A RISING STAR
Posted on 05/17/2007 1:17:54 PM PDT by bnelson44
May 17th, 2007 - Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator DeMint made the following statement:
“I hope we don't take a thousand page bill written in secret and try to ram it through the Senate in a few days. This is a very important issue for America and we need time to debate it.”
“But the little we do know about the bill is troubling. According to reports, the bill contains a new 'Z Visa' that allows those who entered our country illegally to stay here permanently without ever returning home. This rewards people who broke the law with permanent legal status, and puts them ahead of millions of law-abiding immigrants waiting to come to America. I don't care how you try to spin it, this is amnesty.”
MORE on Immigration: ** DeMint OpEd on RealClearPolitics.com - Responsible Immigration Reform
Senator DeMint is chairman of the Senate Steering Committee, a caucus of conservative senators that includes the majority of the Republican Conference.
###
(Excerpt) Read more at demint.senate.gov ...
There is still a little glimmer of hope.
DeMint is a rising star in the GOP for many reasons - this is one example.
Watch this man down the road - he has a national future if he seeks it.
this is what I would call jumping the gun, creating hysteria without knowing what is in the bill. I’d like to know how high I am before I jump.
Heh...That was a quick turnaround from earlier.
I sent him email and a fax about an hour ago telling him that I’ll be a constituent of his starting this September and I’d never vote Republican as long as I live if he didn’t do everything in his power to stop this bill.
Amen!
Bravo - good for you -
From NRO:
Immigration “Reform” Is Unmanageable [Andy McCarthy]
That’s the conclusion of my buddy Bill West over at the Counterterrorism Blog. Bill knows — he’s been in the trenches as a National Security Chief at INS and its successor, the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. It’s all worth reading, but in a nutshell he points out:
The Federal immigration bureaucracy that will be tasked with administering any of these reforms will be the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS) under the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). CIS is already unable to effectively deal with its existing benefit adjudication missions. Virtually all internal and external Government reviews of CIS performance have established significant problem areas, including lack of resources and management performance. The bad ghosts of the old INS, from where CIS sprang, linger in a big way. To expect an already overburdened and poorly managed Federal agency to properly deal with a sudden huge increase in mission workload is a fantasy.
05/17 03:42 PM
http://corner.nationalreview.com/
In this matter it fits very well indeed.
Bush said this plan solves the problem without animosity and without amnesty.
The fact is, he brewed up both amnesty and animosity.
Praise God! A voice of reason in Washington today.
This whole immigration thing needs to go through an election, before it’s passed, not after.
A RISING STAR
Believe what you hear. You have already been taken to the top. Now we all will start the fall.
ping
To bad Bush and the other "elite leaders" are too insulated to feel the animosity, bordering on hatred, for them because of their traitorous actions.
If it looks like amnesty, and it smells like amnesty, and it walks like amnesty, and it sounds like amnesty, The MSM will tell us it’s NOT amnesty, it’s something new and improved..........
Oh I looked at his website and first thing that catches the eye is “en espanol”. No thanks we have enough of that. He is pretty much out of touch like the rest.
The pride of South Carolina.
As opposed to Pandsey Graham, who is the...uh...not the pride of South Carolina.
}:-)4
BINGO
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.