Posted on 05/23/2007 1:18:25 AM PDT by bd476
I urge you to send that as an email to the WSJ. Concise, pithy, and dead-on accurate.
wsj.ltrs@wsj.com
It's only $1,000 at the beginning, with the balance to be paid upon some later step which I forget.
In any case they will provide ample exemptions for "hardship cases" and/or forgive the $4,000 balance entirely. It ain't gonna' happen.
We're supposed to give them in-state tuition so they can get benefits of the American dream that even American children don't get?
We're supposed to push forward the North American Union with no input from WE THE PEOPLE?
I have no idea what Kyl was thinking, but he's shown just how much of an amateur he is, being rolled by Kennedy like this.
I’m a pretty vocal backer of some form of amnesty and a comprehensive immigration reform, but I’m not backing the senate bill as it now stands.
The Senate bill is not dead by a long shot. As long as business interests keep pushing for it the Pubbies are more likely to support it since those groups are heavy donors to their campaigns. The Congress-critters are most interested in one thing, getting re-elected, giving the grass roots the shaft.
The guest worker provision has nothing to do with giving amnesty to illegal aliens. It is a program to increase the number of temporary workers to enter the country legally to work in labor intensive industries. Current law for example allows an unlimited number of agricultural guest workers. Those guest workers are paid more on average than their illegal counterparts, thus some businesses, especially small ones, will continue to ignore the law. Of course if some of those same workers do not return to their home country after their temporary work permits expire we will be faced with more resident illegal aliens than we have now.
his endorsement will help win over other immigration hard-liners, a constituency where he has credibility, particularly after opposing last year’s Senate-passed bill as too weak.
These people are too stupid and think we are too.
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I would not be so sure, the attempt to quickly pass it failed, which really is a shame cause that would have really stroked the fires in the GOP base and ensured it's defeat in the House. Now things are cooling off a bit making possible it's passage in the Senate in a week or too. As we all knew the fight is still going to be in the House. That's how it looked a week ago and that's how it still looks. I've read 70 GOP are needed to pass, surely a fired up GOP base can keep 70 R's in line. The thing I worry about is a NAFTA like lame duck session.
Absolutely correct and they (Dems) are right. The Dems are going to put GOP finger prints all over this and then enjoy watching the blood bath in 08. Can't blame them, they are just giving the GOP all the rope it needs to hang itself.
Why the Senators are in such a frenzy for this bill - even tried to sneak it through - has scary implications.
I have been trying since Friday. STILL haven’t gotten through.
They do this because it has worked in the past to derail any real 'reform'. It's happened before, and it's the same players. Norquist is the man in charge of immigration policy for the White House.
1996...... “ Grover Norquist, a social conservative and anti-tax Republican lobbyist, reveled unapologetically in the tactics he used to undermine the verification initiative and to mock Simpson personally. The peel-off bar-code tattoos were supposed to remind people of the way Nazis tattooed Jews during World War II.
“It was great,” recalled Norquist, who is close to House Speaker Newt Gingrich. “We had our guys walking around with tattoos on their arms. It drove Simpson nuts because the implication was he’s a Nazi.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1836630/posts?page=37#37
There are three massive increases for illegals: 1) the “Z” visa, which is the amnesty and takes place immediately for the 12 or 15 or 20 million illegals here now 2) the “Y” visa, which is the new massive guestworker program and 3) A quadrupling of chain migration, supposedly ending in 8 years. The Dems only object to the Y guest worker visa, why God only knows as the Y visa (along with the Z visa) has a “path to citizenship” built in.
Nancy knows if she can pass a bill, any bill, she can go to conference with the senate (the conference committee being a small hand picked group from House and Senate leadership, so that will be mostly the same folks who negotiated this monstrosity in the first place) and remove anything the Dems don't like and give her party permanent majority status. The President has bascially said he'll sign any bill put in front of him. Your first clue that this is the strategy: it's been posted here that the White House intends to only lobby Dems in the House to get this bill passed (look at paragraph 5.) So the White House clearly intends to build a left leaning majority for this. This bill will pass unless we can stop it in the Senate. Keep the heat on.
Call, Call, Call keep the pressure up.
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