For all the anti-undocumented worker folks?

Question

WASHINGTON - A bipartisan group of senators reached agreement with the White House Thursday on an immigration overhaul to grant quick legal status to millions of illegal immigrants already in the U.S. and fortify the border against new ones.....its a great day to be an american....don't you agree?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070517/ap_on_go_co/immigration_congress;_ylt=AtRlAEv3t5dCcNxTcD3kAtCs0NUE

Answer 1

People are complaining here, but truth be told, the people have spoken, they voted in a democratic congress, and a few Republicans who support amnesty, you knew this was coming down the pike....Stop whining, this is a Representative govt. and the people have spoken....

Yeah, its a great day to be an American.....

Answer 2

What is the rush to give illegals legal status? What's wrong with these politicians? Who is paying them to do this? Are they getting rich pandering to illegals?
Why are they stabbing fellow Americans in the back?

Answer 3

Everyone cross your fingers we need a change!!!! It's time to legalize all the undocumented immigrants in this country.

Answer 4

Do you have a link to that?

Answer 5

Note bold text below:


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INVASION USA
GOP: Immigration plan 'dead on arrival'
Comprehensive package expected to be reintroduced

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Posted: May 11, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern


By Jerome R. Corsi
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com

U.S. Sens. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., and Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., have joined Reagan administration Attorney General Ed Meese in drawing a line in the sand, saying the "comprehensive immigration reform" bill from last year is dead if it is reintroduced this year.

DeMint, Sessions, and Meese yesterday suggested bipartisan negotiations over comprehensive immigration reform have broken down, and that means the Senate has failed to reach a compromise.

DeMint and Sessions were outspoken in expressing their views that Democrats in control of the Senate have failed to reach out to Republicans in negotiating and drafting an immigration bill expected next week.

DeMint and Sessions stressed that the reintroduction of last year's comprehensive immigration reform bill into the Senate has, at this time, no Republican senator sponsoring the legislation. And they said the American public this year appears to place a higher priority on border security.

Wesley Denton, spokesman for DeMint, confirmed to WND that DeMint expects the legislation to be introduced next week will be identical S. 2611, the comprehensive immigration reform bill introduced into the Senate last year in the 109th Congress.
Denton further confirmed that yesterday's news conference could be interpreted as expressing to the Democrats in the Senate and the White House that without support from Republican senators, the immigration plan will be a "non-starter."

Democrats need 60 votes in the Senate, and Denton said without even a Republican sponsor, any reintroduction of S. 2611 is "dead on arrival."

At the news conference, DeMint, Sessions, and Meese outlined four principles of what they defined as "responsible immigration reform."

National security must be the No. 1 priority. This requires improvements in border security and workplace enforcement.
Immigration must be a net gain for the United States, not a net loss. This requires attracting those with the skills and enterprise, creating a responsible temporary guest-worker program, and putting responsible limits on the burdens immigrants place on American taxpayers.
No amnesty. Illegal immigrants cannot be given legal permanent residency or citizenship without first returning to their home country and getting right with the law.
The U.S. must encourage assimilation, which has always been a strength of America. This means teaching immigrants what it truly means to be an American.
The Republicans said these issues must be addressed for any immigration bill to have any change of winning their support in the Senate.

S. 2611 was sponsored by Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., plus five additional co-sponsors. The only Democratic co-sponsor was Ted Kennedy, D-Mass. Republican sponsors included John McCain, R-Ariz., Sam Brownback, R-Kan., Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., and Mel Martinez, R-Fla.

S. 2611 passed the Senate on May 25, 2006, by a vote of 62-36. Among the 62 senators voting for the bill were 23 Republicans.

But the bill died when it could not be reconciled with H.R. 4437, a much tougher piece of immigration legislation sponsored by Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, R-Wis. It was passed by the House on Dec. 16, 2005, by a vote of 239 to 182, with more than 90 percent of the Republicans voting supporting the bill and more than 80 percent of the Democrats opposing.

S. 2611, known in the 109th Congress as "Comprehensive Immigration Reform," contained President Bush's proposal for a guest worker program defined as a path to citizenship for many of the millions of illegal immigrants currently in the United States.

H.R. 4437, known widely as the "Sensenbrenner bill," called for building 700 miles of fence along the U.S. Mexican border.

In a separate Democratic Party news conference held on Capitol Hill, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., along with Kennedy and Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., announced their decision to reintroduce S. 2611 for Senate floor debate next week.

Edwin Meese, III, and Matthew Spalding, Ph.D., the director of the B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies, have posted on the Heritage Foundation website a position paper entitled, "Where We Stand: Essential Requirements for Immigration Reform."

Answer 6

Unlawful Entry is a CRIME. Zero tolerance for immigration-law violators! No amnesty, no "stealth-amnesty." No "change of status," marriage fraud, "exceptional leave to remain," no "Temporary Protected Status." If you break the law, depart or be deported. Illegal aliens kill more US citizens each year than the war in Iraq has killed in four years. Apologists for illegal immigration like to paint it as a victimless crime. But in fact, illegal immigration causes substantial harm to American citizens and legal immigrants, particularly those in the most vulnerable sectors of our population--the poor, minorities, and children. Additionally, job competition by waves of illegal immigrants willing to work at substandard wages and working conditions depresses the wages of American workers, hitting hardest at minority workers and those without high school degrees. Illegal immigration also contributes to the dramatic population growth overwhelming communities across America--crowding school classrooms, consuming already limited affordable housing, and straining precious natural resources like water, energy, and forestland. Taxpayers are being forced to pay for the free health care, education, and other welfare programs being given to illegal aliens; Those tax dollars could be given back to U.S. taxpayers or used to keep our borders secure; They may be here illegally, but they sure know how to "work the system" to collect "free" medical care, "free" education, "free" food, Section 8 housing vouchers and other housing assistance, and hundreds of other social services. It costs citizens additional hundreds of billions of tax dollars at every level: local, state, and federal. It gobbles up billions of our charitable contributions. And much of that money ends up siphoned out of our economy and into offshore accounts. Illegal aliens, over half of whom work "under the table" with neither job nor income reported (nor taxed), are not counted as employed or unemployed. But some of those day-labor and off-the-books "job-lets" would be "real" jobs - available to American citizen job-seekers - if employment regulations were enforced. Illegal aliens can get away with tax evasion, et al., which citizens cannot. In short, we have too many workforce entrants and too few jobs created. The ratio works out to roughly 7-10 workforce entrants per job created. If all illegal aliens depart or are deported, all legal immigration halted, and all temporary employment visas abolished, we still have a problem with more US-born workforce entrants than new jobs created. Illegal immigration damages our country and our citizens every day at every level. And not even the attacks of 2/26 and 9/11 have awakened many Americans to the vast dangers illegal immigration poses to our selves, our families, our communities, our society, our values, our principles, our civilization. Zero Tolerance for Immigration-Law Violators! We must remember the lessons of 2/26, 9/11, and the costs we bear every single day. God Bless the U S A !

Answer 7

If i break a law I get put in jail an illegally does it and gets a pat on the back . Hurray for us .

Answer 8

God Bless America!!!

Answer 9

There is no such thing as an undocumented worker. they are ILLEGAL aliens trespassing in our Country.

Answer 10

Can we just say it, ILLEGAL ALIENS. Not "undocumented workers."