Thread: Bill won't contain guest-worker language, Hastert tells coll

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Posted on Thu, Dec. 15, 2005

Bill won't contain guest-worker language, Hastert tells colleagues

BY DENA BUNIS
The Orange County Register

WASHINGTON - In a victory for those Republicans who advocate an immigration bill that deals only with security issues, House Speaker Dennis Hastert told his colleagues Thursday that there will be no guest-worker language in the bill expected to be voted on Friday.

Still to be decided was whether the House would vote on such contentious matters as whether children of illegal immigrants would continue to be citizens at birth and whether employers would have to verify the legal status of all its workers or just those hired in the future.

The overall bill tightens border security, makes it easier to deport illegal immigrants - especially those from countries other than Mexico - and requires employers to start verifying that their workers are legally entitled to work here.

Most Democrats oppose the bill, and Friday's vote could be a close one although GOP leaders have expressed confidence that it will pass.

Fifteen amendments were debated Thursday. One of the most contested was one to construct more fencing along parts of the southern border that have the highest incidence of illegal crossings and border deaths. The measure would cost $2.2 billion. The amendment passed easily.

The guest-worker language was going to be part of a broad amendment authored by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis. After Hastert agreed to take out the language during a closed-door, members-only meeting of the Republican caucus, Rep. Ed Royce said: "I indicated my support for the bill and that all of us should be supporting it because now we were moving a comprehensive enforcement border-security bill that would keep the focus on border protection."

Royce, R-Calif., was among a group of nearly two dozen GOP lawmakers who balked at including in the bill language that would have essentially said the U.S. economy needed a guest-worker program.

Removing that provision gave the GOP leaders enough votes to ensure that the bill will be brought to a final vote Friday. Leading the charge to get the language included was Rep. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz. Flake could not be reached for comment Thursday.

Although the guest-worker language was not going to be in the House bill, such a provision is likely to be included in any bill the Senate debates early next year. The White House supports a bill that includes both enforcement and a temporary-worker program.

The dustup over the guest-worker language focuses once again on the sharp divide among GOP members on immigration reform.

"The Republican Party has a split personality on this issue" said Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., who objected to the guest-worker language.

"There are those of us who identify with the national wing and patriotic wing of the party who have always been adamant on the illegal immigration issues," he said. "And on the other side you have those people who believe in business and global marketplace concept. So you have a party with two different views on one of the major issues of the day."

Added to the philosophical differences has been pressure being brought from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which opposes the bill and says it will take a person's vote on the issue into consideration when deciding whether to support his or her re-election.

Rep. John Campbell, R-Calif., got his amendment approved that would hold up law enforcement grants to so-called sanctuary cities - those cities that forbid police from turning information about illegal immigrants over to federal authorities.

Such a ban "is a violation of federal law," Campbell said. "It is just wrong."

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas, the ranking Democrat on the immigration subcommittee, said Campbell's amendment "forces them to enforce civil immigration laws. It forces our local government to take on extra responsibilities without funding."

"There are those of us who identify with the national wing and patriotic wing of the party who have always been adamant on the illegal immigration issues," he said. "And on the other side you have those people who believe in business and global marketplace concept. So you have a party with two different views on one of the major issues of the day."

How beautifully this states the schizo personality of the GOP. Let me tell you as a life time Republican from the "national and patriotic wing of the party", the other side who believes in "business and global marketplace concept" are not of our party.

Business and a global marketplace concept may be fine in the Board Rooms of Corporate America as they plot their next profit margin.

But it is not fine in American Politics. It is not fine in the Grand Old Party. It is not fine with Republicans. It is not fine with Americans.

The difference is:

Patriots and Traitors.

That is the line drawn in the sand on:

1) illegal immigration

2) excessive legal immigration

3) Free Trade Agreements that are not free

4) World Trade Organization

5) Globalism

6) New World Order

7) World Government

8) United Nations Agenda 21 for Global Governance of Civil Society

It's time for Patriots to stand up; stand tall; speak out; and do so in Real Speak. It's time for Traitors to be investigated; prosecuted; jailed or exiled.

The time is now for Americans to put their foot down and demand expulsion from our government of anyone promoting pushing plotting a Globalist Agenda which is a Treason Agenda to end the United States and impoverish the American People by flooding our nation with foreign nationals we can not sustain and who have no loyalty or allegiance to the American People.

This is not speculation, this is not "theory", this is not conspiracy talk....it is plain, hard cold bitter fact, and we must act now before it's too late.

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Originally Posted by Brian503a

Added to the philosophical differences has been pressure being brought from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which opposes the bill and says it will take a person's vote on the issue into consideration when deciding whether to support his or her re-election.

To quote Karl Rove, where will the CofC go? Will they instead support Democrats? This could also backfire on the CofC. I know some pro-borders groups are talking about boycotting members of the US Restraunt association, because of their support along the the CofC for a guest worker amnesty.