Posted on 05/26/2006 1:42:19 PM PDT by B-Chan
[Amother writer on NRO] is absolutely right - not the [post] on Sheena Easton, the one on immigration (though he's right on Sheena, too). But how about some of you natives piling on? I assumed NR's transplanted British Empire wallahs were steamed about this because we were foolish enough to check the wrong box and come here as legal immigrants - which, believe me, is a mistake I wouldn't make again. But this bill moves not just legal immigrants but U.S. citizens to the back of the bus.
The undocumented guys only have to pay taxes for any three out of the last five years? How come Americans can't get a deal like that? Meanwhile, any attempt to enforce the border requires "consultation" with Mexico. Vicente Fox has just got his own permanent Security Council veto in the Department of Homeland Security.
I think it's very hard for conservatives to support a Congress that would pass such a bill. Aside from the entitlement explosion and the national security issues, this bill is a cynical corruption of the integrity of US sovereignty and citizenship.
My wife and the kids had their Green Cards stolen the other day. Cost of replacement of legal permanent resident cards: $1,040. Fine for 20 years of law-breaking within the United States: $2,000, less Social Security and EITC entitlements. Hmm.
I told the missus to hold off filling in the form for the replacement card. Having been rendered inadvertently undocumented, she may at last be in the winning category.
Thanks, George, you made me laugh!
Sorry, the Baby Boomers will beat them too it. There simply aren't enough illegal aliens on the dole to as there will be Baby Boomers. Where do you think the tens of trillions in unfunded liabilities on Uncle Sam's books are going? FDR's welfare program and America's demographics are going to bankrupt America. They can lower taxes and cut benefits, or get more workers in the U.S. legally paying taxes into the system. Recognize that and you'll see why the politicians are looking for ways to make millions of immigrants have legal status.
Every Senator who voted "Aye" needs to go down in their next election.
I think they are used to doing that...
Because the hundreds of billions of dollars paid under bogus Social Security numbers helps reduce the deficit. link
"It is all thanks to the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act, which made it a crime for employers to knowingly hire illegal immigrants.
True, the law is a joke that is rarely enforced, and that should bother the law-and-order crowd more than it does. But by forcing employers to require Social Security cards – even bogus ones – IRCA did manage to rope illegal immigrants into the system. Last year, contributions by illegal immigrants made up about 10 percent of the Social Security surplus – the difference between what the system takes in and what it doles out.... According to the best estimates of the Social Security Administration, the fund has kept track over the last 20 years of more than $300 billion in total earnings – the vast majority of them attributable to illegal immigrants."
It will still be in committee come election time.
my aunt died in 1993. At the age of 84. Someone 21 is using her social security #, a male in Orange County.
"America is not a place, it is a people, with a culture, a tradition and a set of laws. We could remake America easily, if you took the good people of this country and moved them to Brazil, Central Asia or Southern Africa. Unfortunately, all those places are taken. Where are we going to go if they give America to the third world and the socialists?"
I've been asking that question for a long time. Mexicans use the 13 orig colony flag to symbolize they want everyone not Mexican to go live there.
LaRaza=THE RACE. Mecha by-line, "Everything for those of the race, nothing for those not of the race".
check out www.aztlan.net
They, want all of us out of here. There is no place to go, so maybe they have an alterior motive????
lol, that is a good one, they are expecting low wage illegal immigrants in an underground economy to pull them out of a financially unsound problem...
They can't take care of themselves, they can't support the infrastructure, this country is bankrupt, with ideas.
I have been tracking the Aztlan movement since the late 90s. They are serious about taking back the southwest, and they are preaching it in their Mexican schools the way wahabbi preachers preach jihad in their mosques. We will have to defend against both movements.
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