Posted on 05/20/2007 7:09:31 PM PDT by calcowgirl
Calls for speedier regional economic integration between U.S., Mexico
WASHINGTON – The controversial "Secure Borders, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Reform Act of 2007," which would grant millions of illegal aliens the right to stay in the U.S. under certain conditions, contains provisions for the acceleration of the Security and Prosperity Partnership, a plan for North American economic and defense integration, WND has learned.
The bill, as worked out by Senate and White House negotiators, cites the SPP agreement signed by President Bush and his counterparts in Mexico and Canada March 23, 2005 – an agreement that has been criticized as a blueprint for building a European Union-style merger of the three countries of North America.
"It is the sense of Congress that the United States and Mexico should accelerate the implementation of the Partnership for Prosperity to help generate economic growth and improve the standard of living in Mexico, which will lead to reduced migration," the draft legislation states on page 211 on the version time-stamped May 18, 2007 11:58 p.m.
Since agreement on the major provisions of the bill was announced late last week, a firestorm of opposition has ignited across the country. Senators and representatives are reporting heavy volumes of phone calls and emails expressing outrage with the legislation they believe represents the largest "amnesty" program ever contemplated by the federal government.
In its current form, the bill would offer probationary legal status to the estimated 15 million to 20 million illegal aliens who were in the U.S. before Jan. 1, 2007. Those who then met a series of requirements — including payment of a $5,000 fine and $2,000 in processing fees — could gain citizenship within an estimated 12 to 13 years.
(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...
In fact, while the draft bill is far from finished, it is 326 pages in its current form. Of course this doesn't stop all sorts of nut cases from wetting the bed over what they are sure the "bill" contains, when it hasn't been voted on, is still being drafted and nobody has seen the actual language. Sheesh!
(b) Sense of Congress Regarding Partnership for Prosperity- It is the sense of Congress that the United States and Mexico should accelerate the implementation of the Partnership for Prosperity to help generate economic growth and improve the standard of living in Mexico,
Screw Mexico! It is not my/our job to take care of them or their citizens.
I think you’re absolutely RIGHT. The people regardless of political party running our government are not making any sense at all.It’s almost like they’re blinded by stupidity to what they’re doing or else they just plain hate our country and want to bring it down !!!
Let's do what we can to make sure it DOESN'T pass.
E-mails sent. I've made a half dozen calls to my Senators and Reps. I even sent a couple of snail mail hard copies.
If they still screw us...
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Enough is enough...
They want cloture tomorrow.
Change your sheets. The language in the proposed bill is included in post #2. All 326 pages are available at the Heritage Foundation website, as linked in that post. The bill is the proposed Comprehensive Immigration Reform legislation scheduled to be addressed on the Senate Floor tomorrow and has been the subject of news across the country for days. Should we not talk about Z-Visas, either?
Don't confuse us with so much complexity.
Sometimes that is exactly what I think.
also from July 4, 1776
“That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government.......snip.......But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”
the last line:
“And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.”
Again the Congress via a non-binding sense of Congress resolution chooses to punt the issue down the road, expecting the President to follow their wishes to the fullest. The President should follow their advice and refuse to implement the USA/Mexico POP agreement. Whether he will do so or not is an open question.
No doubt this post won’t be mentioned when this doesn’t happen, LOL.
ROFL! Those beanies are too funny!
Some folks only have aloonimum-foiled in their ol mutha Hubbard’s cupboard. In this case, it’s in the Queen’s, I guess. Whataya think???
Right! What about us?
ZING!!!
This bill reads like nothing more than a document of surrender to mexico.
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It is all part of the ONE AMERICA scheme our elitists are conducting with all sincerity and speed. Our soverignty is being given away very systematically by the ONE AMERICA crowd -— too bad more Americans cannot get their noses out of the grass and look up at what is being clearly done to them and their country.
And this is our problem because?
which will lead to reduced migration, by...
Far cheaper to build a secure boarder fence. Mexico has an economic system in place with the very rich and the dirt poor with no middle class. Anything that we do to enrich the "standard of living" in Mexico will float like cream right to the old aristocratic families and the peons will still be dirt poor.
Regards,
GtG
Congressman : “All I want out of life is a 96,000 pension, and 90,000 in my freezer”
Well, Wally baby... I’m sure that when they pass this monster by voice vote at 11:58PM some evening this summer, you’ll be feeling all warm and fuzzy like a liberal as you pee the bed when ABC radio announces at 12:01AM that this got put over on all you trusting fools!!!
I thought to myself ... why?
why would some of the most conservative folks in washington get on board with this?
Then I heard someone have a little slip of the tounge.
It’s not one of the talking points ... but it sure looks like a issue to me.
Social Security.
We need millions of new workers on the rolls if SS is going to stay afloat.
No ... I don’t know the numbers. But I bet this is the real talk behind those closed doors.
Somebodys got to pay the bills.
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