Thread: Rallies don't sway California GOP

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Rallies don't sway California's GOP
Los Angeles Times

WASHINGTON - As massive pro-immigrant rallies have grabbed center stage in Southern California, the state's congressional delegation remains sharply divided over what to do about illegal immigration, with many Republicans -- including those from districts with substantial Hispanic populations -- holding firm in support of a get-tough approach.

Several of those GOP lawmakers said they believed their stance reflects the attitudes of most of their constituents, despite the recent demonstrations.

"I go to a church that is predominantly Latino," said Rep. Gary G. Miller, R-Diamond Bar, a sponsor of the House bill that has been a target of the protests. "And I get nothing but positive comments for what I'm trying to do."

Miller and most of his 18 California Republican colleagues are part of a large group of GOP House members whose prime aim is to crack down on illegal immigration. Other California Republicans -- and virtually all of the delegation's 33 Democrats -- favor some version of the guest-worker program advocated by President Bush and business groups, including the state's important agriculture industry.

The House bill, which passed in December with support from all but three of the California Republicans, would tighten border security and impose new penalties on those who enter the U.S. illegally and on those who hire or help them. The Senate, in contrast, may adopt a broader bill that, along with being less punitive toward illegal immigrants, would create a guest-worker program and open a path to citizenship for of those now in the country without the proper papers.

Rep. David Dreier of San Dimas, a member of the House GOP leadership, has urged colleagues to avoid "strident rhetoric."

But Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Huntington Beach, appearing with other House Republicans Thursday at a Capitol Hill gathering assailing the Senate's legislation, declared, "We do not need more people from foreign countries coming in taking the jobs of Americans .... I say let the prisoners pick the fruits."

"Let the prisoners pick the fruit"!

Why not????



If it's true Americans Won't Do the Work, then there is no valid claim for the unions to say "Americans Need That Work" and letting prisoners pick the fruit deprives them of their jobs.

Of course Americans will do the work, but if and when they can't find Americans to do the work, then let the prisoners do the work. They'd be alot cheaper than illegal aliens or guest workers. After all isn't the whole Globalist Movement based upon the lowest cost and the cheapest labor for the lowest price?

Well then!!

Voila!!

LET THE PRISONERS PICK THE FRUIT!!

Where I live, we've got guys from the California Men's Colony (nice term for a prison) out doing landscape work and cleaning drainage ditches on public land.

It works just fine, and they seem to like it since it gets them out from behind bars.