Posted on 11/19/2010 2:29:13 AM PST by WilliamHouston
With the incoming Congress looking for accomplishments, here's one the Republican majority should take up immediately: immigration reform. Contrary to conventional wisdom, Republicans are its natural champions. The GOP led the way in 1986 and 1996, when partial immigration reforms were enacted. And a Republican Senate, with the support of President George W. Bush, passed comprehensive reform in 2006, only to see it die in the House. . . .
The best approach is a gradual and targeted legalization program that serves our economic needs. For skilled workers, employers should be in the driver's seat to identify who is most needed for economic growth. For low-skill jobs that few or no Americans are willing to perform, Congress should enact a robust temporary guest-worker program—and U.S. employers must accept mandatory electronic verification for foreign workers based on tamper-proof identification.
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And they want us to start carrying national I.D’s and THEN they will get control of the border.
What happened to that fence we got in 2006 they were supposed to build?
The Wall Street Urinal once again pushing Anti-American Illegal Alien Amnesty.
With ten percent unemployment in the USA...we need ZERO Illegal Aliens....or any immigrants.
The GOP can forget my votes, forever, if they push any form of Illegal Alien Amnesty
Secure the Borders, Deport all the Illegal Aliens...anything else is Amnesty...and Treason
In Arizona’s 7th District, Ruth McClung, a rocket scientist, was defeated by the incumbent Raul Grijalva (leader of the House Progressive Caucus), who advocated an economic boycott of his own state in an area which has one of the highest unemployment rates in America.
Clearly, the Republican Party needs to pass a huge amnesty right now for we can legalize even more Democrats, demoralize our own supporters, and for states like Texas and Nevada can follow California into bankruptcy and make James Carville’s presidential map look more favorable.
“Houston”, we have a problem! You’re pushing the wrong things.
I would like to see the GOP put together a “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” (talk about a great marketing term, why not use it?) package that includes:
* Completing the fence/wall
* Ending all Federally funded benefits to illegal aliens
* Curtailing appeals of deportation
* Welcoming and endorsing state laws like the AZ laws
* Making English the official language of the US
* etc etc
0ops my apologies to William Houston, I thought he was the WSJ author; doh, my bad :-(
Yep, the short-sighted, pro-illegal immigration branch of the business lobby (of which the WSJ is a charter member) would be the death of conservatism in the US, should they get their way yet again.
“Yep, the short-sighted, pro-illegal immigration branch of the business lobby “
yes and the Reason.com libertarians
yeah the WSJ sees the business opportunity but they don’t realize the welfare politics.
Didn’t ramming through unpopular legislation through against the will of the American people just cost the dims control of Congress.
GOP voting themselves out of office
True we are a nation of law, but we are over encumbered with too many laws that almost all conflict with some of itself.
The GOP needs to hire some dedicated law students and have every law since Washington compared/contrasted and itemize the redundancy and the contradictory.
THEN the GOP needs to propose the erasure of those laws.
THERE is an effective war cry against the commies ...
Yes, great points. Not only would Amnesty be a national suicide....it would be the death of the GOP.
The Weird Street Urinal might as well just go out and support Welfare For Everyone, ObamaCare on Steroids, and build Joseph Stalin statues everywhere, while they are at it
NO PATH-TO-CITIZENSHIP AMNESTY!
NO PATH-TO-CITIZENSHIP AMNESTY CANDIDATES!
How many freepers who SAY they oppose amnesty will vote FOR a ‘path-to-citizenship amnesty’ candidate? Quite a few I’d guess.
That’s right, the head-in-the-sand libertarians, too.
“That’s right, the head-in-the-sand libertarians, too.”
They are very different from the Ron Paul crowd.
More the classical capital-L, Gary Johnson types.
Let’s bring in journalists from England to produce the WSJ. It certainly would be an improvement.
The Ruling Class needs illegals to do the work they don’t want to do at a cheap price. The struggling Middle Class taxpayers are left to subsidize their cheap labor with higher costs for the education, medication and incarceration of illegals. The highest price of all is paid by those who are raped or killed by illegals all over the country, but that’s just collateral damage in the quest for cheap workers that the WSJ always advocates.
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