From post: "Private business reaps the benefit of "cheap labor" and everyone else pays the overhead. Everyone understands this and their voices are being heard in Congressional offices. There are articles now being written anticipating intra-party strife over the issue, I say bring it on. I could be wrong, but I personally believe if the Republicans [and they will have democrat allies on this one] force the issue on the president, he won't veto. Whether or not Bush genuinely believes in his "jobs Americans won't do" mantra, or is in thrall to the agribusiness, construction, landscaping interests, etc. or if El Presidente Fox has thirty-year-old pictures of him participating in the Tijuana donkey act, he would probably be grateful to yield to pressure and drop the matter entirely if backed to the wall."
"The oft-repeated rhetorical question of how do we expel 8, 10, 15 million illegals is a total red herring. If we enforce the law at crucial choke points: employers, schools, emergency rooms, DMV's, welfare offices, etc. the illegals will gradually deport themselves and wages will gradually find a new equilibrium. Of course, we all know damn well it is NOT impossible to efficiently control the border. A combination of physical barriers, sensors on the ground and in the sky, and aggressive patrolling where needed [God knows the locals in the border country know quite well where most of the influx is, it's a matter of listening to them and acting on their intelligence, duh]."
"An especilly good place to begin would be to focus on cracking down on criminal aliens. Establish programs to empower and train local law-enforcement to enable them to check for residency and arrest illegals. Withhold Federal dollars from cities with "sanctuary laws." Imagine the effect of being able to check for residency status of anyone so much as breaching the peace, let alone robbing, raping and murdering. I don't believe it would be a hard sell with the hispanic community [again, after all, who suffers the most from the "vida loca" types?], as opposed to the usual grant-funded hispanic "spokespersons"? "
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Good thoughts on the illegals issue - someone should send them to all the people in Congress working to block the illegals.
People need to keep giving opinions - if enough are heard from(between 60-70% of people are against the illegals) - President Bush wouldn't veto the bill - He would cause harm to his party if he did - and Republicans wouldn't be happy about that -
President Bush may be planning on heading home in 4 years - but plenty of Republicans want to remain in politics - He can't ignore that fact just to satify his love for illegals or big business, whatever the case -
President Bush needs to get out more - he does great on so many other important issue facing the nation but he's sadly lacking on the illegals issue - listening to all the wrong voices. Illegal immigration is doing harm to this nation and he doesn't seem to be able to see how much -
And like here at home - where borders 'can' be controlled - the same goes for Iraq. What is it about borders that the Bush admin. doesn't get? Does it have to do with the new world order - who is calling the shots? Is President Bush being shielded that much that he really doesn't know the harm being done all across America by these illegals?
Perhaps people should send e-mails to the White House - in mass - should get someone's attention -
Bump.