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To: Tamsey; alwaysconservative
You just proved you aren't even READING the proof you ask for. I gave you that exact cite back in post #279.

OK, I missed that one. Let's take a look....

"What he doesn't understand is that people like myself waited 15 years to get citizenship," Schwarzenegger, who came to the United States from Austria in the 1960s, said. "There are people who have been waiting 20 years. I find it unfair to all of a sudden push the whole thing with undocumented immigrants and say they should immediately get citizenship."

No Amnesty has ever granted "immediate citizenship" to Illegals, nor am I aware of any proposals to do so. Amnesties always involve the changing of status to legal, through the issuance of a green card.

Therefore, to oppose the granting of "immediate citizenship" is not to oppose Amnesty, as that has never been the term of an Amnesty for Illegals.

In short, this is a red herring, as Arnold could very easily support legalizing Illegals without giving them immediate citizenship.


337 posted on 09/08/2003 7:36:01 PM PDT by Sabertooth (Arnold opposes the driver's licenses, but he also wants to lobby DC to legalize Illegal Aliens. Ah.)
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To: Sabertooth
Maybe you should read everything in Arnold's quote that you didn't bold or put in red. The rest was, after all, the substance of his comment, rather than parsing the use of "immediate". It's like arguing over the meaning of "is" when you pull out one word from a whole paragraph that says just the opposite, just to support your theory.
357 posted on 09/08/2003 7:51:17 PM PDT by alwaysconservative (Have YOU actually heard anybody answer the Verizon guy?)
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