Bush set for immigration speech

WRIC News ^ | 5-14-06 | AP

[La Enchiladita]

Wouldn't it be nice if the Senate had some compassion for American citizens, and comprehended what we are shouting from the rooftops?!!!

Wouldn't it?

[La Enchiladita]

Methinks the economy is more about "numbers" than about honestly earned prosperity.

[JustPiper]

Immigration bill awaits Senate approval

WASHINGTON - Senate supporters of landmark immigration legislation looked ahead Wednesday to passage of a measure along lines set by President Bush, but they also signaled a willingness to seek common ground with conservatives whose House version would be far tougher on millions of men and women in the country illegally.

*Read it and Weep:

With Senate approval assured on Thursday, Arlen Specter, R-Pa., the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, said, "Does anybody have a better approach? Not yet. But we're still open for business."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060524/ap_on_go_co/immigration_27;_ylt=AtgpxQ7.T1UWtKEcrY71d6hQuk0A;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

[JustPiper]

LOL ;)

[JustPiper]

*Interesting hey?

Officials: Hastert "In the Mix" of Congressional Bribery Investigation

http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/05/federal_officia.html

[JustPiper]

Don't forget he once wore a white sheet ;)

[JustPiper]

Guard Soldiers May Go to Border Next Week

WASHINGTON — The first wave of about 800 National Guard soldiers will head to the U.S-Mexico border as early as next week, including planners and leadership personnel who will stay longer than the planned 21-day missions, the National Guard chief told lawmakers Wednesday.

Lt. Gen. Steven Blum said 200 soldiers are preparing to go to each of the four border states _ California, Texas, Arizona and New Mexico _ around June 1. He said the initial troops will be part of a longer-term force of project managers who will stay on the job over time to provide continuity in the new border program.

The troops represent the launch of President Bush's plan to dispatch up to 6,000 National Guard members to states bordering Mexico to support the Border Patrol and help stem the flow of illegal immigrants across the border.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/politics/3886526.html

[SeaBiscuit]

That's right they don't need 'Pensions' since they are... LOL

[La Enchiladita]

ROFL!!

No cojones plus pensions for brains = anatomical incorrectness!

[JustPiper]

Schwarzenegger set to send Guard to border

Arnold Schwarzenegger, initially opposed to President George W. Bush's border security plan, said on Wednesday he was ready to commit National Guard forces to help police the Mexican frontier.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060524/pl_nm/usa_immigration_schwarzenegger_dc_1;_ylt=AlZb0u3DKOnPHiVO.8UZPaJQuk0A;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl
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Fox says immigration challenges friendship
~With friends like YOU...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060524/ap_on_re_us/us_fox_visit_20;_ylt=AmaD6j.VA6amGt2Ku0E.DqhQuk0A;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl
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Green Card To Nowhere
What Good Is Legalizing Immigrants If We Don't Educate Them?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/23/AR2006052301528.html

[JustPiper]

House GOP Not Budging on Border
Leaders still committed to an enforcement-only plan and opposed to the Senate's wider overhaul.

WASHINGTON — House Republican leaders Tuesday resisted the latest White House effort to move beyond the enforcement-only approach they have taken in rewriting immigration laws, emerging from a meeting with President Bush emphasizing their continued opposition to the broader approach the Senate is taking.

"The basic difference of opinion that we have seen on this issue between the House and Senate and the White House is real, it is honest, and it was exhibited at this meeting," House Majority Leader John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) said.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-immig24may24,1,7383998.story?coll=la-headlines-nation

[La Enchiladita]

O, JustPiper, all-knowing threadmistress of the Central Time Zone .... and nicmarlo, unassuming research genius...

From NumbersUSA, is this the Sessions proposal?

The Senate also approved (67-31) a motion to waive a budget point of order on the bill. If that motion had been defeated, the underlying point of order would have slowed progress on passage of the bill.

So, slowing down progress would have killed it? The Senate slithers so easily in and around arcane rules, La Dita does get confused at times.

[JustPiper]

Fox Begins Visit in Immigrant-Friendly Utah
Mexico's president is welcomed by the state's political elite and hailed by his countrymen.

WEST VALLEY, Utah — Mexican President Vicente Fox kicked off a four-day U.S. visit Tuesday by decrying congressional proposals to build a wall to keep illegal immigrants in Mexico, saying that "we won't resolve this problem with fences, but hand in hand, working together."

Fox told a cheering crowd of 1,000 Mexicans and Mexican Americans — some of whom had come from as far as Montana to hear him — that they helped keep the U.S. economy running and displayed the hard work and honesty that did their ancestral country proud.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-fox24may24,1,3193193.story?coll=la-headlines-nation
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Farmers pressing lawmakers on immigration

FRESNO, Calif. - Growers facing a dwindling supply of farmworkers are pressing lawmakers in hopes of influencing the outcome of immigration reform measures before Congress to ensure they have a work force in the future.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060524/ap_on_bi_ge/farm_scene_2
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GOP senators urge House to close immigration gap
Republicans are warned that gridlock could harm the party in elections this year

WASHINGTON - With Senate passage of an immigration reform bill likely, key GOP senators on Tuesday urged Republicans in the House to rally around their party in an election year and allow negotiations on a final measure.

The Senate's sweeping immigration bill is generally favored by President Bush but strongly opposed by House conservatives because it goes beyond border enforcement and includes a path to citizenship for most illegal immigrants.

Looking ahead to a final vote Thursday on the bipartisan Senate bill, Republicans said gridlock between the House and Senate would hurt the party in this election year.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/3884176.html

[La Enchiladita]

Good golly, Miss Molly!

[JustPiper]

Homeowners Hire Undocumented Workers
~Interactive CaCa

The No. 1 employers of day laborers - most of them undocumented workers - are not construction contractors or professional landscapers, but private homeowners.

http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/files/specials/interactives/_national/day_laborers/index.html?SITE=TXHOU&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

[JustPiper]

I'll buy him a matched set of fitted sheets, with comforter, pillow shams and bring him iced tea and mint juleps to his chair side

Ahaharoflpimp!

[SeaBiscuit]

Specter

Main Entry: spec·ter
Variant(s): or spec·tre /'spek-t&r/
Function: noun

1 : a visible disembodied spirit : GHOST
2 : something that haunts or perturbs the mind : PHANTASM