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.

[demlosers]

Better no bill than a guest worker amnesty.

Ditto.

[Beagle8U]

"Care to guess why? Give you three chances (the first two don't count)."

I know why, because the Demonrats are playing both sides of the issue, and they sent their rat trolls in here to stir the pot.
The DUcks and KOS kool-aid kids have infested every immigration thread on FR.

[BigSkyFreeper]

I passed my 20 word-per-minute code test a year to the day I passed my Novice exam. Of course, that was back between 1992 and 1993. Just takes a lot of practice. 5 words-per-minute is relatively easy if you study at even 7.5 or 10 words-per-minute. After that, you don't need to test for code, because the 13 and 20 word-per-minute requirements were dropped a few years ago.

These days I probably listen to code on the air more than I use it (18 to 20 words-per-minute is pretty relaxing), but when I do get on the air, my rate is upwards around 35 to 40 words-per-minute.

[Junior_G]

Same here. Better no bill at all than a guest worker plan that will just encourage more illegals, resulting in yet another amnesty 10 years down the road.

[Stellar Dendrite]

"Any relation to former Freeper "cultural jihad"??"

ahh, cultural jihad...i forgot about that idiot. :)

[samcgwire]

I remember full well what went down, how it went down and who went down.

http://www.hispanicvista.com/HVC/Opinion/Commentary/021405Bcomm.htm


By Michael Hedges
The Houston Chronicle
09 February 2005

President uses law's escape clause to drop funding for new homeland security force.

Washington -- The law signed by President Bush less than two months ago to add thousands of border patrol agents along the U.S.-Mexico border has crashed into the reality of Bush's austere federal budget proposal, officials said Tuesday.

Officially approved by Bush on Dec. 17 after extensive bickering in Congress, the National Intelligence Reform Act included the requirement to add 10,000 border patrol agents in the five years beginning with 2006. Roughly 80 percent of the agents were to patrol the southern U.S. border from Texas to California, along which thousands of people cross into the United States illegally every year.

But Bush's proposed 2006 budget, revealed Monday, funds only 210 new border agents.

The shrunken increase reflects the lack of money for an army of border guards and the capacity to train them, officials said.

Retired Adm. James Loy, acting head of the Department of Homeland Security until nominee Michael Chertoff takes over, said funding only 210 new agents was a "recognition that we need to balance those things as we go on down the road with other priorities."

The White House referred questions about the border agents to the Homeland Security Department.

The law signed by Bush had a caveat that went virtually unreported at the time. A summary, published by the Senate Government Affairs Committee, required the government to increase the number of border patrol agents by at least 2,000 per year, "subject to available appropriations."

Democrats were unhappy that the proposed budget used the escape clause so soon after the president approved the huge boost in border agents.

"We know we must do more to shore up security along our borders," said Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, top Democrat on the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee. "The president's budget does not even attempt to meet this challenge."

Some Republicans also were displeased.

"This is an area of homeland security that needs to be ramped up in order to increase surveillance and patrols of our nation's vast and often remote borders," said Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, chair of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

A Jan. 24 letter signed by leading Republican lawmakers implored the president to fully fund the new law "in order to secure our borders against infiltration by terrorists."

The lead signer was Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and a leader of GOP efforts to toughen immigration laws and anti-terrorism statutes.

[griswold3]

if we cut off all entitlements to ILLEGALS and encourage the socialist party in Mexico, we wouldn't have to force them to go HOME.

[Dane]

The new line by the trolls that is hilarious, is that the Pilgrims weren't immigrants.

[taxed2death]

"And the immigration zealots..."

What exactly is an "immigration zealot"?

Thanks in advance.

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

No, it doesn't.

It sounds like a convenient way for you to cop out now that you've been called on your slanderous accusations.

[American Quilter]

Every one reflects that the "moderate center" is for securing the borders and against any form of amnesty.

My brother-in-law, whose parents immigrated from Mexico (legally) before he was born, is strongly against illegal immigration. He's not happy with the Republican Party's failure to stop the illegals, though as a conservative Christian in law enforcement, he's not ready to threaten to vote Democratic.

[taxed2death]

"If the GOP loses -anything-, it is ALWAYS the fault of the people who sit out or vote for third party."

Pretzel logic.

....kinda goes against the grain there....

Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.

The fault would obviously lie with the GOP.

[Dane]

Same here. Better no bill at all than a guest worker plan that will just encourage more illegals, resulting in yet another amnesty 10 years down the road.

Ah yes, gotta keep those funds flowing into FAIR, so you can keep your dayjob of trolling FR.

[stands2reason]

You've only succeeded in making yourself look foolish.

[processing please hold]

5 words-per-minute is relatively easy if you study at even 7.5 or 10 words-per-minute.

I started at 13 wpm. There's a Morse Code group in my hometown that I signed up with. Hubby said when I pass my test, he'll get me a radio. He's such a meany.

I like listening in bed with earpnones on. It helps my concertration and retention.

These days I probably listen to code on the air more than I use it (18 to 20 words-per-minute is pretty relaxing), but when I do get on the air, my rate is upwards around 35 to 40 words-per-minute.

Ahhhh, some day I'll be there. Practice, practice, practice. That's the key. A,d you're right, it is relaxing.

[Southack]

"But Bush's proposed 2006 budget, revealed Monday, funds only 210 new border agents."

The above is fantasy.

What follows below is reality:

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

[Junior_G]

What exactly is an "immigration zealot"?

Someone who believes in borders, apparently.

[samcgwire]

The reality is you're siding with the problem, not the solution. You're backing the enemy and the enemy's proxy in America.