Boehner hints a back down on 'amnesty'

The Washington Times ^ | March 29, 2006 | Charles hurt

[surely_you_jest]

House Majority Leader John A. Boehner refused yesterday to rule out compromising with the Senate to expand the House border security bill to include a guest-worker program or provisions that opponents call "amnesty." "Let's wait and see what the Senate can produce," he told reporters yesterday when asked whether House Republicans would reject the Senate Judiciary Committee's proposal to allow the estimated 12 million illegal aliens now in the U.S. to seek citizenship after paying a fine.

[Indy Pendance]

I guess it's the luck of the draw. We all remember certain things.

But yes, us 'bushbots', who actually want facts and a real discussion of said facts, are a real hindrance to the 'conservative' cause.

[Mojave]

So you contend that illegal immigration is needed in order for Americans to have fruits and vegetables?

He only said between November and March! During those months we would have to eat twinkies and canned corn if it weren't for those wonderful illegal aliens!

[EternalVigilance]

You certainly are.

Really?

So, who owns NewsMax, Howlin?

[Indy Pendance]

Well, color me ignorant. I NEVER thought FReepers would argue based upon emotion.

[Howlin]

[Mo1]

Would ya like a small, medium or large? ..

[wardaddy]

we have been moderated by our success

that was so clear after 9-11 when socially liberal hawks streamed in here

[wardaddy]

Amen G!

[Junior_G]

Wow, that is an infuriating stat. Though it fits nicely with Bush's refusal to exercise his veto power.

[RunningWolf]

Does MOD really stand for /Move on . org?/

Well, we could certainly make an 'evilutionary' case for that interpretation based upon the evidence.

And like evo goes 'the case' as it were, would be all by inference, hhhmmm...

Wolf

[Mojave]

I don't see how "Family Values don't stop at the Rio Grande", means anchor babies, since those babies were born north of the Rio Grande.

To illegals aliens from the south of it.

[Chickenhawk Warmonger]

Here's a little news item from today about one of the President's illegal immigration initiatives...

"U.S. Ends Undocumented Immigrant Stings"
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/03/29/D8GLDJ400.html

"The Bush administration has stopped using fake health and safety meetings at job workshops to snag illegal immigrants.

Marcy Forman, director of the Homeland Security Department's Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) divison, said in a letter to the United Food and Commercial Workers union, that it had stopped using sting operations for rounding up undocumented immigrants.

ICE arrested 49 illegal immigrant workers at North Carolina's Seymour Johnson Air Force Base last summer by luring them with a flier to what was advertised as a mandatory Occupational Safety and Health Administration meeting.

Those arrested were contract workers and largely laborers, such as carpenters, with no access to military files."

Why did they stop? Not at the direction of the President...

"The sting drew immediate criticism from unions, immigration advocates and the North Carolina's Occupational Safety and Health Division. Neither the state agency nor federal OSHA officials were involved in the sting.

OSHA "is the agency charged with keeping people safe on the job," said Jill Cashen, spokeswoman for the United Food and Commercial Workers Union. "To use it as a trap is outrageous and undermines safety on the job."

The union made the March 17 letter from Forman public as the Senate plunged into a debate over tightening borders and fining employers who hire undocumented immigrants. It also is deciding whether to provide some kind of legal status to the rouhgly 11 million illegal aliens now living in the United States as an alternative to deporting them."

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

There is no expertise required.

These are simple, rudimentary facts.

If there is an endless supply of cheap labor-and no constraints placed upon employers to abide by basic labor standards or wage laws-then there will be no incentive to modernize, or find innovative solutions.

Australia-which imposed some of the most sensible restrictions on the very type of laborers that we are seeking to legalize by the millions-learned this lesson.

One which I should hope the United States would want to emulate.

[Mo1]

3??

I think I recall reading about more then 3 raids done on business regarding illegals

and I think I recall reading something like 6 million have been deported

plus .. you didn't answer my question

[gsan]

Still Japan has a huge guest worker program that seems to get the help they want, or need, in certain occupations. I know being an island helps them.

[EternalVigilance]

that was so clear after 9-11 when socially liberal hawks streamed in here

It's unbelievable.

[Indy Pendance]

Why is that a lie? Do you have a 20 million, legit based fact, to back up your claim?

[Indy Pendance]

I'll have a large please. Looks like a long night.

[Dane]

To illegals aliens from the south of it

Still don't get your drift.

JMO, "Family values don't stop at the Rio Grande" says to me that people are basically the same and that family values(hard working, family oriented, religious etc.etc) in the US are the same as they are in Mexico.