Posted on 03/28/2006 11:08:53 AM PST by boryeulb
It reads like a page directly out of the Democrat's playbook on midterm elections. Let Republicans self-destruct by splitting from their base on a core issue. Senate Republicans this week will decide if the federal government will respond to 89 percent of Americans who believe illegal immigration is a serious problem.
Any bill that does not refuse amnesty, and require true border and internal enforcement will collapse public confidence in the GOP Congress, and therefore be the breaking point of the Republican Party. The bill passed by the Senate Judiciary Committee rewards lawbreakers with amnesty, plain and clear.
The temporary worker/amnesty bill from the Senate Judiciary Committee will cause every Democrat in Congress will jump onto it, because they know that this single issue is the opportunity to divide and conquer. If anything costs Republicans the majority this November, it will be this amnesty bill in the Senate that they are trying to force-feed to Congress and the American people.
In the face of bitter opposition from the majority of American citizens, the Senate Judiciary Committee passed a bill to reward millions of illegal aliens with legal worker status -- despite the fact these aliens have already proven their disregard for the laws of this nation. Beyond sending a message to potential residents and legal immigrants that we don't take our own laws seriously, this is a misguided and dangerous path for our nation, particularly in a post 9/11 world.
Any policy that reduces or eliminates the penalty for violating our immigration laws is amnesty. It is disingenuous for any lawmaker to claim they are against amnesty, but support these temporary worker amnesty programs.
Economically, these programs don't help our country, but hinder its growth. Americans are conditioned to believe that illegal aliens support our workforce, because they supposedly take jobs Americans will not do. The reality is, employers hire illegal workers who will work for much less than legal workers, driving wages down and making it impossible for legal workers to compete. There is no job Americans will not do. The hottest, most difficult, dirtiest and dangerous job in the world is rooting terrorists out of Fallujah. Marines are doing that job for $8.09 an hour.
The core of the strength of America has always been an ever-broadening middle class. The flood of immigration, both legal and illegal threatens an eventual destruction of the middle class and is resulting in the creation of a servant class. We cannot stand by while our middle class is eroded so that the ruling class in America can create a servant class for themselves.
We can stop illegal workers from taking jobs in the U.S. My New Illegal Deduction Elimination Act, or New IDEA, H.R. 3095, would eliminate the tax deduction employers can take on wages and benefits paid to illegal workers so it becomes a taxable event. The result would be to raise the cost of a $10 per hour illegal to a $16 per hour worker, creating the opportunity for American workers, shutting down the jobs magnet and broadening our middle class.
In addition, it would be ludicrous to base our national and economic security policy on the promise that temporary workers will return home once their worker permit expires. There has never been a successful temporary worker program in history.
History has proven time and again that legalizing the illegals won't solve the problem, it only serves to exacerbate it. Since 1986, Congress has passed seven amnesties for illegal aliens. The mass amnesty bill passed in 1986 that legalized 3 million aliens backfired, and the illegal alien population quickly doubled in a decade and tripled in less than 15 years. Further, dangling the prospect of citizenship in front of potential lawbreakers will only spur a mad stampede for the U.S. border to get in line for the next amnesty.
As a sovereign nation, we must control our borders and enforce our own laws. Ignoring our laws is not the path to maintaining a free, safe and prosperous society.
The House passed a comprehensive immigration reform policy in December that provides tools to secure America's future. H.R. 4437 does not reward any amnesty program and includes heavier border enforcement and construction of a border fence. The bill also provides for real enforcement in our interior, reduces the jobs magnet by requiring worker verification, and invokes penalties for local governments that provide sanctuary for illegal aliens.
The Senate must use these provisions as a baseline for their debate. This issue has pushed fed-up Americans to the abyss, and if we don't take the right turn, we deserve to be pushed into it.
And this one will work.......
It's a NO WIN for us, and they KNOW it......
If the United States, while awash in illegals that pose an open, direct threat to its sovereignty as a nation, AND while fighting a war against terrorists who's strategy is to violate borders and perpetrate murder, cannot act decisively to preserve basic security, our national sovereignty, and our way of life, I then fear that America has been internally weakened beyond repair. A nation paralyzed into inactivity by adherence to politically-correct, leftist mish-mash, that is incapable of defending itself on the most basic levels, cannot, as historical time goes, long endure.
"...sorry, these aren't people interested in joining the melting pot, they are not americans and have no desire to be... Deport them, arrest and fine employers who hire them and enforce the laws on the books."
Amen!
Well, any of them might work, but the democrats are so stuck-on-stupid they can't seem to do it.
1) Are you a Troll ?
2) Are you familiar with the demographic trends in the USA ?
3) Are you aware that many middle class "mexicans" are conservatives ?
4) Are you aware that this is a "wedge issue" and that you are playing right into the hands of the socialists ?
Let me get this straight; Democrats are going to divide (more than we are now?) and conquer the U.S. by siding with terrorists and illegal aliens? Apart from their base issue of infanticide they plan to run on a BoRs for illegals and a BoRs for Al Queda? What a plan!
From his post.
If there is any political sanity in the GOP, they will oppose citizenship for illegal aliens to their last breath.
Every illegal alien is new Democrat voter. There is not a single illegal that will vote Republican... they know where the handouts come from.
Add Social Security, Katrina, etc, etc.
(I get it) :)
That's one thing that a lot of folks don't get. Our political system was designed to encourage all manner of horsetrading--said horsetrading usually resulting in compromise laws that no faction loves, but that all factions can tolerate.
It's hard to take any politician at all as serious about national security. They jump with both feet on the "ports deal" which would have increased security in our ports, leave the borders wide open and ignore the fact that the "Joseph Goerbels" of the Taliban has a student visa to attend Yale.
No one will be 100% satisfied or 100% dissatisfied but there is no way in the world the Democrats will allow a compromised Republican Bill out of the Senate no matter how much tougher it gets than the committee version. The Rats read like a book.
Illegal aliens can't vote at all in most states. CA is one exception.
They are already voting. Legality means nothing.
This slightly off-topic but I would like to see more demands by Americans that Mexico get its act together.
The USA is not the country that needs to reform - it is MEXICO. It is Mexico that is run by and for the traditional oligarchy of old families - leaving the peasants to starve or come to America.
And then the dupes that make it here are so dumb that they continue to wave the Mexican flag instead of doing everything they can to throw over the rulers of Mexico.
Oh, right, in Mexico they would be shot for what they did last weekend in this country.
Unchecked and pandered to as they are now, it shouldn't take them long to turn America into Chihuahua North. Look out Canada.
This is false. The GOP barely got 38.24% of the Hispanic vote in 2004. The vast majority come from socialist countries and are aligned not only with Democrats but leftwing causes like LA RAZA.
I said "middle class" are conservative. The lower class are mostly democrats just like other ethnicities.
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