There isn't going to be any background checks. The same government burueacrats who rubberstamped laughably bogus 9-11 hijacker visa applications will be rubberstamping the millions(?) of Guest Worker applications.
Posted on 11/29/2005 5:25:04 AM PST by conservativecorner
Yesterday, George W. Bush strode to a podium in Tucson, Arizona (I love Tucson!) and against a backdrop of law enforcement officers, announced his latest plan to crack down on illegal aliens. There was nothing in his speech we haven't heard before, and his new immigration policy is just as contradictory as the old one. Among the initiatives announced:
We should build more jail cells to hold illegal aliens. Good idea. The speeding up of deportations, a crackdown on fraudulent identity papers, and a hardening of the border with more surveillance. So far, so good. Then the nonsense started to flow. The president urged Congress to pass his guest-worker amnesty program and repeated the nonsense that the illegal aliens are here "to fill jobs that Americans will not do."
Same old, same old. It is impossible to stand there and say you're going to crack down on illegal immigration while at the same time say that you are going to reward people who broke our immigration laws. The president says it's not amnesty. Ok, now we've finally caught the president in a lie. OF COURSE it's amnesty! When you tell someone who has broken the law that you are not only going to ignore their illegal conduct, but you are actually going to reward them for it, then you have more than plain old garden variety amnesty, you have amnesty with perks!
As for the oft-repeated line that the illegal aliens fill jobs Americans won't, that's also a load. Companies may not be able to fill those jobs with Americans at the same low wages they pay Mexicans, but there are plenty of people in this country that would do the work at the right price. OK .. so the price of headless chickens, landscaping and construction might go up, but at least the people receiving those paychecks would be law-abiding residents of this country, most of whom would be citizens. There is something wrong with the idea of celebrating lower home prices when those lower prices are brought with disrespect for the laws of our country. It gets worse than that. We are threatening our very security by singing the praises of illegal aliens in our workforce. Just two weeks ago we were interviewing a Texas congressman who was telling us that U.S. intelligence agencies have knowledge that Al Qaeda terrorists have moved to Mexico, adopted Hispanic identities, learned the Spanish language, and then moved right into the United States across our porous borders.
George Bush failed to address the problem appropriately yesterday, but this isn't strictly a George Bush issue. There is absolutely no willingness on the part of either political party to crack down on illegal immigration. There are simply too many votes to be had in the Hispanic community. So as a result, our security as a nation is threatened and our cities and states are overrun with illegal aliens.
I'm sure representatives of Al-Qaeda are preparing to apply for their guest-worker permits as we speak.
So, we pander to the rest of the world and the leftist media? Let's just run up that white Murtha flag on this issue.
The idea that the removal of the lawbreakers would 'devastate our economy' is a big lie.
They are depressing wages, driving up taxes, straining our housing stocks to the limit and driving up real estate prices, bankrupting our hospitals, draining our welfare funds, etc., etc., etc.
Your claim is akin to claiming that the removal of cancerous cells would kill all the healthy cells... a prescription for a slow painful death....
Profits is good and helps the economy by helping people's 401Ks. I remember a few years back when stock prices tumbled. There were some angry seniors out there - angry as wet hens, one might say. Politicians who mess in those waters are soon unemployed.
Now with respect to the construction industry, many of those bums also work under the table while periodically collecting unemployment leaving the tax burdens for the rest of us. There's another "crack down" I'd like to see.
Maybe not of all evil, but a good chunk. Borders, Language, Culture.
No time for a comprehensive list, but how about just one example: Copyright and patent infringement. Just do it in China, and as far as the Administration goes, its nothing to get worked up about....certainly not enough to spoil the corporate off-shoring party!
So infringe on U.S. intellectual property to your heart's content in China, and you will profit handsomely.
China is proving more every day that they believe that Mao was right to call the U.S. a "paper tiger."
forth = fourth
Upon what evidence do you state that removal of all illegal aliens "would devastate our economy"?
Right on.
Interesting. Pres. Bush talked a lot about doing something about lawyers. And what did he do? He appointed Chertoff to Homeland security, a LAWYER. He appointed Julie Myers (unqualified), a LAWYER. And oh, yes, Mike Brown, A LAWYER.
There isn't going to be any background checks. The same government burueacrats who rubberstamped laughably bogus 9-11 hijacker visa applications will be rubberstamping the millions(?) of Guest Worker applications.
I can't wait for him to be out of office. He squandered a huge opportunity on the backs of many conservative voters who got him elected.
I am utterly embarassed that I volunteered for him for a week in Florida.
It is downright sad that he can only be said to be a wee bit better than the RAT alternative at this point.
He has sold us out.
These people gave us tacos, burritos, chocolate, vanilla, tequila , etc. A good portion of our language and culture came from south of the border.
Evidently you didn't understand what I wrote in my other posts. Go back and read them again, then think about it hard and unemotionally until tomorrow. Then get back to me. Remember, you have to have low-skilled workers to keep the business going to provide jobs for all the highly paid American workers. BTW, illegal immigrants don't get paid enough to have any significant impact on real estate prices. The feds need to pick up the tab for hospital costs and that is starting to happen in this year's budget. I want to sharply reduce the number of new immigrants and run a background check on all of them, but it's a really bad idea to force all the illegals out of the country.
I'm sorry, but the pilgrims who fled religious oppression did not bring taco bell and tito puente with them.
"The feds need to pick up the tab for hospital costs and that is starting to happen in this year's budget."
The feds need to kick these people out and stop new illegal entrants. They have on balance a very negative effect.
I have a strong sense that Republicans will someday view GWB as the Jimmy Carter of the Republican Party.
Well, you can certainly start a thread on your issues one, two and three, and propound away. But this is an illegal-immigration thread, which judging from the number of posts, is important to a lot of Freepers who think that 11-20 million people illegally in the country, while our borders remain porous, is not particuarly trivial.
It's a really bad idea to force all car thieves to return the vehicles they've stolen.
It's a really bad idea to force all bank robbers to return the money they've stolen.
It's a really bad idea to force all white collar criminals to return all the money they've embezzled.
It's a really bad idea to force people who scam senior citizens to return the money they obtained fraudulently.
You know what's truly a really bad idea? It's a really bad idea to reward people for breaking and entering our country and violating our laws. Period.
It's simple. If suddenly 7 million jobs are lost, you'd have a massive decline in consumer spending and tremendous disruption of production in all kinds of industries because of the lost workers. All kinds of agricultural companies would lose 75% of their production and sales revenues. That's the impact of destroying such a large number of jobs in a relatively short time.
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