Posted on 04/23/2007 6:18:16 PM PDT by Sharks
WASHINGTON - Searching for a bipartisan deal on immigration, Republicans are backing off from strict conditions they floated earlier this year for allowing illegal immigrants a crack at citizenship.
Deep rifts are keeping the two parties from agreeing on a broad overhaul, however, with only a couple of weeks left to reach a compromise under a self-imposed Senate deadline.
An intense round of closed-door talks among Cabinet officials and Senate Republicans and Democrats has reached a critical bargaining stage, congressional officials and lobbyists said. Senior lawmakers from opposite sides of the spectrum — led by liberal Sen. Edward Kennedy (news, bio, voting record), D-Mass., and conservative Sen. Jon Kyl (news, bio, voting record), R-Ariz. — hope to draft a bipartisan measure as early as this week that could come to a Senate vote in May.
The White House and some GOP allies now say they are willing to lower the steep fines and shorten the waits the nation's roughly 12 million illegal immigrants would face if they sought legal status, said sources close to the talks, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to outline the negotiations.
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Tom has the answer on this issue: http://www.teamtancredo.org/
And they wonder why conservatives criticize them. I'm sick and tired of these gutless Republicans who can't make heads or tails out of an issue that should be black-and-whie.
So what country are the Republicans thinking of immigrating too ???
lets see what happens
I have contributed on the past several years to the Republican Party; however, since they have shown no fiscal restraint, do not have the conviction to do the right thing on illegal immigration, and do not have the nads to confront the lies of the cowardly, sniveling Democrats, I am open to a third party candidate. It seems that both parties are controlled by elitists that can only see the country through their rose-colored glasses. Their time is up—let us take back our country for our sakes and indeed the sakes of the whole world.
This reads like a Rove-managed info piece.
Places Bush in the false position of being the moderate - but Bush exacerbated the crisis by non-enforcement for years, then produces the “solution” to the crisis he helped manufacture. To get even MORE foreign workers in, creates the “comprehensive” ruse.
Claims “conservative republicans”, a Rove-directed epithet from last year, are the sole opposition to the plans
Says nothing about working with people in the House, BTW.
Mental illness has swept over the whole crowd of them.
WASHINGTON - Searching for a bipartisan deal on immigration, Republicans are backing off from strict conditions they floated earlier this year for allowing illegal immigrants a crack at citizenship.
Sell out.
thenks for nothing.
And a lot of Republicans too.
Anyone over the age of 50 should think back to what this country was when they were a child. And compare it to what it is today. We are becoming a Third World Country.
Are we a nation of laws or not? Ask W.
The coal fields were being mechanized and this tossed hundreds of thousands of people out of work.
They came in their old junk cars and slept in the fields.
The people did charity ~ shoe drives ~ food drives ~ did searches for homes, even garages for families to live in, and when the children's parents didn't know what vaccinations were, the doctors did that at the schools.
I remember my dad finding a job at the Allison plant on the West side for a fellow with 10 kids ~ he had been a welder in the mines; he became a welder at Allison.
Church memberships swelled.
Still, I learned about the snakehandlers ~ not the "political" version, but the real thing ~ and they loved Indiana because we had every kind of rattler and a definite oversurplus of copperheads! Boy did they love those copperheads ~ meant you wouldn't die.
We learned their language ~ wasn't quite English as we knew it, full of Welsh words in fact.
Methodist ladies' circles taught hygiene to the new immigrants.
Yup, I remember the 1950s.
Still, they were fleeing not just poverty but the total loss of a viable economy ~ the Mexicans are playing a scam ~ they already live in the richest nation in Latin America. They should be encouraged to stay there.
Secure the border. What’s so hard about that? about 80% support this approach. It’s only the Sorros sponsored open borders crowd who oppose securing the borders.
btt
Sorry, but you are sadly mistaken on that Sorros idea. Go to spp.gov and see the real reason there is no intention of securing the borders. In fact the intention is to move our border to the southern end of Mexico and presto...we all become North Americans.
Why don’t they just do the right thing. What could be more simple. Send them back and build a fence.
Patriots. Prepare to bend over.
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