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Title: Bush to Press Immigration Plan in Arizona
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Associated Press
URL Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051128/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush
Published: Nov 28, 2005
Author: LIZ SIDOTI
Post Date: 2005-11-28 16:07:02 by OKCSubmariner
Keywords: Immigration, Arizona, Press
Views: 63
Comments: 6
TUCSON, Ariz. - President Bush is trying to build support for a comprehensive immigration strategy — and mollify conservatives wary of his guest worker plan for foreigners — even though Congress has largely shelved the issue for now. The Senate has postponed its work on immigration proposals until early next year, partly because lawmakers are divided over the scope of such changes and whether foreigners illegally working in the United States should be allowed to stay. The House hopes to tackle some border security measures before adjourning, but little time remains and it has other issues on its plate. The president left his Crawford, Texas, ranch after spending nearly a week there for Thanksgiving, to pitch his plan in Tucson, Ariz., on Monday, and El Paso, Texas, on Tuesday. The border states are home to GOP senators who have been vocal on the need to change immigration laws but who aren't entirely sold on Bush's vision. The president's plan pairs a guest worker program for foreigners with border security enforcement, an attempt to satisfy both his business supporters, who believe foreign workers help the economy, and his conservative backers, who take a hard line on illegal immigration. In Tucson, the president planned to aim his remarks at those conservatives, emphasizing his proposals to secure the border, remove people who enter the country illegally and strengthen enforcement of immigration laws. Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., asked Bush in a letter Monday to encourage bipartisan and realistic reforms to immigration laws. "Enforcement alone does not work. Unless we address the gap between our immigration laws and reality, illegal immigration will not stop and the situation on the border will continue to be chaotic," Reid said. The Democrat implored Bush to "stand up to the right wing of your party and stand up for what is right" by taking more than an enforcement-only approach to illegal immigration. The president's two-day push on border security and immigration comes a month after Bush signed a $32 billion homeland security bill for 2006 that contains large increases for border protection, including 1,000 additional Border Patrol agents. Bush has been urging Congress to act on a guest worker program for more than a year. Under his plan, undocumented aliens would be allowed to get three-year work visas. They could extend that for an additional three years, but would then have to return to their home countries for a year to apply for a new work permit. The guest worker program has met some resistance in Congress, where several bills on the issue have been introduced. Sen. John McCain (news, bio, voting record), R-Ariz., along with Sen. Edward Kennedy (news, bio, voting record), D-Mass., has proposed providing illegal aliens in the United States visas for up to six years. After that, they must either leave the United States or be in the pipeline for a green card, which indicates lawful permanent residency. Sens. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., support an alternative proposal that would require illegal aliens to return to their home country to apply for a temporary worker program. Senate GOP leaders plan to take up legislation early next year that will address a guest worker program. Their counterparts in the House have indicated they want to take up border security first and then move to a guest worker program. While in Arizona on Monday, the president also planned to attend a fund-raiser in Phoenix for Kyl as campaigning for next year's congressional elections gets under way.
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I do not trust anything Bush or Cornyn or Chertoff propose on immigration, amnesty, illegal aliens, etc. Lame Duck Presidents like Bush are a threat to America-they do as they please unless put in check by Congress or the People.
Look at what Specter is proposing.. that is what Bush will support.. double the
number of H1-B visas.. Lifting caps on legal immigrants.. double the cap on
family preference immigrants and including illegals returning home and then
re-enter the US on a path to citizenship.
oh no, the pres will be in AZ today. That's where I live. I may have to take special precautions. I still have a bottle of wine in the fridge. Sounds good to me. Seriously Zip - are you aware of how surreal it all is? In that the Americans are virtually all opposed to H1-b. The vast majority oppose our government on immigration. and they change the policies in a direction we don't like. they ignore us. see how surreal it is? How hopeless the idea that we rule in our country is?
Specter's plan:
http://www.numbersusa.com/hottopic/specterproposal.html
Since the elites have found it convenient and profitable to ignore laws that they don't like, I've decided that it would be convenient and profitable for me to ignore laws that I don't like as well. They hire illegals because it makes them money. I'm going to start looking into laws that I can break for fun and profit. I'm considering starting with some shoplifting, then maybe moving on to some grand larceny. Why not? Rules are for fools, laws are for losers. Winners make their own rules and their own laws.
OOPS, already posted under a different title by robin. Sorry.
#2. To: OKCSubmariner (#1)
#3. To: Zipporah (#2)
Tucson, Ariz., on Monday
#4. To: Red Jones, OKCSubmariner, ALL (#3)
#5. To: Must read (#4)
#6. To: Red Jones (#3)
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