Posted on 07/25/2006 9:23:38 AM PDT by sinkspur
WASHINGTON – With Congress at a stalemate over immigration, Texas' two senators took different tacks this week in hopes of breaking the logjam and getting a bill to President Bush's desk.
Sen. John Cornyn and fellow Republican Jon Kyl of Arizona on Monday urged the president to make a bold move and demand that Congress immediately free up nearly $4 billion for hundreds of Border Patrol agents, immigration inspectors and border fencing.
Doing so, they said, will convince Americans that the federal government is serious about enforcing immigration law – and could increase support for a broader bill that includes a temporary worker program.
"What we are offering today is what I believe is the last best hope for a comprehensive immigration reform to pass before the end of the year," Mr. Cornyn said at a news conference.
His fellow Texas Republican, Kay Bailey Hutchison, is moving on another track.
Ms. Hutchison today will publicly ally herself with leading House conservative Mike Pence, whose immigration plan has been described as a possible compromise palatable to both the House and Senate.
Although both chambers agree on the need for increased immigration enforcement, they part company over what to do with the nation's estimated 12 million illegal immigrants. The House, in legislation it approved in December, offered no deal for illegal immigrants or foreign workers seeking to come in the future.
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Won't convince me at all..freeing up the money is one thing, using it to secure the borders and deport illegals is quite another.
The vast majority of our politicians just don't cars.
If they were serious they would have done something about four years ago.
As it is, Amexico is looking more and more like a reality.
Including the money for fencing that the Senate voted down after approving hundreds of miles of fencing? Methinks the Senate should start with that detail and THEN go forward.
"Doing so, they said, will convince Americans that the federal government is serious about enforcing immigration law – and could increase support for a broader bill that includes a temporary worker program. "
guess again.
A guest worker program is inevitable, via the Pence plan or something like it. You may as well resign yourself to that fact.
Yes, and the Israeli's might as well resign themselves to being attacked indefinitely by Hezbollah, lower arms, and losing more and more land in the process until they are run out of the middle east.
Here are the two choices.
Give up on amnesty.
Or resign yourself to the fact you will be fought on this indefinitely.
No conservative is going to accept what is wrong, win or lose, and just "take it".
I don't know what will happen, neither do you. But I know what will happen if I, or any conservative, allows themselves to be convinced the fight isn't worth it. That's a tactic the other side uses, generally when they are facing stiff opposition to their goals. Which tells me we still have a fighting chance to sink amnesty. The fact it isn't law yet when they intended it be so in the spring tells me we've at least drawn some blood. I'll take that inspiration to do the opposite of what you wish and continue fighting against amnesty.
"The president's commitment to beefing up border security is real, and he's put the money where his words are," she said.
Sure. And he's got 6 DAYS to have 6,000 NG 'ON THE BORDER' providing backup for BP, not 'on their way', not 'committed', not 'deployed', not 'somewhere in the border states', not 'in training', etc.
6 DAYS and counting.
Most will. Why? Abortion, Stem Cell Research, and Gay Marriage.
"A guest worker program is inevitable, via the Pence plan or something like it. You may as well resign yourself to that fact."
lol OK. Then, likewise, you may as well resign yourself to the fact that in exchange for the cheap labor you're so desparately trying to keep, the house, senate and presidency will all be lost to the Democrats. Ironically, you have no one but party divider Bush to blame.
No an amnesty is not inevitable. That is why I keep fighting against it. So far I have won.
I don't believe that for a minute.
You think no bill is a winner for the GOP, but the polling is saying something entirely different. If Frist and Hastert push for a bill, it's because that's what the country wants, no matter what the fringers say.
Guest worker program. Nobody is talking about amnesty with the Pence plan except the alarmist fringers.
A rose by another name would whither and die just as quickly. It is an amnesty and I will do what ever I can to oppose it and see that the illegal invaders here are deported.
http://www.cis.org/articles/2001/back1201.html
"fringers"? LOL
I opt for the latter, since the CIS is an ancillary of FAIR, which opposes all immigration, legal and illegal.
I suppose if it doesn't support your position then it must be fatally flawed.
Note that poll was five years ago, before George and Vincent started pushing their dog and burro act.
I suspect you are right and those figures have changed, with even more (Americans) opposed today . . . the "fringe", as you put it.
That is important to keep in mind. The anti-immigration pendulum is swinging, but it swings slowly. Two years ago, the Senate immigration bill would have passed handily. Now it is stuck. In a few more years, nobody but far-left fringe will want to be associated with amnesty and guest worker programs. In a few more election cycles, the door will finall be slammed shut on out-of-control Third World immigration and the country will spend decades trying to assimilate the tens of millions we've already let in.
Thank you and God bless, Hydroshock, and all the others who have been toiling for years trying to stop America from committing suicide.
You are welcome.
I've got no problem with a guest worker program, as long as it does not include those illegals currently here.
via the Pence plan or something like it.
Pence's plan rewards criminal aliens. It's not a plan, it's amnesty.
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