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Bush renews immigration push after Republicans relent (2nd Roundup)
Jun 15, 2007, 15:19 GMT
Washington - President George W Bush urged lawmakers Friday to finish an immigration overhaul - the headline issue on his domestic agenda - after the Senate agreed to revive the legislation.
Bush is struggling to win over legislators in his conservative Republican Party who want the plan to emphasise border security and believe it offers de-facto amnesty to the estimated 11-12 million illegal immigrants in the US.
Bush's latest appeal came in a Washington speech to a gathering of Hispanics, the population group at the immigration debate's centre.
'Each day our nation fails to act, the problem only grows worse,' he said. 'I will continue to work closely with members of both parties, to get past our differences, and pass a bill I can sign this year.'
Bush dropped snippets of Spanish into his speech as he championed the biggest attempt in at least a decade to reform US immigration laws, which seemed dead last week after Republicans in the Senate refused to vote on the measure.
The president made a rare visit to the US Congress this week to lobby sceptical Republicans for the bill, which provides for an expanded 'guest worker' programme and - most controversially - offers a path to citizenship for migrants living illegally in the US.
In a key move to break the impasse, Bush on Thursday backed a Republican amendment to use new fees and fines for tighter border enforcement. The plan would provide 4.4 billion dollars up front for border security, the White House said.
Within hours, majority Democrats and minority Republicans in the Senate said they had agreed to bring the immigration bill back for debate. That could happen as early as next week, though senators said they would finish a complex energy bill first.
The immigration plan unveiled last month as a historic breakthrough is a fragile compromise spearheaded by Bush's White House and Democratic leaders in Congress.
The bill has been at the top of Bush's domestic agenda for years, but he was unable to convince fellow Republicans, who controlled both chambers of Congress from 2003-07, to back his pro-immigration approach to reform.
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This is getting good, illegals who remain loyal to Mexico, are getting a chance to become U.S. citizens, so they can stay to reap the benefits of our country. Most of our government can see that this is an invasion, but will do nothing to stop this, but to make things worse, they are rolling out the red carpet to the invaders, and to hell with the rest of us. Today I hear that Bush went to a Latino Breakfast Prayer, and basically swore he will make this bill happen, even know most of the country does not want it, but of course big business wants it.
I also heard today that the senate, and bush plan on voting against a union bill that would make it easier for employees to form a union. Why, because big business does not want it.
We the people are no more, it is the powerful rich that are running our country, and they do not believe in our country or its people no more. They like the way Mexico is, and thats what they want, and it looks like they are going to get it, one way or another. They do not want to defend our borders yet, not until there is a larger force here, when they feel there is enough Mexicans here, they will close off the border. They know this will incite Mexico, and its people, including all the Mexicans here in the U.S. Mexico will declare war on us, and so will the Mexicans that are here, because of their loyalty for Mexico. While we are fighting for our own lives, the rich will run away and wait for our demise, and when it is all over with, the rich will come back and reclaim what is theirs, and they will have their peasants, and we will be gone. 'Long live Mexico.'
Ted Kennedy was a strong supporter of the 1965 Hart-Celler Act signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson which dramatically changed US immigration policy.
This is what Ted Kennedy said about the 1965 bill.
'The bill will not flood our cities with immigrants. It will not upset the ethnic mix of our society. It will not relax the standards of admission. It will not cause American workers to lose their jobs.'
Kennedy is now the chair of the United States Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security and Citizenship, and remains a strong advocate for immigrants, both documented and undocumented
About the same time there wasn't enough room for citizens to have children.
The Unacknowledged Holocaust
Back in the 60’s the Federal Government came into the public schools and brainwashed us as little children with the message that the children we were about to have were unwanted because the population was rising so fast. They launched a program called, Zero Population Growth”. . They pushed Family Planning and birth control pills. I think you and I now both know that you only have to trick people for their few child bearing years and there is no going back.
Many of us never had a say in the future of our unborn.
I am the result of two living cells. One from each of my parents. They are the result of two living cells, one from each of their parents. I wasn't just born. I am a continuation of life. I am a living thing that reaches back into time perhaps 400 million years and the result of billions of joining of pairs of cells. It is possible that if you were to follow my cells back to my parent’s cells and beyond that my family tree touches every living thing here on earth. That is if we limit ourselves to believing life was created here on earth. If it rained down from the immensity of the universe it could reach back into that immensity of time and space, and who knows what relationships and who knows what species.
At least until I came up against the Federal Government and their plan to control the population.
I have seen the Federal Government do little else to control the population.
The open border, United States laws only apply to some, is a serious slap in the face. No, not a slap in the face, it reaches well beyond that. Maybe back to the beginning of time and stretch to the bounds of the universe.
Immigration is the second issue Bush has _ever_ been on the correct side of. The first was to refuse to use national oil reserves to produce a temporary reduction in gas prices.
The status quo advocates may as well keep their head in the sand. It's time to get real.
Ilegal means one thing you broke the law period.
D,
I thought illegal meant you hired an illegible employee?
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LanceJun 15th, 2007 - 18:46:38
I think if the republicans stop the bill for unions,the democrats should stop the immigration bill...tit for tat....
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