Friday - March 24, 2006

Mexican Madness In Milwaukee

"A Day Without Mexicans”? Que pasa, hombre? (That’s spanish for “WTF, dude?") Congress has already passed Sensenbrenner’s bill and the Senate is poised to do the same. All the bills do is make it a felony to do something that is already illegal. It also cracks down on employers, forcing them to verify the status of workers or suffer penalties. Of course, the Donks are livid over this. The very idea of taking away their maids and gardeners is making the Hildabeast and her friends outraged.

Personally, I think a guest-worker program is OK but we need to start from a legal position first. There are 11 million Mexicans in this country now illegally. Are we a nation of laws or not? If they’re here illegally, send them home or lock them up. That is the law, by the way. Then and only then can we setup some kind of guest worker program and allow them to come work here. Unfortunately, the Democrats think the “law” is only a suggestion that they don’t necessarily have to follow if they don’t want to. Maybe we need to deport the Donks first, starting with Shrillary? But then again, who’d take her ... ?

Hispanics March In Milwaukee Against Immigration Bills
_{Thursday, March 23, 2006 10:41 p.m. EST (03:41 GMT)}

MILWAUKEE (CNN)

Thousands of demonstrators marched in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on Thursday to oppose tough anti-immigration legislation sponsored by their Republican congressman Jim Sensenbrenner. House Resolution 4437 would make all undocumented immigrants felons and require all employers to verify the immigration status of its employees.

The House already has passed Sensenbrenner’s bill, and Sen. Bill Frist, R-Tennessee, has introduced a companion bill in the Senate that also would make it a felony to be in the United States without the proper paperwork. Sensenbrenner said in a statement last year that his bill would help “regain control of our borders and prevent illegal immigration” as well as “help strengthen and promote our compassionate and welcoming legal immigration system.”

About 30,000 protesters on Thursday marched into downtown Milwaukee as part of a demonstration titled “A Day Without Latinos” in which Latinos were encouraged to take time from their jobs to march, according to Voces de la Frontera, which organized the event. A police spokesman said the crowd was between 10,000 and 15,000.

Dozens of Milwaukee businesses also closed Thursday in protest. “A Day Without Latinos,” the theme of the Milwaukee protest, borrows its name from a 2004 comedy called “A Day Without a Mexican,” in which California wakes up one day to find that its Hispanic residents have inexplicably disappeared. The Milwaukee march was one of several recent protests organized across the nation by groups opposed to immigration bills considered by Congress.

The Senate Judiciary Committee has until Monday to vote on the competing legislation, but one Senate aide said the prospects on Senators taking action did not seem bright. The aide called negotiations in the Senate “slow going” and predicted a showdown over the bill. Critics of the legislation say Sensenbrenner is trying to deport the 11 million to 12 million people who are in the United States illegally. Proponents say keeping tabs on immigrants is vital to national security. President Bush echoed that sentiment in comments to reporters Thursday.

“Part of enforcing our borders is to have a guest-worker program that encourages people to register their presence, so that we know who they are and says to them, ‘If you’re doing a job an American won’t do, you’re welcome here for a period of time to do that job.’ “ But Democrats are saying the Frist and Sensenbrenner measures go too far, especially the provisions that threaten to criminalize anyone who helps an undocumented immigrant. “This bill would literally criminalize the Good Samaritan and probably even Jesus himself,” said Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-New York.

- More Mess-can Madness story at CNN ...

Posted by The Skipper     on 03/24/2006 at 12:09 PM   
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