Posted on 07/26/2002 11:47:27 PM PDT by Jagdgewehr
This may be true, but for millions of poor people south of the border and around the world, they don't know that. Gephardt with his big mouth has just encouraged more to come in here with the hopes they'll be amnestied.
But that was the plan all along, wasn't it Dickie?
I suppose that we can still close the doors (BTW there is strong support for closing doors even in the immigrant communities), but it is time to forget about cleaning the house, it is simply impossible.
Republicans have to make it no-issue, and the matters to be discussed should be qualifications for amnesty. E.g. it seems to me that 2 years working out of 5 years is way too generous.
Not if we made a real effort at enforcing employer sanctions. If there's no jobs, illegals will have no reason to stay here.
At least Gephardt is being truthful that he wants to let in the welfare types and hand out citizenship to parasites. The last thing taxpayers need is millions of people who don't work 3/5 of the time.
Amnesty is nothing but a joke ---it invites people to pour over the border, they never really had to work or live here because the "proofs" requested in amnesty mean nothing at all ---the "undocumented" can't prove anything.
Then why does it keep being proposed?
I know it has hurt Dubya, and now the Democrats want to anger 66% of the population?
"Not if we made a real effort at enforcing employer sanctions. If there's no jobs, illegals will have no reason to stay here."
At some level jobs are here, any government enforcement which is going against the economic force would not produce any result (war on drugs is another example), second amendment goes both ways - it is equally impossible to round up a few millions of armed citizens, put them in cattle cars and ship them toward the Arctic Circle and to round up a few millions of armed non-citizens, put them in cattle cars and ship them toward the Tropic.
So, we should not waste our time with pipe dreams - it is much cheaper to absorb a few millions of people who are already here than any cleansing alternative. What we should be consentrated on is put into the same legislation measures reducing immigration pressures in the future - I would think that the most important part should be a guest worker program allowing people to come and go with a job market fluctuations.
Not necessarily..
Require police officers to check a citizens status during the course of their day, make it easy for them to do so and severely punish anyone employing an illegal.
Cut off from employment and facing arrest and deportation at every turn they will have no reason to remain here and will be financially unable to do so.
And, of course we could start taking out in trade with Mexico the increased burden of ilegals on American society. That would give Fox a kick in the pants.
can they? .....
The can and they do...in fact if they have an address, the blank ballots are mailed to them. Ain't that some $hit???? Joseph Farrah from Worldnet Daily interviewed a family that did some work for them and the daughter of the immigrants refused to vote because she knew what they were asking her to do was not legal and she also suspected it was a way to find and expel illegals. She actually recieved her blank ballot in the mail. I'll see if I can find the story on the WND archive.
"Require police officers to check ..."
Yea, and we will win this war the same way we won war on drugs 15 years ago and by Christmas we will have no illegals in our midst.
I hate to see Republicans painting ourselves in the corner with non-issues.
I hate to see Republicans painting ourselves in the corner with non-issues.
We haven't won the "war on murder" either alex, but we can make things pretty uncomfortable for people who do it.
First, I'm not a Republican..
Second, 66% approval is hardly a "non issue"
can they? .....
They do in California. This much, I know.
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