[SolidWood]

I’m not ok with status quo. But I prefer it to amnesty.

[FreedomPoster]

Bingo. Build a fence, enforce the borders. Then we can talk about the next step.

[Gideon Reader]

Total nonsense.
What the opponents of the McCain-Kennedy-Specter Amnesty for Illegal Aliens bill said was that they DO NOT WANT BAD LEGISLATION; that does more harm, both in the near run and in the foreseeable future.
They want specific problems addressed, and they want those solutions to be logical, and effective, actually solving the problem.
Furthermore they want the quite highly paid and self satisfied “American House of Lords”, to pay attention to the inhabitants of this nation; the ones who pay the bills and see the problems at ground level.

The problems are solvable. And they appear to have an order of their own within which the broader border problems may be found and executed.
Monies have already been spent. Studies have been performed. Technical refinements exist.
Senators,...do your damned job, and do it without harming the patient.

[beckaz]

I’m not ok with status quo.

Me neither. Why can't we shut the border now (Dims and Reps and all agree).

THEN figure out what to do with the current illegals. Better yet, shelve the damn shamnesty and make the issue a big one in the next election. Let people decide.

We waited 20 years. We can wait another 18 months.

We are being BLACKMAILED: no law on the border before you swallow shamnesty.

[puroresu]

The official “liberal” party line on this is that we only have two options:

A) Leave things as they are now, with millions of illegals in our country, and more coming in all the time.

B) Pass the Kennedy-Bush immigration bill, which we’re told will “solve” our illegal alien problem by legalizing all the illegals while doing nothing to stop the flow of additional millions into our country in future years.

So in media-speak, if you’re against Kennedy-Bush, you must favor the status quo since those are the only two possible alternatives. After all, “we can’t deport twelve million people without becoming a police state”. The media simply brush aside the possibility of solving the problem via attrition. Just enforce the existing laws against employers hiring illegals, cut off all freebies for illegals, and actually guard the border.

If illegals can’t get jobs or welfare, they’ll go home on their own. Deportation problem solved.

[RachelFaith]

I’m not ok with status quo. But I prefer it to amnesty.

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Damn Straight !