Thread: Republicans bringing immigration into other issues

Republicans bringing immigration into other issues
Saturday, October 13, 2007
Gannett News Service

WASHINGTON — If you’re not sure what illegal immigration has to do with union elections, federal agriculture spending or affordable housing subsidies, you must not be a Republican strategist.

Seeking an early edge for next year’s elections, House Republicans have forced several immigration votes on seemingly unrelated legislation since Democrats took control of the chamber. Using one of the few parliamentary tools available to the minority party, the GOP is trying to get vulnerable new Democratic lawmakers to cast votes that could be used against them in 2008 campaigns.

The strategy involves calling for bills to be sent back to the committees that wrote them with instructions to change specific language, just before the House votes on final passage of the legislation. So far, the GOP has filed more than 50 “motions to recommit,â€

Why can't we have a caucasian cacus? OH, we would be called racists.

Latino activists note that the GOP motions mostly serve to underscore current law, which already denies benefits to immigrants who aren’t living here legally.

If there is ever a law that is doing what it's supposed to do regarding illegals there'd be protests galore.

Illegal immigration corrupts everything it touches. The tentacles run into many issues.

Illegal immigration corrupts everything it touches. The tentacles run into many issues.
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That's definitely the truth, LL.

Someone explain to me why I don't ever see mass rallies, lawsuits, commentary etc from other illegal alien groups such as Chinese, Korea, Indian, African, Irish, German, Ukraine, Russian, Croatian, etc or any others that may be here illegally? Who is fighting for those illegals?

All I see/hear/read about are Hispanic activist groups fighting for hispanic illegals only. Why is that?