GOP split over plans for reform on aliens

The Washington Times ^ | September 11, 2001 | Nicholas M. Horrock, UPI

[angkor]

"The INS is being asked to carry out crazy policies."

Shortly after President Bush said he would issue plans to improve the handling of illegal aliens in September, the two ranking Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee said they would oppose immigration-reform legislation until the administration proposes plans to reform the Immigration and Naturalization Service.

[angkor]

My emphases added.

Finally, someone is beginning to pinpoint the fundamental and intractable insanity of amnesty, a.k.a., "regularization."

And hopefully they'll start nailing Sen. Arlen Specter and his preposterous delusion that "Any alien who enters or attempts to enter the United States at any time or place other than as designated by immigration officers" and can be "fined under title 18 or imprisoned not more than 6 months, or both" (see USC Title 8, Section 1325) is not a criminal in the fullest sense of the term.

[goldstategop]

The problem with the INS is it wears two hats: its responsible for processing the naturalization applications of legal immigrants and its charged with overseeing the enforcement of our immigration laws. As it is the agency has a fundamental built-in conflict of interest and is overburdened and the two functions should be separated. And its high time protecting our borders and removing and deporting currently residing illegal aliens in the United States received as much priority as granting citizenship to those who are eligible for the privilege of U.S citizenship. Such reform would bring sanity and order to our chaotic and lax immigration policies and really the INS should be put out of business before we attend to the big picture of who gets to stay in America and who shouldn't be allowed to remain here.

[glc1173@aol.com]

"Most critics of immigration laws, either from the perspective they are too harsh or too liberal, agree that illegal immigration is fostered by two factors: employment opportunities and the desire to join family members already in the United States." (Washington Times)

With literally at least one company downsizing 1,000+ Americans daily - and those are just the ones making the "mainstream" dailies - we sure don't have any "labor shortage."

For the sake of America's downsized, send all aliens home. The fastest way to create a job for a downsized native-born programmer is to deport one H-1(b) back to India.

Amnesty? Does "your" government give you amnesty if you don't file your taxes by the deadline?

IMMIGRATION resource library - with coast-to-coast list of local INS phone numbers

[The Bolt]

There are plenty of illegals, apparently everywhere. Not taking jobs others won't take. Give them all SSN's and register them all for Selective Service at the point of entry, enroll them in immersion English courses for six months, and don't forget to take their coke away. Added employer payments to the Fed would almost be unbelievable.