Posted on 04/24/2006 11:25:27 AM PDT by kellynla
President Bush in Irvine today called for a rational, temporary guest worker program and said that attempting to deport as many as 12 million undocumented workers illegally in the United States was a policy that was not going to work.
Bush capped a four-day trip to California with a visit to the Orange County Business Council, made up of 300 businesses, where he gave his most detailed comments on immigration since a bipartisan compromise in the Senate fell apart more than two weeks ago.
Congress returned to Washington today from its holiday recess with immigration policy one of the key unresolved issues on its agenda.
"We cannot lose sight of that we are talking about human beings that need to be treated with respect," Bush told the group, adding, "Massive deportation of human beings is not going to work."
As he has before, Bush tried to temper his call for tough enforcement.
"You can be a nation of law and a compassionate nation at the same time," he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Massively supporting Internationalists, Republican or Democrat, is not going to work. With half of Americans not voting, a third party with the right immigration control message can take over. Bush beat Gore with 1/4 of the voters. Grab disaffected Republicans and Democrats and motivate some of non voting half and you can have a winner.
Now is the time to write something like "Sorry, but this year my political contribution is going to the MinuteMen for their border wall/fence building program" on the solicitation piece that you then return to your rep's headquarters in their own return envelope. (your choice whether you provide the stamp or not).
And while you're at at, tell your good buddy Vincente to stop ENCOURAGING his people to come over here to work and send $$ back - that is a failure not a policy.
But why wouldn't businesses here want a lower class of worker who has no rights and doesn't have to make even the minimum wage? Works out great for them...
Major disappointment that will not soon be forgotten!
Do you think Fox news and Ann Coulter will be in on the government takeover?
It doesn't have to be a full amnesty, but whatever.
What your side keeps overlooking on this issue is the nuts and bolts of how you accomplish this on the ground level. The biggest single problem is being able to identify these people, and their immigration status, quickly and easily. And without the incredible ease of forgery in the current system.
Right now, all you basically have to do is show your social security card. How easily forged is that? Contrast that to your credit card. People may steal them, but forging them is incredibly difficult because you've got to fool the computer reading the unique I.D. number, not the schlub clerk who rings you up.
The absolute key to any effective enforcement plan is getting a quick, accurate, and secure I.D. system. Part of which is you've gotta get them to come out of the woodwork to sign up for it. Thumbprint verification, etc. Do that, and the ability to control who actually gets to work here and/or stay here skyrockets. That's what was missing completely from IRCA in 1986.
Link those cards to receipt of tax payments by the IRS. "Guest worker" doesn't actually work and have withholdings taken out by employer, and his card is flagged for deportation. Time in country expires, card is flagged. And any employer/INS agent can verify that in 60 seconds. You can put whatever time limits on stays you want, and for the first time, it will be subject to real-time verification.
Okay line in the sand.....Nov 2006!!
Send the same message to the RNC. I recently got their latest questionnaire regarding the big issues for GOP voters, and illegal immigration and border security were mentioned nowhere in it.
You can be a nation of law and a compassionate nation at the same time," he said.
"but if you even try to enforce those laws you are nothing more than a vigilante," el Presidente went on to say.
Clinton was our first black President, Bush is our first Mexican President!
Nevertheless, they did deport 1 million illegals, a remarkable accomplishment for the time.
Mexicans See Immigration As InevitableATOTONILCO, Mexico -- They name their babies Johnny and Leslie, so certain are they that their kids' future lies in the United States. Returning migrants sprinkle English into their speech as they talk knowingly about job markets in U.S. towns.
America may want to stop illegal immigration, but most Mexicans accept it as a fact of life they can't imagine changing.
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I believe it was part of Operation Wetback during Ike's administration.
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/OO/pqo1.html
We needn't deport a single one of them. Just arrest those that employ or give them benefits and as their reasons for being here dries up, they can find their way back across the border, the same way they came!
Can't do that. We can't deport...can't secure the borders...can't enforce existing laws. We just can't do much of anything anymore.
It seems America's can-do days are behind her.
misdemeanor first time...
felony second time...
AMNESTY third time!!!!
Just keep trying, folks. DON'T GIVE UP THE SHIP!!!! /sarc
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