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On May 16, 6:24 pm, "johnny@." <johnny@.> wrote:
> May 16, 2007 8:39 p.m.
>
> WASHINGTON -- The White House and Senate negotiators have narrowed their
> differences on immigration overhaul to a point where they hope to
> announce a final deal Thursday on legislation that can be brought to the
> Senate floor next week.
>
> Commerce Secy. Carlos Gutierrez was in the Capitol Wednesday evening in
> an effort to resolve final details impacting agriculture workers. But
> the more decisive meeting came earlier in a second-floor corner office
> in the Senate Dirksen building where about a half-dozen key Democratic
> and Republican participants met with Mr. Gutierrez and Homeland Security
> Secretary Michael Chertoff, who has spearheaded the talks for the
> administration with Joel Kaplan, a top White House domestic policy adviser.
>
> "Everybody in the room understood that tomorrow morning is the final
> time," said Sen. Edward Kennedy (D., Mass.), who has led the Democratic
> side. "Everyone realizes that if everyone in there wants to get a
> resolution of this in a positive way, it's all possible."
>
> "Tonight's the night. We'll know by morning," Mr. Kennedy said. "If this
> thing goes over the weekend, it's finished."
>
> The core bill, like the immigration overhaul effort that failed in the
> last Congress, promises millions of undocumented workers already in the
> U.S. a path to citizenship, something conservatives have criticized in
> the past as amnesty. But to pacify these complaints, the new measure
> offers a series of political tradeoffs that address other concerns on
> the right: chiefly border security and chain migration.
>
> If amnesty pertains to the legalization of undocumented workers, chain
> migration speaks more to fears that every new guest worker will gain
> permanent residency or each new immigrant citizen will be followed by a
> chain of relatives.
>
> To break this chain, the bill would alter current immigration rules that
> favor families and institute a point system making it harder to bring in
> siblings and adult children. Parents would also be capped at about
> 40,000 a year or about half the current level.
>
> In the case of temporary workers, up to 400,000 "Y" visas would be
> available a year, and those who bring their families would be penalized
> with a shortened stay in the U.S. But in an important concession this
> week, conservatives have relented in their demands that all guest
> workers be limited to no more than a single three-year tour.
>
> Instead, an immigrant guest worker could come for three, two-year terms
> interspersed with one year "cooling off" periods in his home country.
> This extended time, eight years altogether, would give the worker more
> time to win points toward permanent residency and also establish ties
> with American employers.
>
> The precise breakdown of the points was among the subjects in
> yesterday's crucial meeting. Senate staff, who were excluded from the
> discussion, must now fine tune the system to flesh out the conceptual
> agreement. Republicans insist the motto remains "Temporary means
> temporary," but there is a clear desire in both parties to have a system
> flexible enough to reward workers who perform well for their U.S. employers.
>
> At the same time, a sleeper issue in the bill could be the tougher
> employer verification rules that will very well impact American citizens
> as they move between jobs. The whole undertaking is an immense
> administration challenge for the Homeland Security Department, and Mr.
> Chertoff must be able to deliver on a crucial "eight and five"
> formulation central to the legalization effort.
>
> Eight refers to the number of years designated to clear the backlog of
> pending applications for permanent residency documents, or "green
> cards," from persons abroad or living here with a legal work visa. Five
> refers to a five-year period afterwards, in which Democrats have been
> promised that sufficient new green cards will be issued so that the
> undocumented workers who have come forward to be legalized and meet the
> criteria set can get permanent residency.
>
> That means it will take eight to 13 years for all the undocumented, who
> qualify and have survived screening, to get a card, after which it takes
> five more years to become a citizen. Added together, it will take at
> least 13 years for the first undocumented to become citizens, compared
> to about 11 years under last year's bill.
>
> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1179...?mod=googlenew...
>
> None of the shit in this article matters. What matters is the
> republicans are going to vote with the democrats to allow 20 million
> Mexicans to stay in this country,
>
> We would have been better off with John Kerry in office, he couldn't
> have talked the so called republicans into voting for his immigration
> bill.
>
> --
> Tom Tancredo for President in 2008
> For a Secure Americahttp://www.teamtancredo.org/http://tancredo.house.gov/

Naturally, Whites will pay for this tragedy.

ted

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