Posted on 07/24/2005 10:32:28 AM PDT by radar101
Worried that the tone of the immigration debate is pushing Latinos away from the Republican Party, the White House is working with political strategists to create a broad coalition of business groups and immigrant advocates to back a plan President Bush could promote in Congress and to minority voters in the 2006 elections.
The strategists say Bush is planning to make immigration a top priority as soon as this fall, once the focus on a Supreme Court vacancy has passed.
A guest-worker program is favored by many Latinos and by businesses, many of them major GOP donors that depend on a steady flow of workers from Mexico and other countries. The White House effort is aimed at satisfying these groups while promoting tougher border security enforcement. The latter focus is an attempt to mollify a vocal bloc of cultural conservatives in the GOP — some in the House leadership — who argue that undocumented workers present a security threat and take some jobs
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Illegal IS NOT a four letter word! You would think it was because it is avoided when the MSM is writing about ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS!
il-le-gal: Against law: contravening a specific law, especially a criminal law
Illegal immigrant: somebody who has entered a country illegally
By being soft on illegal immigration, the Republican Party will lose 10 long-time Republican votes for every new Hispanic vote such a stance might achieve. That spells catastrophy in the '06 elections and the President is finished if the Dems win the Congress. Surely Rove is not this stupid.
and if the feds would start fining employers who knowingly hire illegals then they would be forced to hire American citizens!
This is all reeeeely ridiculous and verrry elementary my dear, Watson! LOL
Oh? He isn't? And your evidence is...
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I figure the aim is to do what Daddy did.....give it to the Dems.
"and if the feds would start fining employers who knowingly hire illegals then they would be forced to hire American citizens!"
There's too much money at stake for that to happen. Let's assume ICE raided Tyson Chicken in Arkansas tomorrow. They'd discover 80% of their tens of thousands of employees were illegal aliens, who would promptly scatter to other states.
That would leave Tyson high and dry as well as all the people who rent apartments and sell goods to the illegal aliens. They would all scream bloody murder.
What the government will give us instead is symbolic bones like increasing the number of border guards. Being fully aware that more than enough will keep trying and will keep slipping through, thus making the moneyed interests happy.
You will NEVER, EVER see the kind of mass raids on American business that would actually produce results.
You WILL see America turn into Mexico in coming decades- might as well get used to it. At least they aren't Muslims- we can laugh at the French for their predicament on that score. They have an aging population like we do but they illegals who want to come to Europe are mainly bin-Laden loving Arabs. That's my one consolation about this immigration mess. Mexican culture is much closer to ours than Arab culture.
Anyone who heard that President Bush was considering an amnesty program heard it from Tancredo and his crowd, not the White House. President Bush has consistently said that he opposes a general amnesty.
Put the blame on the right people, the Buchanan/Tancredo fear mongers.
IMO, it just makes it more clear what type of an organization WalMart truly is.
The issue will be over as soon as the comprehensive reform legislation is passed, regardless of what for it takes.
Buchanan/Tancredo don't want the issues resolved, they want them kept on the table in order to raise money from the hysterical suckers.
Because there are enough idiots who simply vote down the party line to give to turds what they think.
Every Republican congressperson could go to a Republican Consituents door and slap then in the face, and that person would still vote Republican because they are "the lessor of two evils".
That's why the two party system no longer works. You got dips*t on the red ticket and a**hole on the blue ticket. Now, exercise your right to vote you free people!!!!!!!
Someone recently posted the comment that "winning for the sake of winning isn't worth much, especially at the expense of your ideals".
The bottom line, as always.
Your compassion for legal Mexican immigrants is quite touching.
If voting meant anything, it would be Illegal! Blackbird.
The businesses want that steady flow, which results from low resistance, or lax border security enforcement.
The Bush Administration wants to please their business supporters by encouraging flow with Amnesty, while making futile gestures at Border Security to further placate and hoodwink those fed up "cultural conservatives" who are sick and tired of this game.
Your compassion for ILLEGAL ALIEN Mexicans is quite repulsive. Blackbird.
Don't confuse compassion with greed among the open border crowd.
Which will result in more immigration laws that won't be enforced, just as our federal government isn't enforcing the immigration laws currently on the books.
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