GOP lawmakers seek to halt immigration reform push

http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/04/...ration.reform/

NO CIR this year!

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, took to "FOX News Sunday" to reject the push for immigration reform.

"I just don't think this is the right time to take up this issue, with the border security problems, the drug wars going on across the border, 10 percent unemployment. It just strikes me that our time would be better spent at the federal level on other issues," he said.

Sometimes I think that Mitch McConnell speaks solely because he likes to hear the sound of his empty head rattle. Lol. He is so stupid: "We can't tackle immigration reform this year because we have to 'secure the borders,'" but of course that is sine qua non for us to get any Republican support; immigration reform would by its very nature have to do "secure the borders" to get any of McConnell's empty-headed Republocrat colleagues to get on board.

The philosopher wonders what the Republocrats were doing for eight years since 9/11 since they were supposed to be the ones ensuring American security.

Supporters of the Arizona measure have called it a step in the right direction, taking action to deal with the challenge of millions of illegal immigrants in the country. "We in Arizona have been more than patient waiting for Washington to act," Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer said Sunday. "Decades of federal inaction and misguided policy have created a dangerous and unacceptable situation."

....Chambliss said, "If that's what the people of Arizona want to do, then certainly they have that right."

Georgia Republocrats are even more empty-headed than mainstream Republocrats. One wonders if they believe in the constitution at all--considering this is clearly unconstitutional on Arizona's part to assert power over federal matters.

I have been thinking about it a lot this weekend, and I think this is the only reason that air-headed Governor Brewer signed it: she knew she would destroy any political future in Arizona if she didn't, but she must have also realized the courts will strike it down so fast it will make her head spin. Either that, or she is brain dead and doesn't understand the constitution with even a seventh grader's ability of political comprehension.

Border security is key to CIR.

Precisely, and CIR is KEY to Border Security as well. This is the point that these Republican congressmen are completely ignoring in the debate over immigration. How do you expect to tighten up the borders when you already have 11-12 million undocumented workers in the shadows? This argument is being played out multiple times by the Republicans and makes absolutely no inroads in finding a solution.

Why can't they understand that CIR WILL eliminate future illegal immigration? Why can't they understand that CIR will basically "seal the border". Why why why?

Meh, people are not gonna fall for that. They know it's impossible to stop illegal immigration and that there would be another amnesty in the future just because people always find a way to circumvent the barriers. Also, a common argument is that if they legalize us we would file for each and everyone of our relatives back in Mexico LOL.

Unfortunately, you havent been reading much.

Perfect CIR bill would strengthen the border, make it impossible to hire illegals, and essentially do away with extended family sponsorship. My understanding is that Schumer Graham bill is INTENDING to do these.

I have NOTHING against sealing the border. I just don't understand why Obama won't send the National Guard, install motion detecting turrets, electric wires even mine the border areas.

I pray if any CIR is gonna be intro'd soon it will have STRONG border security measures.

I am completely in favor of sealing the border without a doubt and checking for I-94s whenever someone goes back and see if they overstayed so they could ban their asses and with harsher border security make it almost impossible for them to enter the country illegally.

As far as making impossible to hire illegals the Schumer Graham bill makes it sound really nice with the biometric measures, but you know "compadre, yo siempre te echare la mano". It's really easy for anyone to harbor people who overstay and have them work under ones wing, especially when they are relatives. It would be nice to check on everyone who is brown and looks like is working illegally but then you get into the dilemma that's taking place in Arizona, racial profiling, knocking in suspicious work places, etc. Let's face it, even after these skilled workers obtain their documents the majority of them are going to end up having the same job and then who guarantees that those who couldn't get their documents because they have criminal history are going to leave the country? Things are going to get nasty.

edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigra...ol_Act_of_1986, second line.
Back to the past, lol.

Family sponsorship should be gone. Canada has a system based on education and skills.