Is Immigration a Killer Issue for Congress?

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Congressional health being at an all time low indicates that the Kennedy Liberals and Reagan Conservatives have set a date with the guillotine for the desperately united Leiberman Neo-Libs and Podhoretz Neo-Cons, for the their notorious subversive Neo-Marxist contempt of Christian Culture and Constitutional Law.
For the illegal Iraq War for Israel, for the illegal Mexican occupation, for the sacrificial killing of children, for the outsourcing of jobs and technology to China, for the subprime loans and stock trading scam, for dependence on fossil fuel, and for the blooming recession and inflation; the rallying cry shall be, “Off with their heads!”.

Jeugenen of MA 3:31PM July 17, 2008

Are you serious about McCain?
For political reasons, he made some hollow promises to enforce the border first.
Remember what he was saying in the primary: He would have the border governors certify the border was secure before he would go forward with "comprehensive" immigration legislation.
Well, who are those border governors: Schwarzenegger, Richardson, Perry, Napolitano. All supporters of "comprehensive" immigration reform.
They would sign that the border is secure in a heartbeat.
And another thing that shows McCain is not serious: Why did he just talk about "border security first". What about interior enforcement? They say something like 40% of illegal aliens are vias overstayers.
And what about workplace enforcement?
Yes, McCain did say the public sent a message. And clearly the message he got from the public was, that he had better make some hollow promises to pretend that he really believes in enforcement, and that he had better only let special interests know he's not serious about it when he meets them in a secret meeting with no media allowed. However, the courageous and articulate immigration reform leader Rosanna Pulido attended that meeting and revealed the truth- that McCain wants to pursue "comprehensive" the minute he got elected. (thank God I don't believe he will be)
Now take Texas governor Perry. He ran as a genuine immigration hawk. Since then he has done a complete 180 and is now a full-fledged open-borders guy.
So even politicians that sound like they genuinenly support enforcement will often stab us in the back.
But in McCain's case, his promises are so obviously phony that it is laughable that anyone would say he had changed his position whatsoever.
And if he were to be elected, he could go back to Ted Kennedy's agenda on immigration, and nobody could say he had reneged on his promises of "enforce the border first", because those are totally phony promises. The biggest fools would be those who claimed that McCain betrayed them. No, he is an open borders guy, and he always will be. And he is so obsessed about it that he will pursue open-borders come hell or high water, unlike Obama who will be smart enough to cut his losses when he sees what damage "comprehensive" immigration reform is doing to his administration and fellow Democrats in Congress.

Lance Sjogren of WA 12:58PM July 12, 2008

The CNN exit poll showed that 48% of Latino Americans supported Arizona's proposition 200.
As the economy gets worse and Latino Americans find themselves increasingly in competition with illegal aliens, that percentage is liable to go even higher.
Prop 200 was a measure to crack down on granting government benefits to illegal aliens.
It was reviled by the political establishment as racist and xenophobic.
And yet 48% of Latinos voted for it.
That is far more of the Latino vote than Republicans normally get.
So if the Republicans want to be more successful winning Latino votes, they need to stop the open-borders nonsense and start taking a strong stand in favor of enforcing the immigration laws. They can probably win close to 50% of Latino votes by doing that.
The Republicans may never win a majority of Latino votes in the forseeable future, because most Latino Americans prefer the policies of the Democrats on issues like education and health care.
But the best hope for Republicans to win the votes of Latino Americans is to take a hard line on immigration.

Lance Sjogren of WA 12:16PM July 12, 2008

Gloria is trying to continue the hatemongering against those who want our border enforced,trying to intimidate those who believe in the rule of law.
Especially, she does not want Latino Americans thinking for themselves, because many, when they are free to take a stand on immigration policy without intimidation from the open-borders extremist lobby, it turns out support the very same policies as pro-enforcement advocates of other ethnicities in this country.
But, since the open-borders lobby has no actual supporting arguments for their position, intimidation is the only tool in their toolbox, and they are doing it louder and more viciously than ever now that they know that their political agenda is dying in the marketplace of ideas.
It would be utter insanity for anyone to try to push through "comprehensive" immigration reform legislation next year, right when we are in the process of going from recession to depression.
John McCain I believe is insane enough to try, but I doubt the Democrats are. President Obama will make some small efforts in that direction in order to placate the special interests, and then when his efforts fail he will say he tried his best.

lance sjogren of WA 12:06PM July 12, 2008

Our law makers think the American people are dull. They will not enforce our immigration laws nor even our welfare laws. Hint: You can deport even a legal resident for becoming a public charge.
Yet we have SSI, medicaid, mounting health concerns and healthcare costs because of illegals. In California over 50% of the felons are illegals. Yet we get the same bromides and the racist card. These people do not pay taxes, have been treated in a way that average Americans can only wish to be. Both parties pushed sub prime loans to unqualified buyers and this default will probably total a trillion dollars.
Doiubt it, take a look at Fannie Mae which is down over 80% in a year and will collapse without a massive taxpayer funded bailout. So the poor taxpayer takes it on th chin again while the elites in both parties use cheap labor to keep wages down and enrich themselves.
Show me a Congressmen who supports an amnesty and I'll show you a dead man. Both of these presidential candidates don't get it either. I'll not vote for ewiihter of them.
There is testimony on You Tube in front of the Florida legislature by a hospital describing the case of two illegals that cost the hospital over 2.5 million. Where do you think the hospital makes up the difference. So our politicians are the ones who push healthcare costs up in the same way they have caused the gas price to increase and the soaring inflation.
The sooner the wall, not a fence, but a wall with guard towers, landmines, and a moat is built the better off we will be.

Thpomas Jackson of TX 1:30AM July 10, 2008

The political solution is this: enforce our labor laws, aggressively prosecute the businesses employing illegal workers, and take away the illegal labor pool, and then you will have business groups lobbying the Republicans for comprehensive immigration reform.

Dan of AZ 1:26PM July 03, 2008

The real issue of amnesty is that 20 to 25 million new voters will be artificially created over a span of a few years consisting of amnestied illegal aliens and the family members the amnesty program allows them to bring over. Those votes will forever change American politics both nationally and in many states (CA, AZ, TX, IL, NY, etc.) with large illegal alien populations. Almost all of those artificially created voter/citizens will be on the lower socio-economic scale and so pay no income taxes and will be the recipients of new "social programs" designed to 'bring them out of the shadows' and pay off the illegal alien activist groups that Obama and McCain and other politicians are bending the rest of the nation over for. Whichever one of these scum is made president, we the people must - repeat must - ensure that they and congress feel our wrath regarding the dramatic change that both men have in mind for our nation - all for the sake of a few votes...

DrDean of CA 11:35PM July 02, 2008

Well put no more needs to be said.

Joe of CA 6:09PM July 02, 2008

As an oldie Democrat I am impressed by the fact that neo-Democrats ( some derivative of the slum lords of old ) are strident in their effort to maintain a permanent underclass of low-paid labor for the obvious objective. During the 2006-2007 hearings on immigration California Senators balked at facilitating livable wages - opting for a five-year graduated increase for so-called transient guest workers A Nevada Senator got a reprieve from the minimum wage, the justification may have been concern, for making casinos affordable. In particular, the U.S. over the years has given taxpayer billions to Mexico, a country that has billionaires, and where personal income taxes are avoidable. The crux of the problem is south of the border, and I wonder if progress could be achieved by having the Chinese administer the region. What the United States will experience, otherwise, is an
increased flight there, which will be unmanageable; and diminishing the middle class and quality of life. DO YOU SEE ANY PLAN TO SHIFT RESPONSIBILITY SOUTH OF BORDER? Obama, McCain and Barr should express their plan, shouldn't you think? And bye the-bye, let's opt for sustainable wages for quest workers that will result in tax inflow.

Diogenes76 of NY 8:41PM June 30, 2008

1. The spelling is "COLOMBIA", SA (So. Am.)
2. America does NOT separate the families of illegals; they separate themselves.
3. Stop all immigration, including legal, for 3 years until the immigration administration in D.C. gets straightened out. If Mexicans want to feel at home in the US, apply Mexican immigration laws in their cases. There are Muslim terrorists going to So. Am., learning Spanish, and coming into America under the guise of being Hispanic. Sending Am. troops to Iraq and Afghanistan under the guise of keeping terrorism out of America is a specious argument. The ones here are just biding their time, making connections, waiting for their fellows to be trained and sneak into the country, making plans.The reason that elected and appointed officials are not taking illegal immigration as a life-and-death issue is that a) they allow themselves to react out of a feeling of guilt imposed by pro-Hispanic groups and media instead of doing their job; b)the fed. gov't. has prostituted itself to business interests that want cheap labor; c)not enough Americans are demanding that our laws be upheld; the factual arguments (real costs, negative effect on America, esp. in our schools) are not being publicized enough - too many general statements, not enough concrete facts. We should recall elected representatives who vote against our wishes. Let Republican electors know that McCain is NOT the people's choice...at least not the choice of the American people; of So. Am., yes.
Some of you: If you don't have or can't make an intelligent argument, seek to intimidate by name calling. Wanting our country to enforce its laws is the behavior of a civilized society, not racism, xenophobia, or any other silly, empty name you use to get your illegal way.

Teacher Indep. of NC 2:40PM June 30, 2008