Post by unlawflcombatnt on Aug 6, 2007 17:18:01 GMT -6
Specter Pushes New Amnesty Legislation
By Senator Arlen Specter
8/6/07
"The charge of amnesty defeated comprehensive immigration reform in the Senate this summer. It is too important, and there has been too much legislative investment, not to try again. The time to do so is now....
So let's take a fresh look and try a narrower approach.
There is a consensus in Congress on most objectives and many remedies for immigration reform: more border patrols, additional fencing, drones.....
The main objective in legalizing the 12 million was to eliminate their fugitive status, allowing them to live in the United States without fear of being detected and deported or being abused by unscrupulous employers. We should consider a revised status for those 12 million people. Let them hold the status of those with green cards -- without the automatic path to citizenship that was the core component of critics' argument that reform efforts were really amnesty....."
The full article can be found at the Washington Post
Talk about being completely out of touch. Specter's entire concern is the amnestisizing of 12 million illegal immigrants, so as not to cut off the cheap labor supply for Corporate America.
Specter knows good and damn well that it wasn't the "citizenship" status that was the main hurdle. It was the "legalization" of the presence of currently illegal immigrants, and the "legalization" of their hiring by American employers.
Specter's proposal is a thinly-veiled guise to again amnestisize employers for the hiring of illegal immigrants, by making their presence in the United States legal.
His proposal is outright, unadulterated AMNESTY. Period.
Apparently his Corporate cheap labor advocating donors aren't going to let this drop. They're going to continue pushing for Amnesty, despite overwhelming public opposition.
By Senator Arlen Specter
8/6/07
"The charge of amnesty defeated comprehensive immigration reform in the Senate this summer. It is too important, and there has been too much legislative investment, not to try again. The time to do so is now....
So let's take a fresh look and try a narrower approach.
There is a consensus in Congress on most objectives and many remedies for immigration reform: more border patrols, additional fencing, drones.....
The main objective in legalizing the 12 million was to eliminate their fugitive status, allowing them to live in the United States without fear of being detected and deported or being abused by unscrupulous employers. We should consider a revised status for those 12 million people. Let them hold the status of those with green cards -- without the automatic path to citizenship that was the core component of critics' argument that reform efforts were really amnesty....."
The full article can be found at the Washington Post
Talk about being completely out of touch. Specter's entire concern is the amnestisizing of 12 million illegal immigrants, so as not to cut off the cheap labor supply for Corporate America.
Specter knows good and damn well that it wasn't the "citizenship" status that was the main hurdle. It was the "legalization" of the presence of currently illegal immigrants, and the "legalization" of their hiring by American employers.
Specter's proposal is a thinly-veiled guise to again amnestisize employers for the hiring of illegal immigrants, by making their presence in the United States legal.
His proposal is outright, unadulterated AMNESTY. Period.
Apparently his Corporate cheap labor advocating donors aren't going to let this drop. They're going to continue pushing for Amnesty, despite overwhelming public opposition.