Thread: Don't Be Fooled By Fake Immigration Reform

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Don't Be Fooled By Fake Immigration Reform
June 17, 2005

The mass immigration advocates have finally realized that the vast majority of Americans want immigration reform, border security, employer sanctions and all the nation's immigration laws enforced. Their response is to attempt to hijack the term "reform" and include it in their open borders discussions and legislation.

This summer we are likely to see the president's vision of "comprehensive immigration reform." Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Jon Kyl (R-AZ) intend to introduce a bill soon that will likely incorporate most of the President's already discredited guest worker proposals. They are calling it comprehensive immigration "reform." However, their bill is likely to fall far short of what the vast majority of Americans would recognize as comprehensive immigration reform.

Beware

Just because the White House calls something "comprehensive immigration reform," doesn't mean it is. As you hear immigration issues discussed on television, talk radio and in Congressional Townhall Meetings keep in mind, it is not immigration reform if it doesn't:

Cut the numbers

The Cornyn-Kyl bill will include new guest workers. Any increase in guest workers, increases the numbers. Even if the bill does not specifically allow them to stay, we all know the familiar refrain that will follow. "How can we ask them all to go home? They've been here six years; they have American-born kids in school, etc., etc., etc."

Just say no to amnesty

Cornyn and Kyl have professed opposition to amnesty, but if their bill (as President Bush has called for) allows upwards of 11 million illegal aliens to remain in the country it is an amnesty and not comprehensive immigration reform!

Protect wages and standards of living

Americans understand that both guest workers and illegal aliens are a major cause of declining wages and working conditions for American workers. If a Cornyn-Kyl bill allows illegal aliens to be guest workers, more illegals will come. Any large guest worker program open to all sectors of the U.S. economy will place middle class jobs on the auction block and is not comprehensive immigration reform!

Increase interior enforcement and employer sanctions

Cornyn-Kyl will authorize all sorts enhanced enforcement provisions. Authorize, however, is not the same as appropriate or implement. If, funded, verifiable enforcement is not a prerequisite to any other provisions of the bill, then it is not comprehensive immigration reform!

FAIR is not waiting for the Administration's, PR blitz of selling open borders and amnesty as comprehensive immigration reform. Our Seven Principles of True Comprehensive Immigration Reform lays out the basics of legitimate immigration reform, as the overwhelming majority of Americans understand it to be and have been demanding for a long time.

The 7 Principals of True Comprehensive Immigration Reform is attached. You can use the principals as a test of whether the suggestions, solutions and legislation dealing with immigration are True Reform.

Together we can win! Good luck,

This is the easiest solution in my view:

NO REFORM. NO NEW LEGISLATION. WE ALREADY HAVE ALL THE LAWS WE NEED TO PROTECT OUR COUNTRY.

The problem is not lack of laws or the need for new ones.

The problem is a total collusive conspiratorial treasonous failure to enforce those laws by this President, the previous President and the one before that--16.5 years of Yale University Skull & Bones Rule in the White House...with 3.5 more to go unless we remove this man and all his spawn from the White House succession line...which includes Cheney, Hastert (he can go back to Bolivia or Columbia or wherever it was that he used his spanish and "brush" up on it there), and probaby Frist.

Has Frist exposed himself yet?

That would bring us to Tom Delay as the successor I believe to finish out this term.

Where does Tom stand? Does anyone know?

Has Frist exposed himself yet?

He can get arrested for doing that in public.

I mean, has he exposed his "true colors"...is he a globalist, a pro-foreign nationals fanatic, is he "brushing" up on his spanish, is he for CAFTA, is he for McCain Kennedy, is he trying to end our nation!!

Just to clarify!!

Originally Posted by Judy

I mean, has he exposed his "true colors"...is he a globalist, a pro-foreign nationals fanatic, is he "brushing" up on his spanish, is he for CAFTA, is he for McCain Kennedy, is he trying to end our nation!!

Just to clarify!!

You forgot to add he is a cat killer to the list.

http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=200 ... 1056-3546r

Frist asked to atone for killing cats
By Dee Ann Divis
Science and Technology Editor
Published 12/31/2002 8:13 PM


WASHINGTON, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., is being asked by an animal advocacy group to support legislation for better animal treatment to make up for fraudulently adopting cats from animal shelters then experimenting on and killing them while he was a medical student.

A Dec. 31 letter from the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals asked Frist to make amends by pressing for reforms that would replace old-style tests where animals are subjected to painful and sometimes deadly procedures with newer, more humane approaches. They also requested that he help fund research to find non-animal alternatives.

Frist acknowledged in a 1989 book that he routinely killed cats while an ambitious medical student at Harvard Medical School in the 1970s. His office said it had no record on how many cats died. Frist disclosed that he went to animal shelters and pretended to adopt the cats, telling shelter personnel he intended to keep them as pets. Instead he used them to sharpen his surgical skills, killing them in the process.

The newly elected leader of the Senate Republicans revealed the practice in his book "Transplant: A Heart Surgeon's Account of the Life-and-Death Dramas of the New Medicine."

"It was a heinous and dishonest thing to do," Frist wrote, in a passage quoted by The Boston Globe. On Tuesday, Frist's press aide, Nick Smith, told United Press International that "Senator Frist denounces the activities that he did while he was in medical school -- as he has done before."

It is not clear if Frist's actions were illegal. Many states ban shelters from knowingly letting their animals be taken for such purposes.

Massachusetts put such a ban in place in 1983. Frist was a student in the Boston area from 1974 to 1978. A total of 14 states have passed such laws. Four states -- Iowa, Minnesota, Utah and Oklahoma -- still have laws that allow labs to demand the release of animals for experimental use.

But such regulations, called pound seizure laws, only govern the actions of the shelters.

"The pound seizure law probably would not apply there because the shelter did not intentionally sell the animal to him for this purpose," said Debora Bresch, a lawyer and a lobbyist for the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

"They thought they were adopting the animal out to him," said Bresch. "What he did was fraudulent and probably was illegal."

"It would probably would be considered cruel back even then," added Stephen Musso, senior vice president and chief of operations of ASPCA.

Though Musso said he personally had not heard about the Frist incident, he told UPI, "We wouldn't want to see anybody taking an animal out of an animal shelter and doing anything with it -- first of all that would be harmful; second of all, different than the intentions that they gave to the people at that shelter or humane organization."

Attitudes toward animal experimentation have shifted, said Gary Patronek, director of the Tufts Center for Animals and Public Policy in North Grafton, Mass.

"The fact that laws have passed prohibiting the practice of pound seizure in 14 states is evidence of the fact that society's attitudes have changed," Patronek told UPI. "The laws reflect the attitudes. If there isn't a broad social consensus about something, then typically the laws don't change."

The demographics have changed also. By the end of 2000, a total of 34 percent of American households had at least one cat -- a sharp rise of 8 percent in only two years. The American Pet Products Manufacturers Association also said in their 2001-2002 National Pet Owner Survey that 39 percent of all U.S. households owned at least one dog in 2000, about the same percentage as in 1998.

Though Frist's practice has been known for 11 years, the matter appears to be gathering new attention since his election as Senate majority leader. E-mail with copies of news articles mentioning the incident are bouncing around the Internet, said Bresch.

One Frist supporter said the senator's opponents are fueling the interest in the issue.

"What is happening here is that people are doing profiles of the senator, and they are desperate to find something wrong with him and to come up with something bad in his past," he pointed out.

Whether Frist will come to the aid of animal legislative causes remains to be seen. His spokesman said they had not seen the PETA letter and therefore would not comment on it.

PETA, normally more combative and high-profile, took a somewhat restrained tone in its letter. There was no mistaking PETA's opinion, however, as the organization asked Frist to make an effort on the animals' behalf.

"There could be no better way of making some small amends to those animals whose trust you betrayed when you took them from shelters," the letter said.