Posted on 11/09/2006 2:14:10 AM PST by NapkinUser
President Bush yesterday said he will team up with Democrats to pass an immigration bill with a guest-worker program that his own party blocked this year, and his Republican opponents predicted a bloody intraparty fight but said they cannot stop such a bill from passing.
"We will fight it, we will lose. It will go to the Senate, it will pass. The president will sign it. And it will happen quickly because that's one thing they know they can pass," said Rep. Tom Tancredo, Colorado Republican and chairman of the House Immigration Reform Caucus, who had led the opposition to a guest-worker plan. "I am absolutely horrified by this prospect, but I have to face reality."
Mr. Bush supported a bipartisan majority in the Senate this year that passed a broad immigration bill including a new worker program and citizenship rights for millions of illegal aliens. But House Republicans blocked those efforts, calling them an amnesty, and instead forced through a bill to erect nearly 700 miles of fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border.
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I have infrequently voted for less important candidates who were not Republican. However, I generally vote for the Republican NOT because they have an R after their name, but because they are usually the more conservative AND viable candidate who most closely shares my views.
On that we agree, at least when it comes to immigration. Only Ted Kennedy it seems is more committed to open borders. We may have to rely on a few democrats like Byrd to stop the amnesty train. He has done it a few times before.
I hope someone puts and end to this Amnesty bill.
He's been a proponent of illegal immigration even before he was President. What changed things was 9/11, but this President continues to allow an open border even with the dangers we face as a nation. He's PATHETIC on ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION.
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