Burning Atlanta

I smell a rat. More accurately, I smell the stench of two pro-amnesty rats baking under the heat of their constituents' wrath and trying to do a little damage control. Pay attention to the "Doing nothing is an amnesty" theme that we've seen lately. Keep in mind that 40% of illegal aliens are visa overstays yet they say nothing about that loophole. Keep in mind the fact that our govenment's NEVER shown any real effort at prosecuting employers yet jobs are the number one lure that drives illegal immigration.

Weasels (AJC)

Today, our border is an open sieve and our law enforcement personnel have their hands tied. Some 12 million to 20 million immigrants have been allowed to enter this country illegally and to remain here indefinitely. They work tax-free, get free health care in our emergency rooms and educate their children for free in our schools. This is amnesty, and it must be stopped.

We are seeking to ensure that any reform Congress enacts will truly secureour borders first before any reform of our temporary worker system takes place. If you grant legal status to those here illegally without first securing the border, millions more will flood into our country illegally. That's exactly what happened with the flawed immigration law that was passed in 1986, and our country has been paying the price ever since. Gee, you think a total lack of enforcement , including interior, might have something to do with it?

We are seeking to ensure that any reform includes a biometrically secure identification program that would allow employers for the first time to instantly verify whether an immigrant is legal before they are hired. Employers today must guess whether documentation provided by immigrants is fraudulent or not. A biometrically secure ID would replace this guessing game with instantaneous certainty, and we could then hold employers accountable with much stricter fines for hiring illegal workers. Yeah, just like you've held them responsible for the past 20 years.

We demanded to have a seat at the table in drafting this year's immigration reform legislation to ensure that the new Democratic-controlled Congress wouldn't repeat last year's bill or the failed 1986 Act. We could have chosen to sit on the sidelines and simply complain about the other party, but instead we have fought hard in a difficult political environment to ensure that the principles of our constituents in Georgia are included. Ewww, how impressive. You demanded a part in drafting the articles of surrender.