Thread: Immigration reform gets green light

(this may already have been posted... but I couldn't find it on the boards, so here it is. Very, very sad)

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Immigration reform gets green light
Illegals likely to get path to citizenship

January 8, 2007
BY NADINE ELSIBAI
WASHINGTON -- The new Democratic-controlled Congress is likely to give President Bush the immigration legislation he wants, congressional leaders of both parties said.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said Bush expects an ''easier time'' dealing with Democrats on immigration, after his proposal was blocked by House Republicans last year.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said immigration, as well as changes in Social Security, were two of the ''significant'' items of business that are likely to get done.

''Divided government is the only way where you can kind of share the blame for doing big things that will sometimes become controversial,'' McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, said on the ''Fox News Sunday'' program.


Divided power works
Hoyer said history has shown divided government can achieve results on major issues such as Social Security. ''We need to do it,'' Hoyer, a Maryland Democrat, said on the Fox program.
Bush said in his weekly radio address that he is ''confident'' of finding common ground with Democrats, now in control of the House and Senate, during his last two years in office.

The president had sought a guest worker program and a path to citizenship for some of the 11 million illegal workers already in the U.S. That measure stalled in Congress after House Republicans demanded any changes focus on security and border control. He was forced to settle for legislation, which he signed Oct. 26, authorizing construction of 700 miles of fence along the 2,000-mile U.S. border with Mexico.

Bloomberg News

Well this is going to be the test of our newly elected Dems.
Many of them were against giving amnesty so it will be interesting to see how many of them quickly change sides to support amnesty.

Well Dems, take heed cause if amnesty is the course you take, your reign isn't going to last very long, and the next election anyone supporting amnest, and caters to illegals and OBL's must be thrown out.

This is it.. I think.

If it does happen, my only question is: can we eventually reverse it?

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edstate wrote:

This is it.. I think.

If it does happen, my only question is: can we eventually reverse it?

Once the illegals are put on a path to legalization, it won't be reversed. The only thing that will be left for us to do is sit and wait for the next 20 million!

The only thing going for us is that amnesty will be the end of Hillary's chances in 2008. She'll stay hidden and close to the elections. She'll offer all kinds of middle class goodies to ease the"transition." Dems don't want to take the blame. Bush is going to have trash the rest of the Rep party. Then they'll give him what he wants.