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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That's it; when facts prove you wrong, use a personal attack.
Hey, it works for the liberals!
I agree your comments about CA and what it should do with the goodies it offers illegals. You are right.
It is simply stunning that the children of illegals attend school in CA.
When I hear these gripping republicans saying they'll be staying home and not be voting. I just shake my head in disbelief. And wonder if they've forgotten the 8 yrs of the criminal clintoon WH and how dangerous this country truly came to total destruction.
He hated Bush so much he ran with a Communist to try to deny him the office.
I've said it in here 1000 times. The problem was in congress namely RINO's and not so much the USSC as congress has the final say. Congress can as well discipline the Judiciary. But with a GOP POTUS and GOP house and senate and the best bragging rights conservative wise they can muster after going on 6 years is two items?
Tell me something then. If Clinton, Reno, and Clinton Health secretary, DOJ etc wanted to establish a data base loaded with private personal information about you and everyone else {who had never even been convicted of a crime} just because it could be done how would you have reacted to it? Please be honest.
My local radio guy was saying he doesn't want to throw all the illegals out .. but then went on to scream about Bush saying we couldn't throw them all out
I'm confused anymore .. what the hell do they really want and do they know??
Not at all, I was merely stating which steps I feel should take priority.
I should have known better than to check my pings after saying I was going to sleep. I'm still here.
I don't like big federal government at all.
I don't like President Bush's immigration position but I knew about it when I voted for him twice.
Right now, I am supporting Senator Sessions and remain hopeful that he will hold sway when congress reconvenes.
They want to trash the president.
HUH?
No kidding?
That's not quite what I said. I did say that a lot of folks, while not supporting open borders outright, support policies that achieve close to the same result. At any rate, I don't see why every opinion that you don't agree with has to be met with the same overly dramatic charge of "lying".
---Gun control???????
A DEAL BREAKER is the WAR ON TERROR.
I have more faith in Americans than you do. I don't think they'll "sit this out".---
Remember Tom Foley, Speaker of the House? His district dumped him for supporting the assault gun ban. Republicans don't hold power by a big margin and there are enough folks angry about this illegals issue to cause serious harm.
Given the situation, why not respond to the people's overwhelming preference for tough action? Asking that the laws be enforced doesn't seem like much.
It's hard to keep up; they want the government to "do something," but when the government "does something" it's never enough or it's not what they want them to do.
Compromise seems to send them nuclear.
Some days I think they just want the issue.
OH I get it. You're a dem. You see we pubbies don't think like that, because we KNOW the clintons kept databases like that already!
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bush stated, in his radio address HERE;"Since I took office, we've increased funding for border security by 66 percent, and Federal agents have apprehended and sent home more than 6 million people entering this country illegally, including more than 400,000 with criminal records."
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- He's a buffoon. He doesn't even know what he is talking about. How could he have meant it.
:)Easy Does It:)
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