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
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Yes it is.
And don't forget this part:
Admission into the new coalition costs between $50,000 and $250,000. The proceeds are expected to pay for a political-style campaign for an approach to immigration that combines heightened border security with a guest-worker program of some sort, creating an environment that the White House believes will be more favorable for Bush to step back into the fray.
So the companies that benefit most from illegal immigration are being offered the chance to jump on the open borders bandwagon for modest cost.
In return, they get this
But what has Sum particularly intrigued and concerned is the undeniable evidence that more American businesses are opting to expand profits and remain competitive by hiring low-cost undocumented workers instead of paying taxes, workers' compensation and even rudimentary health benefits for legal workers. "I haven't seen anything like this in 25 years," Sum said.
What a scam on the American taxpayer.
obviously the gop is not going to commit suicide and endorse the insanities of this forum on illegal immigration.
Hey, bayourod! Your profile page is AWESOME. Thorough, and I mean THOROUGH analysis; more than you usually find. Well done.
Since all the illegals are willing to get registered as "guest workers" LET THEM: THEN we can FIND 'em! Unfortunately, 'splaining the strategy in detail to the ubiquitous short-sighted xenophobes would spill the beans and wind up being severely counter-productive, now, wouldn't it?
Oooooh, you are just dripping with compassion are you Bayourod? There are over 4 billion people on earth, most of them quite poor. The compassion of you and other massive immigration advocates does not appear to extend any farther than to those who will work for you for cheap.
"Why no worry that the tone of the immigration pandering is pushing Americans away from the Republican Party?"
Because we have nowhere else to go. Just like black voters and the Democratic party.
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We can go to Washington and Camp out!! Maybe a barbecue on the mall !!On capitol Hill and on the WH Lawn!! We the LEGAL AMERICAN CITIZENS must be heard!!
(Not what you wanted to hear)
got that right
Sounds to me it's the Coalition of the Willing to Beat Our Current Laws the Rest of the Way into the Ground. Can't imagine there will be anyone in this coalition who doesn't favor amnesty in the end.
Bravo! Couldn't have said it better.
Illegal Immigration Facts and Figures
10.4 million illegal aliens reside in the United States.
(source: Pew Hispanic Center)
Every year, 500,000 additional illegal aliens enter the United States
(source: Pew Hispanic Center)
California's nearly 3 million illegal immigrants cost taxpayers nearly $9 billion each year
(source: Federation for American Immigration Reform)
Illegal aliens cost the federal government $10 billion more annually than they pay in taxes.
(source: Center for Immigration Studies)
Taxpayers pay $750 million annually to house the 18,000 illegal aliens in California prisons.
(source: US Govt. Accounting Office)
Look somebody's got to have some damned perspective around here.
Boom. Sooner or later . . . BOOM!"
-- Earth Alliance Lt. Commander Susan Ivanova
"GWB needs to start ENFORCING THE LAW!"
GWB needs to have someone read the Constitution to him, very slowly.
"Unless the goal is to put in Hillary and dissolve us into the North American Community."
Then one of the major hurdles of the NWO will be fulfilled, like the creeping cancer that it is.
If Prez Bush keeps pushing his amnesty for illegals, he's hurting his country as well as his party.
And don't forget their relatives. The next cry will be for "family reunification" (gotta get the grandparents on Social Security and the widowed sister with her 8 kids on SSI, as well as the chronically ill brother, and . . .)
Then as these new "Americans" move up the ladder, who will do those "jobs Americans won't do"? Why, the next tsunami of proto-amnestees. Welcome to our Brave New [Third] World.
However both Buchanan and Tancredo have called for a moratorium on all immigration. They are the biggest obstacle to speeding up the immigration of family members.LINK
I hope you continue supporting President Bush. If we can crush Tancredo we might be able to speed up the system.
"IMO, it just makes it more clear what type of an organization WalMart truly is."
Don't forget to add small privately owned business owners. I was hired by an employer with a very small business which employed himself, two other people and me making a total of four people. He hired me because his "illegal" employee had quit over some work related issues, whatever. That person eventually came back to work, had their spouse come in and ask the boss for their position back. Wild, wish that would work for me! I, the born and raised American citizen was immediately let go. Basically the owner used me as a psychological tool to show his illegal employee that he wasn't going to chase em down and beg em back. His plan worked but the principle of the matter IS MOST ALL EMPLOYERS of big to tiny businesses are only looking out for #1(themself) and all this bickering and political shoving means nothing to them. Absolutely nothing, only their personal bank account.
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