Saturday, June 16, 2007
WASHINGTON — President Bush urged Hispanics to lobby hard for a major immigration bill Friday, a day after it was revived in the Senate.
http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/nation/06/16/16immig.html
A reply to the President’s 5 points:
1. Border security and interior enforcement laws need to be improved.
——Laws need to be enforced FIRST. The U.S. did at one time ENFORCE our immigration and deportation laws. Why can’t the U.S. enforce our laws now? We don’t need “improvement” of the laws. We need “enforcement” of the laws.
2. Employers do not have the tools they need to verify the work eligibility of their employees with assurance.
-——We can develop tools to give employers. The IRS has the tools to verify our wages — of course our government has the tools — The feds can assist the employers in verifying the work eligibility. That is the purpose of the Federal Government. To protect the U.S.; we are being taken over by an illegal workforce.
3. As many as 12 million illegal workers remain in the shadows.
-—— That is not a reason, Mr. President. That is the result of not enforcing our immigration and deportation laws.
4. Only around 13 percent of green cards are awarded each year based on employment-related criteria, and far too little emphasis is placed on the skills and attributes necessary to fill the needs of our growing economy and further the national interest.
-——Mr. President, illegals don’t apply for green cards. They don’t need them; they don’t want them. It is in the national interest to continue the green card system — just deport those who are working without green cards.
5. There is no efficient mechanism by which willing foreign workers may be hired for jobs Americans are not doing.
———Yes there is. It is call legal “immigration”. Some people really do go through the legal channels to come into the U.S. There is an efficient mechanism in place. The problem is that our fed government has allows 12 million people to cross over illegally — going to the front of line and working illegally.
29 posted on 06/16/2007 3:48:00 PM MDT by i_dont_chat
TANKS a Bunch Lucy,,,”WE” have to lobby hard too,,,
I just hope there are no “flips”/sell-outs...very close...