“The leadership of all 11,000 nonsupervisory U.S. Border Patrol agents yesterday criticized an immigration compromise by senators and the Bush administration as “piecemeal” legislation that invites future terrorist attacks and fails to secure the nation’s borders.
“Every person who has ever risked their life securing our borders is extremely disheartened to see some of our elected representatives once again waving the white flag on the issues of illegal immigration and border security,” National Border Patrol Council President T.J. Bonner said.”
BTTT!
Pandsey inhabits more than just one closet.
My initial reaction is that anything that calls itself “The Moderate Voice” is a leftist organ for sure.
Misleading headline they've put out there. Bonner expressed his opinion on the legislation (has he read it?), and the headline implies that ALL border patrol agents agree with him.
I hate it when the media do stuff like that.
[Bonner]said the Border Patrol is “totally overwhelmed” by the number of illegal aliens crossing daily into the United States. Last year, the Border Patrol apprehended 1.1 million illegals, more than 3,000 every day.
Who are we supposed to believe,political hacks in Washington who are pushing this bill for self serving purposes or the men and woman who have to deal with this growing problem on a daily basis?By the way the Senate bill cuts Duncan Hunter’s 850 mile border fence that he got approved last year in half to somewhere around 350 miles !!!
There IS NO NEED TO PASS ANOTHER BILL! Enforcement of THE CURRENT LAW would solve many of the problems.
It could take TWO years for some parts of a NEW LAW to be implemented.
In other words, A NEW LAW WOULD ALREADY BE OBSOLETE AND UNENFORCABLE!!!!!!!
Think about it... in this new bill, he puts the author- Teddy Kennedy in charge of transporting the illegals from Mexico to the US..
If Kennedy can’t even get Mary Jo across a bridge, what do you think will happen when he tries to get all those people across the Rio Grande and the desert, especially after he finds how cheap tequila is down there.....
Brilliant I tell you, brilliant.. No more illegals will want to come over if Kennedy is driving the bus....
//sarc
In addition, with so many pages, how many "gotchas" and "loopholes" are included? As has already been mentioned, secure the border first, then deal with those here illegally. When you have a leak in the house you don't mop first, you fix the leak first.
Tony Snow: No. Well, he gets to stay.
Coming to America 
To summarize politics in the last few months... the Democrats sell out the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, and with Republican help sell out the Border Patrol agents at the Mexican border.
Let’s repeat it again.
Not “undocumented workers.”
INVADERS !!!
Triggers include: o 18,000 (CBP) Border Patrol hired -- This provision is NOT FUNDED. It is meaningless. They have had problems hiring and training 3,000 new agents in a year. This cannot occur as promised.
Resources to detain up to 27,500 aliens per day -- Again, this is not funded. Another totally empty promise.
Increased penalties for illegally entry and reentry -- the existing penalties aren't being enforced. Why should anyone believe the "increased" penalties will be?
..designs a worksite enforcement system that relies on electronic employment verification -- Ha, ha. the government has been trying to do this for more than 10 years, spending billions, and none of its sytems work. Although credit card companies can manage to do basically the same thing, government can't. This is more pie-in-the-sky.
The employer must attest that the Y worker will be paid not less than the greater of the actual wage paid by the employer to all other similarly situated workers or the “prevailing competitive wage -- Oh, yeah. This was the whole premise of the H1B visa, and it IS A BIG LIE. Hundreds of thousands of Americans have been laid off after training their visa-holding replacements who work for a third of the salary, isn't that right, Bill Gates?
In order to be eligible for this Z visa, one must have been illegally present within the U.S. before January 1, 2007. -- Whole new industry in fraudlent documents showong illegal presence prior to 1-1-07. Surprise! 30 million apply for Z visa and gain immediate legitimate presence in our country.
Individuals under the age of 30 that were brought to the United States out of their own control as a minor are eligible to receive their green card after 3 years rather than 8. -- Just more incedntive for illegals to bring their benefit-sucking kids along.
What a bill of goods.
The new “Immigration Bill” renders border patrol agents irrelevant; “just open the borders and let ‘em all come,” seems to be the federal attitude. Habla espanol, everyone?
This is where they all fall down. Pass a bill? Why? All we need to do is enforce the existing laws, especially the ones against employers hiring illegals. Fine them, jail them and close their shops. There would soon be an exodus across the border to the south.
Read my lips politicians: We don't need immigration reform, we need you to enforce the law!
I guess President Shrub will have to lock up all 11,000 of these agents along with Ramos and Compean.