[Real Cynic No More]

"Justice feared that it would kindle resentment at the administration from Hispanics and other ethnic groups with large immigrant populations. The INS reported that its backlog of pending deportations had topped 100,000 and warned that it could not handle the additional deportation cases the proposal would generate."

Read: "It would affect his political support and ability to raise funds from those ethnic groups, traditional democratic support groups."

[JCG]

The proposal called for a federal law which would require that drivers' licenses expire when visas do for foreign citizens and that no permits be issued to illegal aliens. Traffic cops would be able to check to see if those they pulled over on the highway were in the country illegally. If they were, they would be arrested and sent to the INS for deportation.

What?  And lose all those DemocRAT votes?  Besides, Don Tyson might get into a huff over losing his workforce and quit sending money.

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[leadpenny]

The style of your headline says it all.

(clinton's)

Even the name is becoming a footnote to the history of this great country.

[FITZ]

I wonder how much money he got from Tyson's to make sure the laws were not enforced.

[thucydides]

Waiving of sanctions afforded an excellent means of raising political contributions, presidential "library" contributions, etc. It is comical how the media always wrote up Clinton as a great fund raiser - the fact is that he put the government up for sale in a way that had no precedent. He has now retired with untold millions as a result of his own and his party's corruption. I used to think of democrats as people with some differences in belief about the appropriate functions of government. Now I think of them as fundamentally corrupt and indifferent to wrongdoing.

[doug from upland]

And let's not forget the job Scumbag gave to Algore. Algore pushed through INS a million new potential RAT voters in 1996, many of whom had serious criminal records that were never checked.

[Frank Vera]

There is only one solution to illegal immigration.

Implement asset forfeiture laws. It is illegal for them to be here. It is illegal to hire them. It is illegal to transport them. It is illegal to harbor them.

Seize all the assets and property of the illegal aliens, the businesses that hire them, the vehicles that transport them, and the homes of those who harbor them. Sell the property at government auction, split the proceeds among the federal, state, and local government. Then deport the criminal aliens.

If the bureaucrats realize that, they can make MILLIONS/BILLIONS of dollars, by enforcing the laws. Illegal immigration will end. If these “asset forfeiture” laws are good enough for Americans, they are good enough for criminal aliens.

Those delusional few who have stated that “these poor migrants just want to work”, need to go to any welfare office or county hospital for a reality check.

These “migrants”, criminals, are stealing from our children, parents, and from U.S.

[Deportem]

Ethnic politics clearly linked to 9/11. It's the same with 8 USC Section 1357, the 1996 law which empowered police to arrest illegals. Neither the U.S. Justice Dept nor INS established the training program provided for under this law. However, such training is not required if state laws do not prohibit enforcing federal laws including "aliens not lawfully present in the United States."