Posted on 06/29/2009 3:02:09 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Even with all of the focus on health care and energy in the nation’s capitol - immigration reform is still on the minds of the leadership. Senate Democrats have now outlined plans to reform the nation’s immigration laws. It would include a requirement for U.S. workers to verify their identity through fingerprints or eye scan. New York Senator Charles Schumer says a system to verify work documents is needed because Congress has not cracked down on unscrupulous employers and illegal immigrants with fake documents. But missing from Schumer’s priorities is an expansion of a guest-worker program.
Schumer believes legislation needs to secure control of the nation’s borders within a year and require an estimated 12-million illegal immigrants to register with the government and go through a rigorous process to convert to legal status or face immediate deportation. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid believes the votes exist to get legislation through the Senate. On the House side - Majority Leader Steny Hoyer says action could begin as early as this fall. The President is reportedly meeting with House and Senate members from both parties in an effort to build momentum. But White House officials have vowed to proceed with debate this year only if there’s strong bipartisan support.
Time to heat up them phones again folks. Congress is out of control.
A dictatorship is on the radar screen. IMO, the American people have no representation. The members of Congress are running this country like they and Zero have taken over total control and we are now living in a third-world dictatorship.
Do we even have an immigration caucus in the house anymore?
There used to be over 100 members. But since Tancredo, Hunter, Hayworth are gone, I wonder if they just gave it up.
More
‘
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2281806/posts
The following article was also sent out by NAFBPO.
(excerpt)
The deep US recession has had one effect that polls say would please most Americans: Illegal immigration is falling.
More illegal immigrants are leaving. Fewer people are sneaking in – perhaps 200,000 a year instead of 500,000 in recent years.....
.....It also weakens the argument of pro-immigration forces that there are some jobs Americans won’t do. Mr. Camarota finds that claim “absurd on its face.”
He points to a newly available sampling of 4.7 million workers in 465 occupations, a massive survey that asks respondents whether they were born in the US. The US-born already hold a clear majority of jobs people often regard as being left to immigrants, such as housekeeping and grounds-maintenance workers. Only in picking fresh produce do immigrants hold a small majority.
Politics plays a huge role.....some 1 million immigrants become US citizens every year. About 300,000 more of them become Democrats than Republicans.
That advantage could be one reason that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat, has blocked several immigration-control bills from coming to the floor.....
Similarly, Senate majority leader Harry Reid (D) of Nevada has been “aggressively pushing amnesty” for illegal immigrants......
Critics sometimes call various forms of amnesty “a Democratic registration program.”
The third component of the debate – the demographics – is vital in the long run. In the 1990s, the US had its biggest 10-year jump in population in its history – 32.7 million – and the fastest growth rate since the 1960s.
That’s the elephant in the room, Mr. Beck says. If President Obama really wants to reach his goals of energy independence and lower carbon emissions, he will have to restrain immigration, he argues.....Otherwise, the projected population rise from 307 million today to 439 million in 2050 will swamp his intentions – and heighten other challenges, such as congestion and education.
Meanwhile, a multimillion-dollar fundraising battle has broken out between pro-amnesty and antiamnesty groups.
It will, warns Stein, be “vitriolic, vicious.”
Schumer = always a failure
Attention all shoppers! Buy and Rent-a-vote Part III incoming!!!
These fkrs are out of control. Someone with stones is gonna hafta throwdown on the democrat leadership before its too late.
MOST Americans. Congress is STILL trying to figure out ways to get easy money to "first time home buyers". I suspect I know what that means.
“The deep US recession has had one effect that polls say would please most Americans: Illegal immigration is falling.”
Total BS. The third worlders that arrive here feel like they died and went to heaven. Free health care, education, housing, food stamps, etc. is still a huge draw vs. the hell hole they came from.
Agreed.
Senate Democrats have now outlined plans to reform the nation's immigration laws. It would include a requirement for U.S. workers to verify their identity through fingerprints or eye scan. New York Senator Charles Schumer says a system to verify work documents is needed because Congress has not cracked down on unscrupulous employers and illegal immigrants with fake documents. But missing from Schumer's priorities is an expansion of a guest-worker program. Schumer believes legislation needs to secure control of the nation's borders within a year and require an estimated 12-million illegal immigrants to register with the government and go through a rigorous process to convert to legal status or face immediate deportation. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid believes the votes exist to get legislation through the Senate. On the House side - Majority Leader Steny Hoyer says action could begin as early as this fall.
Jeanne Garafolo...Jane Fonda...Bill Ayers...Rosie O’Donnel...
I know they should only be grouped in threes, but I added one because it just kinda made me happy doing so...Thats all...
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.