Posted on 06/13/2007 8:48:38 AM PDT by Terrence DoGood
Edited on 06/13/2007 9:09:14 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Dear Mr. President:
We respectfully ask that your Administration enforce the border security laws that have already been authorized by Congress regardless of whether the Senate passes the immigration reform bill. The bill assumes that several critical border security benchmarks can be achieved within 18 months. These security triggers are already authorized under current law and can be completed without the immigration bill. We believe these enforcement measures are vital and should not wait until Congress passes additional immigration reforms.
Securing the border is the best way to restore trust with the American people and facilitate future improvements of our immigration policy.
Sincerely,
U.S. Senators Jim DeMint (R - South Carolina), Tom Coburn (R - Oklahoma), Mike Enzi (R - Wyoming), David Vitter (R - Louisiana), Jim Inhofe (R - Oklahoma), Jim Bunning (R - Kentucky), Charles Grassley (R - Iowa), John Ensign (R - Nevada) and Jeff Sessions (R - Alabama).
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- Wesley M. Denton
Communications Director
Office of Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC)
202-228-5079 direct
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Where’s Claire?
Well hotd*mn, this makes more sense than anything that’s been discussed in ages. Thank goodness for some senators with sense and guts.
Good !
That’s great, until Lott gets a hold of the bill.
Take a look at this:
Lott says “Oh, don’t worry about all these silly enforcement first amendments, I’ll make sure I make the bill meaningless in conference”!!!!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1849462/posts
This is why Bush and the other useless morons like Gonzales and Chertoff can get away with NOT enforcing the law. Lott is going to strip enforcement out of the bill.
DeMint is DeMan!
“Where’s Claire?”
Sen. Claire McCaskill (D, MO)?
She’s too busy with talk, talk, talk about penalizing employers of
illegals.
But I suspect she’d never forcefully work to actually make such
a thing happen.
She’s got plenty of $$$ in the nursing home bidness.
And a lot of nursing homes employ illegals (Honestly, I don’t know
if Clair’s do.)
I don't think Bush is bluffing at all. He would indeed sign any worthless POS immigration bill that hit his desk. Of course, he doesn't believe it is a worthless, POS, but I think he is wrong on this one.
Exactly!
Bush’s bluff isn’t this current amnesty bill, his bluff was the bill already enacted into law to build the fence and add 10,000 border agents. To date, two miles of the fence have been built and a couple hundred border agents hired. The border agents hired are barely enough to cover attrition and those imprisoned for enforcing the border!
Exactly......Still waiting for Bush’s pardon pen.
DeMint has hit on the right tactic. Before even a wall, just enforce existing laws. (oooops, the wall is law too now).
I’ve posted this elsewhere, but here goes again... from my recent email to the president@whitehouse.gov:
Although I have little hope that anyone in the administration seems to be taking note, I will continue to “vote” my displeasure (a mild word indeed) via email of how the administration is choosing to push an intellectually and politically bankrupt approach to immigration “reform”.
The approach is also morally bankrupt in that it lies about the realities of the illegal immigration situation, lies about the abject failures of the administration and Congress to address it since 9/11, and lies about the true nature of the objections being raised by millions of Americans. We are not nativist yahoos or racist rednecks, nor are we ignorant sheep who would “support the bill if we simply knew the details” (cf. Mr. Snow).
No, we are people who are opposed PRECISELY because we know the details, and we are deeply offended at the mischaracterizations of the bill’s opponents made by the administration.
The administration is still whistling in the dark, seemingly willfully ignorant of the lasting, indeed catastrophic, damage being done to its credibility among the American people.
That exact “silly enforcement first amendments” quote from Lott was never verified in any of the links at that page. What he did say about just pitching the amendments before it gets to the Rotunda, however, was pretty irksome.
I notice that there is a distinct lack of D’s. on this letter.
Thank god for senators like DeMint
RINO's are missing, too.
Makes me proud to be an Iowegian - way to go Senator Grassley!
I want to know why Cornyn isn’t in on this letter. He and Dole worked hard to derail the Z-amnisty bill. I hope they aren’t backing down now.
They are all Republican Senators who are opposing Bush and Amnesty for illegals who have invaded and stolen identities. I don’t see any Democrats on this list. But all we see on the liberal media and everywhere is bashing of the GOP while Democrats who are for Amnesty get get a pass. GOP is actually opposing Bush. Bush does not equal the GOP.
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