All for dirt-cheap illegal alien wages---what a cost!
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.
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.
"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.
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?
So even the House is still simply providing lip service to the problem. Sometimes I wonder why we pay taxes to the feds at all. Then I think of all the Andres Serranos and Karen Finleys out there who would be starving if our government representatives actually represented our wishes, and I can't help but feel that my suspicions why the government doesn't care what people think are easily substantiated by one simple fact, a fact that forever meant that the consent of the governed wasn't all that important to the United States.
The North won.
They are making demands. Meanwhile Bush and congress are cowering to their demands. Pathetic, just pathetic.
I saw Ms. Munoz on C-Span today. She basically stated that La Raza will be pushing for worker's rights too, i.e. higher wages, etc. When the wages are increased then there WILL be competition for these "jobs that Americans won't do". I don't think that the business community that is pushing for amnesty realizes that this is actually going to hurt them in the long run. And further, the "guest workers" will still be sending their earnings home to Mexico along with their worker's comp benefits, SS disability benefits, etc.