Posted on 01/04/2007 5:32:40 AM PST by Mount Athos
Five years into the war on terror, most Americans desperately hoped 2006 would be "the year" for solutions to the long national nightmare of intentionally unsecured borders and the resulting illegal immigration crisis. For many, the dream was that at a minimum, we would begin to see border security and immigration law enforcement similar to what Mexicans still living in Mexico enjoy. It didn't happen.
According to a report released in late 2006 by the House Committee of Homeland Security, up to 10 million people entered the United States illegally and un-inspected last year. Georgia watched as its population of illegal aliens increased by 114 percent - the highest rate of growth in the nation.
Now, 2007 is being touted as "the year." The word in Washington all over the country is that "comprehensive reform" - a repeat of the 1986 "one-time" path to citizenship for illegal aliens who come mostly from Mexico - must happen before official campaigning begins for the 2008 elections.
Happy New Year!
It seems that the party taking power in Congress is more in line with the president's ideas on how to treat the resentful illegals and the vast black market labor-addicted employers.
Even as it became clear on election night in November that the Democrats were taking over the House, White House Press Secretary Tony Snow remarked that the election results presented "interesting opportunities" for "comprehensive immigration reform."
For something that the "do-nothing" Congress accomplished, I point to stopping the McCain/Kennedy/Bush amnesty of 2006. To the GOP House: Gracias.
The solution to the illegal immigration problem coming from Washington can be boiled down to this: Make everybody "legal." Give them - again - the path to citizenship they demand, and whatever you do, don't mention the "A" word. The present voters are on to the amnesty swindle, but hold on, we have millions of potential new voters right in front of us!
Happy New Year!
"They might be unlawful aliens but otherwise lawful citizens," was how U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales described the millions of identity and wage-stealing illegal aliens in remarks during his Senate confirmation hearings in January. Happy New Year!
Having happily endorsed the re-writing and translating of the American national anthem, in the spring of 2006, millions of screaming illegals marched in America waving the flag of Mexico in a demand for "dignity," "justice" and amnesty for all. In Chicago, about 75,000 marching illegals were led by U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez.
"This is our country and we are not leaving!" was Gutierrez's rallying cry.
Gutierrez is busy now helping write the House version of "comprehensive immigration reform." Happy New Year!
Imagine the headlines of "intolerance and racism" if Americans were to march by the millions in a demand for secure borders and requiring that illegals be punished along with their employers.
An effort to preserving the common language of our grandfathers, laws making English our official language were angrily ridiculed as "racist" by - among many - U.S. Sen. Harry Reid, (D-Nev.).
Does anyone remember the outrage of 1999 when El Cenizo, Texas, not only resolved to grant safe haven to all illegal aliens from Mexico, but made Spanish the town's official language? Me neither.
Reid is the incoming Senate Majority Leader. Happy New Year!
Here in Georgia, taking time out from lobbying against passage of the Georgia Security and Immigration Compliance Act, Jerry Gonzales, executive director of the Atlanta-based Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials, joined marchers outside the CNN Center carrying signs calling CNN's Lou Dobbs a racist.
Dobb's offense? His must-see daily television presentation of the consequences of illegal immigration.
Beware: The open borders lobby, designed to create a climate of fear for Americans tempted to speak out in defense of their nation against amnesty-again, will be in high gear in 2007. On illegal immigration, the president has found new friends.
Happy New Year - or as we may be saying next year if illegals are rewarded with a path to citizenship again - Feliz Ano Nuevo.
I see your little game, Dane.
There were over 100 members of the GOP House in Tancredo's caucus.
I'll be generous to you and say they were only 45 percent of the House GOP.
So a body that represents 45 percent of the House GOP had members lose 1/3 of the lost seats. So, in simple, honest terms, they lost at a lesser rate than non-caucus members.
Smoke that, weasel-boy. You're too dishonest to mention the little detail as to how many members were in the caucus.
Here's a real rogues gallery:
EWIC Essential Worker Immigration Coalition (as of 11/13/2006)
American Health Care Association
American Hotel & Lodging Association
American Immigration Lawyers Association
American Meat Institute
American Nursery & Landscape Association
American Road & Transportation Builders Association
American Staffing Association
American Subcontractors Association, Inc.
Associated Builders and Contractors
Associated General Contractors
Building Service Contractors Association International
California Landscape Contractors Association
California Professional Association of Specialty Contractors (CALPASC)
Carlson Hotels Worldwide and Radisson
Carlson Restaurants Worldwide and TGI Friday's
Farm Equipment Wholesalers Association
Federation of Employers & Workers of America
First Data
Golf Course Superintendents Association of America
Harborside Healthcare Corporation
Ingersoll-Rand
International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions
International Franchise Association
Marriott International, Inc.
Nath Companies
National Association for Home Care
National Association of Chain Drug Stores
National Association of Home Builders
National Association of RV Parks & Campgrounds
National Club Association
National Council of Chain Restaurants
National Restaurant Association
National Retail Federation
National Roofing Contractors Association
National Tooling & Machining Association
National Wooden Pallet and Container Association
Outdoor Amusement Business Association
Plumbing-Heating-Cooling Contractors - National Association
Professional Landcare Network
Retail Industry Leaders Association
Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council
Society of American Florists
The Brickman Group, Ltd.
Travel Business Roundtable
Travel Industry Association of America
Tree Care Industry Association
Truckload Carriers Association
Tyson Foods, Inc.
United Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Association
US Chamber of Commerce
Essential Worker Immigration Coalition
1615 H Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20062
(202) 463-5931
ewic@uschamber.com
Family and I stayed at a Marriot hotel in Kansas over the holidays. The Mexican maids woke us up, rapping at our window at 7:00 AM. There were no `DND' signs. They didn't speak English. Finally one said, "No service?" and I replied, "Si".
I think Bush sees his role as taking all the hits with the GOP base with unpopular issues and enabling the 2008 GOP successor to run free of the wedge issues.
For example, Bush can support a guest worker program and raise the minimum wage , thus freeing Rudy, McCain, & Mitt from having to make definite stands on these issues.
Link please!
Oh, I believe you are right. I just think it is a mistake.
People are getting really ticked off at the GOP right now, for several reasons.
Wow you almost sound like nancy pelosi with your animus towards the US Chamber of Commerce.
Bump
`Animus'. Wow, that's a big word for you Dane.
You are correct. I am hostile towards anyone or any company that wants to sing the blues, but using my dues.
Your apparent membership in one of those organizations, by citing that article, explains your fanatical support of another amnesty.
Excuse me: "comprehensive immigration reform."
(See tagline.)
The big business lobby in Washington, the one that contributes large sums of cash to GOP campaigns, wants this bill passed.
If true then why did voters vote in nancy pelosi and the democrats and that 1/3 of the GOP of Tancredos's immigration caucus, lost.
And then you said this:
Well it pretty easy, the democrats gained 30 seats and 10 of those pickups came from Tancredo's caucus
Not that 1/3 of Tancredo's caucus lost, but that 1/3 of the losses came from his caucus.
I know you don't care much about credibility, but this is just another shot in what little is left in yours.
ping to post #50.
Securing the borders and enforcing current immigration laws is a huge political winner. Somethng like 80 percent of the public is behind it. Amnesty is a sure loser. No matter how many bogus polls the Wall Street Journal or the corporate welfare pimps run. Last November one Democrat after another ran to the right of the GOP on the issue.
See my post #50 - Dane was playing word games. I doubt he'll renounce post #8, however. He'll just slink off to come up with a new lie to use until it gets rebutted.
Dane's no `he' and she's a real babe!
Dane, wanna `knock boots' sometime?
I could care less about Dane's gender. She certainly has no problem lying on FR, and that's the issue here.
That's ok--as long as they (1) Register; (2) Prove they have a job; (3) Prove they are not criminals, either here or in Mexico; (4) Prove they are not mentally or physically ill; and, (5) SPEAK AND READ ENGLISH COMPETENTLY!!!!!!!!!
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Who's Country is it anyway?
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
But who you gonna believe: Dane or your lyin' eyes?
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