Senate leaders, under pressure from pro-immigration groups and facing a determined push by President Bush, agreed last night to bring a controversial overhaul of the nation’s immigration laws back to the Senate floor as early as next week.
The Key Issues in the Immigration Reform Debate are as follows: Click here to view
As you can see, the Republican Senators desperately want to make the bill tougher with tighter border security measures [OK by Me] and a more arduous legalization process for unlawful immigrants. The keywords here are: “make the bill tougher and a more arduous” — Read: Gives us more tools with which to harass, jail, depot and tear immigrant families apart, and when we eventually pass the bill — it will be so loaded with restrictions, that we will be able to drug and deport even more of these INVADERS.
ALL for one compelling reason: “To satisfy our racist constituents, to whom we owe our Senatorial seats, in 2008.”
When I visited my usual battery of news sites and blogs, the commentary on the right wing blogs and by right-wingers on news sites is irrational and appalling.
For example, I posted the following at WashingtonPost.com
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I have never agreed with Bush on almost everything, but I think he is trying to do one last sensible thing under very difficult circumstances. The firm stand — “depot them all,” “we are a nation of laws” — is just a smokescreen for — “we wish this good old USA was 100% lily white.” …bigoted to the core.
And, it makes the process of legislating this issue immensely torturous, if not impossible. History is repeating itself! This article summarizes the “dark” mood in this country: http://tinyurl.com/3e3wzs . To illustrate how “One-Track” minded most of you are — you are talking about just MEXICANS, yet the whole world is represented here. This issue is more complex than your “History Deficient” minds can Fathom. Please ….throw away the “MarketPlace Lynching” mentality, and approach this issue sensibly. |
Take a look at the reactions.
People have stopped reasoning, TOTALLY.
Bush’s “Electioneering Propaganda Tactics” over the last six years, is responsible for this “dark mood” in the United States. He lied and hoodwinked his right-wing “base,” and they are now they are taking it out on immigrants, especially Mexicans.
As I stated above, I have never agreed with Bush on almost every issue, but I do this time, whatever his motives are. This issue must be legislated, and fairly.
The world is watching America — will the evil “Lynching Mentality” out-gun reason? Will the ugly Racist History of this great nation, and the proponents of HATE prevail?
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Bush Remarks
Bush made these remarks at the National Hispanic Prayer Breakfast in Washington [Friday, June 15, 2007]: In a speech peppered with Spanish phrases, Bush today thanked Latino religious leaders “for making comprehensive immigration reform your top priority,” adding, “I share that priority.” Also attending the prayer breakfast were two senators who support Bush’s vision of an immigration-law overhaul: Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Mel Martinez (R-Fla.). Bush hailed them as having ” corazones grandes[big hearts] on the immigration bill.” Bush told the prayer breakfast, “Our responsibilities are straightforward — we’ve got to enforce the border, basic duty of a sovereign nation. We’ve got to create a lawful way for foreign workers to fill jobs that Americans are not doing. Our economy depends on them. And we must resolve the status of illegal immigrants already in our country without amnesty and without animosity, because that is the only practical way to fix the problem that has been decades in the making.” Casting his appeal in religious terms, Bush said, “We must meet our moral obligation to treat newcomers with decency and show compassion to the vulnerable and exploited, because we’re called to answer both the demands of justice and the call for mercy.” He added, “Most Americans agree on these principles. And now it’s time for our elected leaders in Congress to act. . . . Each day our nation fails to act, the problem only grows worse. I will continue to work closely with members of both parties, to get past our differences, and pass a bill I can sign this year.” |
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