"Your FIRED!!!
Posted on 05/22/2006 8:15:42 AM PDT by Tirian
Among those who will be cleared of past crimes under the Senate's proposed immigration-reform bill would be the businesses that have employed the estimated 10 million illegal aliens eligible for citizenship and that provided the very "magnet" that drew them here in the first place.
Buried in the more than 600 pages of legislation is a section titled "Employer Protections," which states: "Employers of aliens applying for adjustment of status under this section shall not be subject to civil and criminal tax liability relating directly to the employment of such alien."
Supporters of the legislation insist that such provisions do not amount to "amnesty." "The legislation we are considering today is not amnesty," Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter said last week. "That is a pejorative term, really a smear term used to denigrate the efforts at comprehensive immigration reform. This is not amnesty because amnesty means a pardon of those who have broken the law."
--SNIP-- Sen. Robert C. Byrd, West Virginia Democrat, vehemently opposes "this effort to waive the rules for lawbreakers and to legalize the unlawful actions of undocumented workers and the businesses that illegally employ them." Amnesties, he said, "are the dark underbelly of our immigration process."
"They tarnish the magnanimous promise enshrined on the base of the Statue of Liberty," Mr. Byrd said last week on the Senate floor. "Amnesties undermine that great egalitarian and American principle that the law should apply equally and should apply fairly to everyone."
While most of the focus thus far has been on the "amnesty" granted to illegal aliens, opponents only now are discovering the broad range of crimes that will be forgiven under the legislation.
(Excerpt) Read more at washtimes.com ...
This is Wrong, Wrong, Wrong.....the Dem is right!
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I'm agreeing with Sen Byrd?!?
WAKE UP GOP!!!
You're augering in; screwing the pooch; flaming out; losing it...
One thing is very clear, and that is many of our senators have sold their souls.
"Your FIRED!!!
blast....forgot the other quote mark :(
How much more than seeing Byrd, Schumer Bill Clinton and Joe Klein from the Times agree with him does President Bush need to realize that he is ASS BACKWARD on this?
Everyone who he is opposed to politically agrees with him and the ones who voted for him disagree with him! Shouldn't that tell him he is on the wrong path? What the heck is he thinking?
Exactly!
Specter's actions demonstrate that he is against the best interests of this country.
That's kind of a rough thing to say, don't you think?
I swear (not really but I know all the words), Sphincter must have his head up his sphincter. An employer breaks the law by employing a crimmigrant but letting the employer off is not a pardon or amnesty? That is more convoluted than the meaning of "Is is" or no "controlling legal authority". It has to be fluoride in the water. What else could have contributed to such an inside out, upside down, right is wrong, black is white (no white is bad I guess)government that we have today?
(Denny Crane: "Every one should carry a gun strapped to their waist. We need more - not less guns.")
""Employers of aliens applying for adjustment of status under this section shall not be subject to civil and criminal tax liability relating directly to the employment of such alien." "
So why the devil should we obey the law? Our govt. doesn't.
"Geez-O-Pete! I'm agreeing with Sen Byrd?!? WAKE UP GOP!!! You're augering in; screwing the pooch; flaming out; losing it..."
Well said!!!
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