"We like the way you think!"
Posted on 01/06/2005 12:57:18 PM PST by LouAvul
WASHINGTON — The year's immigration reform debate started with a bang Wednesday, led by conservative lawmakers emphasizing law enforcement over legalization.
Striking early in the new Congress, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee is introducing a tough package that includes stronger national standards for driver's licenses and stricter rules for granting asylum. It's a measure with highlevel support.
"We need to strengthen our borders, reform our asylum laws, and improve national standards for driver's licenses," House Speaker Dennis Hastert said Tuesday in his inaugural speech of the 109th Congress. "The terrorists who attacked us did so by exploiting gaps in our border security system (and) by abusing our immigration laws. We must fill those gaps."
Upward of 100 lawmakers, including Mariposa Republican George Radanovich, have signed on to the legislation. The package fulfills a promise Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., made last month after his preferred policies were dropped from an intelligence agency reform bill.
"We intend to move quickly on it," House Judiciary Committee spokesman Jeff Lungren said Tuesday. "We're going to finish this bill, and when we get this off the table, we can focus on other issues."
The bill would complete a three-mile gap in a fence along the United States-Mexico border near San Diego. It would allow federal agencies to accept only driver's licenses provided to those who have presented proof of legal U.S. residency. It would make it harder to appeal immigration decisions and easier for immigration judges to reject asylum applicants.
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Agreed.
Thanks for your post. Do you have any reference for anything in print that Jesse Lee Peterson has said about this issue. He is a friend of someone in my family. I know years ago he was concerned about the illegal invasion.
Thanks!
Bingo!
Try his Brotherhood Organization for a New Destiny [www.bondinfo.org]. It might be among his lister articles.
No way the black robed judges will allow this - it is so constitutional that they will probably agree it must be unconstitutional. SCOTUS doesnt even care what the constitution states super lib Ginsberg will probably be first in line to knock it down. We have to get control over the tyranny these judges are imposing on us. If they dont believe in the constitution then we shouldnt either and kick thier ass out of there.
Teddy Roosevelt, Republican President (Speech, New York, 1915)
Hang 'em High!
Stricter immigration rules on tap
Wrong River-
1 Rio Grande
2 Rio Grande
3 Rio Grande
ping
Bttt......Good post.
Bear Stearns, who has recently studied this illegal underground economy, concludes there are at least 20 million illegals in this country. TWENTY MILLION. According to them a population the size of NEW YORK STATE.
This is discussed on Lou Dobbs and will play again later. I'll post the transcript tomorrow if I get time.
As the Bear Stearns rep said, " Our Government lags reality"
I think you're confusing the Senate bill with the new House bill.
I find that mind bending.
Thats like having the equivalent of twenty major cities in our country of nothing but illegal aliens. It's really beyond belief.
Never happen. Too much common sense. Pols shy away from common sense like the plague.
So do politicians.
Look for Bush's first veto.
And of course you two have no proof to back up your statements.
"We like the way you think!"
And, of course, you have no proof that we're not.
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