Posted on 07/26/2007 4:13:58 PM PDT by Uncledave
Immigration. Again.
Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) said he's floating a plan that would grant legal status to the nation's 12 million illegal immigrants, but offer no path to citizenship.
"It might be the equivalent of a green card," Specter said Thursday. "The main thrust is to bring the 12 million out of the shadows," and eliminate the fear of arrest or deportation.
Specter said conservatives who last month derailed a comprehensive immigration bill might accept his plan because it would not allow the 12 million to seek citizenship status.
"We litigated amnesty and that lost," Specter said.
Specter's pitch comes as the Senate voted Thursday to add $3 billion to the homeland security appropriations bill for border security measures.
Specter said he has talked with President Bush and the bipartisan group of senators who crafted the last comprehensive bill.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who helped negotiate the failed comprehensive bill, suggested that he was skeptical of creating a class of workers with no opportunity to seek citizenship.
"Europe has paid a heavy price for that stuff," Graham said.
A spokeswoman for Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), who led negotiations for the Democrats, said the senator was looking at Specter's proposal and meeting with his staff.
Garlic, silver bullets, stakes and a cross don’t see to be enough to kill the monster. Does anyone have holy water?
Do there children get citezenship?
why don’t these people do something that benefits the people of this country?
Nah, you see they’ll send their representatives into Mexico and have potential slaves brought up for a preliminary inspection before bringing them here “legally”. What good would it do them to bring someone here that they can’t put to work immediately after all.
You are right we’d pay for them here, but the selection process begins before they arrive.
Traitors: "We will never give up until America our parents knew .... is dead.
Section 274 felonies under the federal Immigration and Nationality Act, INA 274A(a)(1)(A)
says, "Any person who . . . encourages or induces an illegal alien to . . . reside . . . knowing
or in reckless disregard of the fact that such . . . residence is . . . in violation of law, shall be punished as provided
. . . for each illegal alien in respect to whom such a violation occurs . . . fined under title 18 . . .
imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both."
You just may have a point. I see the greed has no bounds anymore.
These people are making slave owners look caring.
Sounds the same, almost spelled the same. It fits.
spectre noun1. a ghostly appearing figure; "we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us" [syn: apparition]
2. a mental representation of some haunting experience
I’d suggest that Arlen is the Zombie. ‘rat Zombie.
Specter, NO,NO,NO!
No Amnesty.
Enforce the law. Seal the borders. Nothing more. Nothing less. Anything else is unacceptable
AJ...NTSA!! :)
When will the nightmare end?
foflol!
I wonder if this Arlen Spectacle was a price for a specter of support Bush gave this ghoul against a good conservative?
Nor that it would have taken much for Arlen to oppose conservatives.
The man is a complete and utter fool.
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It’s probably about 30 million right now.
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