Posted on 03/08/2007 10:26:54 PM PST by Norman Bates
AMONG THE federal government's most important obligations is to secure America's borders and enforce sensible immigration laws that will keep our nation strong and safe. For far too long, Washington has failed miserably in this vital responsibility. An estimated 12 million people live in the United States illegally -- a problem affecting every state in the union.
Coming from a border state, I have seen firsthand the effect that illegal immigration has on our communities and public services, the rampant exploitation of those who traffic in illegal aliens, and the tragic loss of life that so often attends this enduring problem. As a country devoted to the rule of law, fairness and opportunity, the status quo is simply unacceptable. We know that most illegal aliens are drawn to the United States in the hope of finding a better life for themselves and their families. Many of our own ancestors came for the very same reason. But we also know that others come to do America harm and will exploit any weakness or loophole to achieve their malignant objectives.
The truth is that our nation's porous borders and failed immigration policies are a national disgrace, adversely affecting both our economic prospects and national security. A comprehensive immigration control plan that works is long overdue.
(Excerpt) Read more at unionleader.com ...
-Vastly improve our border surveillance and enforcement capabilities;
-Increase the manpower, infrastructure and capabilities necessary to block, apprehend, detain and return those who try to enter the country illegally;
-Strengthen the laws and penalties against those who hire illegal aliens and violate immigration law;
-Achieve and maintain the integrity of official documents to stop fraud, verify immigration status and employment, and enforce immigration law;
-Encourage immigrants to come out of the shadows so we know who is in this country and develop a sensible guest worker program that will serve the nation's best economic and security interests.
We're fixin to get hosed.
He's scared of the polls he's be receiving, and is now trying to spin his way out of the his alliance with ted kennedy on the McCain-Kennedy Immigration bill.
The truth is that, on immigration, and just about everything else, John McCain is failing the American people.
Great. That precludes the Illegals from correcting their illegal status by hauling their butts back home first.
Rationalize it any way you like. He is standing firm. He refuses to budge on what he believes. He said he would rather lose than change his support away from our brave fighting troops.
LOL! McCain-Feingold the ultimate Washingtonian. John, YOU have failed miserably. All of these years and WHAT have YOU done?
Couldn't have said it better myself.
McCain/Kerry F the POWS/MIAS
McCain/Feingold F free speech
McCain/Kennedy F American Sovereignty
McCain/Gang of 14
McCain/Keating 5
McCain/Terrorist Bill of Rights
McCain/Gun Grabber
More?
Pure hypocrisy by the co-author of McCain-Kennedy.
You might want to stick to the topic at hand.
"Many of our own ancestors came for the very same reason"
Many more of most of our ancestors within the last 200 years were born on US soil and died on US soil. This notion that US is made of immigrants is false. Traditionally immigrants have made up less than 5% of the US population, most Americans would have to acknowledge that 95% of all their relatives who lived and worked in the US were native born.
Estimates are as high today as 30 million immigrants in the US, out of 300 million, thats 10%, and McCain, is implying here that we need to respect levels of immigration that are twice as high as normal, and that we need to take in more , greater percent than any time in US history because some people have a few percent of their ancestors who immigrated ?
Huh... with that logic, we might as well make it mandatory that every child under 18 run away and join the circus, since many have few percent of our ancestors who could juggle, or their grandmothers grew beards.
This is just a very general framework. McCain is offering a lot more to bolster policy than just back taxes.
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