I will apply for my citizenship this year Spiff.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 17, 2007
NCLR APPLAUDS LAUNCH OF SENATE IMMIGRATION DEBATE
Washington, DC –The National Council of La Raza (NCLR), the largest national Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization in the U.S., today acknowledged the hard work of a bipartisan team of senators for their role in crafting a compromise immigration bill which will proceed to the Senate floor this week.
"Successful immigration reform cannot happen unless it includes a path to citizenship for immigrants who are living, working, and contributing to their communities in the United States. This proposal contains this crucial element, and this debate is the first step", said Janet MurguÃa, NCLR President and CEO. "The debate on this vital issue will finally begin in the United States Senate. Latinos, and all Americans, are eager for Congress to act on immigration reform, and we are glad to be at the starting gate."
However, NCLR expressed concern with some of the provisions included in the Senate bill.
These include dramatically changing the legal immigration system by eliminating visa categories which allow U.S. citizens to petition for their families; a point system which would for the first time in nearly a century make visas available to anyone in the world based on educational attainment and English-language ability; and a proposed new temporary worker program.
"For a temporary worker program to function and to serve the interests of this country, workers must have an avenue for putting down roots and earning their way to U.S. citizenship over time", said MurguÃa.
"While we have serious reservations about some elements of this bill, we will engage in vigorous efforts to improve it," added MurguÃa. "We are deeply committed to moving legislation forward and seeing this process through to the House and ultimately to the Presidents desk. We salute the senators who have taken the first step and look forward to engaging in the debate to its conclusion."
We'll see what Lou Dobbs says about this at the top of the hour.
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So you, jveritas, a citizen of another nation, are here on Free Republic trying to tell conservatives how we're so wrong about wanting our immigration laws enforced. You're not even an American citizen yet you're chastizing real Americans for trying to protect our borders, language, and culture and for demanding their our laws and our Constitution be upheld by those charged to do so.
How about you zip it. You have no credibility on this issue as your conflict of interest is obvious. Maybe the reason this call for strong enforcement and deportations bothers you so much is that you can't account for your own legal status 100% of the time you've been here. Or maybe that's the case for one of your family members.
By this admission - that you are NOT EVEN A CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES - you have forfeited every single drop of credibility your previous posts may have contained.
Quite frankly, you have no dog in this hunt.
And you have no right - NO right - to question legal citizens of the United States when they express their outrage at this amnesty bill.
To aquire that "right", you must become a citizen first. You have not even applied yet to do even that.
I am not contesting your immigration status, nor your legal residency, nor your right to become a citizen in the future. I sense that when naturalized, you will become an asset to our culture.
I assume you are now confronting the legal obstacles that loom in front of those who are legal immigrants. If there is ANYone here who should be outraged at how those who came here ILLEGALLY will leap-frog around those who have played by the rules, it should be you.
What gives?
- John