Sen. Robert Byrd called ILLEGAL Immigration Amnesty Bill a Bad Dream

[Robson]

To quote: Sen. Robert Byrd (D) of West Virginia, who chairs the Senate Appropriations Committee, called the measure to give automatic legal status to as many as 12 million illegal immigrants "a bad dream."

This bill is simply a repeat of the 1986 bill that rewarded illegal behavior of both the employers and their illegal workers.

The only way to get a handle on this illegal immigration problem is to first enforce the existing law and put heavy sanctions on any employer who hires illegal workers and then begin to put sanctions on landlords who rent to illegal immigrants. Once this is done many illegal workers will go home. BTW if this would have been done two years ago the conservative President in Mexico would have lost the election and Mexican workers in Mexico would have likely begun to share in Mexico's wealth today.

If after a couple of years we in the USA find that there truly aren't enough Americans to fill these jobs at reasonable and higher American wages (instead of sweat shop wages), then we can begin to offer more controlled immigration.

There is simply no way to realistically enforce the provisions and the massive logistics of this bill which involve making a determination and collecting fine of each and every illegal immigrant. This is all lip service just as was the 1986 bill. Bush and his friends likely see a privatization opportunity for the investigatory process that would costs us billions.

The spigot should be turned off right now with all employers and give Americans the opportunity to jobs with increased wages and benefits.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0521/p10s01-uspo.html?page=1