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Besides your opinion what other evidence do you have to make that charge?,

Here is a quote from Mary's article that was linked in Post 24

The Cannon bill and its companion bill in the Senate, S1645, state that any alien benefiting from the new program "must establish" that he or she is "admissible to the United States under section 212 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1182)." That is the section of the immigration law that defines "inadmissible" aliens. It is about 82 pages long and one of the ways to become an "inadmissible" alien is to come into this country illegally.

Essentially she is saying the AgJobs Bill is not an amnesty because since the illegals came illegally they would not be eligible. But the whole point of the AgJobs Bill is for illegals to adjust their status and to give farmers a large supply of cheap legal (formerly illegal) labor. With the exception of Mary, nobody disputes that the AgJobs Bill is about adjusting status (many of us call this amnesty) for illegals. What Mary fails to say is that the "not illegal" requirement is specifically waived a few sentences later in the bill.

There are really only two possibilities. Mary could a)just simply be ignorant and mistaken or b)she could deliberately be trying to obfuscate the truth (lie). I personally exchanged several emails with her about this last spring so I know the truth has been brought to her attention. I also saw a debate in the Provo Herald (I think) right before the Cannon/Throckmorton primary where a prominent immigration reform person (either Bill Nelson or Mark Krikorian) also brought the rather obvious flaws in her reasoning to her attention.

The fact that she persists in spreading ideas that have been repeatedly demonstrated to be untruthful makes her a liar.

Further, if you read the article she tries to pretend that the AgJobs Bill is a joint effort between Cannon and Bush and that it is the legislative version of Bush's guestworker plan. This is patently false. The AgJobs Bill was written before Bush ever outlined his plan, no legislative version of Bush's plan has yet been written and AgJobs specifically provides a path to citizenship where as Bush has specifically excluded that as a possibility.

A second Mary Mostert lie.