Pelosi Criticizes GOP on Immigration
Nancy Pelosi issued another statement, this time stating that the “Republican record on border security” is “a ‘catastrophic failure.’”
“Once again, Republicans are touting their record on border security in which they do not have a single accomplishment and have failed miserably.
For five years, the Republican Congress failed to secure our borders and has repeatedly underfunded the border patrol.”
It’s true that Republicans haven’t secured our borders but it’s equally true that Democrats have been willing accomplices in not securing the Mexican border. Here’s just one example:
Virtually all Democrats were joined by the chamber’s lone independent and 28 Republicans in opposing Mr. Session’s amendment to the Homeland Security Appropriations Act. Only two Democrats, Sens. Ben Nelson of Nebraska and Thomas R. Carper of Delaware, supported funding the fence.
I know that Pelosi can’t control what Senate Democrats do but the point is that I’d doubt that she’d oppose Ted Kennedy’s idea of immigration reform.
Ms. Pelosi, If Democrats capture the majority in the House, are we to understand that you’d direct John Conyers to take up a strong enforcement-first immigration bill on the first day of the new Congress? Or would you give him permission to start impeachment proceedings> Would you tell Ted Kennedy to back off his spineless, no-enforcement bill? Or would you agree with him on an ‘open borders’ type of ‘immigration reform’ bill? I suspect that you’d choose the ‘Kennedy Option’.
It’s time that the Democrats didn’t try disguising a laundry list of complaints against Republicans as an agenda.
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July 27th, 2006 at 3:23 pm
I don’t want to hear any Dems running their mouths criticizing anyone on immigration. These crazy Dems think anyone can come on in here whenever they want and do whatever they want.
July 27th, 2006 at 4:39 pm
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The Bush administration in its first four years was responsible for 318 fines against employers who hired illegal workers, an average of fewer than 80 each year. That’s down from 5,587 fines against illegal employers during the eight years of the Clinton administration, according to the Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus, an average of 698 each year. And the problem is getting worse; in 2004 only three employers received fines for illegal hiring.”
July 28th, 2006 at 8:47 am
The immigration reform compromise that passed the Senate and was championed by President Bush is a good start, and that’s two GOP controlled bodies that passed it.
July 28th, 2006 at 2:23 pm
Yeah, I’m amazed the donkeys aren’t stepping up to the plate on this one, what with all the evil big corps hiring illegals, paying them next to nothing (and getting richer as they do), and generally making life miserable for all them po’ folk. An’ GW thinks it’s great!
Problem is, the illegals are pulling down the wages of everyone, and the shining examples of integrity and honesty we have in the Senate are not only pushing to effectively keep the status quo, but inhance it at the cost of more legal citizens and legally carded aliens.
Those here legally are great, for the most part. They enhance our society, for the most part. The illegals have no dog in the fight, so to speak, and would just as soon see a Mexican flag over Sacramento or Seattle or St. Louis as over the capitol in Mexico City. It just don’t work that way.