Posted on 05/21/2007 8:28:26 AM PDT by 3AngelaD
Monday, 1:00 p.m.: Convene and resume consideration of the motion to proceed to S. 1348, the Comprehensive Immigration Legislation.
Sorry, I wasn’t talking about you, I was referring to Graham.
Oh, how I have come to hate that word...
Leahy..."The Kennedy/Kyl/CHERTOFF proposal." ?
And the contract supervisor who told me today I was a racist because I don’t speak English.
How dare graham suggest we are racist for wanting our laws enforced! What a freaking scumbag.
..you're very helpful!!!
Sen. Patrick Leahy up now...
I like to imagine that his face is green and he is wearing a little santa cap. He’s the spitting image of the Grinch.
“You can’t prosecute me if you can’t find me or identify me.”
They can find them if and when they want to. Of course they can find them. How do you think raids come about and hundreds at a time are deported? Yes, the feds can find them, they just don’t want to.
sorry. Obviously I meant Spanish.
Here’s the $64,000 question:
What are the RINO’s getting in return for betraying their country, constituents and their party?
Why did the White House and the Senate RINO’s along w/ the democrats have to hold secret negotiations?
Why are they trying to ram this through without full debate and disclosure?
Okay, several questions for the 64 grand. :)
I’m going over to the Abbey to pray that the bill is D.O.A..
nicely done, great job! a keeper.
Will someone tell me how, with the huge budget bill they passed last week, do they plan to take in the millions, bring their families and raise the minimum wage?
Voted YES on establishing a Guest Worker program. * Voting YES establishes a guest worker program with a path to citizenship for illegal aliens who have worked in the US for 5 years. for accompanying or following spouse and children; Reference: Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act; Bill S. 2611 ; vote number 2006-157 on May 25, 2006
Voted YES on allowing illegal aliens to participate in Social Security. Reference: Preclusion of Social Security Credits; Bill S.Amdt.3985 to S.2611 ; vote number 2006-130 on May 18, 2006
Voted YES on extending Immigrant Residency rules. Reference: Motion sponsoerd by Gekas, R-PA; Bill HR1885 ; vote number 2001-127 on May 21, 2001
Voted YES on more immigrant visas for skilled workers.
Sessions is the bees’ knees.
Mark Levin posted this on NRO:
http://levin.nationalreview.com/
What would Milton Friedman Do?
I admire Michael Barone. He joins others, many of whom are pundits on Brit Hume’s news program on FOX, in their support of “comprehensive immigration reform.”
But Barone and most of the others do not address so many of the legitimate issues raised by the Heritage Foundation, security experts, the GAO, and so forth. They seem to repeat the RNC/White House talking points that we all have received.
Robert Rector makes clear that this deal would destroy Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid faster than currently projected. Indeed, Milton Friedman, once a proponent of open immigration, later changed his position noting that the welfare state makes such a position untenable. Barone doesn’t address Rector or Friedman’s positions. Nor does he or other open-border conservatives address the contradiction of supporting smaller, limited government while arguing for the importation of millions of more beneficiaries.
The costs to local school districts and local law enforcement will be extraordinary, and the draft bill makes any form of federal reimbursement for these costs discretionary. So, the federal government will pass on all these costs to states and localities, as it does today. Barone doesn’t address this.
Most of the security features in the deal are prospective while legalization is almost immediate. So, the deal doesn’t even exchange legalization for border security. And last October, the federal government was supposed start building over 700 miles of fences and technological barriers. According to Duncan Hunter, they’ve completed two miles. That’s hardly a sign of good faith. Barone doesn’t address this.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and, more particularly ICE, are bureaucratic nightmares, as the GAO has reported repeatedly. Yet, this bureaucracy is relied upon in the deal to administer and enforce a far more complicated scheme. How will this get done? Barone doesn’t address this.
This isn’t 1890, when there was no federal income tax or welfare state and no 9/11 when terrorists were able to sneak into our country and slaughter thousands of Americans in a single morning. Just two weeks ago, we learned about three terrorists, whose visas had expired, who were plotting to murder soldiers at Fort Dix. Where was DHS?
Also, in 1890, there wasn’t official diversity, multicultura,l and bilingual training making assimilation far more difficult. Today, people are discouraged from becoming part of the American culture. And there weren’t activists judges conferring benefits on illegal immigrants, such as a constitutional right to public education.
As the predictable open-borders arguments continue to be made, I will be back with more.
IMNSHO, they are getting cash like William Jefferson from the S and Central American lobbies if not the ME.
How else could you be so stubbornly blind.
Great questions...My reply: Follow the money.
Good catch! I didn’t know about yesterday.
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