Posted on 06/12/2007 3:22:43 AM PDT by Ultra Sonic 007
Tony Snow is about to appear live on FOX & Friends on FOX News. The subject is Bush's push for immigration "reform".
ahhhhhhhhhhhh you get the idea!
LOL
True enough but remittances are the most widely used because bank accounts are a hassle (ID, deposit requirements, etc).
Were that not the case, you'd just provide the overseas recipient with a CIRRUS ATM card.
For the 4th time.
He has not put so much effort into any other issue.
Forgot to mention: today was only the second time in his presidency that he's gone to the Hill to make his case about a pending bill.
Reading comprehension is not a strong point of yours is it.
My post spotlighted several lies that the President and Tony Snow have tried to foist off on the American people. They're not liars because they don't agree with me, they are liars because what they have told us is obviously, patently, painfully, untrue. They know that if they told the truth their plans for our Country would have even less a chance of happening than they do now.
Believe them if you want. Hide from reality if it makes you feel better. I prefer to keep my eyes wide open.
Everyone has different thoughts on the push behind Ammesty. Whatever people’s motives are for pushing it, it disolves the soveriegnty of the US. The precedant will be the ringing of the proverbial bell to follow in the footsteps of Eastern Europe, and this bell, CAN NOT be un-rung. I can’t believe it’s even being considered 5 years after 9/11, a failure to enforce existing laws, and while we are fighting multiple fronts abroad. Almost unbelievable.
Eastern Europe = Western Europe
The bill most definitely does not accomplish the most critical aspect of ‘immigration reform’. It doesn’t secure the borders. And anyone who claims that the so-called ‘triggers’ in the bill see to it that border security comes first needs to get a reality check.
For instance, supposedly stringent border security measures (such as the building of 370 miles of fence) must be met before z-visas can be issued.
Any American who has been reading between the lines over the past few years has to know that congress has honed into an artform the ignoring, or rendering ‘unrealistic’, of provisions in legislation that do not align with its main agenda. The Secure Fence Act, passed last year, already authorized nearly twice the length of fence stipulated in this so-called ‘trigger’. So why the need for the trigger, and why the foot-dragging on the original act?
The ‘triggers’ amount to a list of border-security measures that the huge majority of the American citizenry wants to see in place before any kind of internal immigration reform takes place. But the ‘triggers’ amount to nothing more than patronizing lies, most or all of which will be declared ‘unrealistic’, after which the much longer list of trigger-dependent provisions will be allowed to go forward. (I believe the supporters of this bill took careful note of Bill Clinton’s promise not to raise taxes, which was conveniently explained away after he ‘discovered’ the magnitude of the deficit. Just as he knew full well when he made his no-new-taxes pledge that he would ignore that pledge, so, too, do the supporters of this bill know full well that the fulfilling of the trigger stipulations will not occur before the other aspects of the bill are initiated.)
The illegals will not suffer at all, if they don’t elect to pursue citizenship. They may avail themselves of everything that you are I do, other than voting. And it is doubtful that even that privilege will be denied them. After all, if tens of thousands of dead people, parakeets, and inhabitants of vacant lots are able to vote in the big-city elections, why shouldn’t we also extrapolate that particular nebulous voting block to soon include tens of thousands of non-citizen illegals?
If this bill becomes law, the average American will soon find himself surrounded by an ocean of non-citizens who cost more than they contribute, who bear no allegiance to our republic, and who will actually be afforded more rights, in relation to their responsibilities, than the rest of us.
The Declaration of Independence speaks fervently of repressions … repeated petitions … repeated injury. I can think of no more sickening repression of the American citizenry than this bill, and no deeper cut than the lies it contains, and the unspoken agenda that it promotes. Our leadership, in both parties, is permanently and irreparably destroying the fabric of our republic, and belittling, degrading and handcuffing those of us who are demanding that they stop. If the spirit of the revolution isn’t at least beginning to stir in us, then the spirit of America is dead.
~ joanie
BUMP!
“I was actually posting an item written by Sister Toldjah and didn’t realize that it wasn’t clear.”
And I imagine you’ve received a lot of replies as a result.
“Where she is fair and on the mark is the conduct on both sides that undermined the very work that was in process.”
Work in process is not necessarily a good thing. Sometimes gridlock is better.
You're in good company:
"For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it." - Patrick Henry
You expect to pay a high price for something of great value.
The fines don’t seem workable anyway, because these people don’t make high wages. How are they going to come up with the money for the fines, and for their family members?
I read a newspaper article on some illegals who said they wouldn’t pay the fine, they would just keep on as they are. Mainly because they don’t have the money to pay the fine.
So then, would the Dems cry about these poor people and abolish the fines later on? It would not surprise me.
Agreed! I think the first word I ever learned was “Why?”. I’ve never regretted it.
I will tell you that there is no way to stop remittances abroad. The whole system is a derivative of Chinese Fei-Chien, or Flying Money, which was specifically designed to evade taxes and royal Chinese oversight. It's thousands of years old.
Legitimate remittance shops are required to limit amounts sent and to file Currency Transaction Reports to the Treasury. But in practice there is no technical means of stopping it, since Fei Chien depends upon trusted relationships within its community, and not on any particular technology.
I personally know of one longstanding and trusted remittance shop in the area, the owner is a devoted Catholic and is an admired and upstanding member of the community. Her transfer service is efficient to the point of absurdity (I did one transfer which arrived halfway around the world before I'd returned home).
In any case the whole operation runs on a handwritten list of senders, receivers, and amounts, which is faxed abroad twice a day. The receiving office abroad then dispatches his couriers across the region to deliver the cash. Delivery and acknowledgement receipts are typically completed within 12 to 48 hours.
The amounts sent by this shop are typically small, less than $1,000 and usually even less. But in theory there's no difference between a $1 transaction and a $100,000 transaction.
The market has crashed on Bush credibility. The only people coming out ok are those who sold him short.
Unfortunately, I was long on him and I'm taking a beating.
Similar to Hawala I suppose? Same system many terrorists use, it’s a remittance system.
I found the information contained in this to be pretty comprehensive...also, there is a group out in California that is assisting business owners in filing suits against their competitors who hire illegals.
RICO: A New Tool for
Immigration Law Enforcement
http://www.cis.org/articles/2003/back1103.html
Mexico and Immigration
Panel Discussion Transcript
http://www.cis.org/articles/2003/matriculapanel.html
Illegal Employers
http://www.illegalemployers.org/index2.html
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