Posted on 08/18/2005 5:40:21 PM PDT by 4.1O dana super trac pak
The White House is planning a new push to change the nation’s immigration laws, looking in part for businesses to lobby Congress to pass measures that give more foreign-born workers legal status while also toughening lax enforcement.
But the conflicting interests of President Bush’s big-business supporters, who believe the economy needs more workers, and Republican Party conservatives - many of whom have made a top priority of clamping down on illegal immigration in the name of national security - threaten the prospects for a quick deal.
The White House and its allies are looking to businesses for help in selling and supporting a new immigration policy, including funds to pay for a television advertising blitz. Bush allies are organizing a group called Americans for Border and Economic Security to run a public media campaign. The group is being organized by former Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie.
The importance for Bush’s business backers of a revised approach to national immigration policy was underscored again over the weekend, when officials announced they were no longer accepting applications for U.S. visas for high-tech and skilled workers for 2006.
That’s because the year’s quota of applications has been met already - a month earlier than last year. The so-called H-1B visas are particularly important for companies needing white-collar workers with specialized skills, but Congress in recent years has generally held to a tight limit of 65,000 or so H-1B permits annually.
In recent weeks, White House staffers have met repeatedly with potential supporters among business and conservative groups to consult on President Bush’s emerging legislative strategy. Based on the briefings so far, Bush’s principles echo a set of proposals he made in January 2004 focusing on sweeping new guest-worker program. For instance, Bush’s advisers say they want a solution that is "comprehensive"....
(Excerpt) Read more at seacoastonline.com ...
Hey, this sounds a lot like the infamous we-cut-spending-if-you-raise-taxes deal the DemocRAT Congress made with #41 George "Read My Lips" Bush.
He just doesn't get it.
yes, it's the reagan era "amnesty for stronger enforcement" trade that resulted in the second half of the agreement being forgotten after about 2 minutes.
I can't get to this article for some reason. Anybody else having trouble?
Didn't work for me either.
This should be an interesting thread. Dubya, as a former Texas governor, knows good and well that Texas has been overrun with illegls for many years. You can find them on every street corner, and most certainly find their anchor babies in every elementary school. It used to mean something to be an American, but now it just means that you're a tax-paying sucker.
Could you fix the link-thanks:http://www.seacoastonline.com/news/08172005/biz_nati/58238.htm
Correct link above.
I voted for Bush both times, I support Bush in most everything, BUT I will NOT support him in this....
The only immigration I will support is closed borders armed with national guard on both south and north and if you want to come into our country you will do it legally....
Anything else, gets no support from me...
The got to the site, but I didn't see the article there.
Hopefully someone can straighten this out. I'd like to read the whole thing.
Thanks
"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country.""It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country."
- President Theodore Roosevelt, 1908
On second thought, you are correct. I guess my Wayback Machine needs a little tuneup.
"Americans for Border and Economic Security"
to quote "1984"
"Ignorance is Strength"
Same here.
There will be no conservative support.
See post 38 for correct link
I have a question...
What businesses will support this law? I never hear who they are. Are these employers taht are currently using illegal aliems? Are they employers that are sitting around without sufficient employees? What are they doing to get Americans to find out about these open positions?
That would be post #8 for correct link.
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