Looks a bit like this guy too..
Posted on 05/25/2007 5:14:56 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Conservative Republicans working to block a compromise immigration bill risk endorsing a "silent amnesty" by insisting on unfeasible mass deportations, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said in an interview published on Thursday.
In remarks to USA Today, Chertoff also criticized liberal immigrant rights advocates, saying they could prolong the anguish of immigrant families by withholding support for legislation that could give them legal status.
Chertoff spoke to the newspaper's editorial board in a preview of a Bush administration media campaign to build support of broad immigration legislation being debated by the U.S. Senate, USA Today said.
The compromise bill brokered between the White House and a bipartisan group of senators ties tough border security and work place enforcement measures to the guest worker program and a plan to legalize an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants.
The measure has drawn criticism from many quarters and its fate in the Senate is uncertain.
The bill has been criticized for placing new limits on family-based immigration and conservative Republicans oppose the legalization program saying it would reward people who broke U.S. laws.
Chertoff acknowledged there is "a fundamental unfairness" in legislation that permits illegal immigrants to remain in the United States but said trying to force them to leave would be impossible, USA Today reported.
"We are bowing to reality," Chertoff said.
He dismissed the position of some opponents who argue that illegal immigrants will leave if strict enforcement of U.S. laws makes it impossible for them to find a job.
"You're not going to replace 12 million people who are doing the work they're currently doing," Chertoff said. "If they don't leave, then you are going to give them silent amnesty. You're either going to let them stay or you're going to be hypocritical."
Chertoff warned there would be more mass roundups of illegal workers if the workers do not get a chance to become legal.
"We're going to enforce the law," he said. "People all around the country will be seeing teary-eyed children whose parents are going to be deported."
© Reuters 2007.
However, if employers would be fined $500,000 for hiring illegal labor and the second infraction would carry a jail sentence of one year, I don’t think we’d have to force them to leave. They would not be hired anywhere, and of course, it goes without saying that NO social services should be granted to those here illegally. The Catholic Church would be even more broke if it tried supporting all the illegals who were unemployed.
How about civil forfeiture of all possessions since they and any belongings aren't supposed to be here - including clothes. This will finance their deportation. Forced march them to the border on foot in their fluorescent orange jumpsuits and cloth shoes.
We need to dry up the jobs, kick them out of our public schools, deny them health care, and deport those who commit crimes the day they commit the crime.
It's not that total deportations are not possible, just that he doesn't cre to plan for them. On the other hand, keeping the Mexicans (85% of the illegal alien cohort) here doesn't bring any of them closer to citizenship.
Chertoff is being less than honest when he and others suggest that they might wait up to 13 years ~ that's because no one can get out of the Z Visa category to the Green Card category until all those presently in the legal immigration channels have been accepted (or rejected).
Mexico all by itself has a 128 year waiting list ~ you can imagine how many legal immigrant applicants there are in the total pipeline for that to have happened.
No Mexican Z-Visa holder will ever in his or her lifetime qualify for citizenship.
It's a baldface lie to tell them otherwise. Instead, the illegal aliens from Mexico, if not from everywhere else, are facing a lifetime of twilight presence in this country which will quickly turn them into an underclass similar to that of the more formal peonage that used to be practiced throughout the Spanish empire.
Got it now. Thanks. Have a great Memorial Day weekend!
Good. Happens every day, when some parent is sent to prison. Nobody even notices. In fact the illegals' kids have an advantage--they can go back to mexico or wherever right along with their criminal parents.
It’s actually simple. Jail the employers and the illegals will deport themselves.
Thank you. Hope all will take the time to read it.
If all those illegals are supposed to be good for the USA imagine how fantastic it will be for Mexico to get them back as well as all of "W"'s and Chertoff's buddies.
Seems workable to me ~ even though we might have to be prepared to shoot down Texicans trying to flee the new border into the real USA.
You are very welcome.
You should post it in it’s own thread, IMO.
Your new party is well underway in the Old Dominion.
Chertoff is only good at buying trailers and parking them in Arkansas, what a waste of air.
screw Chertoff
He's threatening to do what he gets paid for?
As a neighbor, an elderly woman, says, “I’ll pick my own lettuce.”
Does that give you any idea Mr. Chertoff how p1ssed the American people are?
And if Mr. Chertoff is unwilling to enforce current law, then maybe its time for him to step aside in favor of someone who will.
Because his lips were moving?
susie
Looks a bit like this guy too..
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