Posted on 04/24/2006 5:59:15 AM PDT by Crackingham
As Congress headed back Monday from a two-week recess, President Bush was in the country's most immigrant-rich state to push a stalled bill that would allow more foreigners to work legally in the United States. Lawmakers, with an eye on Election Day in just over six months, remain far apart on whether to crack down on illegal immigrants or embrace them as vital contributors to the U.S. economy.
Bush wants a law that would give temporary guest worker permits to foreigners in low-paying jobs while strengthening border security. He was to push his idea in a speech Monday in Irvine, Calif., a state that has seen massive protests in recent weeks calling for immigrant rights.
Sen. Arlen Specter, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said Sunday he believes Congress will be able to work out differences and pass a bill. Specter, R-Pa., has pledged to have legislation ready for debate soon after lawmakers return.
Specter said Democrats and Republicans have to agree on a list of amendments to consider. And he acknowledged that even if senators pass a bill with a guest worker program, it will be tough to work that out with House members who passed a much tougher bill that would impose criminal penalties on those who try to sneak into this country and would build up fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border.
"It would be a tough conference, candidly, with the House, but we were able to work through the Patriot Act although there were big disagreements," Specter said on CNN's "Late Edition."
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., intends to seek passage of immigration legislation by Memorial Day by reviving the Senate bill that stalled earlier this month due to internal disputes in both parties as well as political maneuvering.
In a gesture to conservative critics of the measure, Republican leadership aides said last week that Frist also will seek roughly $2 billion in immediate additional spending for border protection.
Some conservatives have said the Senate bill is unacceptable because provisions allowing for eventual citizenship to some of the illegal immigrants already here amount to amnesty.
GWB does go his own way and ignores the polls and the opinion of those who elected him. That much is indisputable.As to why he does it, he won't say more than the pap he put forth in California.So we are not likely to ever know more.
Few Freepers will be banned for parting company with Bush because he left us. We are receding into the distance and GWB is not looking back.
"GWB does go his own way and ignores the polls and the opinion of those who elected him. That much is indisputable.As to why he does it, he won't say more than the pap he put forth in California.So we are not likely to ever know more."
In all candor Mr. President, and with all due respect...To push this issue as you are, to call the Minute Men "vigilanties" and demean their efforts...you must be in a male bovine fertilizer rich state of mind.
Your plan, Mr. President, is inexplicable and unacceptable. It is only possibly explanable as vote pandering...But it is political suicide.
Because he's a globalist and that's what globalists think and do. Break down barriers and distinctions between countries. Blur the meaning of what is America and what is means to be an American. It's hard to fight for something that is so fuzzy.
"Immigrant rich"?
No, more like a bunch of ILLEGAL immigrant leeeches on welfare and yet taking all those jobs "Americans won't do" AWAY from Americans and still collecting welfare because welfare subsidizes those LOW wages they love! They know how to play the system.
Yeah, precisely what he wants to happen WILL VOTE FOR DEMONCRATS. This is beyond stupid.
"If that is the case, then I wish him Godspeed and the same to Dr. Dean in torpedoing the Democrat Party. The sooner these two organized political crime syndicates are destroyed the sooner we'll be able to return to self governance."
Amen to that!
The President, like his dad's buddy BJ Clinton, seems hung up on accomadating the Mexicans to the detriment of the legal citizens of our country. He is turning the leadership of the country over to Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, the phony Irishman John Kerry, Fat teddie kennedy, Hillary, the corrupt labor unions, homos and all of those other losers that make up what is known as "Dimocrats". God help us.
"Because he's a globalist and that's what globalists think and do. Break down barriers and distinctions between countries. Blur the meaning of what is America and what is means to be an American. It's hard to fight for something that is so fuzzy."
"What is the solution?"
Gee, I don't know either but a good start would be to call them what they are: illegal "aliens", rather than perpetuate the semantic mistake of calling them (latino) "immigrants".
The US Code refers to them as "immigrants" only if they are complying with USC Title 8. If they are not, they are foreign nationals, or aliens breaking our laws. http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode08/usc_sup_01_8_10_12_20_II_30_II.html
[By the way, all the signs I saw at the protests by illegal aliens said to call them Mexicans, not latinos or chicanos.]
Or USC Title 8, section 1184: "non-immigrants".
"A very small percentage, however. I'd guess maybe 5%? Or less, since it's the same 3 or 4 over and over that blindlessly tout the party line.
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I don't know about that. It seems to me that there is pretty broad-based support for President Bush here on Free Republic.
More like a cesspool state. No wonder he is going there, he wants to learn how to turn the rest of America into a whorehouse of illegal immigrants so California won't have all the fun - nine hospitals closed in Southern California added to the 84 over all. Schools a hellhole - teachers are unable to teach this "diverse" bunch of criminals. Apartments bulging with hundreds of thousands of illegals. American citizens paying the bills - while Bush gets the praise from Mexico that finally the borders states will go to their control under his presidency.
Bush has lost his mind.
Bush thinks that if he makes all the illegals legal that the problem will go away. Kind of like legalizing rape and then bragging about the reduction in crime.
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