Bush set for immigration speech

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[JustPiper]

BUSH SET FOR IMMIGRATION SPEECH WHITE HOUSE President Bush is getting set for a prime-time speech on immigration tomorrow night. Aides note the 8 p-m, Eastern Time, speech will be the president's first from the Oval Office that does not involve Iraq and the war on terrorism. And they say that reflects Bush's "passion" on immigration. He's speaking as the Senate is poised to clear a compromise measure including his idea for a guest worker program. However, a rival House bill is limited to a border crackdown, and meshing the two won't be easy. Stand Up For America !

"We have room for but one flag, the American flag...
We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...
And we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."

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[Altura Ct.]

Here is what Tancredo had to say about the Pence plan:


However, Rep. Tom Tancredo (R.-Colo.) had nothing nice to say. As chairman of the House Immigration Reform Caucus, Tancredo carries much respect with conservative activists. Here’s his full statement:

“Mike Pence is making the same mistakes that the President has, using the straw man of mass deportations and redefining amnesty to suit his interests. Unfortunately, like the President, Pence is breaking from House conservatives who remain steadfast in their support of a security-first approach to immigration,” said Tancredo.

Pence’s plan would require illegal aliens to return to their home countries to apply for a new ‘W’ worker visa. Employers could hire as many foreign workers as they want under the W visa, and, in practice, they would likely hire the same workers who they employed illegally before. Pence wants to start the new foreign worker program before border security is even proved effective, which is the same strategy that was used in the 1986 amnesty. Twenty years later, the U.S. got amnesty as promised but no border security.

“Pence’s W visa is aptly named. It gives the Administration exactly what it wants: unlimited foreign workers first, enforcement later or never,” said Tancredo. “Pence’s plan is just the 1986 amnesty with a trip home tacked on.”

The Pence plan includes no prevailing wage standard for foreign workers—it simply relies on the good will of employers to “try to hire American workers” before offering jobs under the new foreign worker visa. In fact, almost all current visas require employers to offer the job to American workers before seeking foreign labor, but with no enforcement mechanism, the requirement is laughable.

“The House’s strategy in H.R. 4437 was to fix the illegal alien problem by enforcing the law. Over time, as illegal workers cannot obtain jobs, they go home because they have no other option open to them. Pence takes a much different approach: fix illegal behavior by legalizing it,” said Tancredo. “As a conservative and a friend of Mike Pence, I am baffled by his shift on immigration. I hope he reconsiders his position and returns to an enforcement-first position.”

http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=15088

[Altura Ct.]

Kyle, and Cornyn are REALLY anti-amnesty

Both of these guys at one time we pro-amnesty. Perhaps they have changed their minds? However the original Cornyn-Kyl bill was very much pro amnesty.

[nicmarlo]

bump for later read.

[Altura Ct.]

Start here and scroll down.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1632125/posts?q=1&&page=3205

[Altura Ct.]

WE ARE IN FAR BETTER POSITION TO STOP THIS AMNESTY BECAUSE OF YOUR ACTIVISM

Like all of you who have phoned and phoned and phoned the last two weeks, I'm a bit tired right now. I just returned from an all-evening session on Capitol Hill with representatives of allied anti-amnesty organizations and with congressional staffers. We were analyzing our current situation and planning our offense over the next several weeks.

You and I will have more time to communicate over the next few days in more depth.

For now, though, I want to tell you that the 62-36 vote for the giant S. 2611 amnesty and immigration increase was a sad day for the U.S. Senate and for this country. You have every reason to be disappointed.

But that was one battle lost. We have every opportunity to stop anything like this legislative monstrosity from ever becoming law.

BE SURE TO SEND NEW FAXES TO YOUR STATE'S TWO SENATORS COMMENTING ON THEIR FINAL VOTE

Within a very short time of the vote, your NumbersUSA team had put up new faxes for you to send. Thousands of faxes all evening have been going into the 100 Senate offices thanking the good guys and expressing outrage at the Senators who voted for an increase in permanet immigration from 1 million to 2 million a year, plus amnesty for 8 or more million illegal aliens, plus many other increases in foreign workers.

If you haven't sent your faxes yet, please go to your Action Buffet corkboard at:

www.NumbersUSA.com/actionbuffet

It is extremely important that all Senators and their staffers see that their consituents know how they voted and that their activism has not ended.

We will be providing you with a series of opportunities to make sure that those Senators who voted YES on the the S. 2611 amnesty feel the disgust and disapproval from their constituents for a long time to come.

HERE ARE THE SENATORS WHO VOTED TO ADD MORE THAN 60 MILLION FOREIGN WORKERS AND DEPENDENTS TO OUR LOCAL COMMUNITIES OVER THE NEXT 20 YEARS

Question: On Passage of the Bill (S. 2611 As Amended )
Vote Number: 157 Vote Date: May 25, 2006, 05:39 PM
Required For Majority: 1/2 Vote Result: Bill Passed
Measure Number: S. 2611 (Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006 )
Vote Counts: YEAs 62
NAYs 36
Not Voting 2

YEAs ---62
Akaka (D-HI)
Baucus (D-MT)
Bayh (D-IN)
Bennett (R-UT)
Biden (D-DE)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Boxer (D-CA)
Brownback (R-KS)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Carper (D-DE)
Chafee (R-RI)
Clinton (D-NY)
Coleman (R-MN)
Collins (R-ME)
Conrad (D-ND)
Craig (R-ID)
Dayton (D-MN)
DeWine (R-OH)
Dodd (D-CT)
Domenici (R-NM)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feingold (D-WI)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Frist (R-TN)
Graham (R-SC)
Gregg (R-NH)
Hagel (R-NE)
Harkin (D-IA)
Inouye (D-HI)
Jeffords (I-VT)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Kerry (D-MA)
Kohl (D-WI)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Lieberman (D-CT)
Lincoln (D-AR)
Lugar (R-IN)
Martinez (R-FL)
McCain (R-AZ)
McConnell (R-KY)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Murray (D-WA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Obama (D-IL)
Pryor (D-AR)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Sarbanes (D-MD)
Schumer (D-NY)
Smith (R-OR)
Snowe (R-ME)
Specter (R-PA)
Stevens (R-AK)
Voinovich (R-OH)
Warner (R-VA)
Wyden (D-OR)


COURAGEOUS SENATORS WHO STOOD UP AGAINST POWERFUL FORCES AND VOTED AGAINST THE S. 2611 AMNESTY.

HERE ARE 4 DEMOCRATS WHO BUCKED THEIR ENTIRE PARTY LEADERSHIP. AND THE 32 REPUBLICANS WHO TURNED THEIR BACKS ON A FULL-COURT-PRESS APPEAL FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THEIR OWN PARTY AND FROM THE U.S. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE BACKBONE OF THEIR PARTY.

NAYs ---36
Alexander (R-TN)
Allard (R-CO)
Allen (R-VA)
Bond (R-MO)
Bunning (R-KY)
Burns (R-MT)
Burr (R-NC)
Byrd (D-WV)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Crapo (R-ID)
DeMint (R-SC)
Dole (R-NC)
Dorgan (D-ND)
Ensign (R-NV)
Enzi (R-WY)
Grassley (R-IA)
Hatch (R-UT)
Hutchison (R-TX)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Isakson (R-GA)
Kyl (R-AZ)
Lott (R-MS)
Nelson (D-NE)
Roberts (R-KS)
Santorum (R-PA)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Sununu (R-NH)
Talent (R-MO)
Thomas (R-WY)
Thune (R-SD)
Vitter (R-LA)

Not Voting - 2
Rockefeller (D-WV) -- recovering from back surgery
Salazar (D-CO)

WHAT YOUR CALLING AND FAXING DID: MAJORITY OF THE PEOPLE WHO VOTED 'NO' WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ON THIS GREEN LIST A YEAR AGO -- OR EVEN LAST FALL

We have gotten a lot of emails from many of you today indicating a frustration and belief that all of your efforts in recent weeks and months have come to nothing because we lost this vote.

But our side (for sensible immigration levels) is in the process of gaining strength. We obviously do not yet have the strength it will take to turn back the overall immigration numbers.

Consider this, however: Our analysis group tonight over dinner recalled that in one of our weekly meetings in the middle of last autumn, we were told by staffers of some of our best Senate allies that they could not count on more than 8 Senators to stand against the McCain/Kennedy amnesty if it were to reach the floor for a vote.

Not more than 8 of 100 Senators!

The Senate was a vast wasteland, devoid of almost any sense of the effect of the current 47 million foreign workers and dependents allowed into our country.

So, how did we get 36 Senators voting NO today? Literally, thousands of phone calls, hundreds of personal visits to home-state Senate offices and HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of faxes were the key cause of the change of position.

Said one person tonight, "Most of these Senators would have voted YES if it hadn't been for fear of their constituents."

Every one of you who has a Senator from your state in that GREEN list above should take great credit for having helped bring that Senator around to our side.

There are many small miracles on that list.

WE REACHED ONE OF OUR MOST IMPORTANT GOALS -- A STRONG MAJORITY OF THE REPUBLICAN SENATE MAJORITY VOTED 'NO' ON THE AMNESTY

You will recall that I said our first goal was to get a majority of Republicans voting against the amnesty bill.

We did that with flying colors!

23 Republicans voted FOR the amnesty.

But 32 Republicans voted AGAINST the amnesty even though Pres. Bush and the White House lobbied them hard for two weeks to support the bill.

So, we won 32-23 among the majority Republicans. That is a 58% majority against amnesty and against increasing immigration levels.

Why is that important? It provides a powerful context for the joint Conference committee meetings in which Senators and Members of the U.S. House of Representatives will try to work out the differences in the Senate bill and the enforcement-only bill passed by the House last December.

In the House, 93% of Republicans voted for the H.R. 4437 enforcement-only bill. Our success today allows Republican Senators on our side to go into the conference allying themselves with House Republicans while noting that they represent the majority of Senate Republicans.

For all of us who are Democrats or Independents, we have to accept that the only hope this year of blocking this terrible amnesty is for the majority within the Republican Party from both chambers to stand together.

In that sense, S. 2611 has to be known as a Democratic bill, primarily written by Sen. Kennedy's (D-MA) staff and then SUPPORTED overwhelmingly by the Senate Democrats and President Bush -- but OPPOSED overwhelmingly by the Republicans in Congress.

Your success in getting so many Republican Senators to stand on our side really plays into our hope of House Speaker Hastert using his significant power to block this amnesty.

He has continued to say that he will not bring a massive immigration increase to the floor of the House if the majority of Republicans there oppose it.

Well, he is strengthened in that stand now that such a strong majority of Senate Republicans has opposed the amnesty/immigration increases.

Republican House Members have been repeatedly rebuking Karl Rove in his visits from the White House to try to get support for the Kennedy/Bush amnesty.

But there are many dangers ahead that will require all of us to take a number of additional actions. We will build on the strengths that we have.

I will later send you more analysis of the difference between the McCain/amnesty wing of the Republican Senate and the majority/anti-amnesty Republican wing.

THANKS FOR ALL THAT YOU DID THESE RECENT WEEKS,

-- ROY

[La Enchiladita]

That's because the 'good citizens' have all fled!!

Uh, not quite. But I plan to.

[La Enchiladita]

UC Irvine is a hotbed of terrorist cells. They already have university administration cowed.

[La Enchiladita]

See you tonight!

[Smartass]

Would you vote for this man,
FOR PRESIDENT OF THE U.S.A?

 

[La Enchiladita]

His dentist has his work cut out for him...! LOL.

In answer to the question: No way, no how, never.

[exhaustedmomma]

....so what?

Absolutely! So what to all the babbling talking heads on capitol hill, on every state and local level, on every so called conservative "voice outlet." So what. I am over being bullied into buying into lies, whitewash and outright sell-out of my country. It is still my country. And by God... it will not be sold-out w/o a fight as long as there is breath in ME. Great read, Lion! Thanks

[exhaustedmomma]

Our country has lost it's damn mind or has been completely overrun with globalist.

Need to change that to &/OR. If you ask me, it's both.

*BTW, that is the dumbest excuse for an argument I have ever heard. Sounds like these people have been to the Clinton school of slick-ology.

[exhaustedmomma]

Frist probably REALLY believes we're stupid.

Or worse... that he thinks there isn't a flippin' thing we can do about these "power-welding" self-fertilized pieces of excrement... like him.

[Altura Ct.]

Thank You SA. I needed that! LOL

[exhaustedmomma]

Laura is half Mexican

I just think this is not true. Laura Welch Bush: Biography & Autobiography

IMHO, I think W was influenced by his dad in a lot of areas. Including living in Midland. Not all folks in Midland area share this "amnesty" viewpoint. My relatives certainly do not. And some of them are truly half mexican. Likewise, Laura grew up around Midland and even near El Paso.

[exhaustedmomma]

Cornyn is REALLY a NWO, globalist who not only supports, but helped develop the Building a North American Community.