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Base to Bush: Stop illegals
The Washington Times ^
| June 19, 2006
| Stephen Dinan
Posted on 06/19/2006 10:23:58 AM PDT by kellynla
Top conservative leaders have written President Bush telling him to drop his insistence on a guest-worker program and a path to citizenship for illegal aliens and instead support the 85 percent of congressional Republicans who want to tighten law enforcement first.
Signers include William J. Bennett, Robert H. Bork, Ward Connerly, David A. Keene, Phyllis Schlafly and a number of think-tank academics and pundits.
The immigration debate is the first major issue on which Mr. Bush finds himself opposing a majority of Republicans in Congress and depending on Democrats to deliver a victory. In their letter, the conservatives tell Mr. Bush to side with his fellow Republicans in Congress or risk repeating the 1986 immigration law that promised enforcement and amnesty but delivered only the amnesty.
"Border and interior enforcement must be funded, operational, implemented and proven successful and only then can we debate the status of current illegal immigrants or the need for new guest-worker programs," 39 conservative leaders write in the letter, to be released today. A copy was obtained yesterday by The Washington Times. The letter was addressed as well to House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert of Illinois and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist of Tennessee.
Across the House and Senate, 85 percent of Republicans voted either for the House bill, which is an enforcement-only bill, or against the Senate bill, which dramatically increases immigration and offers a new right to citizenship for illegal aliens.
"That's pretty overwhelming among congressional Republicans. That shows a distance from [Senate bill sponsors Sens. John McCain and Edward M. Kennedy] and what the White House has been saying recently," John Fonte, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute who is helping organize the letter, said in an interview.
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"Mr. Fonte said the 39 conservatives -- all regular commentators on radio and TV -- plan to push their case for enforcement-first over the nation's airwaves and the Internet."
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posted on
06/19/2006 10:24:00 AM PDT
by
kellynla
To: A. Pole; HiJinx
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posted on
06/19/2006 10:24:38 AM PDT
by
kellynla
(Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! Semper Fi!)
To: kellynla
3
posted on
06/19/2006 10:26:28 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
("The entire remedy is with the people." - W. H. Harrison)
To: kellynla
Base To Continual Bush Bashers, find a new topic to whine about. We are sick of this continual whining about a dead issue. In case you were all squealing too loud to hear it, the Republican House leadership all ready said this is DOA.
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posted on
06/19/2006 10:26:42 AM PDT
by
MNJohnnie
(The Democrat Party! For people who prefer slogans over solutions!)
To: MNJohnnie
This is a prime time for a third party to take over. There lots of issues in which American voters are not being heard. This is just one.
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posted on
06/19/2006 10:32:51 AM PDT
by
BipolarBob
(Yes I backed over the vampire, but I swear I looked in my rearview mirror.)
To: MNJohnnie
Its not going away bub....not till someone does something about it. You sound like the whiner.
I would vote for Bush again against Kerry/Gore..et al...I will never give up the fight against illegals till they GO!
and I am not alone by a long shot.
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posted on
06/19/2006 10:33:33 AM PDT
by
Vaquero
("An armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
To: BipolarBob
This is a prime time for a third party to take over.One-issue third parties never get off the ground. Hell, third parties never get off the ground, period, unless they're bankrolled by a billionaire.
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posted on
06/19/2006 10:35:06 AM PDT
by
sinkspur
(Today, we settled all family business.)
To: kellynla
Here's what I don't get. If they did enforcement first, showed an ability to shut down the border pretty tight, and shut up about amnesty, there is a good liklihood that people would get less strident about letting some of the illegals here now stay (I wouldn't like it, but I'm probably not the majority in that). So, why is the White House insisting on doing it the stupid way?
susie
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posted on
06/19/2006 10:35:15 AM PDT
by
brytlea
(amnesty--an act of clemency by an authority by which pardon is granted esp. to a group of individual)
To: kellynla
The President is being hard-headed on this issue.
To: BipolarBob
The purpose of voting is to express your interest, not your ego. I have nothing but contempt for the hippie "let MY voice be heard" nonsense.
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posted on
06/19/2006 10:35:55 AM PDT
by
JHBowden
(Giuliani/Allen 2008!)
To: MNJohnnie
They just don't understand that a vote for amnesty in any form will coat the Republicans Party the election. What about NO is so difficult to understand?
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posted on
06/19/2006 10:36:09 AM PDT
by
ANGGAPO
(LayteGulfBeachClub)
To: kellynla
BUSH TO BASE: I CAN'T HEAR YOU!
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posted on
06/19/2006 10:36:17 AM PDT
by
siznartuf
(If I Hear "Jobs Americans Won't Do" One More ^%&^%^%# Time)
To: JHBowden
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posted on
06/19/2006 10:37:06 AM PDT
by
brytlea
(amnesty--an act of clemency by an authority by which pardon is granted esp. to a group of individual)
To: MNJohnnie
Maybe, but the borders are not secure yet. We'll keep shoutin' 'til he does right.
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posted on
06/19/2006 10:37:20 AM PDT
by
Little Ray
(If you want to be a martyr, we want to martyr you.)
To: MNJohnnie
"
Base To Continual Bush Bashers, find a new topic to whine about the Republican House leadership all ready said this is DOA
Oh, okay.
Guess that means that the Border(s) are NOW secure?
Guess we can all rest easier now that you have made us aware of something that somehow, escaped us--ignorant Bush-bashers, that we are.
Thanks. Henceforth, we will just all shut up and no longer criticize El (Open Borders-Pro Amnesty) Presidente.
NOT!!!!
To: BipolarBob
As much as I'd like that idea, you'd guarantee long-term occupation & control of the WH & Congress by the "dims". 3rd Pty only splits the right!
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posted on
06/19/2006 10:38:36 AM PDT
by
Renkluaf
To: kellynla
Returning to the illegal discussion is a loser for the president. He needs to keep the focus on the economy and the war.
Someone recently offered a compromise I thought was interesting.
A red card for those who've had a green card for X years provided they pass all background checks.
It enables them to stay and work, but it must be renewed regularly, and it prevents them from applying for US citizenship from within the US. The only way they can apply for citizenship is if they choose to return to their country of origin, give up their red card, and make normal immigration application.
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posted on
06/19/2006 10:39:50 AM PDT
by
xzins
(Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It. Supporting our Troops Means Praying for them to Win!)
To: brytlea
Post #8 - great comments, totally nailed it.
I think it would also filter out the La Raza/MS-13 criminal illegals and the ones who truly want to come here and work.
To: MNJohnnie
Base to Bush-bots
Stuff it, it's not a dead issue and it never will be.
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posted on
06/19/2006 10:40:28 AM PDT
by
Leatherneck_MT
(In a world where Carpenters come back from the dead, ALL things are possible.)
To: brytlea
I wouldn't like it, but I'm probably not the majority in that
I wouldn't like it either. BUT, if they really did control the border, I think I could learn to live with it.
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posted on
06/19/2006 10:40:46 AM PDT
by
JamesP81
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