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>From http://www.washtimes.com/national/20020215-86057061.htm
>>>Is Shrubbie getting nervous over the election for 2004 already?
Pulling a trick out of the Clinto-Gore hat to bolster his election
returns? What this is telling ALL of US that Shrubbie doesn't have
any faith in those who are ALREADY Americans; he would rather place
his trust in those who are already lawbreakers and subverting the
legal system that Americans rely on to protect them. Maybe he should
run against Vincente Fox next time around ... A<>E<>R <<<
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Mexican amnesty plan resurfaces
By August Gribbin
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
The Bush administration is pushing Congress to act on the
president's plan for granting amnesty to millions of Mexican workers
living and working illegally in the United States.
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Amnesty and the related "guest- worker" issue have surfaced anew
partly because Mr. Bush is preparing once more to take up the matter
with Mexican President Vicente Fox in Monterrey, Mexico, on March 22.
Mr. Bush has previously declared his commitment to "make sure that [illegal
workers�] labor is legal" and to "consider ways for a guest worker to earn green-card
status."
Administration officials insist that, although the subject faded from the minds
of many after the September 11 attacks, it has remained a priority for Mr. Bush.
James W. Ziglar, commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, for
weeks has been insisting the issue is alive.
"Some believe that our migration talks with Mexico have been forgotten in the
wake of September 11. I assure you that is not the case," he told a gathering of
pro-immigration organization leaders at the National Immi
gration Forum Conference earlier this month.
Rep. Christopher B. Cannon, Utah Republican, who serves as the White House point
man on the issue, has been lobbying congressional opponents of the proposal.
"I can confirm that the White House is pressuring representatives to act," says
an aide to Rep. Tom Tancredo, Colorado Republican, who is a leading opponent of
amnesty.
Mr. Tancredo chairs the Congressional Caucus on Immigration Reform. Granting
amnesty would reward lawbreakers, he says, and would be "a kick in the teeth to the
thousands of individuals across the world who are legal
ly attempting to enter the United States."
"Instead, the U.S. is saying, 'Why wait? Sneak on in.'"
Mr. Ziglar outlined the administration's goals earlier this month at the
immigration forum conference, where he said that ranking State Department and INS
officials have been meeting with "high level Mexican official
s" on amnesty and related immigration issues.
"If we could find a way to move a substantial portion of the current illegal flow
from Mexico into legal channels via some kind of temporary-worker program and combine
that with new cooperative law-enforcement arrang
ements with Mexico, we could benefit the U.S. economy, [and] we could substantially
reduce illegal immigration," the INS commissioner said.
Another administration goal is to "normalize" the status of a
yet-to-be-determined number of the estimated 3.5 million illegal workers from Mexico
living in the United States. However, critics say normalizing status
is a euphemism for granting amnesty and evokes memories of 1986.
That year, in an attempt to cope with illegal immigration, Congress granted 2.7
million people the coveted "green cards" that denote permanent U.S. residency and the
prospect of citizenship. But the flow of undocumen
ted Mexicans did not stop after 1986 � it increased.
Basing their observations on INS statistics, researchers point out that by 1997 a
new group of illegal aliens had entirely replaced the formerly illegal aliens and that
the population of undocumented residents had ag
ain reached 5 million, the pre-1986 number. In the years after the amnesty, the number
of illegal immigrants grew to more than 800,000 a year, as relatives of the newly
legal U.S. residents joined them.
"President Bush has not been specific, but no one is seriously talking about
amnesty of such a broad-scale program," said Angela Kelley, deputy director of the
National Immigration Forum.
Miss Kelley said her impression is that Mr. Bush wants to grant green cards to
illegal workers who have been in the country for a long time, are employed, have
family connections here, have passed background checks a
nd have no criminal record.
Miss Kelley the immigration forum backs such a plan, as do most pro-immigration
organizations.
Some suggest that Mexican workers be given renewable, temporary work permits.
After six to 10 years, the workers could be made eligible for permanent residency.
This sort of "guest worker" arrangement would comply wi
th Mexican insistence on a plan that permits workers to flow easily
between Mexico and the United States.
The administration argues � as do practically all who back
amnesty and guest-worker programs � that the nation needs foreign
workers to farm and garden and to do the menial hotel, restaurant and
hospital jobs that many American workers disdain. They say their
cheap labor benefits U.S. consumers by keeping down the cost of food
and services.
Economists who oppose amnesty and guest-worker programs say that
reasoning is false. They say using cheap foreign labor stifles
business innovation and shifts labor costs from employers to
taxpayers, who must pay for the expanded welfare and health care
required by the low-wage aliens.
Democrats in Congress who favor Mr. Bush's amnesty and guest-
worker initiative say any new laws should benefit illegals regardless
of where they are from.
But the events of September 11 make that suggestion
controversial. Mark Krikorian, executive director of the nonpartisan
Center for Immigration Studies, asked: "Would we now give green cards
to undocumented residents from Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Iran and
countries that export terrorists?"
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