Posted on 04/05/2006 7:04:26 PM PDT by Altair333
Senate Republicans reached agreement last night on a compromise immigration measure that they believe will garner enough bipartisan support to break through a parliamentary impasse that has stymied progress on a high-stakes border security bill for two weeks.
Under the agreement, the Senate would allow undocumented workers a path to lawful employment and citizenship if they could prove -- through work stubs, utility bills or other documents -- that they have been in the country for five years. To attain citizenship, those immigrants would have to pay a $2,000 penalty, back taxes, learn English, undergo a criminal background check and remain working for 11 years.
Those who have been here a shorter time would have to return to one of 16 designated ports of entry, such as El Paso, Tex., and apply for a new form of temporary work visa for low-skilled and unskilled workers.
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Nope.
Toss in all the heads of lettuce you can eat for the rest of you life and it's even-steven.
Pay stubs, probably not if they were paid cash, which they were. Pay envelopes, probably not. Who keeps those? What is a work stub?
Just a few more miles- back over the border they crossed illegally- and, frankly, I'd be satisfied.
Just come here legally.
(And that goes for all of them.)
a compromise immigration measure that they believe will garner enough bipartisan support"
Support from other carpetbaggers, not the people, because they don't give a cr@p whether we support it or not.
Bush's guest worker program ends with the workers back at the border applying for entry in line with everybody else.
The senate bill would let people who could prove they've evaded the law for more than 5 years move to the front of the line for guaranteed citizenship in another 6 years if they paid 2000.
After which they would vote for people who would return the country to mexico and kick out all the evil europeans.
What is this sh*t??
A guy who is willing to nuke Mecca if necessary AND get rid of illegals gets my vote anytime he wants it.
That would open the door to the new compromise, co-written by Sens. Mel Martinez (R-Fla.) and Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.).
Same old same old Bush AMNESTY.
There's no excuse for this amnesty, regardless of how the traitorous republican Senators dress it up. The invadors should be run out at the tip of a bayonet, not welcomed.
This is BS. I'll not vote for anybody that votes in favor of this.
It ain't booze that we'll be reaching for.
An excellent way to find out who the employers of illegals are! However, my guess is that the employers will be granted amnesty as well.
"The Hispanic work force just isn't going away. It just isn't."
Let's be fair. Most "Hispanics" are legal and more legally come in every year.
"Their isn't the stomach for it, or the willingness to bear the economic disruptions."
There is the stomach, especially since job enforcement will encourage many to leave. The "disrruptions" will favor most Americans.
And I intend to do my part in showing them the door.
"Personally I think that the Republican Party is caving into the Progressive Left"
I think it's the cheap labor lobby money. Same for the Democrats.
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True, there are a handful of Republicans caving. But the vast majority of them are solid. Conversely, the Democrats are ALL pro-amnesty.
Let's keep in mind who the real culprits are.
The cottage industry is already working. Got a program running those electric bills ~
Count me aboard.
The odds, however, of Tancredo winning the Republican nomination though are slim and none.
If he decides to go independent, he'll grab a good 10% of the vote at the very least -- enough to sink the SS GOP.
I am missing something here - where are the enforcement provisions as part of this compromise?
I see only carrots here, where are the sticks?
it seems to me - that everyone gets to stay. the 5+ year people with documentation stay, those with children who are US citizens stay (I am OK with that), and everyone else stays so long as they requalify themselves in El Paso, and a bunch of others who simply don't bother to participate in any of this - they also stay I guess, why wouldn't they? So who leaves? Mind you, I never thought we could deport millions at the point of a gun - we can't. But at least we could incentivize the program to have some of them deport themselves.
I don't see any of that here.
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