Posted on 06/24/2007 3:28:45 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Sessions says support for immigration bill is eroding By Klaus Marre June 24, 2007 Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), a key opponent to the bipartisan immigration bill that will be taken up again next week, said Sunday that support for the legislation “continues to erode.”
Sessions noted that some of the senators that had supported the compromise in a series of votes when the bill was first discussed are now beginning to shift their position.
“We’re going to use every effort to slow this process down and continue to hold up the bill and read it to the American people and show them that even though they may favor the ideals of the legislation that the legislation won’t get us there,” Sessions said. “And we’re going to need a national commitment from the president through the Congress, really a mindset change, in which we say, ‘We can make this system lawful.’”
Sessions wants Congress to go back to the drawing board, but he acknowledged that deporting the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants currently in the country is not an option.
“We’re going to have to accept the fact…that everybody that’s been in our country for some time, that have roots here, that have family here, that have worked here faithfully for a long time, they can’t be asked to leave,” the senator said on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos. “But we do not need to create a system in which people who come to our country gain every single benefit that we give to lawful entrants into our country.
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Sure they can.
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I just caught a little bit of Fox with DiFi and Trent Lott. It’s all conservative talk radio’s fault that the immigration bill is failing, and it’s because of talk radio that Republicans won’t sign on. BWAHAHAHA! Chris Wallace said to DiFi that if liberals want a talk radio station, they should start one but they don’t seem to have any luck at it, and that idiot DiFi said that they’re trying, but competition from conservative talk radio is too great. Talk about coming out of the closet!! Liberals just HATE the free market because no one wants their cr*ppy product. DiFi acts all holier-than-thou, but she’s just another shill. And probably a crook, besides.
I would be inclined to disagree - I think they can be induced to self-deport (heck, let's have the Fedgov buy them a Greyhound ticket to Fort Hancock, Texas and a couple of Big Macs) - but I digress. Reasonable people can disagree about what to do with those already here. But the only reasonable first step is to first secure the borders - because any solution as to what to do with those already here - from amnesty to forced deportation - will fail without such.
Go back to private life, if we have anything to say about it.
“....they can’t be asked to leave...” Well, how about just enforcing every law on the books to the letter, BUILDING THE DAMN FENCE, actually putting in place the system that allows them to trace when visa-holders enter and leave, requiring local law enforement everywhere to cooperate when they arrest an alien, crack down hard on employers of illegals, make the IRS give up the names of people who are using stolen Social Security numbers to work in this country, cut off the WIC and food stamps to illegals, in short make it a lot less hospitable and see what happens. I am willing to be it could be reduced by more than half.
My senator (Sessions - Shelby) will hear from me on this subject. That's like saying, "The murder was ten years ago, we can't prosecute the murderer now."
I had thought better of Sessions.
I watched a little of that but certain people just grate on my sensibilities and I had to turn the channel.
I spent 8 yrs of the clinton era changing channels.
Provably false:
How Eisenhower solved illegal border crossings from Mexico
I Like Ike.
The Fiscal Cost of Low-Skill Immigrants to the U.S. Taxpayer
Take the Pledge: "I pledge to never, ever vote for anyone, for any office, who votes in favor of the Mexican Invasion Surrender Bill."
Model letter to your Senator:
To: Your Senator
From: A concerned citizen and constituent
Subject: Urge that you oppose S.1639--vote no on cloture
I urge that you vote no on S.1639 (Immigration Reform,) and vote no on cloture.
Reasons:
1) Granting any form of legal residency to those who illegally crossed our borders is drastically unfair to all those in the wider world who cannot so easily get the same deal for themselves, because they happen to be geographically disadvantaged relative to most of the illegal immigrants who come here. What about those from Asia, Africa and Europe? Should not legal residency in the US be fairly rationed among all the world's peoples?
2) To reward illegal immigrants with the very thing they were trying to achieve when they broke the law is unconscionable: It encourages law breaking in general, and yet more illegal immigration in particular. Criminals must never be granted that which they were seeking when they broke the law--in this case, any form of legal residency in the United States.
3) S. 1639 would have the effect of creating a peasant class of cheap laborers. Although not as bad as our failed experiment with slavery that ultimately ended in a civil war, the moral argument against it is analogous.
4) "Guest worker" programs of the form proposed by S. 1639 are nothing more than an attempt by business to avoid having to pay a living wage to legal US residents.
5) Eisenhower solved the problem much more simply, and for far less money. His solution also exposed the extent to which the problem is corruption in our government, and among our businesspeople. [Reference: http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0706/p09s01-coop.html]
6) Illegal immigrants are a net financial drain on our economy. The benefits of cheap labor (and cheap food prices) are more than offset by the increased costs for social services and infrastructure. [Reference: http://www.heritage.org/Research/Immigration/sr14.cfm]
7) Current law is not the problem. The problem is lack of enforcement. If the current law cannot be enforced, why would things be any different under S. 1639?
Boortz is correct when he says that liberals fail at TWO-WAY talk radio because their arguments simply cannot withstand the application of LOGIC from callers.
"Why do you think we shouldn't deport 12 million people who broke into our country? That's ridiculous!! What is wrong with you folks in Washington, DC these days? Jeff, you've been there long enough now that you should take some responsibility for not enforcing the border laws that would have kept these people out to begin with. Step forward and introduce an Illegal Immigrant Deportation Bill...spend some of my money that way for a change. I've seen estimates that it would cost $90 billion to remove them and $2.6 trillion for them to remain. The answer is simple to me. BTW, secure the border is a first step. Regards, **** ****"
Even the so-called good guys have to have it both ways. Let’s not amnesty them but we can’t deport them.
Pick a side Senator Sessions. All or none.
Those who have been here illegally a long time should be placed at the front of the line to be deported.
Deporting is an option, Sessions.
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