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« Joe Slumlord, D-Brentwood | Main | "Raising Taxes With State Awash in Revenue is Disgraceful." » May 19, 2007Corker to Vote "No" on Illegal Immigration Amnesty Bill
On Monday, Senators are being asked to start voting on a complex immigration reform bill that most members have not had a chance to read or review. There is no doubt we need to secure America's borders and reform our broken immigration system, but this should not be done hastily by cramming through a largely unknown piece of legislation in a few days.Corker is right to counsel slowing down and getting it right. The 12 million illegals aren't going anywhere. Posted in Immigration
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Let us hope Senator Corker is committed to real immigration reform and not the amnesty on the cheap to create a new constituency ready to receive more government services at our expense. Posted by: RWBlack at May 20, 2007 7:09 AMI still dontunderstand why we don't do more to enforce the laws we have. It seems to me that this first step would give the President and the Congress the time neessary to "get it right." It is appalling that we are allowing any people to begin their lives as Americans by breaking the law. Don't we pride ourselves on being a "nation of law." Posted by: Rose Storey at May 20, 2007 1:48 PMI think the problem is that it is currently easier for the Mexicans to do it wrong than it is for them to do it right (since there's no current vehicle for them to come over and support their families in current immigration policy). Guest worker simply addresses this reality by getting those who are coming through anyway a legal vehicle to do so allowing immigration enforcement to focus their efforts on the minority of people who choose to bypass and subvert a more reasonable system. Post a comment
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U.S. Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tennessee, has issued the following statement regarding the immigration reform bill now pending in the U.S. Senate, legislation that would, effectively, provide amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants while reducing the length of the planned border fence: