Posted on 04/26/2006 5:20:12 PM PDT by West Coast Conservative
President Bush generally favors plans to give millions of illegal immigrants a chance at U.S. citizenship without leaving the country, but does not want to be more publicly supportive because of opposition among conservative House Republicans, according to senators who attended a recent White House meeting.
Several officials familiar with the meeting also said Democrats protested radio commercials that blamed them for Republican-written legislation that passed the House and would make illegal immigrants vulnerable to felony charges.
Bush said he was unfamiliar with the ads, which were financed by the Republican National Committee, according to officials familiar with the discussions.
At another point, Democratic leader Harry Reid of Nevada and other members of his party pressed the president about their concern that any Senate-passed bill would be made unpalatable in final talks with the House.
Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, the second-ranking Democrat, said the lawmaker who would lead House negotiators, House Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner, had been "intractable" in negotiations on other high-profile bills in the past. Bush did not directly respond to the remark, officials said.
The Republican and Democratic officials who described the conversation did so Wednesday on condition of anonymity, saying they had not been authorized to disclose details.
Bush convened the session to give momentum to the drive for election-year immigration legislation, a contentious issue that has triggered large street demonstrations and produced divisions in both political parties. Senators of both parties emerged from the session praising the president's involvement and said the timetable was achievable.
"Yes, he thinks people should be given a path to citizenship," said Sen. Mel Martinez., R-Fla., a leading supporter of immigration legislation in the Senate.
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It is not a lie if those higher paying construction jobs are being filled by illegal Mexicans. Do you think Americans are applying for those jobs at that pay rate and getting turned down?
** But posters on this forum will take this piece of crap report and run with it. **
But, is the report plausible?
(Absolutely)
Yes, specifically he has refused to enforce the law as it currently reads or to protect our national borders. What would you call it? What does he have to do to convince you; Invite the Mexican Army to parade in DC?
He all but said it in the OC on Monday. Go watch the video. it is sickening.
A real "moderate" would secure the borders, deport felonious illegals, etc., before he proposed a mass amnesty. A "moderate" would hear the outrage of American citizens. Bush is frightenly "liberal" when it comes to giving our country away to.
(Denny Crane: "Every one should carry a gun strapped to their waist. We need more - not less guns.")
Bush ran on the Iraq war and won on the Iraq war in 2000?
Your knowledge of history is a little off.
: )
"Are you saying President Bush is committing treason?" Can you interpret the Constitution of the United States in a way that he is not?
AP gives you unnamed sources "and in the end" you take it.
They'll believe anything so as long as the source either gives them cause to bash the President or says what they want to hear about immigration. If it does both, then it is like Christmas morning.
Oh gee!! Wonder how they came to that brilliant conclusion! What does he have to do - come over and hit them in the head with a baseball bat?!!
They actually had to have a meeting to find out that he favors plans to give millions of illegal immigrants a chance at U.S. citizenship without leaving the country?
"In the end one wants a moderate leader."
So true. As the old saying goes, the politician in the middle of the road gets run over by both sides.
Anonymous sources...
Please make it official. Post the bat.
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