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It's all about a larger voting base.
It is also to get them to stay for the census.
The dems keep showing how a liberal agenda and special interest groups rule over whats best for the citizens and the country.
Immigration bill backers try again despite jobless rate - Washington Times
Democrats on Tuesday begin their new push for an immigration bill, hamstrung by the image of legalizing millions of illegal immigrant workers at a time when the unemployment rate stands at 10 percent -- more than twice what it was the last time Congress tried to act.
"It certainly will confuse the debate a lot more, but at the end of the day what we have to understand is fixing this system will be good for American workers," said Eliseo Medina, executive vice president of the Service Employees International Union, which is one of the major advocates for legalizing illegal immigrant workers.
Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez, the Illinois Democrat who has taken over leadership on the issue after the death of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, Massachusetts Democrat, plans to introduce an immigration legalization bill Tuesday, and backers are planning a strategy to avoid repeats of the failed attempts of 2006 and 2007.
In a letter to members of Congress last week seeking support for the bill, Mr. Gutierrez and Rep. Nydia M. Velazquez, New York Democrat and chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, said their legislation will end the off-the-books economy of illegal immigrant workers and protect American workers by raising labor standards.
They prolly have to try now because it's the only chance that they have to get it passed. Come 2010 there won't be enough of them in office to even have a slight chance of getting such crap passed.
Huh? 2010 is two weeks away, and unless someone resigns or dies, everyone who is in Congress today will be there through the entirety of 2010.
Huh? 2010 is two weeks away, and unless someone resigns or dies, everyone who is in Congress today will be there through the entirety of 2010.
Huh? 2010 is two weeks away, and unless someone resigns or dies, everyone who is in Congress today will be there through the entirety of 2010.
I know on the surface it seems somewhat logical to draw a connection between illegal immigration and the unemployment rate, but I don't think it adds up that way. Are illegals part of the national census?
The other thing is that businesses who hire them because of the lack of labour rights and the ability to pay sub-standard wages isn't going to change just because it's a recession; actually, in theory they would hire more because of the recession, if they're willing to hire anyone at all.
There is elections in 2010
And the winners won't take office until 2011.
But if businesses were charged with aiding and abetting a crime for employing illegal aliens.....
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