The Border Line

By Tim

May 19, 2008 8:47 PM | Link to this

Why can’t California have a smart, honest, genuine person like Sessions rather than the regrettable figures we’ve now got? This is a great state and deserves better.

By Tim

May 19, 2008 8:49 PM | Link to this

Why can’t California have a smart, honest, genuine person like Sessions representing us rather than the regrettable figures we’ve now got? This is a great state and deserves better.

By Karen

May 20, 2008 3:31 AM | Link to this

This woman and her cohorts simply need to go—hang their heads and walk out of the Senate building. The American people will fight this as we did the amnesties last summer. She will not get her way—nor will the others.

By Stephen

May 20, 2008 10:33 AM | Link to this

Since when does a temporary visa amount to amnesty? What’s next, getting rid of defensive driving because it’s “amnesty” for “illegals”?

The abuse of the word amnesty will have long term repercussions for illegal immigration reformers. Mark my words.

By Raimondas M.

May 20, 2008 1:40 PM | Link to this

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By TexasPatriot

May 20, 2008 4:22 PM | Link to this

Stephen - because “temporary visa” to our liberal government means forever! There is no one to police when and if these people ever leave so most of them don’t! They start putting down roots and having U.S. born children who are then eligible for all the free benefits that our children can’t get, all at taxpayer expense! They’re call “Anchor” babies because the U.S. won’t make them leave and we’re paying for approx. 500,000 a year!

So, this AgJobs AMNESTY is bad for 2 reasons: 1) You are rewarding those who broke the law and 2) you are putting these “GUEST” workers into a “residency” status, so they will move out of the agricultural sector and into better jobs, (our better jobs), so you will still have a shortage of farm workers.

If you want to have a sensible “GUEST” worker program, you need to establish a short-term work visa of 3-months to allow a person to come into the USA perform a harvest, and then MAKE SURE HE (NO WOMEN SHOULD BE ALLOWED HERE TO HAVE CHILDREN) RETURNS to his home country to be with his family and spend his money. You shouldn’t have a “TEMPORARY” visa that puts “GUEST” workers on a track to permanent residency. Secondly, farm “GUEST” workers should be chosen from nations that have a strong agrarian tradition, such as India, Poland, Ukraine, etc, not from border states, like Mexico, that have a “history” with the USA.

By AndiMedi

May 20, 2008 6:04 PM | Link to this

The biggest mistake the dems ever made was blocking Sessions’ appointment to the federal bench, because now this unreconstructed yahoo can actually make policy. He is determined to increase illegal immigration and block any plan to combat it because it is a convenient political issue and all of you who claim to be against illegal immigration are falling for it. The folks who say “no amnesty today, no amnesty tomorrow, no amnesty forever” are standing between this country and control over immigration just as surely as George Wallace stood in the school house door before he realized he was on the wrong side of history (which, BTW, repeats itself).

By Texas Patriot

May 20, 2008 10:51 PM | Link to this

AndiMedi- you’re an IDIOT and you don’t have a clue what you’re talking about! We’ve already had 9 amnesties since 1986 - they don’t work and they have just made the problem much worse by rewarding ILLEGAL behavior! Once they got their AMNESTY the government didn’t do any of the enforcement measures that they promised they would do along with the AMNESTY! This time we’re demanding ENFORCEMENT & SECURE BORDERS first!

By L1M89

May 21, 2008 6:16 AM | Link to this

[‘The folks who say “no amnesty today, no amnesty tomorrow, no amnesty forever” are standing between this country and control over immigration’] Typical liberal propagandizing with unsubstantiated rhetoric & political hot air. Amnesty for Illegal Aliens has repeatedly led to more Illegal Aliens & that is how history has repeated itself.

Pro-amnesty for Illegal Aliens zealots are advocating a return to the days of slavery by using Illegal Aliens as economic slaves & unscrupulous employers as 21st century slavemasters. History will be repeating again when patriots have to fight a Second Civil War so as to preserve our USA and put an end to economic slavery… New INS Report: 1986 Amnesty Increased Illegal Immigration
[‘WASHINGTON (Oct. 12, 2000) — The report on America’s illegal immigration crisis by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), released today on Capitol Hill, highlights the profound unintended consequences of illegal-alien amnesties, just as Congress is considering another such amnesty. The report also makes clear, contrary to the conventional wisdom, that legal and illegal immigration are so intimately connected as to be two sides of the same coin. (Download the report at http://wwwa.house.gov/lamarsmith/INSreport.pdf.)

The report represents a genuine effort by the INS to examine this complex problem. The new estimates are the best to date and provide valuable new information for policymakers and the public. Among the findings, and their implications:’]

(to be continued)

By L1M89

May 21, 2008 6:19 AM | Link to this

(continued; Amnesty Increased Illegal Immigration)

[‘* Amnesties clearly do not solve the problem of illegal immigration. About 2.7 million people received lawful permanent residence (“green cards”) in the late 1980s and early 1990s as a result of the amnesties contained in the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) of 1986. But these new INS figures show that by the beginning of 1997 those former illegal aliens had been entirely replaced by new illegal aliens, and that the unauthorized population again stood at more than 5 million, just as before the amnesty.

*      In fact, the new INS estimates show that the 1986 amnesty almost certainly increased illegal immigration, as the relatives of newly legalized illegals came to the United States to join their family members. The flow of illegals grew dramatically during the years of the amnesty to more than 800,000 a year, before dropping back down to around 500,000 a year. 

*      While it might be supposed that the increase in illegal immigration was caused only by the Special Agricultural Worker (SAW) provisions of the 1986 amnesty, the INS report indicates that this was not the case. Figures in the report itself show that illegal immigration surged more dramatically from countries other than Mexico. Since the vast majority of those amnestied under SAW were from Mexico, the increase should have been mostly Mexican if the SAW provision had been responsible for the surge. 

*      Overall, the estimates show that nearly 500,000 illegal aliens settled here each year in the mid-1990s. This total number of new illegal settlers is offset by about 145,000 illegals who returned home on their own each year, 40,000 deportations, 20,000 deaths, and around 150,000 illegals receiving green cards as part of the normal "legal" immigration process. 

*      The report clearly demonstrates that legal and illegal immigration are intimately linked, and not separate phenomena, as is commonly supposed. Between 1987 and 1996, the report states that 1.3 million green cards were given out to illegal aliens as part of the normal "legal" immigration process (189,000 in 1996 alone) — separate from the 2.7 million illegals who received legal status under the 1986 IRCA amnesty. 

*      The 1.3 million green cards given out to illegals between 1987 and 1996 dwarf immigration enforcement efforts. According to the new estimates, only 335,000 illegals were deported or required to leave the country by the INS during the same period.’]

(to be continued)

By L1M89

May 21, 2008 6:22 AM | Link to this

(continued; Amnesty Increased Illegal Immigration)

[‘”The fact that these new INS figures show that the last amnesty actually attracted more illegal immigration should give serious pause to those now advocating another amnesty,” said Steven A. Camarota, Director of Research at the Center for Immigration Studies. “With the government estimating that nearly half a million illegal aliens settle permanently in the United States each year, the new estimates indicate that we have not yet regained control over our nation’s borders.”

These numbers suggest that Congress’s focus on border enforcement as almost the sole means of controlling illegal immigration is inadequate. Illegal immigration can be controlled only with a strategy that combines border enforcement with efforts to turn off the magnets that attract illegal aliens in the first place — jobs and green cards. Thus, the missing elements of our illegal immigration policy are muscular enforcement of the prohibition on hiring illegal workers and deep, permanent cuts in legal immigration.

The Center for Immigration Studies is a non-profit, non-partisan think tank which examines and critiques the impact of immigration on the United States.’]

By L1M89

May 21, 2008 6:38 AM | Link to this

Pro-Illegal Alien zealots are on the wrong side of history, again. Is it history repeating or just another silly case of Déjà Vu?

Amnesty for illegal aliens

Vernon Briggs, a Cornell University labor economics professor stated:

“The toleration of illegal immigration undermines all of our labor; it rips at the social fabric. It’s a race to the bottom. The one who plays by the rules is penalized… a guest worker program guarantees wages will never go up, and there is no way American citizens can compete with guest workers.”
(continues@link) Link - http://www.theamericanresistance.com/issues/amnesty.html

By L1M89

May 21, 2008 7:03 AM | Link to this

DemocRats are the folks who’ve been on the wrong side of history. History is being repeated with DemocRats promoting economic slavery & siding with unAmerican 21st century slavemasters. Texas Patriot, you’re quite correct in your assessment of that silly liberal dimbulb.

[‘Interesting Facts about Democrats and Republicans

After The Civil Rights Act was passed Democrat President Lyndon Johnson praised Republicans for their overwhelming support.

The Republican Party was formed by anti-slavery activists to combat the pro-slavery Democrats

The Ku Klux Klan was formed by radical Democrats who opposed equality for blacks.

In 1935 Democrats defeated an Anti-Lynching Bill supported and put forward by Republicans.

The 1924 Democrat National Convention in New York was host to one of the largest Klan gatherings in American history. Dubbed the “Klanbake convention”, a minority of delegates attempted to condemn the presence of the Klan but was rebuked by the Klan supporting Democrat Majority.

On April 20, 1871 the Republican Congress enacted the Ku Klux Klan Act, outlawing Democratic Party-Affiliated terrorist groups.

Ronald Reagan, a Republican, made history on November 2, 1983 by signing into law Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday as a National Holiday. This is the first and only Federal Holiday that recognizes a Black American.’]
Link - http://www.carnellknowledge.com/interesting-facts-about-democrats-and-republicans/

By Rosalea Moore

May 21, 2008 10:45 AM | Link to this

I believe that the pro-illegal immigration group should pay for those immigrants to live in America: their housing, their medical care and their education. The government should take at least 25% of the pro-illegals after tax money and deposit it in the Illegal Immigration Fund with a note stating, “Thank you for supporting the illegal immigrants in America.”