Posted on 05/17/2008 9:18:56 AM PDT by Delacon
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Dianne Feinstein has changed her tune about using Iraq war spending bills to provide temporary legal status for illegal farmworkers.
She used to think it was a bad idea. Not anymore.
Next week, the full Senate is expected to consider an emergency spending bill that includes Feinstein's agricultural guest worker plan. If it survives, the guest worker package would offer temporary legal status to 1.35 million illegal immigrant farmworkers.
"This is an emergency situation," Feinstein, D-Calif., told Senate Appropriations Committee colleagues Thursday, adding that "agriculture needs a consistent work force. Without it, they can't plant, they can't prune, they can't pick and they can't pack."
Feinstein's plan modifies a more ambitious package called AgJOBS. The original AgJOBS proposal would grant legal status to 1.5 million illegal immigrant farmworkers. It also would put them on a path to receiving a green card and, in time, U.S. citizenship.
The revised plan grants legal status to fewer farmworkers, and it would not put them on an automatic path toward a green card or U.S. citizenship. After five years, the farmworkers would revert to illegal status if they still were in the United States.
"This to me is a fair compromise, just to get something in place," said Manuel Cunha, president of the Fresno-based Nisei Farmers League. Cunha stressed that the proposal is a pilot program and temporary.
Feinstein said she considered it appropriate to include the controversial guest worker plan as an amendment to a $193 billion emergency spending bill, the primary purpose of which is to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Other lawmakers disagree.
The chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., is among those opposed to Feinstein's proposal.
Byrd warned Thursday that controversial Iraq war bill amendments probably would require at least 60 votes on the Senate floor, a high hurdle.
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Ah, the recurring democrat tune: Dirty, hard, sweaty, repetitive motion, hard-on-the-back jobs. Not for Americans. Just right for the little brown folk from down South.
Fire up the plantation again!
Time to show up and be counted, Mr. McCain
BTT!
Solution to a wrong problem. Will not increase oil production by one drop a day.
That is a LIE.
Immigration law is very plain on this...
When can I apply for naturalization?
You may be able to apply for naturalization if you are at least 18 years of age and have been a permanent resident of the U.S.;
For at least 5 years;
or• For at least 3 years during which time you have been, and continue to be, married to and living in marriage with your U.S. citizen husband or wife;
or• Have honorable service in the U.S. military.Certain spouses of U.S. citizens and members of the military may beable to file for naturalization sooner than noted above previously.
LINK
I just can’t muster the will to care anymore. We told them more than once that we, as citizens, didn’t want anything to do with this and they dropped it and moved on. Here we are back at the same damn topic with the same damn players arguing the same damn legislation that’s been yelled down over and over again.
Between the republicans becoming socialists and the socialists becoming marxists I say let them have their utopia. When it all comes crashing down, the people who’ve sat back and allowed them to fail will stand up and fix it, just like we have for the last couple centuries.
What are the Requirements for Naturalization?
General Naturalization Requirements:
Age: Applicants must be at least 18 years old. Contact the law office for information on applicants who are less than 18 years old.
Residency
An applicant must have been lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence. Lawfully admitted for permanent residence means having been legally accorded the privilege of residing permanently in the United States as an immigrant in accordance with the immigration laws. Individuals who have been lawfully admitted as permanent residents will be asked to produce an I-551, Alien Registration Receipt Card, as proof of their status.
Residence and Physical Presence
An applicant is eligible to file if, immediately preceding the filing of the application, he or she:
a) has been lawfully admitted for permanent residence (see preceding section);
b) has resided continuously as a lawful permanent resident in the U.S. for at least 5 years prior to filing with no single absence from the United States of more than one year;
c) has been physically present in the United States for at least 30 months out of the previous five years (absences of more than six months but less than one year shall disrupt the applicant's continuity of residence unless the applicant can establish that he or she did not abandon his or her residence during such period)
d) has resided within a state or district for at least three months
e) is of Good Moral Character
The liberal aristocracy must have thier surfs
I called her office several times dis agreeing with her.. but the clincher was calling the senate minority leader republican McConnell,wanting to know his position on this, and his office hung up on me... is it any wonder Republicans are fleeing their party in droves..
Her husbands construction company must be hurting for labor.
This is a direct quote from The Birmingham News today from Jeff Sessions: “I do think it’s important that those of us who care about it let the people know what is happening” he said “I think it’s possible this could be blocked and not become law. but I think it’s possible if nobody complains, that they could force it through”.
Will 2012 be a repeat of election 2006? "Feinstein . . . has $8 million in the bank and the ability to raise $25 million to $30 million . . . [Opponent Richard Mountjoy had raised $20,000 by June 30] . . . in San Francisco, the senator asked how many in the audience had heard of Mountjoy. When no hands went up, Feinstein said, "Good, that's the way I want it," and never mentioned her [Republican] opponent's name again."
Uhhh.. I forgot. We're talkin' California Republicans here. Never mind.
She has uses for such men.
We are at war, but now have a government that undermines every effort to close the borders. For example, the virtual fence that didn't work and has been delayed, or the 700 miles of physical fence for which the appropriations have been withdrawn.
With legalizing a whole class of illegal aliens, some of whom have come across the border for nefarious purposes, the current powers that be are playing with our lives and the safety of our nation. At the same time, these elites continue to avoid taking key steps to resolve the energy crisis which first manifested itself in the oil embargo of 1973.
Is it not time for a Third Constitutional Convention?
It may very well be, but conservatives are by and large too busy working to pay their bills to gather together and form a revolution of any kind. That combined with apathy and complacency has driven many to take whatever they’re given yet still complain about it.
I’d have an armed revolution tomorrow if people were willing to gather up for it. They’re not.
I’d have an armed revolution tomorrow if people were willing to gather up for it. They’re not.
I agree, if we are not at that point yet we never will be.
When I first saw the title I thought it said “fag worker program.”
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