Below is a notice I just received from FAIR outlining the Bush/RNC immigration reform plan. IT IS A COMPLETE DISASTER!




White House Forms Coalition to Sell Open Borders to the American Public

July 27, 2005
(Washington, D.C.) With the Bush Administration's scheme to grant amnesty to millions of illegal aliens and open the borders to millions of additional guest workers failing to gain traction in Congress or with the American public, the White House recently revealed it is turning to special interest groups to pull the wool over our eyes. Known as Americans for Border and Economic Security, the coalition will consist of ethnic and business interest groups prepared to kick in as much as a quarter of a million dollars each for deceptive ad campaigns selling amnesty for illegal aliens and the admission of unlimited numbers of new guest workers.

The Bush Administration intends to satisfy the demands of some business interests to gain legal access to low wage foreign workers and to appeal politically to Hispanic voters. In an attempt to overcome staunch public opposition to the president's plan, the goal of the coalition will be to sell the plan as a solution to mass illegal immigration.

"A more accurate name for this association of special interest high-rollers would be the Coalition to Destroy the American Middle Class," said Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR). "It is a blatant attempt to convince America's embattled middle class that they will be better off if employers can legally bring millions of foreign workers to this country.

"Mass illegal immigration is certainly a problem, but the solution is not amnesty and guest worker programs," Stein continued. "Whether these millions of people enter legally or illegally, the impact on American workers and the nation's vital social institutions is exactly the same."

White House strategists are also promoting the administration's amnesty and guest worker plan as a way to appeal to Hispanic voters. However, a 2004 opinion poll conducted by the Pew Hispanic Center found that immigration was eleventh on the list of concerns among Hispanic voters. The poll found that, like every other identifiable group of voters, Hispanic Americans are concerned about jobs, education and access to affordable health care.

"Having failed to deliver on concerns one through ten, the administration has skipped to item eleven, believing that amnesty for illegal aliens and open borders will win Hispanic votes," observed Stein. "In fact, if the administration's plan were to be carried out and millions more immigrants and guest workers flooded into this country, the core middle class aspiration of Hispanics and almost every other category of Americans would be irrevocably destroyed.

"Immigration reform, as the vast majority of Americans understand it, means enforcing laws against illegal immigration and setting reasonable limits on legal immigration. Instead of true reform, the administration is simply attempting to repackage the demands of a handful of special interests that benefit economically and politically from open borders," concluded Stein