Posted on 03/30/2006 11:46:10 PM PST by SUSSA
House conservatives yesterday issued a dire warning to President Bush and Republican leadership that they will pay a devastating political price if they proceed with a guest-worker program or anything resembling amnesty for illegal aliens before securing the borders and enforcing existing immigration laws.
"They will remember in November," Rep. J.D. Hayworth, Arizona Republican, said of voters nationwide. "And many of those who have stood with our Republican majority in the last decade are not only angry, many of them plan to be absent from the polls" this year when the entire House and one-third of the Senate is up for re-election.
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I couldn't believe what I was seeing and hearing
This is in the heartland of the country. I can't imagine what the coastal areas have become.
And please give me an ATM mahine that assumes I speak english. After all this is AMERICAN TERRITORY.
I have a better idea. Civil fines for those who hire illegals that includes the costs of processing and shipping the illegals back to their country of origin.
Demand better.
Good idea, will you pass that along to your Congressman?
One thing I admire about President Bush is that he doesn't cower in the fact of anyone's anger, let alone a group of angry House Republicans who screwed him royally and unnecessarily on the Dubai port issue. I'd say their political capital with W is about zilch right now.
I like the way W moves in the direction he thinks is right regardless of the polling data. I think we're in the process of hammering out a reasonable immigration policy, one more effective than the amnesty implemented by everyone's favorite president, Ronald Reagan, back in the 1980s.
Bush works for Fox News?
Who new?
I hope he's taking Greta's place.
Tell me about it. How many countries in the Western Hemisphere are primarily Spanish-speaking? Nothing at all wrong---and a whole lot right---with English truly being the sole official language of the United States, and all immigrants having to become fluent int it before coming here!
The President was wrong on the ports issue, and in that case, those who stood up to him were right.
Now, now, Zook...
Don't try to make sense to these people (some of them)
They are enjoying their favorite pasttime--bashing the Prez.
I believe you will find that you are wrong about this.
It's already become obvious.
Hi altura,
I no longer try to persuade anyone. I just think it's important to speak up. You know, I saw the results of a new poll yesterday that suggested that President Bush's approval rating among Republicans was 80%.
He isn't clueless - he playing geostrategic chess and he feels he can't explain his strategy to the public for national security reasons. We are already fighting a proxy war with China, and control over Latin America is the current battlefield.
We are being asked to accept the lesser of two evils without an explanation of what the greater evil is.
Making the employer of illegals pay severely... either with cash or jail-time... could solve the illegal problem once and for good. Cutting off federal funds to states who grant illegals benefits is also a crucial step to take.
Reagan did not grant amnesty to 4 million illegals, it was estimated by the proponents of the legislation that only less than a million would qualify. It turned into that many due to enormous fraud that even Chuck Schumer admitted had occured. Unlike Chas however Reagan would not make the same mistake over again. As they say, fool me once...
The image of national security being a Republican issue was unnecessarily compromised by the ports debacle.
Bush is violating his sworn oath. He is supposed to UPHOLD THE LAWS of the U.S.
He completely ignores criminals who hire illegal aliens. He is doing NOTHING to stop illegals, on the contrary, he keeps making statements about the wonders of immigrants, and another wave of illegals enters the country.
INS says 4 million.
LLS
Reagan didn't have a Republican congress.
I am not sure he cares, but he will spend his last two years under investigation by a Democrat controlled House if he succeeds in getting any version of an amnesty enacted.
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