Posted on 04/14/2007 4:29:39 AM PDT by mborman
An Iowa congressman says it won't be easy to stop the Democratic-controlled Congress from passing the latest "guest worker" proposal being pushed by President Bush. Steve King (R-Iowa) says it will take a concerted effort by those who oppose amnesty to stop the president's latest effort to reward illegal immigrants who have broken the law.
King is assailing what he believes is a "re-warmed" amnesty plan announced by the president in Yuma, Arizona, where Bush remarked that the U.S. cannot fully secure the border with Mexico until it takes pressure off the border -- and that, said the president, requires a guest worker program.
King disagrees with the president's assessment. "It's a pretty amazing lack of rationale," says the congressman. "I've never been able to follow the idea that if we don't grant amnesty, we can't control the border," King confesses. "And in the same speech, in almost the same sentence, he talked about the effectiveness of the border control that we have down there now in that Yuma sector."
The Republican lawmaker asserts that Mr. Bush cannot redefine amnesty for the convenience of his own policy initiative. "The president has been trying to redefine the word 'amnesty,' which he knows the American people reject," he observes. "The American people know that amnesty means to grant a pardon to immigration law breakers and reward them with the objective of their crime."
Nevertheless, King believes that if comprehensive immigration reform legislation reflecting Bush's call for a guest worker program ultimately reaches the floor of the House, it will have a good chance of passing.
"I won't concede that the bill is going to make it to the floor," he says, "[but] when it comes, if it comes, to the House, we have to fight it through subcommittee and through committee and all the way to the [House] floor." He adds that, in his eyes, "a trail to amnesty will have to be a trail of tears" because opponents will have to "fight it every step of the way."
King contends the president's plan would dramatically expand a government-subsidized "servant class" at the expense of the American middle class.
Mr. President: your nation needed you to halt the invasion of illegals into our nation. They dilute the population with the dregs of Mexican society. They are the losers that Mexico wants shoved North and you have allowed this.
Your planned network of superhighways is even now being implemented that will enable Mexican truckers to haul mostly Chinese goods (relabled Made In Mexico) to U.S. markets more expeditiously.
Your legacy in this area stinks.
President George W. Bush expressed confidence in Yuma, AZ on Monday he will be able to sign a “comprehensive” amnesty bill by year's end that includes a guest-worker program, more funds for “securing the border” with Mexico and a path to buy legalized citizenship for millions of illegal aliens and the 623,292 Fugitive Illegal Aliens in the U.S. lost by Homeland Security.
Bush outlined a flawed four-point plan to supposedly address the causes and consequences of the flood of illegal crossings swamping America’s southern border. His plan would in fact change few realities on the ground:
1-Add resources to secure the border, but no mention of a border fence or of deploying the National Guard.
2- Repatriate illegal immigrants, but allow them citizenship if they pay a fine in a simple Amnesty “Buy-Your-Way-In-Scheme.”
3--Create a “guest-worker program” that vastly expands the existing work visa program, which already is not enforced and is not working.
4-Create a “tamperproof” identity card that will be available from document counterfeit groups five minutes before the program is approved.
None of the 12-20 million illegal aliens already hiding in this country would have to leave under the Bush Plan.
How much will it cost?
How many new CIS employees will be needed to process these 15,000,000 applications? How and when will they be funded and hired?
How much will it cost to run 15,000,000 criminal background checks, and who will do it? What systems will Mexico be required to have in place in order to validate criminal histories? How much will Mexico spend on that effort?
Who will set documentation standards? Who will physically inspect and validate Mexican identity documents?
What will happen to the 2,000,000 legal applications no in the CIS system? What measures will ensure that these applications are treated as a priority over guest worker visas?
Of course there are dozens of other real, pragmatic, day-to-day issues that need to be addressed.
Who’s asking those questions?
The problem for you Mis-Info Queens is that anyone with an interest in the issue can use the internet to easily find the credible information.
The reality is that the administration is working with many GOP Senators to develop a plan with broad GOP support. In fact, an accurate, critical assessment of this plan is that it is too broad.
Are there any cost estimates for this program?
We’re talking about the Fed Gov here. Are they capable of providing the logistics to make this work?
In fact, an accurate, critical assessment of this plan is that it is too broad.
Calling us, who disagree with the accommodation that the president and the rinos would offer up, queens is uncalled for!
Your second comment, highlighted above, is more to the point. 'Too broad' means a defeat for those who oppose illegal invaders. These people are unwelcome and most everyone knows it.
It's not a 'guest worker' program, rather a 'guest voter' program with the clueless RepublicRATs believing these votes will go to them.
Deportation would be cheaper and easier in the long run!
In McCain_Kenndey, which was "amnesty onto the path", and the Bush Plan from 2004, which was "amnesty to guestworker", and in AgJobs, many of the costs were pushed off on employers.
In the "touch-back" provisions of the Pence Plan in 2006, it was to be privatized.
Obviously, some of the costs can be borne by the participants, but it is not clear whether these numbers floated in the White House draft are feasible.
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