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08-05-2007, 10:45 PM #1
Specter wants to re-open legalizing illegal aliens
A Less Ambitious Approach to Immigration
By Arlen Specter
Monday, August 6, 2007; Page A17
The charge of amnesty defeated comprehensive immigration reform in the Senate this summer. It is too important, and there has been too much legislative investment, not to try again. The time to do so is now.
Certainly the government should implement the provisions it has already enacted to improve border security and crack down on employers who knowingly hire illegal immigrants. But the important additions on those subjects contained in the bill defeated in June will not be enacted without also dealing with the 12 million-plus undocumented immigrants and the guest worker program.
So let's take a fresh look and try a narrower approach.
There is a consensus in Congress on most objectives and many remedies for immigration reform: more border patrols, additional fencing, drones and some form of a guest worker program. Modern technological advances provide foolproof identification so employers can -- justifiably -- be severely sanctioned if they don't verify IDs and act to eliminate the magnet attracting illegals to penetrate the border. Yet Congress is unlikely to appropriate $3 billion for border security without dealing simultaneously with the illegal immigrants already here.
The main objective in legalizing the 12 million was to eliminate their fugitive status, allowing them to live in the United States without fear of being detected and deported or being abused by unscrupulous employers. We should consider a revised status for those 12 million people. Let them hold the status of those with green cards -- without the automatic path to citizenship that was the core component of critics' argument that reform efforts were really amnesty. Give these people the company of their spouses and minor children and consider other indicators of citizenship short of the right to vote (which was always the dealbreaker).
This approach may be attacked as creating an "underclass" inconsistent with American values, which have always been to give refuge to the "huddled masses." But such a compromise is clearly better than leaving these people a fugitive class. People with a lesser status are frequently referred to as second-class citizens. Congress has adamantly refused to make the 12 million people already here full citizens, but isn't it better for them to at least be secure aliens than hunted and exploited?
Giving these people green-card status leaves open the opportunity for them to return to their native lands and seek citizenship through regular channels. Or, after our borders are secured and tough employer sanctions have been put in place, Congress can revisit the issue and possibly find a more hospitable America.
Some of the other refinements of the defeated bill can await another day and the regular process of Judiciary Committee hearings and markups. Changing the law on family unification with a point system can also be considered later. Now, perhaps, we could add green cards for highly skilled workers and tinker at the edges of immigration law, providing we don't get bogged down in endless debate and defeated cloture motions.
It would be refreshing if Congress, and the country, could come together in a bipartisan way to at least partially solve one of the big domestic issues of the day.
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08-05-2007, 11:01 PM #2
It is time to instate fugitive status for Specter. Drive him into the shadows and abuse him in a burger joint as he flips paddies for a living by calling him what he is.
A smudge on the soul of America and a traitor to our nation, a insulting anti American NAU SPP boot licker.
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08-05-2007, 11:07 PM #3Originally Posted by buffalododgerCalderon was absolutely right when he said...."Where there is a Mexican, there is Mexico".
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08-05-2007, 11:15 PM #4
What round are we on now? I've lost count.
These folks just do not give up!
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08-05-2007, 11:26 PM #5
Spector is a brown-nosed globalist who can't get enough of Bush. This jerk will risk his career to please the powers that be rather than doing his job representing the citizens of PA. What a friggin TRAITOR! He hasn't got what it takes to be a true Senator..he's only good for cleaning bathrooms.
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08-05-2007, 11:26 PM #6Originally Posted by saveourcountry
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08-05-2007, 11:31 PM #7
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08-05-2007, 11:46 PM #8
Most of you probably know Sen. Specter was a Democrat Senator before he was a Republican one, don't you? He still frequently sides with the Democrats in ideology and votes. Let's face it, the man is still a Democrat in his heart!
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Specter has heard Republican complaining before, particularly after he broke ranks in 1987 and voted with Democrats to defeat Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork, the choice of another Republican president, Ronald Reagan.
A senator from a state where registered Democratic voters outnumber Republicans by more than 580,000, Specter often sides with the opposing party.
Complaining to Reporters
While Republican at times grouse that Specter isn't always loyal, Democrats wish he were more independent.
Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid complained to reporters in March that Specter votes with Democrats ``whenever you don't need him.''
Specter replied that Reid ``has a selectively short memory.''
``They needed my vote on Bork,'' he said."The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing" ** Edmund Burke**
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08-05-2007, 11:59 PM #9
Shame on him,not only for how this would hurt citizens but it is giving illegals hope which keeps them here and causes others to migrate in hopes of getting in on the amnesty deal.
Enforcing our laws and stop giving them hope for amnesty would cause a mass exodous.
I hope his constituents give him an ear full while he is home !!!!!!!!"A Government big enough to give you everything you want,is strong enough to take everything you have"* Thomas Jefferson
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08-06-2007, 12:02 AM #10
Hi MW,
Originally Posted by MW
What part of "We don't owe our jobs to India" are you unable to understand, Senator?
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