Posted on 07/01/2007 2:15:53 PM PDT by captjanaway
Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff is blasting the U.S. Senate for failing to pass an immigration bill, and claims the federal government doesn't have the ability to enforce laws when it comes to illegals working in America.
"We're going to continue to enforce the law. It's going to be tough," Michael Chertoff said. "We don't really have the ability to enforce the law with respect to illegal work in this country in a way that's truly effective."
(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...
I agree with your initial post (about deporting Hispanics in the middle of the night,) but I honestly don’t see any more than 10% to 20% of current immigrants voting for conservatives any time soon. They mostly come from Socialist or wanna-be Socialist cultures.
The only person more incompetent than Chertoff is Jimmy Carter.
The USA should have issued new types of cards/visas years ago....before we had the "all government communications in Spanish"......decreed by BUBBA!!!
Don’t need to arrest Hispanics in the middle of the night, DC. Most of the work could be done quite easily and inexpensively by prosecuting the large employers of illegals, and applying the large fines in existing laws.
If there are fewer employers, there would be fewer illegals.
Senators Up For Reelection In 2008 who supported S.1348, and then S.1639
Toll Free Congressional switchboard: 1-800-862-5530
Delaware Joe Biden (D) (202) 224-5042 Biden (D-DE)
Illinois Richard J. Durbin (D) (202) 224-2152 Durbin (D-IL)
Massachusetts John Kerry (D) (202) 224-2742 Kerry (D-MA)
Michigan Carl Levin (D) (202) 224-6221 Levin (D-MI)
Nebraska Chuck Hagel (R) (202) 224-4224 Hagel (R-NE)
New Jersey Frank R. Lautenberg (D) (202) 224-3224 Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Rhode Island Jack Reed (D) (202) 224-4642 Reed (D-RI)
South Carolina Lindsey Graham (R) (202) 224-5972Graham (R-SC)
FIRE HIM! NOW!
I’m against a national ID card on principle. Your papers please? There’s no need if we applied common sense.
It really isn’t hard to figure out who the illegals are, but in the age of PC we’ve hampered ourselves.
Carter only had one term...
We might want to start by building a really high frakkin wall all the way across the Mexican border.
That would be a good beginning.
Oh wait, is that common sense? My bad..
Not jackasses like Chertoff.
I help run a Jaycees Haunted House every Oct. I’d give him a job working in it, and he wouldn’t even need makeup.
If that would get him out of government.
The President fires men like General Pace. Not jerkoffs like Chertoff.
I am sick and tired of hearing this “12 million we can’t do anything” crap.
How many millions of American taxpayers cower every April?
What was the plurality for President Bush in 2004?
Indeed he is. He told Wallace on Fox today that the gov has ended 'catch and release' which is false. They have allegedly ended catch and release for non-Mexicans according to the same Chertoff in an interview last week.
Nasty angry guy who told Wallace, screw the country, if they don't like our plan let them come up with one of their own. Chertoff said the government will refuse to enforce existing law until Congress comes up with a different plan, even though, as he said, "national security" is at risk. This rat-bastard needs to be prosecuted for criminal malfeasance.
Nice job!
chicagotribune.com
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-kassjun29,1,3112582.column?coll=chi-news-col
Trust died before immigration bill did
John Kass
June 29, 2007
Will Sen. Trent Lott (R-Loafer Mouth) hold a news conference to blame talk radio for the defeat of the Immigration Bill?
He just might shove another shoe past his uvula, which for those of you who don’t know, is that little muscle in your throat that looks like a punching bag. The senator from Mississippi surely must have uvula muscle memory now.
Some call it the Immigration Reform Bill, and others call it Amnesty for Illegal Immigrants, but either way, after Thursday’s defeat in the Senate, it’s on the shoulder of the road, face down in the gravel.
President Bush is disappointed, as were Republican politicians serving big business appetites for cheap labor. But the Democratic-controlled Senate had 15 Democrats and one sorta Democrat, the independent Bernie Sanders of Vermont, voting against it, including that paragon of diversity, West Virginia Sen. Robert Byrd (D-Whitesheets). Manufacturing labor unions also opposed it.
But all I hear about are nativist Republicans and talk radio.
Yes, the talkers talked, and got people involved who are concerned about their nation’s sovereignty. Listeners pressured their elected representatives and the bill was killed. Republican and Democratic political operatives courting the growing and influential Latino vote don’t like it. But the founding fathers had this thing for free political speech. How radical.
As the son of immigrants, I would have liked a bill that would help the millions of illegal immigrants here. Many want to become Americans. Most of us don’t want those families shipped back. As a first generation American, growing up while being called a foreigner in my own country, I hoped some immigration bill would pass.
But not this one.
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"But they were going to enforce new laws???"
Exactly!! They can't enforce existing laws but gee "lets pass a whole slew of new ones that we have no will or intention of enforcing. The stupidity is breathtaking.. and frightening....
Will someone please explain to me the problem with a tamper-proof national ID card? My wallet is full of similar cards...driver's license...FAA pilot's license...FAA mechanics license...etc. etc...all are considered "papers" and have to be shown when asked...I don't see the difference...?? But I constantly hear how so many are against it..when it seems logical from the standpoint of illegal immigration...?? Thank you...Alan Q
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