[healey22]

I guess we can expect the President to be asking for another amnesty in the future.

[boris]

"I guess we can expect the President to be asking for another amnesty in the future."

Yep.

--Boris

[Amerigomag]

This has got to stop.

This piece of legislation will seal the fate of central California (and California in general) which is swamped in illegal immigration and does not have the infrastructure in place to deal with these masses.

Many small farming communites are rapidly loosing their cultural history and identity and are simply becoming third world enclaves who lack the sophistication and resources to remain part of the American society.

[healey22]

ping

[Sabertooth]

The White House and American diplomats working in these areas overseas say that passing 245(i) is not a real amnesty. It will affect only small numbers of people, they argue, good people who have been here for a long time and are working hard. They further see no relationship to the events of September 11 or to the Middle Eastern terrorists, arguing that most of the 245(i) recipients will be Mexican.

Mexican illegals.

Once again...

Section 245 of the Act allows an alien to apply for adjustment of status to that of a lawful permanent resident (LPR) while in the United States if certain conditions are met. The alien must have been inspected and admitted or paroled, be eligible for an immigrant visa and admissible for permanent residence, and, with some exceptions, have maintained lawful nonimmigrant status. The alien must also not have engaged in unauthorized employment. Section 245(i) of the Act allows an alien to apply to adjust status under section 245 notwithstanding the fact that he or she entered without inspection, overstayed, or worked without authorization.
LINK.

These are the people for whom last week's 245(i) mods were written. Illegals.

Letting illegals stay = Amnesty for those illegals.

[angkor]

Gosh, sure glad I'm not one of those legal permanent residents who waited 5 or 10 years to come to the U.S., then subjected myself to several years of State Department and INS legalities, only to be pushed to the back of the naturalization line by several million border-hopping, law-evading, handout-seeking illegal aliens who have zero respect for American law.

I'd like to see one newspaper report on the predictable fate of the INS - and the several million legal and law-abiding immigrants - due to this week's despicable and sleazy vote on 245(i).

And I don't know how GWB and my Congressman are going to come up with the two new votes they'll need to replace mine in 2004.

[WRhine]

In private meetings with the House Republican leadership, some of whom were wary about pushing 245(i) through in this subterranean manner, the president was asked to assure them that this would, at least, be the last amnesty. (The first, for 3 million illegals in 1986, was supposed to be the last, but led to the situation where we now face another.) According to the newspaper reports here, the president said no.

Which of course contradicts everything Bush said a few days ago when he purposely mislead Americans into thinking that he was going to drop Amnesties from his open border agenda. As some have pointed out, given that Bush twisted arms to get the 245I amnesty rammed through the House and only "specified" which amnesties he won't support he was in fact acknowledging that he is FOR "more" amnesties and FOR the legalization of millions of illegal aliens. Bush also admitted that his administration would not enforce federal laws against illegal immigration because the business community doesn't want him to. At least he was honest about that.

Does this surprise anyone? Unless Congress can shut down Bush’s insane open borders agenda our nation faces ever increasing perils to its sovereignty and security.

[WRhine]

In private meetings with the House Republican leadership, some of whom were wary about pushing 245(i) through in this subterranean manner, the president was asked to assure them that this would, at least, be the last amnesty. (The first, for 3 million illegals in 1986, was supposed to be the last, but led to the situation where we now face another.) According to the newspaper reports here, the president said no.

Which of course contradicts everything Bush said a few days ago when he purposely mislead Americans into thinking that he was going to drop Amnesties from his open border agenda. As some have pointed out, given that Bush twisted arms to get the 245I amnesty rammed through the House and only "specified" which amnesties he won't support he was in fact acknowledging that he is FOR "more" amnesties and FOR the legalization of millions of illegal aliens. Bush also admitted that his administration would not enforce federal laws against illegal immigration because the business community doesn't want him to. At least he was honest about that.

Does this surprise anyone? Unless Congress can shut down Bush’s insane open borders agenda our nation faces ever-increasing perils to its sovereignty and security.

[Travis McGee]

This sleazy bill will be translated in only one word across Mexico and Latin America:

!AMNISTIA!

Across Mexico, trucks are being loaded with new waves of illegals; Bush has sent the clearest signal possible that America's door is wide open. Sneak in, hang around long enough, and we'll give you amnesty.

And I still just want a list from the federal govt of the other federal laws which "don't really count", and won't be enforced.

[Nea Wood]

Anyone see Tom Tancredo and Terry McAwful debate on Fox just a few minutes ago? Tancredo was great. I also got the impression that the hostess of the show agreed with Tancredo.

[father_elijah]

Clearly President Bush needs to fire every one of his domestic agenda advisors.

Bush is looking too much like his father when it comes to domestic issues. President Bush needs to sieze the bully pulpit for conservative domestic issues and stomp upon Daschle, Leahy and Co. -- just as he has against al-Qaeda through the series of powerful speeches he has given.

[healey22]

I just got back from the grocery store and iceberg lettuce is $2.69 a head and Romaine is $2.99 a head. I guess having slave labor is not keeping down the cost of produce after all.

[timestax]

It's just flat out sickening, illegal aliens tooling around our nation without a care in the world!!And they get paid under the table, thus no taxes to pay. Then they send all or most of their money back to South America, then say they are so poor they need Federal, and State handouts!!Again, not a care in the world!! No wonder they always look so happy!!

[Uncle Bill]

BTTT!!!

[Uncle Bill]

BTTT

[Dutchy]

FYI.....and thanks healey22. We will keep up the fight!!!