Posted on 05/29/2005 7:16:06 PM PDT by Brilliant
This bipartisan deal cut by Sen. John McCain is noxious. No, the issue isn't judges. (Or campaign finance, or health care...) It's illegal immigration and a proposal that has just been cooked up by the Arizona maverick and the Massachusetts non-maverick Sen. Ted Kennedy to grant an amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants.
Under the bill, illegals would have to work in the U.S. — which they are already doing — for six years as legal temporary workers, then they would be eligible to apply for green cards. Also, a new category of guest workers would be created who would work here for four years, then be eligible for green cards. This category will likely bring another 400,000 (and probably more) foreign workers a year into the country.
McCain and Kennedy argue that their legislation isn't an amnesty because illegals have to pay a $1,000 fine prior to becoming temporary workers and another $1,000 before getting their green cards. But an amnesty with a small fine is still amnesty. Mark Krikorian of the Washington-based Center for Immigration Studies calls the fine, in effect, "a retroactive smuggling fee paid to the U.S. government."...
It applies to any illegal with a job, and to his spouse and children. There are roughly 10 million to 11 million illegals. Of them, 6 million to 7 million are employed, and the rest are generally spouses and children.
We've been here before. A 1986 amnesty gave 2.7 million illegals green cards. The law spawned massive fraud. A man who would go on to be one of the terrorists in the first World Trade Center bombing, an Egyptian cabdriver working in New York, was legalized under the law...
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I would be willing to take the illegals.....if we could give them McStain and Kennedy.
We need to enforce the laws that exist.
Am I missing something, or did McCain just assure that he will never be President?
They want to sell green cards now?
He'll run. The question is: what as?
I have not been able to bring myself to give this thing serious consideration. If this is what the country is coming to, then we should start packing our bags and putting our things in order. McCain and Kennedy, what a combination, it is a shame the Republican party lacks the sincerity to expell McCain.
Not only that I have come to the conclusion that he has a serious mental disorder.
Since he has endorsed amnesty, it doesn't much matter.
You didn't miss anything: McManiac will never be President.
It all depends on if he can get those millions of amnesty recipients to vote. Then, there is the stupid vote.
He omitted to mention that McCain stabbed his President and his Party in the back, along with all the people who worked so hard for them in the election. Also, the fact that McCain now wants regulations on privacy and national security superseded, so as to release classified information to U.S. Senators who are not entitled, by law, to see it.
Is McCain the King? What entitles him to control what the Senate and the President should do? Where is the Republican in government who will stand up to him and express in public forums what we all are saying?
Certainly among true Conservatives he is a lost cause, but if he were to get the nomination against Hitlery, could you honestly say you would elect... gasp, our second Clintonista.....A dilemma indeed.
No deep thoughts here. I just had this urge to vent my frustration.
Question: Why is it Republicans cut deals with the other side that are detrimental to OUR issues and OUR causes, but Democrats NEVER cut a deal with Republicans that betrays their side?!
After the "Gang of Fourteen" deal last week, the same image kept running through my mind - of Lucy holding the football and jerking it away just when Charlie Brown kicks...and Charlie Brown falls on his butt.
The Democrats learned from Lucy, and Charlie Brown is a typical Republican Congressman/Senator. They promise over and over that they will cut a deal that will be to the GOP's advantage. But after the dust settles, guess what?
They jerk the ball away and we fall on our asses. :o(
"could you honestly say you would elect... gasp, our second Clintonista.....A dilemma indeed."
In my opinion, McCain is a bigger screw-up than Hillary. If it should ever come to a contest between McCain and Hillary, I would probably vote for one of the smaller political parties. But that's why it's so important to see that McCain doesn't get the Republican nomination.
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