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To: cinives
Here in PA we went for an anti-illegal to a pro-amnesty.

If you are talking about Santorum, he is only recently for "anti-illegal" And Curt Weldon wasn't much better.

http://profiles.numbersusa.com/improfile.php3?DistSend=PA&VIPID=683 Santorum

Voted in favor of chain migration in 1996

Voted in favor of amendment to create additional guestworker visa categories in 2006

Voted in favor of amendment to increase foreign-worker importation in 2005

Cosponsoring legislation to increase H-2B workers who are present in the U.S. at any one time in 2005-2006

Voted for a foreign worker bill with no anti-fraud measures in 2000.

Voted to allow firms to lay off Americans to make room for foreign workers in 1998

Voted against amendment to fund additional immigration investigators in 2006

Voted against amendment to provide funding for additional Border Patrol agents in 2005

Tried to kill voluntary pilot programs for workplace verification in 1996 [snips]

WEldon

Voted against American workers by voting for worker-importation program in 2003

Voted in 1998 to allow firms to lay off Americans to make room for foreign workers

Voted against amendment to fund program to deny driver's licenses to illegal aliens in 2005

Voted in favor of amendment to strip provision to make it harder for terrorists to get asylum in 2004

Voted in favor of amendment to strip expedited removal for illegal aliens from H.R. 10 in 2004

Voted against enforcing federal laws against sanctuary policies to protect illegal aliens in 2004

Opposed mandatory workplace verification programs in 1996

Tried to kill voluntary pilot programs for workplace verification in 1996

16 posted on 11/12/2006 11:03:33 AM PST by WatchingInAmazement ("Nothing is more expensive than cheap labor," prof. Vernon Briggs, labor economist Cornell Un.)
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To: WatchingInAmazement

Yep, you are right. How quickly we forget ... yet at the end, even Santorum seemed to "get it". Casey will not, because his union buddies need more bodies to unionize.


19 posted on 11/12/2006 11:08:17 AM PST by cinives (On some planets what I do is considered normal.)
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