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Posted on 07/07/2009 10:00:22 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
A bipartisan task force will recommend today that the United States overhaul its immigration system in response to national security concerns, saying that the country should end strict quotas on work-based immigrant visas to maintain its scientific, technological and military edge.
"The continued failure to devise and implement a sound and sustainable immigration policy threatens to weaken America's economy, to jeopardize its diplomacy, and to imperil its national security," concluded an independent Council on Foreign Relations panel, co-chaired by former Florida governor Jeb Bush (R) and former Clinton White House chief of staff Thomas V. "Mack" McLarty III.
The report comes as President Obama and Congressional Democrats say they expect to begin debate on a comprehensive immigration plan within a year. But key Republicans -- including Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), the 2008 Republican presidential nominee and co-sponsor of previous overhaul legislation -- have said a plan must include expanding temporary-worker programs.
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Edward Alden, the task force's director and a CFR fellow, said the involvement of Bush, a prominent national Republican and the brother of former president George W. Bush, and McLarty, a Democrat and senior international fellow at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, was intended to create political space for centrists in both parties.
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Also serving on the 19-member panel were Eliseo Medina, international executive vice president of the Service Employees International Union; Raul H. Yzaguirre past president and chief executive officer of the National Council of La Raza; Robert C. Bonner, former head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the Drug Enforcement Administration; and Richard D. Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention's ethics and religious liberty commission.
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‘CFR fellow’
Again with these NWO goons. I wonder if the slaves will revolt again, like the last push for Immigration Reform?
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I have never seen anything good come out of CFR.
“an independent CFR panel” LOL! These criminal frauds.
Prediction - we will be begging for Jeb to run in 2012. Seems like the Bushes set us up for a horrible Dem and we have to go back to them cause they can raise the money to win. Sucks. GW could have been a great President.
Well, we’ve had open-ended immigration and the economy sure in hell seems to be in pretty bad shape to me.
SEIU and La Raza?
SEIU=Illegal Aliens Union and is the sisteer organization to ACORN.
Yup.
The treason party convenes again.
National security? I have a novel idea close the damn borders! Get rid of all people who don't belong here. Get rid of LaRaza and everyone of the GD race organizations and last but not least please save us from the Republicans.
I see the political elitists of both parties are telling us what’s best for us again.
We’ll be nothing but serfs competing with imported labor for the fewer and fewer jobs available that haven’t been sent abroad.
I’m really getting tired of this political elitist scum that are completely disconnected from reality. It’s time they served the CITIZENS of this country.
Worthless dipsh*ts
They need to do what the Italian Parliament did. Allow citizen patrols on the border instead of labeling them as vigilantes, fine and immediately deport illegals without trial, and heavily fine business owners who hire illegal immigrants. Anything less is unacceptable.
its all about getting the American taxpayers to pay more and get less in return....
how I wish I was independently wealthy......
What percent of Republican primary voters do you suppose are hard-core Bushites? Would it be as little as one-third?
Hasn’t Obama’s bitch, McCain, done enough already?
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