Linda Chavez is one of the White House’s designated ‘marginalizers’.
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In a letter to the WSJ signed with LINDA CHAVEZ, Grover Norquist, Tamar Jacoby, Newt Gingrich, Cesar Conda and others she promoted Bush/Kennedy Amnesty as the only workable approach.
snip] The Wall Street Journal February 6, 2004 Welcome to America
President Bush has proposed a new legal path to work in the U.S. through a temporary worker program that will match willing workers with willing employers. We applaud the president and believe his approach holds great promise to reduce illegal immigration and establish a humane, orderly, and economically sensible approach to migration that will aid homeland security and free up border-security assets to focus on genuine threats. The president has shown courage by calling on Congress to place reality over rhetoric and recognize that those already working here outside the law are unlikely to leave. Congress can fulfill its role by establishing sufficient increases in legal immigration and paths to permanent residence to enable more workers to stay, assimilate, and become part of America.
Immigrants are crucial to our competitiveness and future labor and economic growth, as well as our military strength. Our country’s welcoming attitude to immigrants will permit the U.S. to grow and prosper, as the populations of many other nations stagnate and decline.
Co-authored by Stuart Anderson, Jeff Bell, Linda Chavez, Larry Cirignano, Cesar V. Conda, Francis Fukuyama, Richard Gilder, Newt Gingrich, Ed Goeas, Tamar Jacoby, Jack Kemp, Steve Moore, Grover Norquist, Richard W. Rahn and Malcolm Wallop
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Well, that puts Newt off the table for 08 as far as I'm concerned.
Correct. Chavez is neither ignorant nor stupid. This article is deliberate, calculated demagoguery.
I very much agree to a Bracero Program, in which the “guest workers” come here for a certain numbers of weeks or months to do whatever work they were hired to do. That is a perfectly legal thing to do. At the end of the weeks or months, then the Bracero worker returns to his country. That is legal. The Bracero Program was begun in WWI when our men went to Europe to stop the HUN from overrunning those nations and again in WWII when we sent our able bodied men to stop Hitler from taking over all of Europe. In 1986 President Reagan signed a bill to make Mexicans who had been working in this country for 5 or more years, with proof, eligable to put themselves on the road to citizenship. Many people who had Mexicans working for them, worked dilegently to legalize their employees. But in 1996 something happened. Illegal aliens of the south American nations began flooding our borders. Those illegals were needed by the then administration for votes. Since that time our borders have become “open borders” for whom ever. This is a little bit of history, and final 2 sentance are my opinion.
P.S.At the time of the Bracero program, the Mexican workers were invited into this country to work for a certain number of weeks and months. When WWI and WWII were over, the Mexican workers were no longer needed and we did not invite them back. What they saw in this country they liked, and wanted to be a part of it and wanted their families to have the opportunities of the American. Thus the trickle began and is now a flood.