Posted on 09/07/2006 9:43:17 AM PDT by Froufrou
Immigration activists plan to mass in front of the Capitol today, renewing their appeal for legislative reform as Congress reconvenes after a recess in which many members experienced a backlash against illegal immigration back home.
The turnout at today's rally may provide a barometer of the vitality of the immigrant rights movement, which sent millions to the streets this spring but has generated less public attention in recent months. Local organizers said they expect hundreds of thousands of demonstrators from the East Coast, but protests this week in Phoenix and Chicago drew disappointing crowds.
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Immigrant activists are seeking legal status for all illegal immigrants and a halt to increased raids and deportations.
But Republicans, facing mid-term elections, appear more likely to focus on funding enforcement measures -- such as border patrols and fencing -- through routine spending bills they intend to pass this month.
Immigration "is a very serious issue with the American people, and the American people feel pretty strongly, as House Republicans do, that we ought to be securing our borders and enforcing our laws," said House Majority Leader John A. Boehner (R-Ohio). "When I traveled the entire month of August, I heard it nonstop. They don't want the [Senate] bill. They don't want amnesty for illegal aliens."
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) conceded yesterday that a deal on immigration before the election is now "next to impossible."
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The National Conference of State Legislators counted nearly 550 new pieces of legislation concerning immigrants in state legislatures this year, covering topics such as employment, public benefits, education and law enforcement. Seventy-nine bills have been enacted, mostly after massive pro-immigrant marches in March, April and May. This year's pace of enacted legislation exceeds last year's, the group said.
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What a joke....that sentence doesn't even pass the smell test.
Have the busses ready, and the INS people should be on-site checking green cards, and loading illegals on the busses to the border.......
more Aztlan propaganda.
The MSM does not "get it". If the reconquistas get their way, the blow dried over moused media is going to be first to see how machetties work.
I agree. We'll have to succomb to something like the Jews did when Nazis zoomed in and smoked them out. Liberals will scream about their privacy. So, who're really the ones who want the cheap labor, hmmmm?
The media here may want to take note of what the media in Mexico faces. There have been a lot of grenade and bomb attacks on newspaper offices down there. Americans react with boycotts and changing the channel. Our illegals may not react so rationally.
Immigration activists are outright liars.
TODAY, right now, illegal aliens who have been in the USA for 10 (ten) years ARE able to apply for a hardship based green card. After five years of having the green card they can become citizens.
RIGHT NOW.
No new laws needed, no protests needed.
This is knowlege available to ALL. Why are the activists not telling these people?
Of course it is an APPLICATION, you have to proove you were here, you have to prove you have significant roots, you have to prove you paid taxes, you have to proove you are somehow established, and most of all you have to prove you are not a criminal. Perhaps the activists want to eliminate the need to prove.
>But Republicans, facing mid-term elections, appear more likely to focus on funding enforcement measures -- such as border patrols and fencing -- through routine spending bills they intend to pass this month.<
*GASP* You mean they're responding to the will of the people?! The founders (who never intended this type of crap) must be rolling over in their graves.
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ping
Think the President will dust off his sombrero and join them?
The useful idiots assume the rest of the world is like the USA.
The rest of the world is one blood bath from anarchy. Most other countries have the feel of a self contained state of the USA. (imagine Rhode Island with no federal government attached.)
Three semesters of spanish does not equal survival skills in a banana republic.
It is more simple than your statement. The activists actually want to eliminate the necessity to obey the laws of the US.
Gov. Perdue, from my state, Georgia wants a crackdown on illegal identification. We have one of the largest illegal populations in the country!!!! Something has got to be done, I'VE HAD IT!!!!!
Reality bites. But you're right. However, the turnout where I live for the first rally was enormous. Repercussions were bad for kids who cut class. Unexcused absence and no work makeup. For two or three days.
There should have been repercussions for the Board of Ed decision to bus their illegal buns back from "la gran marchas" waving the Mexican buzzard flag out the windows of Dallas County school buses. (If I relocate that photo, I'll post it.)
Check out the buzz in all the local Congressional and state races; even liberals are trying to talk tough on immigration. That's why Calderon says he wants to strike a deal with Pres. Bush before he leaves office in 2009. But I doubt even that is going to happen.
People in Middle American small towns have just stopped being amused at having their downtowns turned into slums and their hospitals bankrupted.
Calderon is no dummy. He wants amnesty-immigration as a relief-valve, but he knows he has to make Mexico's economy boom so big, the country will be attractive to actual Mexicans. Godspeed to that. Mexico has great potential, in fact.
California is looking more and more like Mexico. There are MILLIONS of illegals here, and they're sucking our system dry. We're forced to build schools to accommodate them, we're forced to pay for their medical care, and emergency rooms are closing under the strain. The illegals are filling southern California towns at a horrific rate.
The latest estimate I've read is that illegals are costing California taxpayers 10 BILLION BUCKS a year!
Governor Arnold S. seems to be agreeing with the amnesty sham, falling in step with the President. The "leaders" of America are not leading, they're dragging America down.
I know they do. Mexico is by no means a third world country. There's a lot of wealth and oil reserves, too. The problem is, the ignore the poor and think that's for us to deal with. Saves them even more money.
I've even had Mexican national woman shopping next to me take my choices from my cart! When I told her, "there are plenty of them right over there," she said, "but I want THIS one."
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