Posted on 04/04/2006 9:38:41 AM PDT by Blue Turtle
Good
And what happens if no vote for amnesty is passed?
Do the illegals get rounded up and kicked out?
Do the borders get secured so no more can enter the country?
Good
Thank God John McCain is a failure.
That's the BEST news I've had all day!
Teddy had it so right! Not Kennedy, but Roosevelt!
Theodore Roosevelt's ideas on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN in 1907.
"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."
Theodore Roosevelt 1907
Every American citizen needs to read this!
Nothing happens. The issue becomes another one for both sides to politicize. We get nothing but a fractured GOP. Sometimes, I think that is what some in the party want.
Nothing happens. I think that's been the point all along. Granting illegals amnesty is unpopular, and so is enforcing the law. It's just political posturing by everyone up for re-election this year. Pandering for votes, knowing nothing will actually change.
From the article:
"McCain and Kennedy deny that their proposal is amnesty, saying illegal immigrants would have to pay $2,000 in fines and any back taxes and clear background checks before they could get in line for a green card."
Has anyone wondered exactly who will administer this nightmare of a program? You can bet that it will reuire a new, huge, multi-billion dollar bureaucracy---and they say it would cost too much to round them all up and send them home?
The "gay marriage" initiative insured that Conservatives got elected in some States back in 2004. An initiative to "punish the employers" would have the same effect. With the issue on the ballot, the politicians will HAVE to choose sides - either FOR or AGAINST illegal immigration and Amnesty.
I don't want to sit back and watch the Senate negotiate away our country.
Time to go back and actually do something - enforce the damn law and send the illegals packing by stopping ALL and I mean ALL benefits.
No more free citizenship to those here illegally.
Of course Bush will call anyone who wants the law enforced vigilantes but so what we already know he hates true conservatives and law abiding Americans.
likely, no.
but the status quo is better then a guest worker plan that ADDS TO the number of people here - since without a comprehensive package that includes enforcement, and incentives for current illegals to leave and return as legal guest workers, what's the point.
"Nothing happens".
I think you are both right on with this.
I agree. The illegals will continue to flood into the country and more and more jobs will be taken over by the illegals at 1/3 the cost of hiring Americans. The lost jobs of the Americans will become "jobs Americans don't want to do".
That is the mantra now.
GOOD! Don't give up. Keep those phone lines burning! Keep faxing! Keep emailing!
We can't give up now.
We've got to keep putting pressure on the Senators to keep them from passing it. We can't trust them. They have sold Americans down the river too many times, and they'll do it again if they can.
If any politician points out how much that will cost, he will either be run out of town or be Ted Kennedy.
we have two national elections coming up in the next 2.5 years. there is no consensus currently on a comprehensive plan. I think there could have been, but that would have required the President to lead on this - to lead on some kind of plan that had both sticks and carrots in it. the White House made the decision that they would not/could not compromise with the House, so they embraced a Democratic bill in the senate and got as many McCain-type senators to sign up for that. The President pushed his own party to the brink on this.
They won't even bother to point out how much it will cost.
They will simply do nothing and let the flood of illegals continue.
They don't dare try to fund the deportation project. It's too big and too late. We are stuck with a problem of a kind familiar to Existentialists.
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