This is usually code for the Senate Republicans have either caved in again or we've all been betrayed by McCain.
Both McCain and Kennedy are on board.
This doesn't sound so bad so far. I just hope that the amendment to refuse citizenship to those who have committed felonies passes.
Why do I feel as if we've just been sold down the river? Again.
Total BS. Amnesty!!!!
The president will make an announcement at 12:30 supportive of the bill.
Sell out. 1986 repeats itself.
Another sell out...depressing.
Unacceptable, the GOP will pay for this treachery in November.
From a thread that got pulled a minute ago: "So far I've only heard that illegal immigrants here less than 2 years have to leave."
That humming sound you hear are the bogus document printers warming up.
this is all just a waste of time and taxpayers' dollars...
we don't need any new bills,
what we need is for GWB & the DOJ to start enforcing the laws already on the books.
This is going to backfire on the Washington lawmakers.
People are fed up. Not just in the border towns but in the midwest, CA and up in ME.
Idiots!!
Sovereignity lost. Ilegals have greater political power than those citizens supposedly enfranchised with the right to vote.
THIS STATEMENT ALONE SAYS ONE THING TO ME: AMERICA IS SCREWED! AMERICANS GET SCREWED! ILLEGALS WIN! ILLEGALS GET TO STAY! ILLEGALS ARE NOW LEGAL! ILLEGALS CONTINUE TO GET FREE MONEY, FREE HEALTH CARE, AS LEGALS! AMERICA IS DOOMED! TERRORISTS WHO ILLEGALLY GOT INTO THE COUNTRY CAN NOW BE HERE LEGALLY TO BE TERRORISTS! IN OTHER WORDS, AMERICA GETS YET ANOTHER BIG SHAFT FROM THE U.S. CONGRESS OF COMMUNISTS.
"Badges? We don' need no steenking badges!"
It looks like what I wrote in an earlier post on April 1st, '06 has come true. This is what I wrote:
You could require that all workers produce an ID card similar to a credit card for employment. Such a card would be furnished in Mexico; requiring that all Mexicans travel home for the proper documentation. That would cost us nothing. The database derived from such documentation would be forwarded to the United States. Criminals would not get cards.
For the majority of Mexicans, we are not talking long travel times--three hours max. We would set a deadline for all workers to get cards. The bottom line is that no employer could hire a worker without the card.
With the card, the employer tabs in the card number over the phone for worker verification. Any terminated cards would forbid the worker from being hired. With the card you could track where they are working, make them pay income taxes, control voter data bases and set an expiration date which would force all card holders to undergo a naturalization process within a certain deadline--five years, for instance.
Anyone who commits a felony would have their card terminated. The card would have lots of power. With the use of the card, the game would be over for the idea that if you could get enough people to beat the system, you could overload the system. This system would be managed by a simple database system much like what is already used in the membership systems in such retail outlets as Costco. There is no overload of the system. You simply have to get the card to operate in the United States.
Mexico would have to comply with this system. Their economy is dependent on the money these workers send back to Mexico. If Mexico wants that economic inflow, it will cooperate in implementing the system.
Unless there is a severe punishment for businesses that hire the (still) illegals here under two years, why would they leave? Why would they go home to maybe not come back?
This is crap.
This is only acceptable if we seal our borders first so that we can actually control whether these invaders come back in later.
Illegal immigrants here longer than five years would not be required to return home; those in the country less than two years would be required to leave without assurances of returning, and take their place in line with others seeking entry papers.
So, if I steal a car and hide it for five years, do I get to keep it now? ALL illegals should be forced to return home to reapply for entry. Entry should only be allowed AFTER our borders are under control. This proposed part of the immigration bill is a form of amnesty and I am steadfastly opposed.
But we've been told again and again and again that it is impossible to deport anyone. Now they are telling us that they'll be "required" to go back. Excuse me while I don't hold my breath.
Bipartisanship: when the stupid party allies with the evil party to make law that is both stupid and evil.