Congress ordered exit and entry system in 1996 and … we still don’t have one. In fact, last fall [Secretary of Homeland Security] Michael Chertoff said building one would be cost prohibitive, it would cost billions of dollars and would take more than ten years. One of the things they are saying about this bill is, it is going to have an entry and exit system. They are lying to us again.
In 2002, there was a backlog of four million Green Card cases of “rampant and pervasive document fraud”, an increase of 50% over six years. “The staff is rewarded for timely handling of petitions,” rather than scrutiny on the merits. How is this going to happen now if suddenly they are inundated with 12 to 20 million applications…”
Congress and the Bush administration have used “subject to the availability of funds” to not fully implement the border security provisions of every bill they have passed and signed into law since 9/11.
The touch-back provisions that Sen. Hutchinson wants have nothing to do with slowing down illegal immigration in the future. The bill's actual provisions make no promises of lower illegal immigration and set no numerical reduction goals at all.
Most of the illegals here now do not want to become citizens, they want to remain citizens of their home country, but benefit from our social services, our tax dollars and our hard fought for way of life. How can anyone want to give legal status to criminals, gang members, fugitives, child molesters, rapists, etc. ?
Pres. Bush keeps saying this is to protect us, but these people are coming carrying diseases that we had wiped out years ago. I just don't trust congress or our government any more. They say one thing, but their actions don’t support their words. I’m fed up with this. Throwing money at it isn't the answer, actions are and there have been precious few of those. This bad bill will only be a magnet for more to cross the border. I am opposed to this bill from top to bottom, and there is no way they can spin it to change my mind.
Ted Kennedy’s whole constituency are the people that came here illegally that he got citizenship for.
Almost as bad as the late Minnesota politician Bruce Vento who sponsored wave after wave of SE asians and settled them in his district to ensure his lock on the Office.
Well, let’s mute Ted the Swimmer’s effectiveness. I hope the Mass voters are really proud of this piece of garbage now that he has sold his country along with its people down the toilet, just because he thinks he can. I abhor the deceit and secrecy being used to pass this disgrace of a bill. If you have to use these means, something is definately wrong. Maybe we should really investigate what happened to Mary Jo and send this man to prison where hde can languish his sunset years away.
While the DC Elites keep spewing "path to citizenship", this is the dirty little "secret" that is never mentioned....
“Pres. Bush keeps saying this is to protect us, but these people are coming carrying diseases that we had wiped out years ago. I just don’t trust congress or our government any more. They say one thing, but their actions don’t support their words. I’m fed up with this. Throwing money at it isn’t the answer, actions are and there have been precious few of those. This bad bill will only be a magnet for more to cross the border. I am opposed to this bill from top to bottom, and there is no way they can spin it to change my mind.”
We have become as Rome with the Senate intrested in power of votes on the Dem side and the cheap labor on the Rep side. The American people lose slowly but surely and then enemies from the outside finish the job. It took Rome about 200 years of this kind of selfishness and greed at others expense to fully catch up with them. In the information age of economic warfare, ICBM’s, nuclear barbarians this will take 20 years. Since I seemed to have noticed an acceleration of self-serving politicians in the early nineties, I would speculate our country will never be the same again within the next decade. Sure we will probably still have MacDonald’s and Paris Hilton’s at some level, but we will be working for the Chinese.