Pinatas?
I don't think so.
Posted on 05/20/2007 8:06:50 AM PDT by Politicalmom
To summarize politics in the last few months... the Democrats sell out the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, and with Republican help sell out the Border Patrol agents at the Mexican border.
My point exactly.
I'm reserving comment until I can read at least the draft, not the talking points that the media are putting out. It's been amusing (and sad) to see the stampede to the microphones, by media and poiticians, shrieking about something nobody but the drafters have read (and I'm not sure about some of them.)
Let’s repeat it again.
Not “undocumented workers.”
INVADERS !!!
Triggers include: o 18,000 (CBP) Border Patrol hired -- This provision is NOT FUNDED. It is meaningless. They have had problems hiring and training 3,000 new agents in a year. This cannot occur as promised.
Resources to detain up to 27,500 aliens per day -- Again, this is not funded. Another totally empty promise.
Increased penalties for illegally entry and reentry -- the existing penalties aren't being enforced. Why should anyone believe the "increased" penalties will be?
..designs a worksite enforcement system that relies on electronic employment verification -- Ha, ha. the government has been trying to do this for more than 10 years, spending billions, and none of its sytems work. Although credit card companies can manage to do basically the same thing, government can't. This is more pie-in-the-sky.
The employer must attest that the Y worker will be paid not less than the greater of the actual wage paid by the employer to all other similarly situated workers or the “prevailing competitive wage -- Oh, yeah. This was the whole premise of the H1B visa, and it IS A BIG LIE. Hundreds of thousands of Americans have been laid off after training their visa-holding replacements who work for a third of the salary, isn't that right, Bill Gates?
In order to be eligible for this Z visa, one must have been illegally present within the U.S. before January 1, 2007. -- Whole new industry in fraudlent documents showong illegal presence prior to 1-1-07. Surprise! 30 million apply for Z visa and gain immediate legitimate presence in our country.
Individuals under the age of 30 that were brought to the United States out of their own control as a minor are eligible to receive their green card after 3 years rather than 8. -- Just more incedntive for illegals to bring their benefit-sucking kids along.
What a bill of goods.
The new “Immigration Bill” renders border patrol agents irrelevant; “just open the borders and let ‘em all come,” seems to be the federal attitude. Habla espanol, everyone?
Sandy the bill is AMNESTY.You can wait and read all you want but it’s a sellout and it’s going to lead to ANOTHER 20 million poor, uneducated people coming here as soon as possible !!!
Problem is that Bush prosecutes and persecutes and border guard who enforces current law. Those of us who supported Bush in the past were wrong. He may be better than Kerry and Gore but he is still giving away US soveringty.
This is where they all fall down. Pass a bill? Why? All we need to do is enforce the existing laws, especially the ones against employers hiring illegals. Fine them, jail them and close their shops. There would soon be an exodus across the border to the south.
Read my lips politicians: We don't need immigration reform, we need you to enforce the law!
Well, I'm kinda quirky that way. I prefer to read for myself and draw my own conclusions.
That didn't stop me, however, from emailing Congressman Reichert and expressing my hope that the House will do their job and insist on enforcement before there is any talk of what to do with the people already here.
My senators are a lost cause (Murray and CantDoWell), but I may email them anyway just to annoy them.
I guess President Shrub will have to lock up all 11,000 of these agents along with Ramos and Compean.
I used to write to my Congressman (John Olver,Mass) about different issues and the guy would occasionally send me a form letter back on them. He NEVER agreed with me on a single issue,however there still might be hope.I never asked him what color the sky was on a sunny day !!!
“One requirement is that the applicant must prove he is here illegally.”
Watch the ACLU get on this one. How does one prove they are ILLEGAL? That kind of sounds like you will be forced to “incriminate” yourself. Will there be a constitutional question here?
From the protestors on the illegal side, that appears to be their primary concern.
Pinatas?
I don't think so.
The piñatas remark shows how naive these staffers are. They live in cocoons.
And they might be right.
We're sure going to find out.
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