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Should have read......"Daschle and Gephardt on Friday kicked off a three-day visit vacation to Mexico to discuss the fight against terrorism, drug trafficking, border security, immigration and economic growth further undermining of President Bush's administration.

Does this amnesty they are discussing include "Mexicans" who are the children of Arabs who came to Mexico or other Latin American nations? Because such people do exist - and they do come here and commit felonies!

Right now, in Missouri, a "South American" man is on Death Row; he is a Palestinian who immigrated to South America and then came to Missouri - where he murdered his own teenage daughter in an Arab "honor killing" over her wanting to date and choose who to marry. The planning for the murder - and the murder itself - were taped by the FBI, which had him under surveillance at the time for being a local leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

IMMIGRATION resource library - with local INS phone numbers, coast to coast

You got that right, Bush has said in every forum possible that he is not for a blanket amnesty. He stated he would be willing to look at work permits with the participation of employers. He has not yet been detail specific though.

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W will sell out on this issue, wanna bet with me.

I lost all my money in the market last year! I think he will stand firm on his promise. He has told everyone the same thing. (somesort of modified agreement to make sure they had jobs and were not criminals)

I don't see any way to stop Washington. They read the polls and they know that 60 to 80% of the people are against amnesty. They receive phone calls, FAX's, and emails from people all over the USA telling them the same thing. And yet they continue to go against the will of the people to further their own agendas.

We have to vote these people out of office. If they grant amnesty to the 3 to 18 million illegals already here before the 2004 elections, we can hang it up!!

Sorry to hear about you losing your money in the market last year:( .
That was Bubba's fake market, and he screwed it up when he sued Biily boy Gates.

Don't worry the stock market and America will be back in th e near future, and this time it will be real stock market.

I hope to GOD W doesn't sell out on the illegal alien stuff, but I have a bad feeling about it.
W might wanna please the hispanic vote by legalizing illegal Mexicans.

BTW a bunch of us met today and this is one of the subjects we spoke about. I believe one of the reasons they don't go home and overstay their visa is because they are afraid they won't be able to get back in for the next job cycle.(ie: harvest time and planting) At least this is a problem in my area.

As far as the border busters are concerned, that has got to stop! I don't care what Fox thinks.

"I think he will stand firm on his promise. He has told everyone the same thing. (somesort of modified agreement to make sure they had jobs and were not criminals)"

"Not criminals?" How naive are you? These people - almost by definition - live on fake ID; that's the only way they can get jobs. Any street cop in any town with many of them can tell you that bail-skipping by arrested illegals is the rule. The reality is that Mexican illegals who get into other U.S. crimes - beyond just illegally entering and then using fake IDs - commonly just buy another fake ID under a different alias when they get into trouble in one place and flee it.

And how will you check their Mexican criminal records - particularly when Mexico's politicians want as many illegals to be amnestied as possible, and thus have every incentive to say they are all clean? And are you really naive enough to think the Mexican politicians want their felons back - and will tell INS that Juan isn't eligible for amnesty due to a dope conviction in Mexico?

IMMIGRATION resource library - with local INS phone numbers, coast to coast

I think he can please them with something fair. They are generally hard working and don't respect those who don't. They seem to be largely conservative in their thinking. Again, all I have to study is here in Arkansas. If the dems try to ram something through it will be to try and make Bush veto the bill and loose support. This is what worries me.

And who sells them the fake I.D.s and rents them filthy houses with 10-15 people in them knowing that they can't comlain about it to anyone because of their status.....American citizens, that's who.

The criminals are on both sides of the border and it's got to stop. All of it............

Yet another example of our "representatives" bending over backwards to accomodate everyone except American citizens. I don't care if it's the dems or Bush talking about amnesty for illegals, it just doesn't make sense to me.

In my mind, the very first thing that should have been done after 9-11 was to close the borders and start deporting illegals. Instead, we're just bringing in more foreigners and kowtowing to Vincente Fox. I just don't get it. Wish someone could explain it to me.

I can't dispute your figures. You are in the east and I am in the south near Texas. Things are a little different here. The Mexicans that come here cause little or no criminal mischief and are productive. Different world.

BTW Do you have the election results broken down by race for the 2000 election? If I recall, the numbers were a lot closer.

You might find this of some interest:

Impossible Dream or Distant Reality? Republican Efforts to Attract Latino Voters