Posted on 12/04/2006 6:58:29 AM PST by kellynla
Congress will approve an immigration bill that will grant citizenship rights to most of the 12 million to 20 million illegal aliens in the U.S. after Democrats take control next month, predict both sides on Capitol Hill. While Republicans have been largely splintered on the issue of immigration reform, Democrats have been fairly unified behind the principle that the illegals currently in the country should get citizenship rights without having to first leave the country.
(Excerpt) Read more at washtimes.com ...
"The RNC has been arguing over this issue for decade after decade, and we finally had a Republican Pres, House and Senate to get a decent bill. A first step."
Did next to nothing in 6 years....the Pubs hid under the table when they had a REASON to tackle this head on (911). This will go down in history as the administration of squandered opportunity. After 911 we had a mandate to right so many wrongs...instead we (Pubs) sat on our collective hands with this particular concern.
"Good job in voting to keep it that way."
Every action (or inaction) has a reaction. Don't put cart before the horse.
Nice try though....
You made the statement about me; find one post where I said anything close to that.
I assume because you avoided my direct question to you, you couldn't.
It's telling when you have to lie to try to make YOUR point.
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Of course I blame Bush for his position on amnesty. It's hard to say how many seats the stay at home conservatives cost. Given the closeness of a couple of Senate races, it's not inconceivable that they were the difference in control of the Senate. Likewise a number of house races were very close but they probably weren't the difference maker in house control.
"what about TANCREDO"
yeaaaaaa...what about Tancredo?
politics is checkers not chess. LOL
Mr. T needs to serve at least one term in the governor's office before he has a snowball chance in hell getting elected POTUS.
My tens of millions more will arrive. So, it will increase the Dhimmi base.
Intuition had nothing to do with it. It's just that the majority of house and even Senate Republicans have not supported Bush's amnesty legislation, yet a lot of conservatives are under the impression they have. It sounded like you were among that group, based on the plain meaning of your post.
LOL
What a waste of bandwidth.
Blatantly false.
"Operation Wetback was a 1954 project of the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) to remove about 80,000 undocumented people from the southwestern United States, with a focus on Mexican nationals." -- Source
Twisting words is your game, I see.
Pretty telling of your position.
Sam Hananel, AP, Nov. 16, 2005
WASHINGTON—A record 157,000 illegal immigrants were removed from the United States during the past year as U.S. authorities stepped up efforts to track down those who may pose security risks, the government said Tuesday.
2004
The United States has removed a record number of 157,281 criminal and other illegal aliens from the United States in fiscal year 2004, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) largest investigative arm.
Whatever, you must agree that it is essential to start deporting, directly and indirectly, the illegal aliens, whether Mexicans, the Taliban, or the Russian Mafia. We have enough criminals of our own - we don't need to import more of them and on top of it provide them with welfare, citizenship, translators, and other perks. Illegal aliens pose a security risk and commit horrific crimes.
RUSH: J.D. Hayworth is from Arizona. Now, he's one of the Republican freshmen of '94, and he won that race by a very slim margin, because it's a Democrat district.
CALLER: Hm-hm.
RUSH: He kept it up until Tuesday. J.D. Hayworth led -- and this is Arizona, this is a state that is really up in arms about illegal immigration. J.D. Hayworth led the fight in Congress on the Republican side against illegal immigration. He lost. Now, the details of his loss are being totally misrepresented by the Drive-By Media. He ran against a Democrat who was parroting and echoing everything J.D. was saying. He was making himself out to be an even bigger anti-illegal immigrant guy when he wasn't.
CALLER: Right.
RUSH: But the message. Who's going to know that?
CALLER: Right.
RUSH: The Drive-By Media is portraying this as anybody who was really pro-anti-illegal immigration got swept away. They're trying to kill this issue, the Drive-By Media, as they always do. They're trying to massage and write that J.D. Hayworth lost because he came across as nativist, racist, too strident, and anti-Mexican. Now, what message does that send Republicans? If they're the usual weak-kneed Republicans, "Gosh, that's a losing issue. I can't do what J.D. did. I'll lose, too. The media will write that I'm a racist and that I'm a nativist and that I hate Mexicans." So you can't assume that Republicans are going to be voting against this, either.
CALLER: Well, then there's no way we're going to get any majority back if they're going to hide their principles.
RUSH: Oh, yes, there is. We may not get a majority back with this current crop, but that's what the winnowing out process is all about. Besides, some people said it would be better if we lose anyway.
CALLER: Right.
RUSH: So we've lost. I'm not trying to depress you. I'm trying to just share the way I look at this with you, and one of my theories as you well know is that one of the reasons that conservatives get talked out of it is the media.
CALLER: Right.
RUSH: And what has happened here to J.D. Hayworth is a classic example. They are mischaracterizing why he lost, they're now saying he's nativist and racist and anti-Mexican. I'm telling you, to Washington Republicans, they read that, and that's the last thing they're going to want said about them.
CALLER: Right.
RUSH: So they won't go there.
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Reagan Man...your decision helped to bring about the loss of both Houses of Congress to the Democrats, and now it appears that as a result of that loss, millions of illegal aliens will get a fast-track citizenship handed to them.
As far as I'm concerned, anyone who made the decision to be divisive and in doing so bring about the loss, made a far worse decision than any the President made in his tenure.
You can't win by losing.
That should have been evident by the last time that the "conservative" base opted to remain at home.
You remember that time, don't you?
Most of us call it "the Clinton Administration".
When you're fighting for your country, losing is not an option, even if the best that you can do at the moment is not to give up ground, it is unacceptable to lose, and then take pride in your participation in that loss.
Well, anyway, I'm glad that you are proud to have taken actions so destructive to the nation.
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