McCain shakes off GOP's anti-immigration right

Presidential candidate McCain has already said that he would not vote for the comprehensive proposal HE HIMSELF drafted about two years ago. Enough said.

HE wants to sink his ship. Fine dump him, Everyone join in " Palin for President Please! "

Ok... so what is the point of the Irish Joke John told this morning? Apparently, the Irish are not only drunks... they are stupid drunks. According to John, the Irish don't mind this charming stereotype.

Very presidential. Way to go, John.

Independent polls consistently find 70% or more of Americans want deportation not amnesty and immunity for their crimes for illegals.

In the last year, 45 states have passed 246 laws reigning in the lawlessness of illegal immigratation.

Any amnesty and immunity for crimes for illegals will bankrupt our social security and medicare system, Within 20 years middle class Americans would have to come up with 2.5 trillion in taxes just to pay for the so called 12 million illegals here. Actually it is probably more like 30 million.

With the present economy, and two wars being fought, there is no way our country can afford to take in milliions of uneducated, unskilled illegals. Per the economists, until you have a high school degree, you take more money/value out of the economy than you put in, We would go bankrupt.

Obama and McCain know this. That is why they dodge and soft peddle questions about illegal immigration. They don't want to alienate the Hispanic vote who wants preferential treatment for Hispanics over all other races and ethnic groups in the world. (Studies show that almost all illegals are Hispanic. So the politicans don't want to be up front and honest about the stiuation.

This is one of the most bogus events of the presidential campaign. McCain and Obama essentially agree that we need to undertake a massive reform of our immigration policy, something that the Bush Administration was paralyzed by for eight years.

While I hope the Northern Ireland peace process will ultimately be a success, this election is about what is best for the United States, not what is best for another country. Senator McCain should not be pandering to every ethnic, religious, fraternal and fringe group in the country just to chase a few votes.

And finally, what is with John McCain and the drunken Irish jokes, which he appearently tells frequently? I'm surprised the Ancient Order of Hibernians is not protesting the way it did when Hallmark Cards used to do those drunk Irish greeting cards.

McCain is at it again...pandering to the illegals (although Obama is no better) . I find it both sickening and sad that neither presidential candidate will support enforcing our country's immigration laws or securing our border and our sovereignty. They are totally fine in having millions of unknown criminals entering at will and living here illegally. Just because the system may need work does not mean we should not enforce the laws and go after those who break them. Americans are screwed with either candidate. I hope the legal citizens stand loud and proud and let these guys know we do not support amnesty to illegals who have no regard for our laws or our country. We did it before and we can do it again.

Dishonest reporting.

It's not the anti-immigration right. It's the anti-ILLEGAL right.

McCain is a Machiavellian double talker who tailors his comments to suit whatever audience he happens to be talking to at the time. I can't vote for this guy - I can't trust anything he says.

Right on, Roy! That's exactly right. I'm an anti-Invasion activist, and McCain's chosing Palin (who refuses to utter a word on amnesty or illegal immigration) didn't trick me into backing him. While I like Palin personality-wise, she will do what Papa John tells her to do. Hannity punted in his hour-long interview of Palin by doing as the McCain Campaign quietly asked him--Don't ask her about illegal immigration! McCain's disgusting anti-America ads on Spanish/Mexican cable tv should be enough to cost him the election. Not everyone has seen/translated them. They are pro-illegal, pro-Amnesty. How some McCain supporters can say that he's "changed his position on Amnesty" is really a joke. He hasn't changed. I cannot vote for a man who hates conservatives and loves illegals. There IS no "lesser of two evils" here, just plain evil.

The House Judiciary Committee will take up two foreign-worker bills today: H.R. 5882, which would add an additional 550,000 permanent green cards; and H.R. 5924, which would add 20,000 additional foreign nurses per year for three years (plus their families). Please contact your U.S. Representative through the Capitol Switchboard (202-224-3121) and ask him/her to do everything possible to stop the passage of these bills. The Committee waited until late last night to give notice for the hearing, presumably in an effort to avoid public scrutiny.
H.R. 5882 – "Recapturing Unused Employer-Sponsored Visas"

This legislation is similar to the measure that Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.)(Racist) is using to hijack debate on E-Verify reauthorization in the Senate. The bill’s sponsor, Immigration Subcommittee Chairman Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif), claims it would “recapture unused employer-sponsored visas” from as far back as 1991 and then add them to the current numerical cap of 140,000 employer-sponsored visas that are available each year. Current law, however, clearly states that any employer-sponsored visas not used in one year are allocated to the family-preference categories in the following year. That means that there are no “unused” visas from past years to “recapture.”

Moreover, these extra green cards would be for foreign workers to take engineering jobs, health care jobs, construction jobs, manufacturing jobs and just about every other job that Americans have been losing in this economy. In order to qualify, a foreign worker doesn't need more than 2 years of on-the-job training – and they aren't even required to have a high school diploma. Our country doesn't need these workers - our workers need these jobs!
H.R. 5924 - Employment-based Green Cards for Nurses

The bill would give green cards to 20,000 additional foreign nurses annually for the next three years and allow them to bring their families to the U.S. as well. This effort to increase the number of employer-sponsored visas to address a supposed nursing shortage ignores the facts on the ground. Nursing schools have giant backlogs of students who want to go into the field. One estimate suggests that as many as 10,000 nursing applicants are turned away each year. Why? The fact is, medical schools don’t have enough faculty to teach students how to become nurses.

Bringing in 60,000 nurses will do nothing to resolve the underlying problem in medical schools, and it may prevent Americans from entering the field, particularly if Congress brings in even more foreign nurses three years from now. As for the supposed nursing shortage, wouldn't it be better to support a temporary foreign nurse plan now, and then help the backlog of student nurses get through school?

The problem with all immigration reform is that they start with the premise that we cannot get rid of the millions of illegals already here. First we cut off all exportation of U.S. dollars by illegal aliens; pass a law requiring verification of the sender'slegal residency. All other dollars sent abroad get taxed at a 25% rate. The dollars earned in our country should be encouraged to stay here. After a brief grace period to register all unregistered aliens would be subject to immediate deportation along with all offspring. All real property would be forfeited with half going to whoever turned in the criminals.It would be like that old western series The Bounty Hunter without the bloodshed.