Posted on 06/15/2007 10:05:16 PM PDT by truthkeeper
President Bush yesterday told Hispanics to step into the middle of the immigration debate and make sure senators who have been bombarded with calls from opponents also hear from those who support the bill.
"There's a lot of emotion on this issue, and it makes sense to have people from around the country come and sit down with members of Congress to talk rationally about the issue," he told those attending the Hispanic Prayer Breakfast in Washington yesterday.
He was speaking a day after the bill, which collapsed last week, was revived by the top Democrat and Republican in the Senate.
Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, agreed to put the bill back on the Senate's schedule next week, and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, agreed to limit the number of amendments Republicans would offer.
But roadblocks are already popping up.
Sen. Jim DeMint, South Carolina Republican, said he will block any attempt to send the bill to an eventual House-Senate conference, complicating the usual path a bill takes to reach the president's desk.
"Ted Kennedy has sold us another bill of goods and I don't trust him to make even more changes...
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does it matters? or i should be proud? do i get kudos?
100% against it
I'm inclined to agree.
Years ago, I was associated with and belonged to this:
I am seriously considering doing it again.
The Mexicans are just like the “Palestinians.” You don’t hear what I do in Spanish (or maybe you do). Yo habla Espaniol mui, mui buen... (I don’t write it well.)
You also didn’t notice the Mexicans chanting “Osama” during a soccer match with the USA??? Or how about all those carrying signs that glorified Bin Laden during those protests last spring?
We have open warfare in the streets with Mexican gangs.
Mexico has never been and never will be a friend of the USA. They even oppose our war efforts to this day.
Screw Mexico...
If you want to be a Mexican, go live in Mexico. If you want to play the "Hispanic" identity politics, you are a racist.
You are not entitled to affirmative action in citizenship. There are literally millions of other people who respectfully wait their turn in line.
If you are a caballero and wait like everyone else, you are welcome. Otherwise, you need to get the hell out...
You are right on the money.
I am tired of the "Latino pride" B.S...
I have a number of friends who have done everything they could and sacrificed painfully to be here. They resent the Mexican flag being shoved in their faces just like any other U.S. citizen should.
If my caballero friends can learn English in two years or less, reject the corrupt socialist hell of Mexico and take up the Stars and Stripes, so can everyone else...
My expatriate friends from Mexico are Norteños (which, it has been explained to me, is not a gang affiliation, but a political/geographical division in Mexico). They are caballeros, gauchos, cowboys, the knights on horseback who believe in doing the right thing.
They keep telling us this is NOT an amnesty.....it seems they don't read the dictionary..if it looks, quacks and walks like a duck, it's a dirty, ugly pig of an amnesty bill.
am·nes·ty –noun 1. a general pardon for offenses, esp. political offenses, against a government, often granted before any trial or conviction.
2. Law. an act of forgiveness for past offenses, esp. to a class of persons as a whole.
3. a forgetting or overlooking of any past offense. –verb (used with object) 4. to grant amnesty to; pardon.
See my post #205...
I do know the difference between a raciado and a caballero... (my Spanish spelling is horrible).
We spill precious blood overseas to keep our country safe and at same time welcome any and all to invade us thru open borders.
One word comes to mind............clusterfu*k.
sorry,but, what are you trying to say?
>>”Right now the law forbids us from getting into Social Security to determine whether we can verify in fact the genuine owner of the number and whether we’ve got two people using the same number at the same time,” he said. “The only way to get that is for Congress to pass this bill.”<<
This bill goes beyond amnesty. It gives illegals many rights that applicants for legal entry do not have, and in fact gives illegals advantages that US citizens do not have.
A lot of those who reject their Mexican citizenship and respectfully take up the Stars and Stripes are welcome. Those who call themselves Mexicans have no allegiance to the USA and should leave...
It is all a matter of loyalty an honor. Throwing the ethnic identity politics into the mix is racism. I am tired of the leftist notion that only caucasian Anglos can be prejudiced.
There is plenty of Latino racism (LULAC, MeCHA, La Raza, etc.) and that does not mean all Hispanics agree with it either. I know a lot of them do not.
Does his SWORN OATH mean NOTHING to him?
U.S. Constitution, Article 4 Section 4:
"The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government,
1. The act of invading; the act of encroaching upon the rights or possessions of another; encroachment; trespass.
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That's funny, the IRS and a host other government agencies don't have problem getting access.
IOW, those in favor of amnesty are rational and those against are not. More insults from El Presidente. 70% of the American public is irrational.
I thought those folks didn’t exist anymore. I guess they stick together in their safe threads.
President Bush urges Hispanics to “speak up.” I urge them to go home.
Whose side is this guy on? I voted for him TWO TIMES and all he wants to do is sell me, my family and America down the river to Mexico, South America and Hispanics.
The politicians in DC just voted AGAINST building the fence they already voted to build and that they have the money for. Don't believe any of them regarding their worthless promises regarding "Border Security" ESPECIALLY the president... they are liars!
i can tell you this, i reject any group that keeps other ethnicities away,i even reject the so called “ affirmative action”
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