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(09-23) 04:00 PDT Washington -- House Speaker Dennis Hastert stood before the cameras Thursday placing big red check marks on a list of nine border-enforcement bills that have passed the House -- including a 700- mile, double-layer fence ridiculed by critics all year but headed for the Senate floor next week.
At least for now, House Republican leaders have succeeded in their take-no-prisoners approach to immigration despite nationwide protests by Latinos last spring and White House warnings that they are endangering their party's future.
Refusing to compromise with the Senate and their own president to widen paths to legal entry and give the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in the country now an avenue to citizenship, Hastert and other House GOP leaders have successfully framed that approach as amnesty.
The House has prevailed "because that's where the country is," said Rep. Dan Lungren, R-Gold River (Sacramento County). "This is a situation where members in both the House and the Senate have listened to the folks back home."
Critics conceded a setback but argued that it would be temporary. They said enforcement alone won't stop illegal immigration but will alienate Latino voters, the nation's fastest-growing voter bloc. They said it will turn Republicans into a minority party, much as when former Gov. Pete Wilson won re-election in 1994 on an anti-immigrant platform that ultimately helped make California a Democratic-majority state.
"There are very serious political implications to what they are doing today," said Cecilia Munoz, chief lobbyist for the National Council of La Raza. "If 40 percent of my community supported Bush in the 2004 elections, it's very hard to imagine in this environment that proportion of Latinos voting for candidates from a party which continues to insult them."
For now, however, the political tide clearly favors enforcement first, legalization later.
2006-09-24 13:16:31 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
El INDIO. You got the yapping part down, Try to PUT me ANYPLACE, I go where I choose. You are welcome to leave by the southern gate at your convenience or under a deportation order. Hide & watch.
2006-09-25 16:16:50 · update #1
It sounds like the Government is going to appeal to the legal voters in this nation, The hispanics may have voted for Bush, but he is not up for election this time, America has had enough of foolish carpetbaggers.
2006-09-24 15:06:52 · answer #1 · answered by Stands Alone 2 · 3⤊ 4⤋
coach them the exciting issues the babies can learn. Like Face Putty one 0 one, or the thank you to identity Pitbull Bites from Chihuahua Bites. do no longer overlook the rides. Grandma's Lap Slide. Who would not love a sturdy slide on grandma.
2016-10-01 08:05:12 · answer #2 · answered by sashi 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My opinion is the borders are numbered temporarily. The government will eventually say, it is costing the taxpayers x billion dollars to maintain such...etc.
Their are Latinos here, who went through every channel imaginable, including learning the american english and many do not condone the mass influx.
The government loves to sugarcoat s***. It is a pacifier to quiet taxpaying citizens.
2006-09-24 13:36:56 · answer #3 · answered by SLOWTHINKER 3 · 6⤊ 0⤋
This is a bandaid election year ploy that will not work in the long run. With the globalization of the economy is it really smart to start putting up fences to keep people out or just to keep us in? When did such a wall work? The Great Wall of China...Nope! The Berlin Wall..Nope!!! I agree 100% with Slowthink here!
2006-09-24 15:05:39 · answer #4 · answered by Carol R 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Americans are so very angry...our "high and mighty" elected officials have actually had to acknowledge us....
Yes, the borders will be closed...and when we "clean house" and get rid of the illegal voters, the tide will turn....
This ripple in the ocean is turning into a tsunami....and we will send La Raza back to where it belongs...
2006-09-24 15:55:41 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 5⤋
did you ever think or even begin to think that illegal immigration might be the saviour of our economy?
first put quality an economical value back into "american made"
second, quit outsourcing. hell i work dirt cheap!
third, instead of spending millions and billions in man hrs, real monies and plain frustration, how about a mutually beneficial ladder scale of taxation for illegal immigration?
free borders have just started in a smart world. instead of making it a drain on the economy, why not make it a surplus(instead of just sales tax)
2006-09-24 13:29:23 · answer #6 · answered by l8ntpianist 3 · 5⤊ 5⤋
No. This country is based on immigration. THAT will never change even if the borders are closed. We'll find a way to get in.
2006-09-24 15:13:25 · answer #7 · answered by carey sanders 1 · 1⤊ 5⤋
"Get legal or get gone". I like it. And I do hope that is what is going on.
I don't think it will devistate our society, like some would like everyone to believe. EVERYONE IS REPLACEABLE. I think more need to remember that.
2006-09-24 14:01:04 · answer #8 · answered by volleyballchick (cowards block) 7 · 5⤊ 3⤋
BACK TO YOUR RESERVATION AND TO THE BOTTLE . TELL YOUR STUPID NAPPYHOE WIFE I SAID HELLO.
2006-09-24 21:49:08 · answer #9 · answered by QUE PASA?? 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
This should be our nation's new motto.
GET LEGAL OR GET GONE.
2006-09-24 15:47:31 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 5⤋