Republicans Frist & Hassert issued a joint statement regarding immigration, here is my favorite part:
"In December, the House of Representatives passed a strong border security bill aimed at securing our borders and preventing illegal immigration," the statement said.
"However, on December 16, 2005, there were 191 House Democrats who voted to oppose House Republican efforts to reduce the crime of unlawful presence in the United States from a felony to a misdemeanor. Instead, they voted to make felons out of all of those who remain in our country illegally. (Some conservative Republicans also favored making unlawful presence a felony.)
But I thought the Democrats were for immigrants. It appears that they are trying (somewhat successfully I might add) to exploit this issue and win back some of the Hispanic vote they lost last time.
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And you're surprised?
Yeah - the democrats had to worry about winning back the vote until now. After this attempt by Republicans to pass this bill, the Democrats don't need to worry about a thing!
It's not them who are exploiting the issue, it's Bush and the rest of his crew. They wont put forth a feasible bill, and are running everyone in circles because they don't know where their loyalties lie. They're stuck with big business on the one hand, who needs the immigrants, and they're wacko right wing on the other, who wants this country shut off from the rest of the world.
The hispanics know who's on their side, and it's clearly not the Right. Nice try.
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