I'm going to put my tin foil hat on, so I can think like a conspiracy theorist.
Lets say ICE was going to do this raid 2 months ago or even 2 months into the future and Chertoff said no, you have to do it while Congress is in recess. What exactly is the effect of this raid going to have on Congress?
Do you think this will get more votes for a guest worker program?
If so, how?
"you have to do it while Congress is in recess. What exactly is the effect of this raid going to have on Congress?
Do you think this will get more votes for a guest worker program?
If so, how?"
You know, it's a terrible waste of breath to continue a discussion with someone who is intentionally missing the point of what I am saying, or is so politically naive as to not understand. Last try. The effect on Congress (specifically the Senate where the bill is up for a vote), is to show how "tough" Bush is starting to get on the illegal alien problem, even though this raid is all show and no go. The recess is almost over, which you choose to intentionally ignore, and Congress is about to reconvene to once again bring up the immigration bill. The timing of this raid is to influence the vote in the Senate that Bush is really going to crack down on illegal immigration, and it is all a sham. Now, if you are incapable of figuring this out, or, as I see it, don't want to figure this out, then no one can help your politically ignorant self. The rest of the intelligent people on this thread HAVE figured it out. You stand pretty much alone in thinking these raids were not a political move. So be it.
I'm going to put my tin foil hat on, so I can think like a conspiracy theorist.Lets say ICE was going to do this raid 2 months ago or even 2 months into the future and Chertoff said no, you have to do it while Congress is in recess. What exactly is the effect of this raid going to have on Congress?
Do you think this will get more votes for a guest worker program?
If so, how?
I don't think Congress was the intended audience.
I think we -- the voters -- are the intended audience. There are many voters, who are so frustrated, feeling so hopeless and powerless, that they nave been increasingly talking of revolt on election day. There have been massive numbers of people so fed up that they're talking about boycotting the elections.