Posted on 12/24/2003 10:32:04 AM PST by Klickitat
Bush to Propose Broad Amnesty Tell Congress to Say No! We regret having to interrupt your holiday season with bad news on the immigration reform front, but the Washington Post reports this morning that President Bush and Karl Rove-in order to appeal to Hispanic voters-are poised to announce a sweeping amnesty plan during the second week of January. If you like amnesty, mass legal immigration, and the continued unprecedented decline in the American economic standard of living, you'll love President Bush's proposal.
While the details of the plan remain unclear, President Bush is expected to propose an outline modeled after legislation currently pending in the House and Senate, H.R.2899 and S.1461. Senator John McCain (R-AZ) and Representatives James Kolbe (R-AZ) and Jeff Flake (R-AZ) introduced these bills. This upcoming plan will undoubtedly reflect what President Bush meant when he announced last week at a press conference that he wants to match "any willing worker with any willing employer."
Why Your Help is Needed Now
President Bush and Karl Rove are convinced that this plan will appeal to Hispanic voters without offending his Republican base. In order for Bush to make his immigration proposal a reality, however, he will need to convince the leadership of the House of Representatives to press his plans on their Republican House colleagues who know better.
Here's How You Can Help:
First, send a free faxed message from our web site to President Bush, House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL) and House Majority Leader Tom DeLay.
Follow up your faxes with phone calls. Call the White House comment line at 202-456-1111 and leave a brief message telling the president no to his amnesty plan. Call the Speaker's office at 202-225-0600 and the Leader's office at 202-225-4000 and leave a brief message. Tell Speaker Hastert and Leader DeLay that Republicans should not abandon their law and order principles by advancing the open borders policies preferred by Democrats.
Your faxes and phone calls will be needed continuously over the course of at least the next three weeks. Please ask your friends, family, and coworkers to follow your lead in making their voices heard as well.
Talking Points:
Giving illegal aliens legal status does nothing to improve our national security. In fact it would take years and years to do background checks on the estimated 9-11 million illegal aliens who could be eligible for amnesty. An illegal alien who was amnestied in 1986, after all, later masterminded the first attack on the World Trade Center in 1993.
Any guestworker program leading to legal status for illegal aliens is an amnesty and threatens homeland security by encouraging more illegal immigration. Every time an elected official talks about the possibility of granting amnesty to illegal aliens, it says to would-be illegal aliens that they had better get into the United States while the getting is good.
This program would reward people who have cheated the system with permanent residence. This country is based on the rule of law-it should not be manipulated by people who have cheated their way to the front of the line.
The current recovery from economic recession is unique in post World War II recoveries in that it comes without any benefit for American workers-just more offshore job outsourcing, low paying jobs, and an accompanying decline in the nation's standard of living. This new guestworker program may match any willing employer with any willing worker, but for American workers this means being displaced by cheap foreign labor and declining wages and working conditions for those fortunate enough to find or keep a job.
And *I will help vote in the terrorist butt-kissers like Howard Dean precisely because I am so concerned about issues of national security*.
Pathetic.
No, he'll just stop talking about it, and wait until after he's reelected to grant Amnesty.
A kind compliment indeed. Thank you.
And this is Bush's fault? You wake up.
I've been to California and lived in South FLA where illegal immigration is a big problem as well.
So Bush the "unilateralist" who's supposedly caused the entire world to hate us....is somehow the cause of this problem because you claim he is "busy bowing to foreigners" makes no sense.
But I agree with his work-amnesty proposal for those already here who are tax-paying contributing members of society. It's balanced and reasonable.
But I do think we need to get more control of our borders due to the terrorist threat.
The reason California is in such a mess is because the 'rats have complete control of CA. Why do the 'rats have control of CA? Prop 187.
In 1994 Wilson got re-elected on the issue of Prop 187, but when the economy began to improve anti-immigration sentiment began to subside and a along came a backlash against the EVIL Republicans who wanted to deprive children of an education and sick people of medicine with prop 187. In 1996 while Republicans gained 88 lower house seats and 62 upper house seats in state legislatures nationwide, California Republicans LOST 4 seats and control in the Assembly, and 2 seats in the Senate. In 1998 Republicans again gained state legislative seats but CA Republicans lost 5 seats in the Assembly and 2 seats in the Senate. Of course by 1998 the economy was booming and Prop 187 was killed by the courts, and when voters were given the choice between pro-187 Dan Lungren and Gray Davis who vehemently opposed 187, the people of CA voted for Davis. Latino voter turn out has more than doubled in CA since 187 passed and it has all gone to the 'rats. Today the Republican party in California is a joke. The only bright Republican star in CA is a pro-gay pro-abortion pro-gun control sexual mollesting Governor. Illegal immigration is a loser issue. It has killed the Republican party in CA.
An anti-immigration stance has always been a loser issue except for congressional seats in far right districts. I can't cite one Presidential election where an anti-immigration position was the winning factor. Except for Pete Wilson in California in 1994, I can't cite an example of a statewide race where an anti-immigration stance helped win the election. You act as though it will be THE major issue of 2004. Dubya's Amnesty proposal will earn him twice as many votes from centrists as he loses from the far right fringe. Dean is enough to motivate the base to vote for Bush. Those who will stay home in 2004 when faced with a choice between Dubya and Dean didn't vote for Dubya in 2000.
Ease up on the snide remarks, there, Jorge.
Ok. That's great advice coming from someone who just suggested my position on this issue leads "to the sewer".
I should be so nice.
In any case I don't agree with your letter to President Bush threatening to withdraw support for him in 2004 if he doesn't change his position to agree with you on this particular issue.
I think that's worse than "snide". That could give us Howard Dean.
Ive spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I dont know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But in my mind it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, windswept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace; a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity. And if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and heart to get there. Thats how I saw it, and see it still.
Reagan's Farewell Address to the Nation, January 11, 1989
I'm not so sure about this. Unless illegals are being paid cash, they are paying into Social Security now. Probably 99% of illegals are using false identification to work. They are ON the payroll, so the 7.65% for SS and Medicare is withheld from every paycheck (and the employer has to kick in and match the 7.65%).
They're probably not paying much in income taxes.
Figures you live in Wisconsin. All you "experts" living thousands of miles from California know so much more than those of us who live here. I've only been in California since 1966, so I couldn't possibly match your knowledge of this State.
What I do remember is Pete Wilson saving his own faltering campaign by climbing onto Prop 187 in the last weeks before the election. Prop 187 passed with over 60% of the vote. My prediction, hampered as it is by actually living in California, is that the New 187 will get an even larger percentage of the vote.
Of course by 1998 the economy was booming and Prop 187 was killed by the courts, and when voters were given the choice between pro-187 Dan Lungren and Gray Davis who vehemently opposed 187, the people of CA voted for Davis.
Of course by 1998 the economy was booming and Prop 187 was killed by the courts, and when voters were given the choice between pro-187 Dan Lungrenand Gray Davis who vehemently opposed 187, the people of CA voted for Davis
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The reason California is in such a mess is because the 'rats have complete control of CA. Why do the 'rats have control of CA? Prop 187. In 1994 Wilson got re-elected on the issue of Prop 187, but when the economy began to improve anti-immigration sentiment began to subside and a along came a backlash against the EVIL Republicans who wanted to deprive children of an education and sick people of medicine with prop 187.
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Don't take my word for it. Try this on for size.
"In 1997, supporters of Proposition 187, Pete Wilson and Dan Lungren, held the position of governor and attorney general. Two years later, outspoken opponents of Proposition 187, Gray Davis and Bill Lockyer, replaced them."
Who wrote that? Not the LA times. Not Dan Rather...nope it was California Republican Assemblyman Ray Haynes.
Davis Pulls a Fast One on Lawsuit Over Proposition 187
What I find breathtaking is someone who passes out insults about the state I live in or phrases like revisionism, yet utterly fails to refute anything I wrote with facts. Perhaps some people think I should accept unsubstantiated opinion as facts because they live in CA. I do not.
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