Posted on 04/05/2006 2:34:48 AM PDT by johnny7
The issue of illegal immigration, while long roiling beneath the surface of American politics, is now boiling over.
The eruption began with the introduction of House Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner's (R-Wis.) bill HR 4437 to the Senate following its passage by the House last December. The first attempt at real immigration reform since 1986, this commonsense legislation would have made being an illegal immigrant a felony, authorized additional fencing at the border and required all employers to use an electronic verification system to ensure that workers are legal residents. Yet the Senate supported the bill only after watering it down with a variety of amendments. It may be further weakened by the competing bills being debated in Congress.
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The Mexicans are unlike previous immigrants. This definitely needs to be read by everyone at least once! It should be linked on pertinent immigration threads. Here's an interesting link about Samuel Huntington:
Well of course la raza wishes to balkanize and keep a group down from propering, like any other leftist organiziation.
Mark my words - voter anger (actual, real voters, not potential demographic voters) is growing over illegal immigration. Whoever comes out strongest on illegal immigration will win the Presidency in 2008.
This is an issue where Dems can really pound Republicans. How can we claim to be the 'national security party' when we won't secure our borders?
Yeah. An amazing number of people would even vote for Hillary! if they thought she's control the borders...
Yeah... I've been to her website.
Agreed but if the Pubs actually point out that it is Dems who want felons who are illegal to vote, criminals in major industries even those such as nuke facilities, NY groupies wanting illegals to be able to vote LEGALLY, perhaps the Pub base will finally overlook the Bushie errors and join in repudiating the leftist Dems on this issue. If only.........poor Bush is so behind the curve on this issue and he actually believes that the Dems want to solve it too. Yipe. He should be listening to Hugh Hewitt's new book, Painting the map red. He won't. Too stubbornly in love with his own philosophy that he lived as guv in Texas where issues were soooo easy.
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