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Thread ID: 9923 | Posts: 9 | Started: 2003-09-20
2003-09-20 04:36 | User Profile
"MCCAIN INTRODUCES... IMMIGRATION REFORM"
[SIZE=4][COLOR=Red]Treason!!!!![/COLOR][/SIZE]
[QUOTE]MCCAIN INTRODUCES COMPREHENSIVE IMMIGRATION REFORM
For Immediate Release Friday, Jul 25, 2003 Washington, DC - U.S. Senator John
McCain (R-AZ), along with Representatives Jim Kolbe (R-AZ) and Jeff Flake (R-AZ), introduced the Land Border Security and Immigration Improvement Act of 2003 to enhance border security and address the consequences of many years of poor enforcement and failed immigration policies that have plagued our borders, causing over 200 deaths in Arizona alone since October 2002.
Senator McCain stated at todayââ¬â¢s press conference:
ââ¬ÅI hope that the bill we are introducing today will serve to initiate an important and necessary dialogue so that we may address the security needs of our country and reform our failed immigration system. We are all aware of the failures and abuses of previous temporary worker programs. I am committed to ensuring that this new program prevents abuse and protects the rights of individuals. Previous attempts to grant blanket amnesty to undocumented populations were equally problematic. This bill is not an amnesty bill, but it is designed to ensure that we no longer have an underground class of undocumented immigrants.
ââ¬ÅWe can no longer afford to bury our heads in the sand and expect this problem to go away. It is time we dispensed with partisan politics, and put human lives and our national security above special interest groups. I hold no illusions. Reforming our nationââ¬â¢s immigration laws will not be an easy task. This will be a long and arduous process, however we must not let the difficulty dissuade us from trying. I am committed to this issue and to working towards a balanced solution to this crisis.ââ¬Â
Complete Floor Statement follows: Statement of Senator John McCain on the introduction of the Border Security and Immigration Improvement Act July 25, 2003
ââ¬ÅIn the aftermath of the September 11th attacks, our nation awoke to the realization that we are not as safe as we once believed. Soon after, we began critical efforts to improve our homeland security. Those efforts remain ongoing today. As we work to improve the security of our homeland, securing our borders remains one of the most difficult and important challenges facing our nation today. The simple fact is, our borders are not secure, and no amount of money, equipment or manpower alone will ensure the safety of our nation.
ââ¬ÅOver the past several years, I have supported many efforts to improve border security and address the repercussions of poor enforcement and failed immigration policies. It is imperative that we not shirk from what are federal responsibilities. We must address the many unfunded mandates born by states and local communities because control of immigration is principally the responsibility of the federal government. We must continue efforts designed to improve infrastructure and technology at and between our ports of entry as well as enhance coordination between federal, state and local law enforcement personnel. However, without comprehensive immigration reform, all of these efforts will be ineffective and meaningless.
ââ¬ÅIn order to address these concerns and to balance the need to secure our borders while addressing the inconsistencies and contradictions of our nationââ¬â¢s immigration policy, I am introducing the Border Security and Immigration Improvement Act. This bill is the first comprehensive immigration reform package introduced this Congress, and I hope that it will serve to initiate an important and necessary dialogue so that we may address the security needs of our country and reform our failed immigration system.
ââ¬ÅThe Border Security and Immigration Improvement Act establishes two new visa programs. One addresses individuals wishing to enter the United States to work on a short-term basis while the other will be available for the undocumented immigrants currently residing in the U.S.
ââ¬ÅFully cognizant of the failures and abuses of previous temporary worker programs, I am committed to ensuring that this new program prevents abuse and protects the rights of workers. Important protections are built into the new visa program. Complete portability across all sectors will allow workers the freedom to leave abusive employers and seek work elsewhere. This program would allow employers to immediately apply for permanent resident status on behalf of the employee, but unlike previous programs, this bill would allow workers self-petition after three years so that no employer could use residency status to manipulate and abuse any worker. Additionally, all U.S. labor laws are applicable to ensure full worker protection.
ââ¬ÅIn another departure from previous visa programs, this legislation does not put a finite number on the available visas, rather it is designed to allow the market to dictate the need for workers. Through the establishment of a job registry system, U.S. employers in need of workers can post available jobs on this registry. To ensure that U.S. workers do not lose out on valuable job opportunities, each job posted on the registry must be available to U.S. workers for a minimum of 14 days before it is open to a foreign worker. Additionally, to ensure that we do not incentivize employers to look abroad for labor that is less expensive than the domestic workforce, all employers will be charged a fee for the workerââ¬â¢s visa.
ââ¬ÅThe second visa program included in this bill addresses the estimated 6 to 10 million people currently residing illegally in the United States. Today, undocumented immigrants live in constant fear, in a shadowy underground that affords them limited opportunities and frequently leads to both exploitation and abuse. Establishing a process by which this population can voluntarily come forward and seek legal status is a necessary component to comprehensive immigration reform and ensuring the safety of our nation.
ââ¬ÅUnder this bill, every undocumented individual currently residing in the U.S. will have the opportunity to obtain a visa authorizing them to remain in the United States and work for three years, after which time they may apply for the temporary worker visa program which has a built in path to permanent legal residency.
ââ¬ÅEvery year, millions of people enter this country legally, in a monitored and controlled manner. Although a majority enter legally, an increasing number of people risk their lives to cross our borders illegally. According to the U.S. Border Patrol apprehension statistics, it is estimated that almost four million people crossed our borders illegally in 2002. The majority of these people are seeking the American dream, looking for a good paying job that will enable them to provide a better life for themselves and their families. We must recognize that as long as there are jobs available and employers in need of workers, people will continue to migrate. Our nation was built by immigrants, and like those who came hundreds of years ago, this population represents a significant portion of our workforce.
ââ¬ÅIn recent years, improved security and enhanced infrastructure in California and Texas have created a funneling effect through the Sonoran desert, which straddles Arizona and the Mexican State of Sonora. This is easily the most treacherous portion of the southern border, and in recent years, it has become more dangerous. Last fiscal year, an estimated 320 people died crossing the southern border into this country, 145 of those deaths were in the Arizona desert. Since last October, over 200 people have died,113 along the Arizona border. The Arizona Republic found that undocumented immigrants are seven times as likely to die crossing the Arizona-Mexico border now than they were five years ago.
ââ¬ÅMany people desperate to cross the border pay large sums of money to human smugglers who guarantee their entrance into the U.S. Our nation witnessed the extreme danger of human smugglers first hand in May when 100 people were found packed into a tractor trailer truck at a truck stop in Victoria, Texas. These people, abandoned by their smugglers, were trapped for hours in the extreme desert heat. Nineteen people died as a result.
ââ¬ÅMr. President, these are not merely numbers, these figures represent men, women and children. This unnecessary loss of human life deserves our nationââ¬â¢s attention and should compel all of us to action. Our current border and immigration policies create a contradictory situation whereby we attempt to keep people from crossing our borders illegally, but reward those who survive the dangerous journey with bountiful employment opportunities. This system is not sustainable.
ââ¬ÅIn addition to the human tragedy, this mass migration also represents a threat to our national security. Although over 99 percent of the people crossing our borders do not intend to harm Americans, we must be cognizant of the fact that a small number do. As long as we are unable to control and monitor who enters our country and what they bring in, Americans will not be safe. We must establish a system by which to allow people seeking work to enter the country in a safe manner, through controlled ports of entry - freeing up federal agents to monitor the border and focus their efforts on the individuals who do pose a potential threat to our national security.
ââ¬ÅWe can no longer afford to bury our heads in the sand and expect this problem to go away. Anyone who has visited the border and seen the challenges we face first hand or who hears of the number of unnecessary deaths, must recognize that we can no longer ignore this problem. It is time we dispense with partisan politics, and put human lives and our national security above special interest groups. I hold no illusions. Reforming our nationââ¬â¢s immigration laws will not be an easy task. This will be a long and arduous process, however we must not let the difficulty dissuade us from trying, and this legislation represents a meaningful first step. I am committed to this issue and to working towards a balanced solution to this crisis.
ââ¬ÅI ask Unanimous Consent that the full text of the Border Security and Immigration Improvement Act be printed in the record.
Thank you.ââ¬Â
[url]http://mccain.senate.gov/index.cfm?fuseaction=Newscenter.ViewPressRelease&Content_id=1148[/url] [/QUOTE]
2003-09-20 05:46 | User Profile
[url=http://www.realchange.org/mccain.htm]John McCain's Skeleton Closet[/url]
2003-09-20 16:29 | User Profile
I thought we had to let in all the illegals because we couldn't control our borders. Now I guess we will just legalize all the current illegals, and also let in a new round of them as well. Then we can have another McCain-style amnesty program--so moral, so upright--a few years down the road.
2003-09-20 22:53 | User Profile
Worse yet all of Arizona's GOPer Congressmen have joined in this Treason!
2003-09-23 10:32 | User Profile
[QUOTE]ââ¬ÅFully cognizant of the failures and abuses of previous temporary worker programs, I am committed to ensuring that this new program prevents abuse and protects the rights of workers. Important protections are built into the new visa program. Complete portability across all sectors will allow workers the freedom to leave abusive employers and seek work elsewhere. This program would allow employers to immediately apply for permanent resident status on behalf of the employee, but unlike previous programs, this bill would allow workers self-petition after three years so that no employer could use residency status to manipulate and abuse any worker. Additionally, all U.S. labor laws are applicable to ensure full worker protection. [/QUOTE]
Translation: We screwed up and didn't protect you. We called those among you who drew attention to this problem years ago 'racist'. Instead of squaring this away, we've created a millions-man strong criminal class, which we are going to punish by allowing them to become citizens instead of actually DOING OUR JOB.
[QUOTE]this legislation does not put a finite number on the available visas, rather it is designed to allow the market to dictate the need for workers.[/QUOTE]
Translation: We're allowing bazillions (as in: infinite) more illegals into the country, we WANT them here, but we don't want to take the heat for when it goes kaboom, so we're foisting it onto a nebulous entity that cannot be held responsible, either: 'The Market' (damn those business owners!)
[QUOTE]Through the establishment of a job registry system, U.S. employers in need of workers can post available jobs on this registry. To ensure that U.S. workers do not lose out on valuable job opportunities, each job posted on the registry must be available to U.S. workers for a minimum of 14 days before it is open to a foreign worker. [/QUOTE]
Most likely in Spanish in the middle of the Sonora desert, to better enable US workers to be advised of possible job opportunities... not to mention a backdoor amnesty program for the ones already here.
[QUOTE]This program would allow employers to immediately apply for permanent resident status on behalf of the employee, but unlike previous programs, this bill would allow workers self-petition after three years so that no employer could use residency status to manipulate and abuse any worker. Additionally, all U.S. labor laws are applicable to ensure full worker protection. [/QUOTE]
We're pushing the responsibility off on employers for our failure in defending our border... we can all stand together and vote to bomb other countries halfway around the world in the name of freedom and protecting the American people, but even with all our high-tech gadgets and surveillance equipment and manpower and high-speed low drag troopies, we can't keep our CLOSEST F*CKING BORDER SEALED OFF! So we're allowing the illegals to self-petition in 3 years in the hopes the issue will have died out by then, and to get the onus off the business owners (they give us lots of money too.. wouldn't want to piss them off too bad, now would we?) and, we hope, people will go back to sleep. By the way, we're extending US law to include anyone who isn't a resident or citizen of the US, that's not a problem, is it? Everyone okay with that? (Except those old nasties in GitMo we captured in Afganistan, they're not citizens, but we don't like them).
[QUOTE]ââ¬ÅThe second visa program included in this bill addresses the estimated 6 to 10 million people currently residing illegally in the United States. Today, undocumented immigrants live in constant fear, in a shadowy underground that affords them limited opportunities and frequently leads to both exploitation and abuse. Establishing a process by which this population can voluntarily come forward and seek legal status is a necessary component to comprehensive immigration reform and ensuring the safety of our nation. [/QUOTE]
Hell, we'll just take everyone. President Fox of Mexico can just dump whoever he wants here and have them siphon off money from the fat stupi** err.. generous northern neighbors and send it back to Mexico.
[QUOTE]ââ¬ÅMr. President, these are not merely numbers, these figures represent men, women and children. This unnecessary loss of human life deserves our nationââ¬â¢s attention and should compel all of us to action. Our current border and immigration policies create a contradictory situation whereby we attempt to keep people from crossing our borders illegally, but reward those who survive the dangerous journey with bountiful employment opportunities. This system is not sustainable. [/QUOTE]
You're right... do your F*UCKING JOB and have our established law enforcement agencies go after them, send them home and seal the border.. in accordance with US law, or I guess you can just make up shit as you go along?
[QUOTE]ââ¬ÅWe can no longer afford to bury our heads in the sand and expect this problem to go away. Anyone who has visited the border and seen the challenges we face first hand or who hears of the number of unnecessary deaths, must recognize that we can no longer ignore this problem. [/QUOTE]
Tell that to the families of the 'unnecessary dead' that resulted from hoards of your little brown buddies flooding this country. Dead through murder, drugs, automobile accidents.. take your pick, I got more...
[QUOTE]I ask Unanimous Consent that the full text of the Border Security and Immigration Improvement Act be printed in the record. [/QUOTE]
That's a little too wordy... howabout The Constitutional Shredding and Treason Act? That has a better ring to it..
Ausonius
2003-09-23 11:45 | User Profile
Asonius,
Just think, when we lose the southwest we can always say that but hey, we have Iraq instead! We just traded one group of brown people for another. :clap: :smartass:
Seriously, it is sickening to think that here it is the U.S. can do all this crap worldwide for things that won't benefit this country one damn bit and yet won't control its own damn borders because of sheer greed and cowardice.
Even the Romans felt compelled to occasionally get off their asses and throw back the barbarians, yet "we," who are always bragging about being "the world's only superpower" won't take action for the above reason.
This will be the shortest lived empire in history.
2003-09-24 01:11 | User Profile
Sertorius,
First off, let me apologize for the above rant. I guess I'm too far along in life to change the way I talk about things. I become empassioned when I think about what these turncoat bastards are doing to the Republic, how far the rot has spread, how proliferous the insanity has become...
You still fly the colors. That's a good thing. I was a Lifer before ending up like this, but from what I have seen the Army become (quotas, 'sensitivity training' ie: brainwashing, intimidation, too many minority females, good men passed over because of some clipped-hair, mean faced dykes in Washington leveraging the spineless legislators), the only solid areas left are Combat Arms (Infantry, Artillery, Armor, SpecOps) because the fags, dykes and leftists won't dare enlist and actually risk combat or anything. But the vast majority of the Army will eventually become a club to use against US civilians (just like when the State Governors lobbied to reclassify all reserve SF Groups into National Guard so they could field Special Operations troops against their own constituents when they had to without asking the President to invoke the War Powers Act).
The radical individualists and hedonists of the 1960's have inherited the very institutions they raged against 40 years ago, and are now making policy and influencing our young people (they run the television stations, print media, and most radio... AM pseudo-conservative talkers are all that's left, and those are mostly bombastic idiots parroting each other). They also control the colleges and universities, influencing our young people even further. Student groups like the Leftist Student Union and LAMBDA encourage hedonistic behavior and degeneracy under color of 'diversity' and through intimidation of anyone who dares disagree with their agenda.
The Southwest is overrun. Not going to be overrun, IS overrun. There are a multitude of schemes out there the Left is trying, attempting to amnesty these felons, this stain upon our land. If they succeed (and I believe they eventually will), they will provide the fuel for one helluva conflict. The US, the Old Republic, I believe, is in it's death throes right now. It's been sick and dying for some time now, but it's finally happening. We invade other sovereign nations at will under color of law in the name of 'Security', yet we ignore our own borders, allowing a flood of muds into this land to reduce it to a 3rd world nation, simultaneously stripping our own people of Constitutionally guaranteed rights and providing felonious non-citizens more freebies and 'rights'. More freedoms than the people who actually live here have. Congress and the Senate are operating on the moral capital built up by generations of good men, but the account is almost empty. Eventually, they will have to be held accountable for selling out this nation.
We are a nation with a dualistic government. Half socialist state, half constituional republic. They are polar opposites, and will eventually force a showdown sooner or later. At the rate our society is degenerating, it will be sooner, unless the potentially powerful forces still at our disposal marshal themselves in response to the insanity. I have been thinking of attending some of the meetings the Leftist Student Union is having.. sort of a stealth op. If we know what they are up to, we can fight them more effectively. It's not enough to just discount what they say, logic does not work on these people. Neither does shame. Discrediting them publicly, DOES work. I'll let you know if I decide to stealth these assholes or not... I have a wife and son and they require most of my time not taken up with studies or work.
Fly the colors as long as you can. I stopped flying them when the Army stopped being something better and started becoming a testing ground for bullshit social engineering programs (populated by Political Officers and NCO's who owe their rank and position to affirmative action) and 'tolerance'.
Ausonius :starwars:
2003-09-24 07:34 | User Profile
Ausonius,
You need not to apologize to me, for I have developed over the years a very strong sense of gallows humor. I think and feel the same way about the things and people you write about above. Radical individualism is indeed a curse upon us when we consider that our beloved minorities are going to put their race first everytime despite what the idiots of neo-con radio may think and say.
I hear you about combat arms. That's what I did when I wasn't serving on a staff of a line unit. Those are indeed the best assignments, I think. As for the colors, yes, I still fly them and I believe you should as well for the jerks that have them now haven't a clue of what they mean whereas we do.
They belong to people like us a hell of alot more than they do to those creatures. Don't let your disgust with them deprive you of what you have earned through hard work and ability.
Here's a pleasant thought for you. Think of the fun we could have with the sofa samurais Rush, Sean, Bill Kristol and the rest of the tough talking, braying candyasses of neo-con talk radio and t.v. at Ft. Irwin at the beginning of January when the temperature is at nine degrees below zero. :ohmy: :crybaby: :lol: :lol: :lol:
2003-09-24 10:29 | User Profile
Sertorius,
That is a comforting thought. NTC in January is not a fun place, though it CAN be if you have the right equipment, permission to use it and the right people to pick on. I rotated through 4 times. (Small quote here, but you can fill in the blanks without me going into gory detail: Soldier rolls over in his fart sack at 03:30 hrs, looks at me walking by. "Hey.. who're you guys?" Me: "Us? Oh, we're just the Bad Guys" (deploy CS grenade here and throw the '60 from Safe to Fire) Heh, heh. Hope you got enough to bargain with to get your unit Guideon back. I favor T-bones.
I wouldn't feel so strongly against the minorities and illegals if they just DID something with their lives instead of just bitching and insisting on free stuff on my (and your) dime. At some point, you have to realize you're going to have to get up and go to work. You're going to have to take responsibility for your actions. Glorifying the killing of other men for sport, brutalizing women, fathering many illigitimate children and being a purveor of filth (ie "rap" music) has wrecked an entire segment of the US population, causing the Warm Fuzzy Left to seek new and more insane means of alleviating a problem that cannot be cured from the outside. They usually appeal to whatever emotions that the whites still have that are not desensitized and ask for more money to fund some other bullshit social engineering or giveaway program. Oh, I forgot, all that at the expense of the whites, who ALLOW themselves to be tread upon, and, I believe, actually ENCOURAGE discrimination and racism against themselves because of some sort of 'guilt' they have about whatever happened 175 years ago.
I'm not one of them. History must be accepted for what it is at some point: the past. Let it go. To blame all your race's failures on 'a legacy of racism' or 'a legacy of colonialism' (feel free to fill in the blank) is just an adult version of a tantrum and self-denial. You didn't fail because you're not smart enough or didn't work hard enough, it must be Whitey's fault for institutionalizing the racism. If that were true, then the 60's radicals running the universities should be at fault, but we know that cannot be true. Same with anything outside the hard sciences (print and broadcast journalism, television, cable tv, anything where talking heads or chattering is considered a plus and you don't produce anything). They failed on their own. Nobody helped them. Same with females, they owe their rank and position to affirmative action quota's and discrimination. I have yet to meet a female who can hold their own on the old PT test under the male standards. Everyone's equal, but some are more equal than others. Be held to the same standards, and suddenly the standards which have provided us the basis for creating the greatest military force in the history of the world are discriminatory and need modification so our 'equal' female soldiers can compete on a supposedly 'level' field.
The Southwest is a lost cause. I have no idea what to do about it. Deploying the active duty Army down there won't solve anything. Bunch of soldiers laying around throwing rocks at each other for months will kill morale. The Left cannot endorse a move against the illegals without admitting their entire agenda is a complete failure and total waste of time, so they won't. Assholes like that traitorous motherf*cker McCain (R-AZ) want to sell us out under the flag of 'conservativism', not to mention what the other side is trying to pull off. They're just setting the stage for a showdown in a few years. God help us.
In the meantime, I put all my stuff back up on my 'I love me' wall... I haven't the stomach for the colors just yet. Maybe when I work through the logic of it a bit more or think on it some, I'll put it up. What the Old Republic meant, and the Old Army too, maybe they deserve to have it flown.
Ausonius