Posted on 09/06/2001 10:33:18 PM PDT by Aerial
Edited on 07/12/2004 3:46:23 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Rewarding illegal aliens with amnesty would be a financial loser for American taxpayers and a political loser for both Democrats and Republicans, according to an analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data and a just-released Zogby poll.
Although President Bush has ruled out a "blanket amnesty," he and Mexican President Vicente Fox are expected to announce the outlines of a new immigration agreement that eventually would have the same effect as amnesty.
(Excerpt) Read more at washtimes.com ...
It was his idea in the first place.
The White House leaked the news to the media, to see which way the wind blew, once Bush determined that"blanket amnesty"was not the popular thing to do, the White House came out and said "the President is against blanket amnesty".
The current guest worker program that the administration is working on is the same thing. It will lead to permanent residency and citizenship.
Name it what you will, Amnesty is Amnesty.
You know how these politicians like to play around with words.
But it is going to happen anyway because the taxpayers bear the cost. The gains go to political contributors who want "cheap" Mexican labor, the welfare bureaucracy which wants more customers, and the media who like anything that tends to destroy America.
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