Posted on 04/02/2006 12:48:06 AM PST by Rick_Michael
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.
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With the dimwits getting dimmer every day, the GOP could have the elections in the bag if W wouldn't continue to bed down with Fox. He really doesn't listen to the people.
do you mind if i ask what kind of business? depending on how many employees you have and what their make up is, you might want to shop your insurance around....that seems a little high to me.
The Republican Party wont take this issue seriously because to the moneymen in the party, big businness needs trump the needs of the nation. Look at what happened to the meatpacking industry in the South Dakota. When the INS tried to remove illegals working in the plants the republican governor, a republican senator (Thune) and legislature went nuts and had the inspectors removed. I campaigned for the President in 2000 and 2004, but I wont this next cycle. This issue could lead to loss of the House, Conyers as Judiciary Chairman and then impeachment proceedings....mark my word.
I was working in technology in Oregon recently. Oregon has a vast farm industry. One lady who worked in a different department told me resentfully how her kids could no longer get hired to do extra harvesting work because tons of foreigners showed up, driving down the wages and sucking up the positions.
Check this:
Foreign labor certification programs permit U.S. employers to hire foreign workers on a temporary or permanent basis to fill jobs essential to the U.S. economy. Certification may be obtained in cases where it can be demonstrated that there are insufficient qualified U.S. workers available and willing to perform the work at wages that meet or exceed the prevailing wage paid for that occupation in the area of intended employment.
http://www.doleta.gov/business/gw/guestwkr/
In other words, they are supposed to hire American workers first, dang-it!
"With friends like this, who needs.."
Exactly
This should be taken as a direct insult to all Americans. We can, and will do anything to get a job done. J.D. Hayworth should tell McCain his gig is over in the Senate.
Many of us knew what Bush was from the start,
but what choices did we have?
Gore or Kerry?
Unless the Republican party nominates a conservative in 2008,
you can bet your life the next administration will be a rat administration.
I think the only way out of this is for single American guys to hit on and marry Mexican women. They're spunky and talk a lot. They also can cook and give the bed a long workout:) Como este mi!
I'm wondering if this is a Karl Rove strategy in the Senate taking place.
1) Let the Dems pass their bill in the Senate
2) Let the Dems attack the House version.
3) Put both in front of the American people and let them decide which party should run the country.
Yeah, but Americans won't live 20 to a trailer (paying $20/wk) at less than minimum wage with no benefits. Therefore, they can't get Americans to take these jobs, so the employer only hires those who will. After all, his competitors are doing it!
welcome the new America!!!!
Bye, Bye miss American pie
Drove my Chevy to the leavey but...
This'll be the day that I die.
Right, the're not following this part of the law:
"work at wages that meet or exceed the prevailing wage paid for that occupation".
Rep. Tom Tancredo, the Colorado Republican who leads the House immigration reform caucus, offered a simple explanation for why Mr. Bush is pushing a guest-worker program that voters don't want.
"He's not running for re-election," Mr. Tancredo said yesterday. "I wish that he would recognize the dangerous position he would place himself in and the rest of his agenda if the Republicans lose the House and Senate, which they could easily do on this issue.
"Although he's not running for re-election, I wish he would think about the party. And, of course, I wish he'd think about the country."
Someone posted a link to me about current policies for legal immigration. Tthey are interesting. They favor highly educated people. Having earned a PhD at a time when many docs were driving cabs, and not liking the oversupply of foreign MD's I wonder why all of the protest is about low wage jobs when the pols are driving down the wages of the most educated and most skilled Americans? My immigration policy would include building more medical schools so Americans can get the best jobs, not immigrants.
Would you limit MD immigration at the same time, so that family investments in medical school would actually pay off? As it stands now, a Pakistani, Indian, or Chinese doctor is waiting in the wings to take their jobs no matter how many schools we build.
Bush's support of Arlen Specter over Pat Toomey, and his refusal to endorse Brett Schundler in his race against Frank Lautenberg, is starting to make sense. Bush really did not want too many conservatives around who might block his amnesty initiatives, or who might criticize his unholy friendship with that corrupt Vicente Fox.
What is with the Bush family, anyway? Vicente Fox? Bill Clinton? One would think they would befriend more honorable people.
Globalism is a belief system. Bush buys it. Of course there's a lot of money in it, too. What we have here is a wealthy ideologue ensuring his future cash flow.
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