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| 2005-04-08 |
| More than 1,500 of our soldiers in Iraq have given their lives to ensure America's safety. An emergency military spending bill to keep their comrades supplied with bullets and gasoline passed the House of Representatives last month with the addition of several important domestic security measures, including national standards for state driver's licenses. The Senate will debate the bill next week, and is considering an addition of its own: amnesty for illegal aliens. I am not making this up. For several years now, Sen. Larry Craig has teamed up with Sen. Ted Kennedy to relentlessly push the AgJobs bill (the Agricultural Job Opportunity, Benefits, and Security Act, currently S. 359), which would grant amnesty to most illegal alien farmworkers, and their families (plus admit many, many more through a harmful "temporary" worker program). Estimates are that as many as three million illegals could take advantage of this amnesty. Sen. Craig has said he intends to offer his amnesty as an amendment when the military spending bill is considered next week on the Senate floor. His hope is that if his amnesty is added to the Senate version of the bill it will be too difficult for pro-borders Republicans in the House to kill it when the two bodies meet to reconcile the different versions of the bill. Rest at link |
| Posted by:ed |
| #1 It is so scummy that all the villains try to stick in their pet monstrocities into these bills. Note the brief mention of the national ID card, as if it is just a minor thing. That is far worse than any amnesty. Which, by the way, seems to be only fair: if you're going to wink-wink, nod-nod and let millions of illegals into the country, then fair is fair. At least require businesses to treat them like human beings, not slaves. If they are so precious to our economy, then they are precious enough to pay for. If they are too expensive to pay minimum wage, health care, and allow to belong to unions, then they are too expensive to let into the country in the first place. Business and the government have tried to keep the "have our cake and eat it" status quo for too long. Either lock them OUT or make them LEGAL. The US does NOT need a peasant class to abuse any more. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2005-04-08 10:49:40 AM |