Posted on 06/13/2006 5:10:20 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
Hopes for a quick compromise on immigration were dealt a blow Tuesday after House Speaker Dennis Hastert said he wanted to take a "long look" at a Senate bill offering possible citizenship to millions of illegal immigrants.
Hastert said hearings on the Senate bill should be held before appointing anyone to a House-Senate committee to negotiate a compromise immigration bill. Later, he said he was unsure what the House's next move would be.
"We're going to take a long look at it," Hastert said late Tuesday.
House Majority Leader John Boehner agreed. "I think we should know clearly what's in the Senate bill," Boehner said. But he added there are lots of ways to understand its contents.
Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, also scheduled a hearing for Monday to review provisions in the bill requiring employers to verify that their workers are legal.
Cornyn said he opposes a provision allowing workers to use up to 20 documents to verify they are legal workers. Also, the Department of Homeland Security has raised concerns about how quickly it must have in place an electronic system that employers will use to verify their workers legal status, Cornyn's spokesman Don Stewart said.
"This will give us a chance to look at it in more detail," Cornyn said...."
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
We don't need new laws. We need to enforce the laws we have.
We all know the Senate bill is garbage. Time to send emails by the hundreds of thousands. IMO, if they can't get it right, then no bill is better than what they've "cooked up."
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.
Bricks that is and lots of them.
While we review your tabled bill Senator, let's work on these bricks. :)
The status quo is superior to legislation in response to the mob on both ends of the spectrum.
One can hope.
Good, drop two 500 pounders on it and be done with that garbage.
AMEN
"Hearings might be beneficial if there was a lack of attention or knowledge on this issue in the House, but that's certainly not the case," Flake said in a statement.
In other words, "let's not expose the public to any more truth if at all possible."
...Rep. Jim Kolbe, R-Ariz., who also called for the bill to move forward. "Only a small, vocal faction wants to stop a sensible guest-worker program and ignore the reality of the 11 million undocumented living in the country now,"
Pure unadulterated BS. Lying through his teeth.
Kolbe said in a statement. "We must not let any delays impede our progress toward solving this problem."
In other words "the blowback is getting worse by the day, and the sooner we can ramrod this through Congress, the sooner the voters can start forgetting about this treason."
Here we have two politicians whose districts are already "Hispanified" they have no choice but to sell out the country if they want to keep their jobs. Thankfully this puts them in the minority for now.
Ten years from now the story will be entirely different. If the House caves on this isue, the USA as we know it is finished.
And rightfully so. The Senate's current immigration proposal would grant illegal aliens guest worker status and eventual US citizenship. Both of these provisions equate to amnesty. Bush ordering NG troops to the border is a positive step and something he should have done right after 9-11. However, a comprehensive immigration reform bill is not the answer. The House proposal HR4437 has been waiting for Senate action since December 2005. HR4437 secures the border and enforces employer sanctions. Foreigners who break US law shouldn't be rewarded. Close the borders now and tell employers to stop hiring illegals, or else. Its get tough time for the Feds. Lets see who has the cajones to get the job done.
"And that's what's so infuriating about the whole thing. The senate is so high and mighty that they think they're untouchable and they don't care what the lowly constituents want."
Repeal the 17th amendment and bring us back to a federalism.
ping
good.
"Rep. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., urged Hastert to drop any plans for hearings."
The only thing I can say for him is that he's living up to his name!
If Pence's plan or HR 4437 by itself is not brought up in the committee, then there should be no compromise with the treacherous Senate's plan whatsoever.
Illinios conservatives who reside in Hastert's district should stay home or vote 3rd party if this goes through.
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