Posted on 04/08/2006 9:30:46 AM PDT by doug from upland
Senator Clinton says immigration bill would make her a criminal
AP Friday, April 07, 2006
WASHINGTON (AP) - Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday that an immigration bill approved in the House of Representatives would make her and her aides criminals for their work on behalf of New York constituents.
Clinton's comments are her latest salvo against the Republican-authored House bill that would penalise anyone who knowingly assists or encourages illegal immigrants to remain in the country. The bill, which passed the House in December, also makes it a felony to be in the country illegally.
Speaking to the US Hispanic Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday, Clinton, touted as a potential Democratic presidential candidate in 2008, said her work for New York constituents could fall afoul of the bill since many are immigrants.
"I realise I would be a criminal, too. My staff would be criminal. We help people with all kinds of problems," said Clinton.
Democratic critics and the Catholic Church say such language would make even humanitarian assistance to an illegal immigrant a crime; the bill's authors dismiss the claim as an absurd attempt to defeat the bill.
Clinton has, over the past few weeks, stepped out strongly against the bill as senators debate varying proposals, including setting up a guest worker programme as supported by President George W Bush and affording citizenship to most of those in the country illegally. Senators are seeking a strong bill that would allow them more leverage in bargaining with House lawmakers.
Last month, Clinton lashed out at the House bill, saying it was "mean-spirited" and would probably criminalise "even Jesus himself".
The New York Democrat continued that offensive Wednesday, urging Hispanic business leaders to help defeat such measures by resisting what she called misinformation in the emotionally charged immigration debate.
"We need to help educate the entire American public. We need to put the face of America and hardworking Americans on this debate," she said.
Over the past couple of weeks, tens of thousands of people have protested the bill around the country, staging mass rallies and school walkouts in California, Arizona and Texas and shutting down minority-owned business in Georgia.
Peter King, one of the Republican authors of the bill, said it was Clinton who was spreading misinformation, and the only way she would be viewed as a criminal under the bill was if she were a "coyote," another term for an immigrant smuggler. The bill, he said, "has absolutely nothing to do with churches or social workers or senators assisting illegal immigrants. It is aimed entirely at alien smuggling gangs."
So whats new?
Or at least a seat cushion big enough for said rear-end!!
Yes, especially when they vote Democratic multiple times in the same election.
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Right on the money. The ThugoRats could care less about illegal immigrants if they somehow could not vote ILLEGALLY for the ThugoRats....plain and simple. Nothing has changed since Tammany Hall.
Too late for that Hill
(cough)Bull$@*t(cough)
Yep, and an idiotic talking point it is too. This is the same as saying that one is guilty of aiding and abetting a murderer if one is an advocate for prison reform. The hyperbole of both parallels is outrageous and the average person can see through such a ruse. This is just another example of libs thinking that most people are stupid.
The PIG farteth.
Right! I thought the FBI files and the Rose Law Firm billing records did that already!
I think Vince Foster's still "unexplained" death was before that.
In fairness, a lot of folks who are supposed to be on our side voted for NAFTA as well. That doesn't relieve the Slick One of his responsibility, it's just the old pot-kettle-black thing.
It doesnt take an immigration bill to turn Hillary into a criminal.
It's NOT "democratic". Why do all writers use that term? It's "Democrat" candidate, Democrat Party, Democrat hopeful...whatever. It's not the "Democratic Party"!
FMCDH(BITS)
Hillary Clinton:
This bill would make Jesus Christ a criminal.
This bill would make me a criminal.
ergo.......I am Jesus Christ!
Well, if the shoe fits...
Let's see now . . . between her complicity in the murder of Vince Foster and the resultant coverup, and her theft of government documents, and her illegal drug possession and use in the White House, and the lesbian activity in the White House theater, and her theft of 100s of dollars of government property from the White House, and her perjury, suborning of purjury, aiding and abetting, and her slandering of the Travel Office employees, and her illegal health care sessions, and her illegal campaign contributions, and her illegal insider trading scams, and on and on, I guess one more criminal activity wouldn't surprise me. Why aren't she and the rest of the Clinton administration sitting in prison right now? Rhetorical question, isn't it?
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