Thread: GOP senator: Filibuster guest-worker program

GOP senator: Filibuster guest-worker program
Arizona's Kyl believes there might be enough votes to block legislation

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/artic ... E_ID=52944

Posted: November 14, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern

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Sen. John Kyl

A filibuster by Republicans is in order if President Bush presses forward in the new Congress with legislation to establish a guest-worker program with a path to citizenship, says Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz.

Kyl, however, speaking yesterday to nationally syndicated radio host Laura Ingraham, said he was uncertain whether or not Republicans would have the 40 votes necessary to block the legislation.

"I would certainly hope that the majority of Republicans in the Senate would not be complicit in passing legislation that is not wise, that for example, would put everybody on a path to citizenship and say that temporary workers get to get U.S. citizenship, and so on," Kyl said, according to HotAir.com

In January, Democrats will have a 51-49 majority over Republicans in the Senate. A supermajority of 61 votes would be needed to prevent a filibuster.

"I would certainly hope that we would have the 40 votes to be able to stop [the legislation], but, I don't know, we're going to have to wait and see; it'll be very close," said Kyl, who won re-election to another six-year term last week.

Arguing for the guest-worker program, the Bush administration has insisted it's not practical to deport the millions of foreigners who are in the country illegally.

"The cost of identifying all of those people and sending them back would be stupendous. It would be billions and billions of dollars," Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said in an interview last year.

"One of the reasons I think that we've been focusing on the idea of a temporary worker program as part of a larger strategy for border security is because it would be a way to siphon off people who really want to do nothing more than work here, put them into a regulated program – we would know who they are – we would then be able to send them back at the end of a period of three years or six years," he told Sean Hannity on the Fox News Channel program "Hannity & Colmes."

"They would have made some money, they could take it back home, and then we could focus our other resources on the people that don't want to do it the right way, and we could get those people sent out."

Last May, just 36 senators – three of them Democrats – voted against a bill that included a guest-worker program. The Senate was unable to work out a comprise before the Nov. 7 midterm elections with the House, which passed legislation rebuffing Bush's desire for foreign workers to gain legal employment.

Last summer, Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind., announced a compromise plan called the "No Amnesty Reform Act," which would require all illegal aliens to leave the United States and apply at "Ellis Island Centers," operated by private companies in Mexico under a license from the U. S. government. They would then obtain a "Good Neighbor Safe Visa" qualifying them to re-enter the U.S. as "guest workers."

As But members of a group called the Secure Borders Coalition have opposed Pence's proposal, labeling it "amnesty lite." The group argues the plan would provide for the "wholesale importation of aliens and a path to citizenship for them."

Minuteman Project founder Jim Gilchrist told WND in August he believed the result of the Pence plan would be to flood the U.S. with millions more illegal immigrants.

"Probably within hours of the Ellis Island Centers opening, counterfeit copies of the required documentation to re-enter the U.S. will be available on the streets of Los Angeles and dozens of other U.S. cities," he said.

Last summer, Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind., announced a compromise plan called the "No Amnesty Reform Act," which would require all illegal aliens to leave the United States and apply at "Ellis Island Centers," operated by private companies in Mexico under a license from the U. S. government. They would then obtain a "Good Neighbor Safe Visa" qualifying them to re-enter the U.S. as "guest workers."

This plan would include people who aren't even in the U.S. at this time, anyone could say that they had been here. The entire world could get in line to come in.

Well, we need to use all the pressure we can muster to make sure that the Republican minority can successfully use the filibuster to throw a wrench into the globalist plan to give away our country.

It would be awesome if they could pull it off. I could also see someone like Robert Byrd pulling it off too.

This whole "guest worker" crap is totally bogus.

"Guest workers" will have children, who automatically become anchor babies.

How can we be so cold hearted as to expect the "guest worker" to be separated from his US citizen progeny?

We also know that it's out of the question that they take their progeny with them back to their home country.

So what we'll have are "guest workers" who will never leave, just like we have now.

It's too bad that there isn't a single intellectually honest reporter or politician in this country who will point this obvious fact out to the masses.

"The cost of identifying all of those people and sending them back would be stupendous. It would be billions and billions of dollars," Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said in an interview last year.

Well mr chertoff, how much money have they cost the American taxpayer already? A hell of a lot less than it would cost to ship them all home.
Any outcome of the immigration dilema is not going to be cheap. The money is going to be spent in one way or another.
Me personally, let's put the money to good use for a change and start deporting them by the 1000's.
No more BS deportation trials, if they are illegal, they get a one way ticket out. No jail, no prison, just GET THEM THE HELL OUT OF OUR COUNTRY.
Elviria can drive the first bus home w/ her pawn...Oh my bad..I meant her son.

Chertoff conveniently ignores what would really happen, he's so full of spin.
If the jobs dried up for these illegals, what do you think they would do? Stand around and starve??? How did they get here??? Well, they'd take the same bus home.
He's as big a fool/snake as his boss.

Originally Posted by dman1200

I could also see someone like Robert Byrd pulling it off too.

Good point, probably 3 or 4 REAL Democrats like Byrd would join in the fillibuster, thus giving the 40 needed to stop amnesty.

Originally Posted by TimBinh

Originally Posted by dman1200

I could also see someone like Robert Byrd pulling it off too.

Good point, probably 3 or 4 REAL Democrats like Byrd would join in the fillibuster, thus giving the 40 needed to stop amnesty.

Can anyone pull the names of those 3 or 4 dems?
Other than KKK Byrd? {ok, ok...I know...we need him and he was tough on ILLEGALS}

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