I also received the e-mail -- because I had contacted her office on this issue several weeks ago. Her response at that time was a litany of her characteristic wishy-washy platitudes.
I figured she was lost to us.
But I feel better now...
But I feel better now...
I saw one of her rubber chicken speaches a couple of months ago. Has her position really improved?
I wouldn't be so sure. I called her office and talked to a staff person about her voting against the Vitter amendment which would have taken out the amnesty provisions entirely. Cornyn also voted against this amendment. Her staff member told me she wants illegals to have to go home before they come back legally. If America wants to make the point to illegal immigrants that we mean what we say we should never allow any person who has come her illegally to ever gain legal status.
My question to her staff (which she could never answer by the way) was why did the Senator think that someone who had so willingly violated our democratically enacted laws as their first act on American soil (as well as numerous other laws in order to work or to obtain fraudulent documents) would ever be a good prospect for American citizenship? This is especially disgusting policy to support when you realize that there are millions of people across the globe who have never violated our laws and who are willing to immigrate legally. When our self-governing system and our security is dependent on the citizens' willing compliance with the law why should we ever entertain a "path to citizenship" for people who have already demonstrated their intention to violate our laws whenever they might benefit?
I do not trust either of these Senators -- they have done nothing significant to enforce our borders in all the time they have been in office and, most importantly, they have not confronted President Bush on his betrayal of his oath of office in his refusal to enforce our democratically enacted laws. The fact that both are still willing to entertain "amnesty" like provisions proves to me that they are not representing what the majority of Texans want on this issue.
“But I feel better now...”
I would not start breaking out the Texas Beer
After all if two senators from a border state such as Texas can’t take a firm
stance against amnesty, what senators will?
We have already seen Arizona Senators Surrender.
I too received same email from Senator Hutchison and am feeling somewhat better about her and Senator Cornyn’s positions as stated in the email.
Also replied to both Texas Senators that they should understand we are strongly against the current Immigration Shamnesty.
You are right about things maybe looking up within the Senate.