Posted on 04/07/2006 7:58:29 AM PDT by rob777
In the rush to get an immigration bill out of the Senate, the Bush administration appears willing to cave into the Democrats on the issue of amnesty.
The latest burst of bipartisan enthusiasm came when a strange marriage of Republican Sens. John McCain and Bill Frist joined with Democratic Sens. Ted Kennedy and Harry Reid in proclaiming that only those illegal aliens who are in the United States five years or more will be allowed to stay.
Suddenly, every "undocumented migrant" you ask will claim to have been in the United States five years or more. How is anyone going to prove different? In the thriving market in forged documents, we find in major cities such as Los Angeles and New York, any reasonably enterprising illegal alien should be able to get a Social Security number and produce a driving license for any name it takes to prove they have been in the United States five years or more.
We are witnessing remarkable statements from the likes of Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, who said of the recent compromise, "While it admittedly is not perfect, the choice we have to make is whether it is better than no bill, and the choice is decisive." This sounds uncomfortably familiar.
What we are likely to get out of the compromise is new language promising to secure the border, but without building a fence. We're probably going to be sold that electronic sensors are just as good. So why don't we just build an electronic surveillance force? All this is nonsense. We already have good immigration laws on the books that we don't enforce. How long will it take to put the electronic surveillance force in place? How many illegal immigrants will the electronic fence actually prevent from getting into the United States anyway? Will we add enough Border Patrol agents to make sure the electronic fence is working?
Why won't the Senate and President Bush just come clean on what is really going on? Senate Republicans do not have enough votes for a tough enforcement law and the president is not going to push for tough enforcement. Besides, President Bush is basically in favor of amnesty, as long as we can find the right euphemism, such as "guest worker." Certainly, no Republican wants to be accused of offering a "guest illegal" program, even if that's what the "get out of jail free" card after five years here actually means.
Maybe no bill at all would be better. Why is President Bush so determined in his second term to commit political suicide? Conservative Republicans want "guest worker" amnesty and "electronic surveillance" fences no more than they wanted Harriet Miers to be on the Supreme Court.
Probably, what it will take to wake the White House up is the massive defeat in the 2006 congressional elections that is brewing right now. Maybe if enough Republican senators and congressmen bite the dust in November, Karl Rove will realize that courting future "illegal immigrant" voters to expand the Hispanic base of the Republican Party is probably a very costly strategy, especially if in the process the growing conservative majority turns hard against the president.
The immigration bill that is being hammered together will certainly be proclaimed as a "great solution," a "comprehensive bill." In the end, this new immigration bill is not really intended to stop illegal immigration. The bill is just intended to sound like we are going to stop illegal immigration.
In another few years, we will have not 12 million illegal immigrants in the United States, as the administration claims we have now, but maybe 25 million. But, of course, in five years from now, all we have to do is wave the magic wand again, permitting Congress to declare once more that everybody is legal, as long as they have been here five years or more. Why don't we just do this every five years? That should make the problem go away altogether.
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LOL. I like your idea.
Well they are brothers, their daddy has said so.
Who knows, maybe we can get ourselves deported to Mexico. They'll be needing warm bodies down there pretty soon.
LEGAL immigration = good
ILLEGAL immigration = bad
If the dim RATs win the house, Bush commits political suicide by being impeached, and by Quisling out America, he will damn well deserve what he gets.
Americans aren't having as many kids because we can't afford it. Why? Because we're taxed to death to support illegals, freeloaders, etc.
Our economy will be just fine without the freeloading illegal trash, it's a hallmark of you globalist socialists to scream "dear god what about the economy!" when you have absolutely nothing to back up your assertions.
Without the illegals we'd have far less than 4.7% unemployment and as for the problem of fruits and vegetables being harvested I have no doubt that some enterprising American will come up with the design for a machine to do the work that the illegals do.
Currently due to the illegals there's no market for such machinery hence no reason to design it. For being such a capitalist I would think that you'd be able to draw the logical conclusion, unless of course you're not really a capitalist at all.
Proof that too much of FR is no different from DU when it comes to drama queen tinfoil kookery.
Exactly.
He has noting to loose.
But the Republican Congress does.
On the other hand, if the Dems take over Congress in 2006, he will face a sure bill of impeachment.
Anti-illegal alien, you mean. Be more legally precise, and stop pushing euphemistic confusion.
Anyone who calls these guys..."immigrants"...is not "always right".
In fact, have you EVER been right?
"A country without a border...soon won't be one."
--Ronald Reagan
Hell's coming for breakfast...
IMMIGRATION does benefit American.
Illegal invasions do not.
Oh, really. And where were you on Harriet Meiers? And the Dubai Ports debacle? And NOW?
"Yet, if I don't support John McCain, I'm labeled anti-GOP by an increasingly growing number of folks."
Just by Democrats and liberals.
I think McCain hanged himself with this latest bit of skullduggery - and he's taking our party with him.
The pro illegals new slave of underclass sub humans.
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