Posted on 03/24/2002 5:56:20 AM PST by AmericanInTokyo
2002/2/16-17:44:6
The Bush administration is pushing Congress to make good on the president's promise to grant amnesty to millions of Mexican workers living and working illegally in the United States. Bush is preparing once more to take up the matter with Mexican President Vicente Fox in Monterrey, Mexico, on March 22.
James W. Ziglar, commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, for weeks has been insisting the issue is alive. 'Some believe that our migration talks with Mexico have been forgotten in the wake of September 11. I assure you that is not the case,' he told a gathering of pro-immigration organization leaders at the National Immigration Forum Conference earlier this month.
Mr. Ziglar outlined the administration's goals earlier this month at the immigration forum conference, where he said that ranking State Department and INS officials have been meeting with 'high level Mexican officials' on amnesty and related immigration issues. The 'amnesty' is more of a point based guest worker program that would provide legal status, with points being awarded for certain qualities in the applicant. Enough points would qualify a person for a visa.
Those who would be most eligible for the program would be illegal workers who have been in the country for a long time, are employed, have family connections here, have passed background checks and have no criminal record. One question is whether the visas should be temporary or permanent. President Bush wants them to be permanent, in the form of Green Cards.
Others want to see something more like the H-2 temporary work visa, renewable indefinitely. As a compormise, others suggest that Mexican workers be given renewable, temporary work permits. After six to 10 years, the workers could be made eligible for permanent residency. The administration argues that the nation needs foreign workers to farm and garden and to do the menial hotel, restaurant and hospital jobs that many American workers disdain. They say their cheap labor benefits U.S. consumers by keeping down the cost of food and services. Of course, it is also important to recognize and treat fairly the Mexican nationals who have taken up residence in our country.
And how long will it be 'cheap labor' if the left has anything to say about it, and mark my words they will? The 'cheap labor' will be just another cudgel in the hands of the left to create more agitation in this country.
The only "special relationship" that exists between the U.S. and that third-world dump to the south is similar to the relationship a fat malignant tumor has with whatever it's attached to.
Heck no, I am talking about the "old-time" immigrants that came here 20 or more years ago. I don't know the stats but I would be surprised if more than 10% were here legally. I don't count the "got-legal-after-amnesty" folks as being here legally.
And I completely agree about the rest of your post. Even in Lancaster County, PA we are being overrun. There are parts of Lancaster city that look as bad as anything you will see in the Third World.
If you do not agree with what Bush is doing on the immigration problem, make a note to yourself!
Tomorrow morning send off an e-mail or phone call to your state and national Republican committee and tell them if Bush does not lose his love affair with Mexico and start putting America and Americans first (not just business interests) that you will leave the Republican Party!
If he gets enough flak from his own party he may start listening to them and dump Karl Rove.
Remember! It's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease!
1) They have 'run the numbers' and looked at past RINO sellouts, and believe that in taking up the mantle of gradual regularization and legitimization of illegal aliens, they will gain access to Hispanic votes in 2004 and be assured of reelection;
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2), they have concluded they would take a short term 'hit' from this from GOP conservatives in forums and on talk shows and at the grassroots and in Congress, but that after time all would settle down and the peristalsyic prospect of "President Hillary" or "President Gore" with no true conservative third party vote would be enough to keep them also in the 2004 column.
So they have taken the risk.
This is Karl Rove and others thinking and Bush carrying it out with full knowledge and forethought. Don't let anyone tell you that this is not happening. The real victim is the Republican who supported Bush and wants to support him again. It is very sad, pathetic and irritating to, as an American who believes in the rule of law and national security, be essentially taken for granted and treated in this rather shoddy way.
Libertarian Party Platform - IMMIGRATION 
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IMMIGRATIONWe hold that human rights should not be denied or abridged on the basis of nationality. We condemn massive roundups of Hispanic Americans and others by the federal government in its hunt for individuals not possessing required government documents. We strongly oppose all measures that punish employers who hire undocumented workers. Such measures repress free enterprise, harass workers, and systematically discourage employers from hiring Hispanics.We welcome all refugees to our country and condemn the efforts of U.S. officials to create a new "Berlin Wall" which would keep them captive. We condemn the U.S. government's policy of barring those refugees from our country and preventing Americans from assisting their passage to help them escape tyranny or improve their economic prospects. Undocumented non-citizens should not be denied the fundamental freedom to labor and to move about unmolested. Furthermore, immigration must not be restricted for reasons of race, religion, political creed, age, or sexual preference. We therefore call for the elimination of all restrictions on immigration, the abolition of the Immigration and Naturalization Service and the Border Patrol, and a declaration of full amnesty for all people who have entered the country illegally. We oppose government welfare and resettlement payments to non-citizens just as we oppose government welfare payments to all other persons.
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"Our" government treats us like shit. When we are innocently caught up in IRS snafus - like my elderly native-born American mother was - it threatens us with criminal prosecution for "back taxes" it later admitted she never owed.
No wonder Jorge Bush is almost as widely disrespected among social conservatives as among liberals.
IMMIGRATION resource library: public-health facts, court decisions, local INS numbers!
Congress is hearing from the public, and our president is urging Congress to hurry and pass 245i though the public is outraged.
What is the real reason for passage of 245i when the public is clearly against it? Why would our elected officials run against the will of the people on an issue like this?
With the passage of 245i, and if Bush gets all that he wants, he promises the free flow of goods and serivces, and people. Do we really want the free flow of people over our borders?
Yes, I can see that. Good point.
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