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Posted on 05/30/2007 3:09:04 PM PDT by Baladas
COLUMBIA, S.C. --U.S. House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn won't support any type of amnesty in plans to overhaul immigration, but he said it may be unfair to force people to travel back to their native countries to apply to re-enter the United States legally.
"I don't think there's a quick fix to this. I don't think there's any simple way to deal with this. And I will not support amnesty for anybody, I mean, that would be rewarding bad behavior," said Clyburn, D-S.C., during a news conference Tuesday.
Clyburn also doesn't think it's fair to require some illegal immigrants to travel to West African nations under so-called touchback requirements before they apply to re-enter the U.S. legally. That would "send somebody back to some of these countries I don't think we want to send them back to," Clyburn said.
"I would love to see us do something with a friendly country that would set up an Ellis Island sort of process outside of the country for people to acknowledge they're in here illegally to then start the process of coming back in," Clyburn said.
One of the goals Clyburn pushed when he ran South Carolina's Human Affairs Commission was getting migrant workers to stay in South Carolina, using the state's schools and health agencies.
"Now all of the sudden, we're saying, you've got to go back," Clyburn said.
U.S. Rep. Bob Inglis, R-S.C., said he is hearing frustration over the immigration issue as he holds town hall meetings with constituents.
"We've got to take action," Inglis said. "They want it done yesterday - many yesterdays ago."
Inglis is opposed to amnesty. But he said requirements to pay fines, wait more than eight years to become a citizen and learn English don't sound like amnesty.
Clyburn said the House will work off the legislation drafted by U.S. Reps. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., and Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill.
"It is a lot different from the Senate bill because I think the Senate bill pays more attention to employer protections than they does to family stabilization. And I think that you have to do both," Clyburn said.
Clyburn also defended Democratic leadership plans to not renew federal tax breaks set to expire in 2010. Extending those or other breaks will depend on budget surpluses coming through a growing economy and it would be irresponsible to do right now, Clyburn said.
Exactly.
He’s feeling the heat, but this statement says nothing by the time you finish parsing it.
He needs some more heat.
He’s probably catching hell from a lot of his Black supporters, who tend to be hurt the most by a pool of low-skill workers that drive down wages for everyone.
Big deal. They just won't CALL it amnesty.
We're onto that game.
Clyburn is just playing the Amnesty blame game.
“”Inglis is opposed to amnesty. But he said requirements to pay fines, wait more than eight years to become a citizen and learn English don’t sound like amnesty.””
Inglis is out of touch. That statement is from either, 1. a person reading off the Bush/Charmber or Commerce/Kennedy talking points, or 2. Knows about Z visas and is a deeply deceitful person.
which is it?
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We've got Rikers Island here in NY, there's Alcatraz in SF...
“Now all of the sudden, we’re saying, you’ve got to go back,” Clyburn said.”
Bush himself claims he deports nearly 1,000,000 per year.
like the jerks in the Senate, they are boh trying to have their cake and eat it too. What the Pubbie is NOT saying when he says people want something done now is that they are really telling him to enforce the laws on the books. He wants CYA by following the rest of the lemmings. They are all trying to appear as if they are doing something “now” when in fact they are kicking an explosive can of arsenic down the street.
Wow. A lot of words with no clear understanding of their actual Yea/Nay position on this. Those are weak responses, but somewhat fair considering they haven’t started working on a real bill yet.
Even the sponsors of S.1348 don’t support amnesty. Our argument is over the definition of that word AND a myriad other concerns with the bill.
Seems to me there are two types of amnesty. They are pretending it isn’t amnesty unless you can stay AND have citizenship. Just letting people stay here is an amnesty, and the American people know it.
No food stamps or SSI or any other handout. They will go home.
No more catch and release. The minute they find someone here illegally, stick them on a bus and send them home.
Enforce the laws.
Interesting.
Pence was floating around a bill last year with “ellis Island” centers.
“”Clyburn said the House will work off the legislation drafted by U.S. Reps. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., and Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill.””
There goes out the window the “blue slip” plan to block the Senate bill.
This atrocity will be reconciled with the greater Senate atrocity and be called “compromise.”
More proof that a truly wasted vote is one cast by a Conservative for a GOPer. Sounds like these guys are closet libs
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