I just wish Tancredo will be more honest with what his goal is. Its basically a practical stop to legal immigration in this country. I started looking at the Web sites that are posted on here. The ones that have such high sounding names that imply they want to want to reform immigration. But there is an absense of something. There are no proposals to to make the immigration department more efficient. To make the backlog go away etc. This isnt a anti illegal immigration movement its an anti immigration movement period.
Exactly. The dirty little secret of this entire debate is that a large number of illegal immigration opponents, like FAIR, actually oppose legal immigration as well.
"...its an anti immigration movement period."
If a pipe breaks in my house, I shut off the water. That doesn't mean I intend to do without water from now on. It just means I need to get the leak under control before I let any more come down the pipe.
Some sort of moratorium on immigration for a few years till we figure out where we are would not be unreasonable. By then we could put in place something similar to the systems that Australia or New Zealand have, where an immigrant needs to have something to offer TO his new homeland rather than what he can take FROM it.
Never try to juggle to many knives at one time. You wind up with blood where your toes use to be. Lets stop the Illegal invasion then we can at leisure straigthen out the mess at the naturalization offices.
"There are no proposals to to make the immigration department more efficient. To make the backlog go away etc."
OH Gawd... that horrible Senate CIRA bill, with their mucking up of deporation and immigration courts and their fraud-inciting amnesty for 12 million - what do you think *that* would do to back-logs?!?!?
It would add years to it.
HR4437 had provisions to streamline deportations.
Tancredo btw will support a real guest worker plan, not the pseudo-plan in the Senate bill.