Posted on 03/28/2006 5:10:35 PM PST by Altair333
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-CO), Chairman of the 94-member House Immigration Reform Caucus, issued the following statement today on immigration matters:
“The immigration rallies over this weekend and today show how disordered our immigration system has become. For years, the government has turned a blind eye to illegal aliens who break into this country. It isn’t any wonder that illegal aliens now act as if they are entitled to the rights and privileges of citizenship.
“The McCain-Kennedy-Specter bill that came out of the Judiciary Committee today provides nearly universal amnesty for the more than 12 million illegal aliens in the U.S. The bill also adds hundreds of thousands of foreign workers to a background check system that is already on the brink of collapse. The Judiciary Committee even adopted Durbin’s amendment, which reduces penalties so that visa overstays will continue to undermine our immigration system.
“If the Senate follows the Judiciary Committee’s lead, the prospects of getting a reform bill to the President’s desk this year are slim, to say the least. No plan with amnesty and a massive increase in foreign workers will pass the House. Amnesty and foreign workers are fundamentally incompatible with the House’s approach and, according to every recent poll, they are not what Americans want. Americans want enforcement first, and disagreement over foreign workers should not prevent us from securing our borders.”
No plan with amnesty and a massive increase in foreign workers will pass the House.
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Presumably, Tom knows where the votes lie in the House- we may be grieving prematurely about what the Senate is doing. If it's dead it's dead.
Oh, don't interrupt a full blown, chest beating melt down with the facts, please!
The president may think he has political capital but there are plenty of GOPers who face more elections. The fact that the judiciary committee approves stupidity doesn't mean the stupidity will fly.
This is essentially what Sen. Chambliss (Ga) said would happen when I saw him a couple of weeks ago - no agreement between the House and Senate - no bill.
So what it boils down to is, our Senate doesn't have the guts to stand up to the illegals, so there will BE no immigration reform at all, and everything will remain exactly as it is.
Anything short of DEPORTATION of these ILLEGALS is unacceptable.
Activate the National Guard in all fifty states. Let them round up these INVADERS and get them out of this country.
Add more border patrol and slap HEAVY FINES on the businesses here who employ these lawbreakers.
Erect the border WALL! Forget a flimsy fence!
Good news bad news
GOOD news, NO amnesty or worker program!
bad news won't be passed this year.
What about border security yesterday this was needed.
And that is the way tancredo wants it, to keep his PAC donations flowing.
The makings for a serious Demo ass-kicking are all here in this debate. Lets see if Frist is smart enough to line em' up and make it happen. If, instead, it degenerates into a vote on the Amnesty Rino bill, with passage assured by All Dems + Rino then Frist will have failed utterly.
Trancredo will do us all a favor by just killing the damn bill in committee (or however that happens) so that no compromise is made. The status quo is better than what that freaking idiot Arlen Spector has brought forward.
Would you like some cheese with your whine?
Forget a WALL. . .
Lay out MINEFIELDS. . .
Nah, tancredo's constant whine is not my cup of tea.
He could actually reach out to good conservatives such as Kyl/Cornyn and get something done, but I guess the funds flowing into his and his partner's bay buchanan's PAC is more important to him.
They are protesting against immigration enforcement, and Bush is the most important opponent of immigration enforcement.
Bush will gain zero support the entire Amnesty movement. They hate him anyway, and he enrages his conservative support.
The only people he pleases is the cheap labor business lobby. Hope he likes basking in their warm glow.
Bullshit. This isn't Trancredo's fault. He got a good bill through the House. The Senate could have taken off a few rough edges (the Felony provision, the aiding provision) and passed it out of committee. Instead, they are capitulating to fat cat business interests and the Latino grievance groups.
Direct your anger at the Four Idiots of the Amnesty Apocolypse: Mike DeWine, R-Ohio; Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.; Sam Brownback, R-Kan.; Arlen Specter, R-Pa
They are REPUBLICANS who sided with the DEMS to deliver this horrible bill. (We knew about Specter and Graham is an middle of the road type. DeWine and Brownback are a total surprise.)
At this point, I'd just be happy to see a fence along parts of the borders, a much increased border guard, and real fines imposed on those who hire illegals.
I honestly don't know how we're going to round up 10-million Mexicans. I don't think the American people have the guts for it. The MSM will swarm upon this, and we'll see stories everyday of how little Jose was left waiting for his dad to play baseball with him but is abandoned. There will be cries of racism, etc... and the American people will cave.
I'd rather make it very, very, very uninviting to hire these people illegally and let them return to Mexico without a job. You commit a crime or are involved in a traffic accident and are illegal, away you go. No questions.
It says Arab, not Muslim. The majority of Arab Americans are Christian. Only about 12 percent of Muslims .
Spin spin spin
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