Posted on 11/20/2006 7:08:25 AM PST by Dane
Where's the barf alert?
It's full of illegals. And is one of the most violent cities in the country.
Oh, and why are you bashing Tancredo? After all, he has an ACU rating of 100, and you said we couldn't bash Martinez when he had the same rating.
How many candidates in favor of shamnesty or a guest-worker program lost? One can always attempt to discern trends by cherry-picking the data.
More viloent than Detorit, and Reading is in the middle of Amish country, please, your replies are getting ridiculous.
DeWine and Chafee lost to even bigger pro-amnesty liberal democrats.
"The Issue: Illegal immigration proves to be less of an issue for the American public than many in Congress had thought."
The problem was many of the solutions smacked of racist, illegal immigration. Where is the big push for a fence up north?
No doubt that this is more of an issue for the southern border states whose hospitals and social services are being driven into the ground.
Here is the two, million dollar questions that has to be answered:
1) Are we willing to commit to a huge, continental fence, (not some 700 mile, unfunded fence)? Would the Right accept a tax increase to pay for it? Or would it need to come from the defense budget, or run up the deficit more?
2) Do we expect that, some how, resources will be found to ship all illegals down south to avoid the amnesty charge?
Yawn.
No, it's not Dane. You're thinking of Lancaster. Reading is sliding downhill in a hurry because of a massive influx of illegals over the last decade. It was ahead of Philly in the most recent violence ranking.
Plenty of other pubbies lost who were in favor of shamnesty or guest worker programs. I'm just pointing out how nonsensical it is to look at two races as proof of a point - especially when Hayworth was tainted by the Abramoff scandal (a little detail you keep attempting to brush aside).
God Bless you Dane for keeping to post this articles. People have to listen on this issue big time.
Americans want some compromise on this issue. They want real border security, and they want illegal immigration to end. However, they are not too thrilled with a blanet Deprt them all big or small or starve them over the border approach either.
THe question will be this. If Comprehensive immigration reform passess what next. Shall we keep running people on the "You might become a citizen but I will never view you as legit" platform. During the past year certain Republicans bottled up the bill in Congress. THey had silly political like hearings whose purpose was to grandstand that solve. If we were smart we would pass a bill this Congress. However I think people will not be smart and they will be on the outside looking in next session.
Better to ride the Dane train to Alta Mexico, formerly the USA....
If his position on illegal immigration is such a loser, why did he win re-election?
2) Do you expect that, somehow resources will be found to supply all illegals with all the hospitals, education, training, and insurance they need?
There are no easy answers, but we cannot pretend all the expense is on one side.
Immigration wasn’t a winning platform
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While, J.D. Hayworth and Randy Graf lost, 1 out of 3 is good in baseball, very poor in politics.
Yes it was .. because every democrat who won WAS STRONG ON IMMIGRATION. Immigration was a winning platform .. but too many of our RINO's were not willing to get onboard.
As their vote in the 110th Congress is for nancy pelosi as Speaker.
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