The amnesty happens, but the border is never fixed.
Posted on 10/14/2005 6:51:41 PM PDT by SmithL
CHAMBLEE, Ga. -- Florida Sen. Mel Martinez, the first Cuban-American elected to the U.S. Senate, said Friday he was teaming up with the only black member of the chamber to introduce an immigration enforcement bill.
Martinez, a Republican, said he expected to announce the details of the bill later this month with Democratic Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois.
"Immigration is something that we got to get fixed," Martinez told a crowd of Georgia's Hispanic government and business leaders in the northern Atlanta suburb.
"First and foremost, we've got to do border enforcement," he said. "Then we got to have a worker program. There are people that are here that this economy absolutely needs — there's nothing wrong with that."
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OK, now you have my attention.
That is exactly the point that needs to be made.
YOu need border enforcement first.
Then you can more easily control whatever worker program you have to have.
The amnesty happens, but the border is never fixed.
Read the rest of the article. He discounts any possibility of deporting current illegals, he wants illegals to get in-state tuition, he wants a guest worker program, etc. etc.
Amnesty Alert. Saying out of one side of his mouth that he wants border enforcement is meaningless sound effects if out of the other side of his mouth he's saying things that will encourage more illegal immigration. Just stick to border enforcement, Mel. We'll then figure out to do from there, once that's done.
Then, Martiniz and a couple of others who came as refugees will wake up and realize that the presence of so many illegal aliens in the population seriously reduces the interest Americans have in bringing in legitimate refugees.
Words of wisdom worth repeating.
Well is Mel taking a conservative approach which sees the border thing as a law and order mess and fear that the US will get overrun by immigrants (apparently not). I believe he's taking a libertarian approach that opposes limits (in general) to immigration (because the economy needs their unskilled labor---and their skilled labor as well in many cases). I really don't think he's playing any kind of Hispanic card---in general Cubans haven't, they've been sort of individualistic among Latinos (voting Republican, higher involvement in the business sector--although that is rapidly changing).
It may very well be that blacks, cubans and others are too damn dumb to realize their vote is being lost on the the illegals.
They are becoming irrelevant.
Soon the blacks, cubans and asians will be singing "Viva La Raza! Viva Atzlan!"
"Border State of Emergency", etc.
Yep this is totally a trick. Read the whole article, which doesn't even go in the deailts of the proposed legislation.
I love this part
"Martinez also criticized attempts to curtail allowing undocumented immigrants to pay lower in-state tuition, saying, "It's shortsighted not to view the education of a future generation of Americans as a priority for all Americans.""
Right. And by spending our tax revenues on illegal immigrants' children we are taking money away from those Americans whose parents did pay the taxes. Right?
never trust a man like martinez who wanted to shut down club GITMO
Obama is using Martinez to shore up his credentials to be Hillary's VP in 2008....
Martinez has turned into a RINO, enough said.
obama is a dangerous, dangerous socialist.
hitlery and osama obama, what a combination for 08.
which is why we need a unapologetic right wing attack dog....
can't afford to throw up another sacrificial dole.
Anybody here feel sorry for the legal immigrants who are getting s*****d by the flood of illegals?
As I've said before, my ancestors came to the front door (Ellis Island) and knocked, and waited to be invited in.
They didn't crawl under the back fence in the middle of the night.
My plan is simple- lots of legal immigration, NO illegal immigration. And we let the Department of Labor set immigration quotas based on employment needs.
PING
Black and a Cuban. Seen it before.
Why are these guys so eager, a fence and that is all, is needed? As soon as my income taxes, emergency health care, and auto insurance is lowered to the same rate as the illegal immigrants, AND a fence is built and we station some troops and we begin to haul away employers for passing off their workers social care on to the American citizens while honest employers are forced to pay work comp. Then I might consider a guest amnesty program as my last choice for what to do with this problem, and maybe I would move that up on the list if those seeking restaurant positions had to pass a test to prove that they knew how to make bread with yeast.
I voted for Martinez because he was better than the DIM alternative. I didn't expect a conservative, but jeez, this guy is getting harder to stomach all the time.
IMO, he's just another RINO. Crap, what a choice. A RINO or a wacko socialist.
Notice the misleading title. He's not attacking restrictions. He's trying to reinforce them.
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