Posted on 02/21/2006 5:50:57 PM PST by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON - President Bush needs to do more to help push a temporary guest worker program through Congress, Republican Sen. John McCain (news, bio, voting record), the author of a key immigration bill, said Tuesday.
McCain, acknowledging that Bush has stepped up a campaign on behalf of the program, said the president has credibility on the issue because he was governor of Texas, the state with the largest border with Mexico.
"Would I want him to do more? From my perspective, probably," McCain said in a conference call with reporters.
McCain held the conference call in advance of town hall meetings in Miami on Thursday and New York on Monday.
The administration has toyed with the idea of a temporary worker program since Bush took office in 2001. But it was pushed to a back burner by the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, which triggered an outcry for a crackdown on immigration.
In early 2004, Bush laid out guidelines for a temporary worker program. But the 2004 elections made the administration and some in Congress reluctant to address it. That year, frustrated members of a Senate committee openly criticized Bush for failing to fight for his own proposal.
Bush "is very carefully timing his involvement as debate begins" in the Senate, McCain said. "This issue is going to be decided in forums all over America."
Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., has told lawmakers the Senate will begin considering immigration legislation March 27.
The Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to vote on a bill on March 2. McCain, however, predicted the Senate would not consider immigration reform until April or possibly later because of lobbying reform legislation.
The House passed an immigration enforcement bill last year that called for building fences on the U.S.-Mexican border, allowing local law officials to enforce immigration laws, and requiring employers to verify the legal status of their employees.
Lawmakers remain divided on the 11 million illegal immigrants already in the country. Sens. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., have proposed they leave the country before participating in the temporary worker program. McCain and the co-author of his bill, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (news, bio, voting record), D-Mass., have proposed a path for workers already here to earn legal status.
Hint....allow states to use national guard on the borders to help the border patrol....NOW !
JEDI.
This from the guy who wants amnesty?
What a loser.
Some are seeing the light. More will see soon.
He'll be campaigning for the gUb this year. yaknow.
"Do More on Immigration to push open borders"
You got it. Should have misleading headline alert.
Why is Senator McCain (RINO-AZ), who's job is to represent his constituents from Arizona in the Senate, holding town hall meetings in Miami and NY? Maybe somebody in the audience will ask this question.
It worked for George Bush.
| We are now one of the largest Spanish-speaking nations in the world. We're a major source of Latin music, journalism and culture. Just go to Miami, or San Antonio, Los Angeles, Chicago or West New York, New Jersey ... and close your eyes and listen. You could just as easily be in Santo Domingo or Santiago, or San Miguel de Allende. For years our nation has debated this change -- some have praised it and others have resented it. By nominating me, my party has made a choice to welcome the new America. As I speak, we are celebrating the success of democracy in Mexico. George Bush from a campaign speech in Miami, August 2000. |
Here is an excerpt of a good critique of that speech:
In equating our intimate historic bonds to our mother country and to Canada with our ties to Mexico, W. shows a staggering ignorance of the civilizational facts of life. The reason we are so close to Britain and Canada is that we share with them a common historical culture, language, literature, and legal system, as well as similar standards of behavior, expectations of public officials, and so on. My Bush Epiphany By Lawrence Auster
More phony posturing
Mr. "Campaign Finance Reform" (aka incumbent protection bill aka skirt the first amendment bill)
imo
So.
I rest my case.. lolol
All you've got is a hard on for the only man who stood a chance of defesting Cruz Bustamacha.
Get over it. You're really making yourself look foolish.
He's doing all he can, short of driving down to pick a few up himself.
Who's foolish?
Enjoy the short reign of the New Majority and the Just Win Baby crowd and don't sweat the details.
The wilsoneggers could care less what happens to you and I, but vote as you wish.
Proof that his brain was stolen and replaced with a lump of Play-Doh.
You mean like how you and other mcclintockites disregard the FACT that had Arnold not beat bustamecha we'd have been handed a 9 Billion tax increase AND ILLEGALS would have drivers licenses?
You're a joke.
I say again; get over your obsession, you're only making yourself look foolish.
Then again, maybe looking foolish is you.
So be it.
There , do you feel better now..
lol
You don't have much faith that the repubs would have blocked a tax increase, they sure couldn't block the 15 billion the gub borrowed to get the dems off the hook.
we won't discuss all the gays, greens and dems he has appointed as well.. you also don't believe any polls that showed Tom beating cruz either, how convenient, that is before Mr Olympia jumped or was pushed into running with a hugh Q factor and not much else to go on. The debates he showed up for showed he was in over his head from the get go, like his supporters.
yeah, revel in your "victory". and blame anyone was who working to save california from a Trojan Horse, and not just sink the state deeper in debt. You got your way, be happy, not crappy. ;-)
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