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Senate considers Gold Cards for Illegal aliens, golden showers for legal immigrants
Hat tip: Michelle Malkin: WASHINGTON - Key provisions of the Senate's main immigration bill would create a "gold card" program for illegal immigrants who entered the United States before Jan. 4, 2004, and create a guest worker program to bring in more foreign laborers, according to Senate Judiciary Committee staff members. And also PISS ON all the law-abiding people who are patiently waiting to enter LEGALLY. The committee is to begin debating the measure Wednesday under a three-week timetable aimed at producing a final version for the full Senate by March 27. Sponsored by the committee chairman, Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., the legislation is designed to strike a middle course between a bill passed by the House that calls for tougher immigration enforcement and the wishes of pro-immigration advocates who call for permanent legal status -- and eventual citizenship -- for an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants. These aren't immigration advocates - they are illegal alien advocates. Most legal immigrants oppose illegal aliens because it brings down the job market with slave labor. President Bush, defying objections from conservatives, has called for an overhaul of the nation's immigration laws and the creation of a temporary guest worker program to ensure a steady source of labor for U.S. businesses. Under Bush's plan, qualified workers, including residents now living here illegally, could stay in jobs for up to six years, then would be required to return home. Committee staff members, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said applicants for the gold card would undergo a background check by the Homeland Security Department, then be eligible for two-year work visas that could be renewed indefinitely. The workers wouldn't participate in the Social Security system but would contribute to future savings via investment accounts. One top committee staffer described the "gold-card" proposal as "a reasonable compromise" in dealing with illegal immigrants, many of whom have lived here for decades. The undesirable alternative, he said, would be an unworkable massive roundup, which administration officials have said would cost billions of dollars. I call Bullshit! Just require proof of citizenship or legal residence for public schools and non-critical medical. Under the separate guest worker program, which would be based on U.S. labor needs, foreign applicants could work for three years, then apply to work for another three years before returning home. They'd be required to remain in their home country for a year before reapplying. So law-abiding guest workers who come here legally will be required to (leave their job and) return home for a year every 6 years while illegal alien lawbreakers (who, in case you forgot, are here in violation of federal laws) could stay here permanently. Tell me again how this does not reward breaking the law? Advocates on both sides of the immigration debate criticized Specter's proposal as an inadequate attempt to placate opposing groups. "Some people are going to say it's amnesty, and others are going to say it creates a second-class caste of workers," Both True. said Tamar Jacoby of the Manhattan Institute, a New York-based think tank that leans right. "It's a non-starter for both sides." Posted by: CrazyFool 2006-03-07 |
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