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Friday, April 07, 2006
The Saucer Cools
The Senate sidetracked sweeping immigration legislation Friday, leaving in doubt prospects for passing a bill offering the hope of citizenship to millions of men, women and children living in the United States illegally.
A carefully crafted compromise that supporters had claimed could win an overwhelming majority received only 38 of the 60 votes necessary to protect it from weakening amendments by opponents.
This all seems to have been rushed for political purposes rather than to really solve whatever problems there might be in our current immigration laws. Better to have things cool down a bit, which is precisely what the Senate's role is, as George Washington famously noted.
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I'd like to know where these shadows are in which President Bush keeps claiming the illegal immmigrants are hiding.
I don't see illegal immigrants in "the shadows". I see them in our hospitals, in our schools, hanging out at the day laborer centers, drunk on the streets, and in our jails. And now they are marching down our streets, demanding "their rights".
Of course, next week they will be in the shadows: the shadow of the Washington Monument, the Capitol, and the White House, and Mr. Bush will continue to do nothing about it.
Posted by: Real Justice | Apr 7, 2006 11:56:06 AM
I am sure the 11 million illegal immigrants rejoiced.. and ofcourse the politicians are playing their politics.. 11 million votes at stake.. but at what cost to this country... I am not against some form of reform in the systme, but what about the people who ar ein this country legally and they get up each day worrying about their jobs, lack of any guarantees that they will get the green card and of course unlike the ILLEGALS.. lack of the cunning or desire to be take the law in their hands....
I fear the future of a country that allows its desire for a vote bank creation over the accepted law of the land..
WHY SHOULD THE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT GET CITIZENHIP RIGHTS OVER AND ABOVE THE LEGAL LAW-ABIDING IMMIGRANT PAYING THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS IN TAXES, WITH NO REAL AVENUES TO EVEN SWITCH JOBS....
The politicians are playing only politics... should we let them?
Posted by: Sg | Apr 7, 2006 11:56:42 AM
This whole immigration debate is a "Red Herring". As is the Republican view that employer sanctions for hiring illegals are, “ useless and turn employers into enforcers of border control". That is completely asinine!
This Republican style concern about "burdening" business is so transparently hypocritical that it’s sickening. It's perfectly okay to, "burden" business to be enforcers of tax, selective service and various security regulations but not immigration?
The US business profit model depends on the cheap labor of immigrates. The truth is that, it isn't in the interest of US business to enforce immigration rules in any form. And they, through their political contribution to Republicans will prevent any meaningful attempts to legislate against their own interests.
So lets stop making noises that anyone but a bunch of redneck militia types care about illegal immigration. And most of all, stop advocating these grandiose border fence plans which waste the taxpayers money and for which the contract to build will no doubt go to Halliburton/Kellogg Brown Root.
Posted by: dbert4 | Apr 7, 2006 12:42:24 PM
I don't see illegal immigrants in "the shadows". I see them in our hospitals, in our schools, hanging out at the day laborer centers, drunk on the streets, and in our jails.
Working in the hospitals, getting an education, supporting their families, blowing off steam getting drunk, and getting in trouble.
Goodness -- all those heartland republican family values....
Posted by: flory | Apr 7, 2006 12:46:23 PM
I still don't understand why this is being dragged out again. How will this help the elections? For which side? It actually polarizes us more, does that help the neocon agenda? Shift the focus away from Iraq? Plamegate?
I predict we will have the usual tooting of horns and pompous speeches and nothing will happen (like usual). The system is broken, but there is very little the politicians will be able to do. They make any kind of move someone will get pissed off.
Life will go on. We will bomb Iran, Jeb will become president...
Posted by: ellroon | Apr 7, 2006 2:03:04 PM
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