put the commies back in power!
LLS
Wouldn't Mexico's economy improve if its govt. stopped being so anti-foreigner? Here's a potentially astonishing related thread which details how FLAGRANTLY anti-gringo Mexico's immigration laws are compared to our own:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1602610/posts
Can you believe it? Why doesn't the media cover this information (yet)? That would set the race-baiters still in their tracks! Couldn't we stop the amnesty juggernaut if we figured out how to expose how racist MEXICO's own immigration laws are, maybe through a massive letters to the editor campaign and calls to talk show hosts and our politicians?
CNN has ran one propaganda piece after another on immigration all weekend and today.
All the enforcement stuff with an amnesty is window dressing. It happened in 1986, and the laws weren't enforced. It won't be any different this time around. Ask yourself, what good is more penalties on companies that hire illegals when the federal government does near nothing now involving said companies?
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