Kate B-slaps duelling spokesholes
May 23rd, 2007 at 11:14 am . by nukeHow ’bout that title folks? I figured I better do something creative, because there is absolutely no way I can compete with Kate O’Beirne’s response to Messers Snow and Chertoff after another day of silly spin aimed at selling the immigration bill to the conservative base. This is priceless…
At a couple of meetings with conservatives today, Tony Snow and Secretary Chertoff defended the immigration bill. General points included a frustration with critics “who haven’t read the bill” and a caution that criticizing President Bush on the issue is not constructive. Secretary Chertoff argues that the bill is essentially conservative if you don’t take into account the amnesty (my word) in Title VI. The point here is that the beefed up enforcement and the promised eventual end of current chain migration system is a worthy trade for the mass legalization. He also made the case that the bill enhances national security because he can’t be chasing nannies and dishwashers and terrorists at the same time - though it seems they have been doing precious little of the former. Why not give “enforcement only” about five years to work, given the past 21 years of lax enforcement? Because (six years after 9/11?) we dare not wait five years to be able to identify everyone in the country. Based on the reports I got, some criticisms of the bill are clearly not getting through. For example, Secretary Chertoff stated that illegal aliens are currently helping to keep the Social Security system afloat, apparently unaware of the big net costs for this population. Mr. Secretary, meet Robert Rector.
Nice job, Kate. I’m loving this.
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at 5/23/2007 9:17:15 PM
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Comment posted by bonz
at 5/23/2007 9:06:27 PM
What few will admit is that in order for illegal immigration to remain profitable it must continue. The guy that picks lettuce this year will move on to waiting tables next year. The guy waiting tables this year will move on to working hotels or framing houses. Those people have to be replaced. If they aren’t suddenly we have wage competition. Minimum wage is no longer an issue and the union wages tied to the minimum wage are frozen.
The number of taxpayer subsidized works levels off. Bad for bureaucracies
Comment posted by SwampWoman
at 5/23/2007 9:03:49 PM
Whoops, typo, IS incredibly stupid.
Comment posted by SwampWoman
at 5/23/2007 9:03:27 PM
Well, we American citizens have been there, done that, and had more illegals coming in. Doing more of the same (rewarding lawbreakers) it incredibly stupid.
Comment posted by SwampWoman
at 5/23/2007 9:01:30 PM
Uh huh. Meanwhile, an American citizen finds it increasingly difficult to get a job as a landscaper, a painter, a framer, a roofer….and I could go on and on and on.
Comment posted by no2liberals
at 5/23/2007 8:54:59 PM
Rasmussen Poll.
America couldn’t be any more clear or louder for W and congress to hear.
See y’all later.
Comment posted by no2liberals
at 5/23/2007 8:44:55 PM
Drive-by.
If this is the best the administration can do with a Dhimmicrat congress, then I’m all for walking away from it. If W really wanted to, he could instruct all agencies and bureaus to enforce the laws on the books, stringently, we don’t need another layer of laws that go unenforced, while making more like 33 million lawbreakers legal residents. Every twenty one years, since 1965, we have given amnesty, with promises of greater enforcement, and we haven’t gotten it. What we’ve gotten is more stealth amnesty added in between those years.
The amnesty of 1986 was supposed to be a “one time only” amnesty. Yet since 1986, Congress passed a total of 7 amnesties for illegal aliens:
1. The Immigration and Reform Control Act (IRCA) Amnesty of 1986 - the “one-time only” blanket amnesty for some 2.8 million illegal aliens.
2. Section 245(i) The Amnesty of 1994 - a temporary rolling amnesty for 578,000 illegal aliens.
3. Section 245(i) The Extension Amnesty of 1997 - an extension of the rolling amnesty created in 1994.
4. The Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act (NACARA) Amnesty of 1997 - an amnesty for nearly one million illegal aliens from Central America.
5. The Haitian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act Amnesty (HRIFA) of 1998 - an amnesty for 125,000 illegal aliens from Haiti.
6. The Late Amnesty of 2000 - an amnesty for approximately 400,000 illegal aliens who claimed they should have been amnestied under the 1986 IRCA amnesty.
7. The LIFE Act Amnesty of 2000 - a reinstatement of the rolling Section 245(i) amnesty to an estimated 900,000 illegal aliens.
The American Resistance Foundation.
Comment posted by bonz
at 5/23/2007 7:25:49 PM
Mr. Chertoff had better consult govt. figures. According to Thomas Sowell
[quote] Even in the sector of the economy in which illegal immigrants have the highest representation — agriculture — they are just 24 percent of the workers. Where did the other 76 percent come from, if these are jobs that Americans won’t do?
The argument that illegal agricultural workers are “making a contribution to the economy” is likewise misleading. [/quote]
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2007/05/23/the_amnesty_fraud_part_ii
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