Posted on 07/14/2007 7:23:33 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
Robert Divine, former chief counsel of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, told the Rotary Club of Chattanooga Thursday that there needs to be a multifaceted approach to addressing the immigration issue in America.
Mr. Divine served part of his time with the agency as acting director and also as acting deputy director. He said that people will find a way to come to the United States since there is a demand for work here and a supply of workers south of the border.
"We do not have the will and the resources, in my opinion, to put toward a border that can on its own prevent (illegal immigration) from happening," he said at the Chattanooga Convention Center.
Mr. Divine was appointed by President Bush as chief counsel of the immigration services and served in that capacity in Washington, D.C., from July 2004 until November 2006.
Mr. Divine, who now works in Chattanooga and leads the immigration group for law firm Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz PC, said it is essential to have mechanisms for employment verification and allowances for some people to stay in America.
"I've never heard anybody who's in charge of immigration enforcement ever say that they thought that they could deport 10 million people," he said.
The U.S. Senate last month prevented an immigration reform bill from moving ahead in the chamber.
Many opponents of the bill rejected its path to citizenship for illegal immigrants currently in the United States.
Mr. Divine said that the debate over amnesty for illegal immigrants is really "a pretext for nativism and protectionism."
"It's not really about 'the law must be the law,' " he said.
After hearing the talk, Bill Chapin, of Lookout Mountain, Ga., said Mr. Divine's "discussion showed the complexity of the issue."
"There is no single answer for such an emotional and complicated situation," he said.
E-mail Michael Davis at michaeld@timesfreepress.com
“...it’s not going to happen....”
Hey Jorge,
Whose side are you on?
“I’ve never heard anybody who’s in charge of immigration enforcement ever say that they thought that they could deport 10 million people,” he said.
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WE don’t have to.
All we have to do is put the criminal businesses who hire these invaders OUT of busines - PREMANENTLY and they will leave.
With all the American jobs lost to Red China, its hard to believe there are no Americans willing to do needed work - but of course, not at peons pay which is what these criminal businesses want to pay.
I'm on the side of WHAT'S RIGHT. For our country and people in general. I love people.
Hi HC
I guess I’m in the posting business...
It’s amazing but AHHHHHHHH watching the 3rd World move in so overwhelmedly...
Prescription drugs over the counter, (just like back home in Mexico) with just a “Y’all stop doing that by Aug 1st” from the police, and domiciles filled to the rafters...
It’s like watching Twilight Zone...
Life is sure getting different fast....
We could dangle such businesses a carrot (and put the Big Stick in place) if we’d put a “floor” on SSI-subject earnings.
Medicare has no earnings ceiling, while SSI does. Keep Medicare as is and exempt the first 20-odd thousand dollars of income from the ER portion of the Ponzi Scheme. The EE portion could be withheld and reported via normal 941 channels.
Fancing meeting you here.
We can’t deport 10 million, huh? Why don’t we just advertise one big free soccer match in Tijuana and then close the door behind them. Oh, wait, that’s right, no freakin’ door.
Indeed. It is frightening.
But fear not!
Cherkoff has a “gut feeling”.
I know I might be off-base, but I wouldn’t mind putting a bounty on illegals, as well as a cashout incentive to leave. Something like 3-grand and a plane ticket. Sign on the line and have your fingerprint and mugshot taken.
We see your a$$ anywhere but an embassy or consulate, you are a foreign hostile.
Build the fence, of course.
Mr. Divine is a subversive and a criminal.
His former boss is a man who took an oath to uphold and defend the United States Constitution, including Federal Law governing illegal aliens and border protection and continues to thumb his nose at public opinion as Illegals continue to invade America.
I wish he’d feel someones hand backslapping him in the head...
YOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOO wake up dummy...
Your job is to protect and serve the America citizens..not project illegal aliens over the border and serve them the children’s bread...
Any church or so called charity which knowingly hides illeglas should lose their tax free status.
I know far more about that than I am at liberty to disclose.
Let’s just say “I know where the bodies are buried”.
What you need to do is find a reference to the admission of millions of Moslem people from Bengla Desh into the Indian state of Bengel at the time of the Pakistan civil war.
East Pakistan (Bengla Desh) sought independence from West Pakistan (present day Pakistan). The West Pak army invaded the East.
At the conclusion of the war the Pakistanis didn't want to go home ~ India is, after all, a much better place than Bengla Desh.
It took several years but India did send them home ~ all ten millon of them.
In recent years more Bengla Desh people have come into India without permission. India has been catching them and sending them back. They recently built a large fence around Bengla Desh to stop this traffic in humans.
You'll find some pretty good stories about the fence in news stories within the last few months.
Hi IJ
Ve have vays of making yo talk, darlink...
Natasha...
India now has a wall/fence up..
it took them several years but they did it...
No, Natasha, PLEASE no vodka with grapefruit juice! Grayhounds are completely the cocktail of, um, INFIDELS. Yeah. Infidels. I’ll talk, I’ll talk, as long as there’s no Briar Patch Vodka. No!
Briar Patch Syndrome, eh?
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
You forgot the barf alert.
WHAT’S RIGHT for America doesn’t include giving America to the third world. Perthaps you love people a little too much if you want to give America away to them. But then I think that it’s likely that you are hiding your real agenda from us.
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