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Making illegal residents legal
San Diego Union-Tribune ^
| 1/8/2004
| JAMES O. GOLDSBOROUGH
Posted on 01/08/2004 10:41:37 AM PST by kellynla
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01/08/2004 10:41:39 AM PST
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kellynla
To: kellynla
This article is dead on! Thanks for posting it.
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To: kellynla
Don't expect much opposition to Bush's proposals. Right-wing nativists will rant and rave, but their reasoning is always suspect.
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posted on
01/08/2004 10:50:54 AM PST
by
VU4G10
(Have You Forgotten?)
To: kellynla
FYI...once again...the President does not make laws, Congress does and Bush clearly stated in his speech that it would be up to Congress to hammer out the details. Check out:
To: kellynla
This is where we should learn from the illegals. Like the illegals who had their "strike" here in California we should set up a real national strike where the US Citizens who oppose legalizing lawbreakers and believe in our sovereignty don't show up for work, shop, or send our kids to school. Sending a clear message to Washington that we oppose legalizing illegals. The best day to do this... why April 15th of course.
To: kellynla
Mexico, in other words, should agree as a quid pro quo to control its borders and stop illegal passage across them. The author made a lot of excellent observations, but this remark is off base. It's not Mexico's job to guard our border.
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posted on
01/08/2004 10:54:44 AM PST
by
Dog Gone
To: kellynla
"You get delicious glass of water for posting nice article."
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posted on
01/08/2004 10:54:58 AM PST
by
AmericanInTokyo
(I argue as passionately on FR against ILLEGAL ALIENS as I would if Gore, not Bush were President.)
To: Dog Gone
I agree
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posted on
01/08/2004 10:57:20 AM PST
by
kellynla
("C" 1/5 1st Mar. Div. U.S.M.C. Viet Nam 69&70 Semper Fi! HAPPY NEW YEAR!)
To: AmericanInTokyo
"You get delicious glass of water for posting nice article." Thanks for the chaser...now about that shot of Jack? hmmmmmm LOL
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posted on
01/08/2004 10:58:27 AM PST
by
kellynla
("C" 1/5 1st Mar. Div. U.S.M.C. Viet Nam 69&70 Semper Fi! HAPPY NEW YEAR!)
To: Dog Gone
But Mexico should be pelanized for offloading it's problems on US rather than fixing them - which is exactly what is happening.
Fox's policy is to export the poor to the USA so they can mail dollars back to Mexico. It's unacceptable.
To: kellynla
Immigration advocates say the proposed measures simply recognize reality: You've got 8 million illegal immigrants here, most are gainfully employed, government has neither the will nor the resources to find and deport them and so, voila, let us embrace them in the spirit of true American pragmatism. As a utilitarian argument, it is irrefutable, and the very Americans who say in polls they don't want them here are the same ones who employ them by the millions in fields, firms and households. At least the new proposals have the virtue of not being hypocritical, like so much past immigration policy. Government is simply throwing up its hands. I imagine managers at Wal-Mart, under investigation for employing illegal immigrants, are relieved.
At its heart, it is a catastrophic admission of failure. It is a confession that, despite massive border controls, a generation of immigration reform bills and billions of dollars spent in a ballet of smoke and mirrors, America's borders are essentially wide open.
Agreed on all counts.
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posted on
01/08/2004 11:01:40 AM PST
by
TheDon
(Have a Happy New Year!)
To: Dog Gone
ONe observation I disagree with is the assumption that Hispanic citizens support this proposal, or any mass legalization, and that Bush thinks he's going to get votes from it.
Rather, it is an appeal for campaign donations from the industries whose short term strategies are to suppress American wages. They are the big boys, and you can find them allied and funding all the "liberal" front groups like La Raza, NIF.
Bush's proposal is, effectively, a racist policy in that the victims, lower class, even middle class workers and taxpayers are disproportionately hispanic and black. The liberal Democratic policies are, effectively, probably even more racist but I'll reserve further judgment because they're so jumbled.
You might check out the Dean and such chat boards. The ignorance about labor and economics there is quite astounding from folk who promote themselves as understanding these concerns.
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posted on
01/08/2004 11:04:14 AM PST
by
Shermy
To: kellynla
It will not stop more illegal immigrants from coming. For a decade, I have said that amnesty would only be justified if it simultaneously cut off the flow of millions more people awaiting the next amnesty. I've come to the same conclusion. A good article, thanks for posting it.
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posted on
01/08/2004 11:04:49 AM PST
by
TheDon
(Have a Happy New Year!)
To: VU4G10
Considering the posters I've seen on FR, I'd have to agree.
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posted on
01/08/2004 11:05:33 AM PST
by
TheDon
(Have a Happy New Year!)
To: ravingnutter
I will check it out.
To: Dog Gone
I agree. I thought it rather odd as well.
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posted on
01/08/2004 11:08:24 AM PST
by
TheDon
(Have a Happy New Year!)
To: kellynla
One way to make them legal:
SEND THEM BACK TO MEXICO, DAMMIT!
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posted on
01/08/2004 11:14:37 AM PST
by
dangus
To: Dog Gone
But Mexico's leaders are still guilty of encouraging illegals to invade us (and even giving them survival packs for the trip), which encouragement is in itself a hostile act.
Mexico has also made frequent incursions across our order, and its troops have fired on Americans, which goes way beyond hostile.
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posted on
01/08/2004 11:14:48 AM PST
by
mrustow
To: TheDon
YES! Demonstrate that the border can be effectively sealed off , exempt aliens' children from automatic citizenship, and then maybe, just maybe, we might reluctantly talk about a workers' bill for the ones that have been here for ages.
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posted on
01/08/2004 11:17:34 AM PST
by
dangus
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