Posted on 06/03/2006 7:37:23 AM PDT by KeyLargo
Bush struggles for support to the inmigrant law
Juees 1 de junio (12:30 hrs.)
* The US president speaks to the nation's biggest business group about the inmigration's benefits * The Chamber of Commerce and the National Restaurat Association support the guest worker program
El Financiero en línea
US, June 1st.- President George W. Bush, struggling to win broader support for his immigration proposals from his fellow Republicans, told the nation's biggest business group that new immigration laws would be a boon for the economy.
"In order for this country to be an economic leader, Bush said today in remarks to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington, the country needs an immigration system that "is secure, orderly and fair".
Bush used his appearance before the Chamber, as he did with an address to the National Restaurant Association in Chicago on May 22, to try to keep up momentum for his immigration goals.
Both groups support the White House proposal for a guest worker program, which would maintain a legal flow of low-cost labor.
The tougher sell is to House Republicans, who stress getting tough on border security, immigration enforcement and bigger penalties for businesses that hire undocumented workers. The Senate has approved legislation that would strengthen border restrictions while also providing a guest worker program and giving some of the 11 million undocumented immigrants already living in the U.S. a path toward legal status and citizenship.
Bush is trying to bridge a divide between the two factions among Republicans as House and Senate negotiators try to resolve their differences to enact a new immigration law this year.
Democrats generally have supported the Senate version. Bush urged lawmakers to resolve their differences. "The difficulty of the task is no excuse for avoiding it", Bush said.
He backs a compromise plan crafted by senators, which, among other steps, would tighten borders, add 6,000 National Guard troops to augment Border Patrol agents, add new barriers and border sensors to reduce illegal immigration and provide an identification system for immigrant workers. It also would create a guest worker program.
"We re going to enforce our laws, that's what the people expect", Bush said, but the U.S. must also welcome immigrants that have contributed to the nation, and "these aren't contradictory goals.
The president said he doesn't want to pass the burden of verifying documents to businesses. The administration wants to adopt a biometric, tamper-proof identification card that employers can check against a federal data base to determine whether a worker is legal. The president also wants to raise fines for businesses who hire workers illegally. Penalties are now as low as $250.
"There's going to be a cost", he said, "and it's more than $250.
Representative Roy Blunt, the No. 2 Republican leader in the House, said last week that the odds of passing compromise legislation were not quite at 50-50. Representative James Sensenbrenner, a Wisconsin Republican, has called the Senate and House approaches "180 degrees apart.
The president will continue working with lawmakers to reach common ground, White House spokesman Tony Snow said. (Information provided by Finsat)
All you do is have a potential employee fill out an employment application. Once they fill it out, I hand them an authorization to do a personal background check. If they refuse, you know that they are criminals, or illegal.
Gotta agree with spokeshave here, the nation and we are the toast!
If this bill goes thru, then Bush should be impeached along with 2/3 of the Senate, and anyone in the House that voted for it!
We can only hope that Bush loses all support (statistically) for it.
Face reality. Noone has a chance against Feinstein.....remember we live in California! lol
He really has to stop talking like this. He's become a joke. We expect more from our President than empty words, repeated over and over like a mantra. So sad...
Worse than that, I can't even stand to watch him on TV anymore. I turn my head and walk off. I have no interest in anything he has to say.
I am sure I am not alone.
Simple enough isn't it..
In fact we don't even need new legislation for immigrants just the balls to enforce the current laws.
Maybe instead of bricks we should start mailing a pair of "Brass Ones" to those on the hill.
Yeah, sad to say, but California's a lost cause. Shame how far it's devolved since the heyday of the '50s, '60s and '70s there. When I think of California nostalgically I think of the Beach Boys, old movies, and other nice fun stuff. Today I think of it as a political itsh hole and a state not long for continued greatness.
It's past a reasonable balance politically all but ensuring that it and its enormous number of electoral vote, go Dim automatically henceforth. The nation's not far behind at the present rate however with RINO's behaving like libs on the most pressing issue(s).
And Mountjoy can expect zero help from the national party or the Republican establishment and our president will continue to do his part to destroy the California Republican Party as he has since 2000.
Love your Nick rofl
"The tougher sell is to House Republicans, who stress getting tough on border security, immigration enforcement and bigger penalties for businesses that hire undocumented workers."MESSAGE TO REPUBLICANS: The "sell" is not merely to "House Republicans". The "sell" is to the American People! And anything less than
getting tough on border security,is a NO-"sell"--i.e. a deal breaker.
immigration enforcement and
bigger penalties for businesses that hire undocumented workers
The American People want to re-elect the Republican Congress.
They are well aware of the benevolence and expert leadership of President Bush--that he has kept America safe since 9/11--and they are grateful.
However, their concern about open borders and illegal immigration carries over to their concern about national security--and other vital issues--and this overrides all other issues.
Fix this problem to the satisfaction of Middle America, and all will be well.
The basic loyalties of Middle America are definitely with President Bush and the Republican Congress.
With a MECHA-La Raza L.A. Mayor..........Good Lord!!
I don't live in L.A. thank God!
"The difficulty of the task is no excuse for avoiding it",
"The irony of this statement by Bush is beyond words."
As is the fact that he makes the statements while keeping a straight face or feigning outrage.
That "adding 6000 National Guard troops to the border" is just such a big fat lie that it sticks in my craw. Sending about 200 Guardsmen at a time to the border states during their two-week duty rotations during a 12-18 month period to do nothing but answer the phone and shuffle papers with no enforcement duties is as bad as any lie Bill Clinton told the American people.
"We re going to enforce our laws, that's what the people expect", Bush said, BUT the U.S. MUST also welcome immigrants that have contributed to the nation, and "these aren't contradictory goals.
IMO, Blackmail.
"That video was disgusting. Has anyone on here ever been more dissapointed with a Republican president on a single issue?"
I have thought and thought about this, about how "disappointed" I personally am in President Bush. I have come to the conclusion that more of us would have been disappointed so much sooner, if it had not been for September 11, 2001. Bush responded so forcefully, surely and correctly. He rose to the occasion and was, well, magnificent. I felt he was personally defending ME, and my children.
There were things I wasn't totally satisfied with, yes. But I never expect to agree with anyone, especially a politcian, all the time. I told myself that he had his head on straight about our security, the safty of the nation, and that trumped everything else.
But when I began to look more closely at what was being done, here at home, to keep us safe, I began to wonder. I just did not sense the same urgency. Why, I asked myself, doesn't he publically express concern about the possible terrorists sneaking in on us, from the north and the south? At first, I told myself, he must be doing SOMETHING, behind the scenes, quietly, to keep from tipping our hand to our enemies. Time has proven me to be among the deluded ones.
So, why, I again ask myself, is not this danger seen as a danger by the man I helped to elect? What is his agenda? I guess he has had the same one all along,... but 9-11 blinded me....and gave him cover. I think I would have caught on much sooner. Well, I HAVE caught on now, .....I only hope it's not too late, for America.
pattyjo
The what? I don't what California you live in but the one I am in has a bunch of guys who are so in bed with Democrats that you need a crowbar to pry them apart.
I think the call themselves Republicans but I can't be sure.
"Welcome to Gerry Ford Part II"
But I hope we don't let Gerry Ford Part II lead to Jimmah Cahtah Part II.
Just four years of a commiecrat in the White House would spell catastrophe.
Let's just skip right to Ronaldus Magnus Part II.
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