Amnesty by any other name
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We are told [President Bush's temporary foreign worker] plan was originally sketched on a napkin before the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, by then-Mexican Foreign Minister Jorge Castaneda at a dinner attended by U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice...
Will all 10 million illegal aliens now in the United States be entitled to get a temporary worker card? Will the millions who don't apply for a temporary worker card be deported?...
How many times can the temporary worker card be renewed, once, twice, 20 times?...
The amnesty of 1986 was promised to be a one-time deal, but it proved to be not a deterrent but an invitation to attract more illegal aliens, so we now have four times as many illegals as we did then. Can anyone believe that the Bush amnesty will be any different?...
Bush's plan includes support for the State Department giveaway package called "totalization," a bureaucratic code word for a plan to make illegal aliens eligible to receive Social Security benefits even though they committed fraud in using a Social Security number or failed to pay into the system for 10 years (40 quarters) as U.S. citizens must do.
...If a corporation advertises for software engineers at a salary of $20,000 per year and no U.S. citizens apply because current salaries are up to $100,000, will the corporation be justified in hiring "willing worker" software engineers from India?...
The concept of creating a class of temporary foreign workers is fundamentally immoral, anti-immigrant, and un-American. It gives people who violated our laws preferences over those who obey the law...
Bush's action may be popular with corporate donors, but it won't sell on Main Street America. The California recall should have taught the lesson that pandering to illegal aliens is a loser on election day.
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