Boehner hints a back down on 'amnesty'

The Washington Times ^ | March 29, 2006 | Charles hurt

[surely_you_jest]

House Majority Leader John A. Boehner refused yesterday to rule out compromising with the Senate to expand the House border security bill to include a guest-worker program or provisions that opponents call "amnesty." "Let's wait and see what the Senate can produce," he told reporters yesterday when asked whether House Republicans would reject the Senate Judiciary Committee's proposal to allow the estimated 12 million illegal aliens now in the U.S. to seek citizenship after paying a fine.

[samcgwire]

My "Coop"er scooper? Works great. I just turned it back on.

[King Prout]

Coop, you flatly refused on the first effort.
I am no salesman or haggler: I assume an adult knows his own mind and cannot be argued into a choice outside of his nature.

[King Prout]

wisdom.

[skeeter]

Its sad seeing an old timer like you lose it.

[Coop]

Coop, you flatly refused on the first effort.

[wink] Yeah, and what a convincing first effort it was! LOL

[Coop]

Golly, another member of the class of '98. Who'd a thunk it?!

[onyx]

What? No new children in the sandbox today?

You bully!

[Firefish]

If your post isn't sarcasm then I can only conclude that you are inhaling more smoke than I have ever encountered in my thirty-plus years as a firefighter!

[Coop]

Why yes! Didn't you hear the despair in our old-timer Skeeter's voice when discussing my emotional breakdown? It's just breakin' his heart.

[skeeter]

Thats right. I was cool till Coop started flinging feces.

[Coop]

It's really traumatic, ain't it? I wonder if I could sell the movie rights to Lifetime?

[skeeter]

I'm thinking Animal Planet.

[onyx]

LOL -- Yes, I noted skeeter's dismay.

[American Quilter]

The logistics of the deportation option are completely infeasible.

Sorry for the long delay in answering your excellent post--real life keeps interfering with my FReeping.

I understand and agree with your argument about the impossibility of finding/processing/deporting all illegal immigrants.

What I propose is that SOME of them be deported--as many as possible without creating the problems you mention. The purpose would be to send a message to all current and would-be illegals that it's becoming more difficult to get here and stay here illegally. I think that would be worth doing. And the cost involved could perhaps be balanced by the money saved in providing these people with free primary education, health care, and other handouts provided by taxing citizens and legal immigrants.

[RegulatorCountry]

"Believe it - the prospect of starving to death in a fortnight serves wonderfully to concentrate the work ethic!"

If you've looked into just how tenuous our wonderful, just-in-time supply chain will be, in the event of a large scale natural disaster, major terrorist attack or all-out war, you know just how prescient that quote actually is.

[King Prout]

I don't even need to go that far: I have experience in these matters, having graduated from a good university in 1992 with no highly valuable degree (Classical History with a molecular biology minor? please...) and the taint of being "over-qualified" for most non-specialist positions. I made my living as a dockworker and construction worker out of necessity in those years.

[Southack]

"Oh please. GWB, BY HIS ACTIONS and INACTIONS, has made it very clear that he has ZERO intention about stopping the flood of illegals."

That's pretty uninformed.

This is the reality:

Once easy, Illegal Immigration Now Risky:President Bush Builds 12 ft Tall Steel Fence Along Mexican Border From The Pacific Into Arizona, Plus Around Major Populated Areas In Arizona and Texas

Illegals Deported By The Planeload Now

"The president cited a 66 percent increase in border-security funding since he took office, along with a 42 percent increase in interior-enforcement spending and a total of 6 million illegal aliens caught and returned home." http://www.washingtontimes.com/functions/print.php?StoryID=20060326-123457-5749r

DHS Announces CBP Border Patrol Agent Deployment Schedule
Washington, D.C. – Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff announced today the fiscal year 2006 U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Border Patrol agent deployment schedule. In a significant increase in personnel, an additional 1,700 CBP Border Patrol agents will be assigned to the southwest border.
http://www.customs.ustreas.gov/xp/cgov/newsroom/press_releases/archives/2005_press_releases/0122005/12072005.xml

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

hey cbolt go soak your head. it needs to be cleared.

[King Prout]

Yes: Dubya has done some things to somewhat stem the tide.
No: Dubya has NOT done everything within his legitimate powers, nor has what he has done been enough.

[SerpentDove]

Remember all the bozos who rabidly defended Harriet Miers?

It never ends.