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Immigration Becoming Big 2008 Issue

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Posted on Mar 24, 2006

Pretenders to the White House are all staking out positions on what they expect to be a hot topic come next election.

Check out Truthdig’s Marc Cooper for the skinny on the underlying issue.

The Washington Post:

President Bush’s effort to secure lawful employment opportunities for illegal immigrants is evolving into an early battle of the 2008 presidential campaign, as his would-be White House successors jockey for position ahead of next week’s immigration showdown in the Senate.

Bush called on Congress yesterday to tone down the increasingly sharp and divisive rhetoric over immigration, as he renewed his push for a guest-worker plan that would allow millions of illegal immigrants to continue working in the United States. But Bush’s political sway is already weakened by public unease about the war in Iraq and by Republican divisions.

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.), whom Bush helped elect as party leader, is threatening to bring a new immigration bill to the Senate floor early next week. It would tighten control of the nation’s borders without creating the guest-worker program the president wants.

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By Jay, March 25, 2006 at 4:45 pm #
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And how about the people who are waiting in line to come to the U.S legally. People who are being sponsored by their U.S citizen relatives. Like my brother, he has to wait 10 years !!! for his turn, mean while a person who jumped the fence a weak ago can be given a guest worker visa, I havent heard anything on expediting the process for cases like my
brother. People waiting in line are just suckers.

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By amir khan, March 25, 2006 at 8:12 am #
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I was born in Pakistan my dream was always to go to the U.S.A. finaly I came to U.S in 2000 on visiter visa when i was 17 this is really land of opertunity i love this country ilove people of this country now i m suffering as an illegal immigrant life in this county i always have fear of deportation but I still dont wanna go back things are not good in third word(Pakistan).it is not my fault that I was not born in this great country
i m an honest man i wann do some thing for this country
i work 7 nights at a gass station my boss cant find any American to do that job thats way he hired me and i do pay full amount of taxes
i have helped so many Americans and people used me
GOD BLESS AMERICA

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By G. Chell, March 24, 2006 at 1:13 pm #
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The problem is not those who hire illegals at low wages, but the American people who want cheap products and services and refuse to buy if the prices go up, aka airline travel.

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By George S Semsel, March 24, 2006 at 10:18 am #
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If the government was serious about illegal immigration, it would strengthen and enforce rigorously laws aimed at preventing the hiring of illegals. If needy people were unable to find work in the U.S. at wages so low no American would accept them, perhaps they wouldn’t be so interested in crossing the border. The problem is not the illegal immigrants, it is those who hire them at outrageously low wages.

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