America needs comprehensive immigration reform (Painful Projetile Vomiting Alert)

The Greeley Tribune ^ | June 13, 2007 | Michael Chertoff and Carlos Gutierrez

[3AngelaD]

The Senate's inability to move forward on a bipartisan immigration reform bill preserves a broken system with ineffective and insufficient laws. Maintaining the status quo is unacceptable and would be a serious setback to those of us who are charged with securing our homeland and advancing our nation's competitiveness.

Effective immigration enforcement requires the right tools and resources -- precisely what the new bill would give us. By denying our law enforcement critical assistance, the current system impedes their brave efforts to protect our country....

Supporters of the Senate bill have a solution that is both clever and just. They want the 12 million illegal immigrants to pay the enforcement costs.

Every alien who steps out of the shadows and applies for legal status will have to pay both a processing fee -- up to $1,500 -- and a penalty as high as $1,000. The fee will pay for the background and criminal checks needed to separate murderers from maids, gang members from gardeners, terrorists from truck drivers. And under amendments introduced by Sens. Lindsey Graham and Jon Kyl with wide support, $4.4 billion of the penalties will be transferred to immigration enforcement agencies to strengthen our border and improve interior enforcement...

[3AngelaD]

This was written as if the Graham-Kyl amendment has already been introduced and is being debated. This article had to have been sent to the newspaper yesterday in order to be in the paper today. More proof, as if we needed it, that Kyl and Graham are working hand-in-glove with the administration to pull the wool over our eyes. The Senate cannot do what this amendment promises to do in its legislation. Oh, and whatever happened to the $5,000?

[RexBeach]

America also needs a good five-cent cigar.

Next!

[Poison Pill]

“The Senate’s inability to move forward on a bipartisan immigration reform bill preserves a broken system with ineffective and insufficient laws.”

There is no need to read any further than this.

[VOA]

Maintaining the status quo is unacceptable...

Agreed. The status quo of NOT enforcing the immigration
laws ALREADY ON THE BOOKS is unacceptable.

[twonie]

“Star Wars” Chertoff and somebody named Gutierrez? Geez, what a combination. All they lack is Linda Chavez. Maybe she was busy.

[mtbopfuyn]

The status quo of NOT enforcing the immigration laws ALREADY ON THE BOOKS is unacceptable.

Beat me to it.

[ex-snook]

“with the administration to pull the wool over our eyes.”

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Sponsors thought the way to get through was to put it all together. Like the Iraq intelligence report, they figured that no one would read it and it would pass through.

One bill has so much sausage that it is indigestible. Three bills would put it all out for examination.
1] securing the borders
2] previous illegals
3] future immigrants

There can be no other reason to put it all together but to sneak something through. Separate the issues and the best will pass.

[JoanneSD]

A lot of illegals have stepped out of the shadows here this morning.. lots of them lining the street going to home depot, enforce the laws on the books now.. that would solve the problem.. as a side note has any one but me thought that Henry Waxman and Chertoff might have been separated at birth.. they resemble each other..

[moehoward]

America needs comprehensive immigration ENFORCEMENT!!!

[oblomov]

“Maintaining the status quo is unacceptable”

Today’s pro-amnesty talking point. GWB and the Greely Tribune must be reading off the same MALDEF press release.

[wastedyears]

How about we kick them out, build the fence, then station armed guards walking patrols?

[JRochelle]

From the NYTimes,

The other cabinet officer, Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez, said that failure to pass the bill would hurt the economy. “We will see rotting fruit” in the fields, Mr. Gutierrez said. “We will see lawns that don’t get cared for. We will see patients who don’t get cared for.”

Mr Gutierrez, I can grow my own vegetables, mow my own yard and I don’t want a disease infested illegal taking care of me when I am sick!

So bugger off!

[iopscusa]

From the good SC Senator Jim Demint's office, note the 7 R co-signers: Dear Mr. President: We respectfully ask that your Administration enforce the border security laws that have already been authorized by Congress regardless of whether the Senate passes the immigration reform bill. The bill assumes that several critical border security benchmarks can be achieved within 18 months. These security triggers are already authorized under current law and can be completed without the immigration bill. We believe these enforcement measures are vital and should not wait until Congress passes additional immigration reforms. Securing the border is the best way to restore trust with the American people and facilitate future improvements of our immigration policy. Sincerely, U.S. Senators Jim DeMint (R – South Carolina), Tom Coburn (R – Oklahoma), Mike Enzi (R – Wyoming), David Vitter (R – Louisiana), Jim Inhofe (R – Oklahoma), Jim Bunning (R – Kentucky), Charles Grassley (R – Iowa), John Ensign (R – Nevada) and Jeff Sessions (R – Alabama). For more details on border security provisions that can be implemented under current law, please click here .

[3AngelaD]

I’m not so sure. Waxman’s aircraft hangar-like nostrils differentiate him from the less generously endowed Chertoff, who, nevertheless, isn’t every young girl’s dream. Chertoff looked better 10 years ago when he had hair and a little body fat, but still not a perfect date.

[taxed2death]

These guys are f’n liars.

Pure and simple.

Here is proof:

Take a look at this

Lott says “Oh, don’t worry about all these silly enforcement first amendments, I’ll make sure I make the bill meaningless in conference”!!!!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1849462/posts

This is why Bush and the other useless morons like Gonzales and Chertoff can get away with NOT enforcing the law. Lott is going to strip enforcement out of the bill.

I’m callin’ total BS on the part of Bush, Gonzales and Chertoff.

[gpapa]

under amendments introduced by Sens. Lindsey Graham and Jon Kyl with wide support, $4.4 billion of the penalties will be transferred to immigration enforcement agencies to strengthen our border and improve interior enforcement.

I am not sure what makes these Congress critters think they will collect all those supposedly tough fines in the first place. We collect very few of the minor fines imposed under current law. Illegal aliens can simply ignore such schemes and continue on their merry way to suck the country dry of resources at both the State and National level.

[3AngelaD]

Yup, despicable. They are liars, and they are getting together to coordinate their lies as we speak. And they aren't even clever about it.

[TSchmereL]

Laws that are not enforced are truly “ineffective and insufficient laws.”

[DesScorp]

Chertoff and his bosses can go piss off.

[freespirited]

Every alien who steps out of the shadows and applies for legal status will have to pay both a processing fee -- up to $1,500 -- and a penalty as high as $1,000.

In exchange for which they will be entitled to benefits worth up to hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Bush is right. It's not amnesty, it's a better investment than Hillary's cattle futures.

P.S. The 5K figure that you hear quoted is only if the person wants a green card. There is an extra 4K fine for most people for that. But some pay nothing and others pay only an extra 400 bucks for the green card.