Buchanan Continues To Distort Kerry's Immigration Policy

[DrFunkenstein]

Even after Kerry went on Buchanan's own show, Pat continues to misrepresent Kerry's position to tap into cheap and racist xenophobia. You look at what Pat's saying, and then at the transcript and tell me if this is fair and balanced coverage from the MSNBC host.

How Nations Perish

The day Davis signed the bill, eight Democratic presidential candidates promised blanket amnesty to an estimated 10 million illegal aliens. Sen. John Kerry says he wants instant U.S. citizenship for illegals who have been here five years.

Politicians used to buy our votes with our tax dollars. Kerry & Co. are now trolling U.S. citizenship before an entire class of lawbreakers, to purchase wholesale the votes of the ethnic groups to which they belong. The Democratic answer to the invasion of America is: surrender.

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=34516

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Mmm...Bullsh*t!



BUCHANAN: Senator Kerry, did you offer or say you would offer a blanket amnesty for illegal aliens who have been in this country for five years and then make them basically citizens of the United States of America as “The Washington Times” reported?

KERRY: No. What I said was that we need a program of earned legalization, Patrick, where people who have spent five or six years in the country, who have paid their taxes, who have not gotten into trouble, and who are working and contributing to America, that we ought to allow them to earn their right rapidly to be American citizens. What I did say is that the 37,000 legal immigrants who are serving in the military in the United States military, those 37,000 legal immigrants who are serving in the military-in the United States military, those 37,000 legal immigrants ought to be immediately made American citizens.

BUCHANAN: All right. Let’s talk about the 10 million who are here, an estimated eight to 11 million who are illegal aliens in this country. If you begin to legalize them after they’ve stayed here for five years, are you not giving a wholesale reward and a fast track to citizenship to massive lawbreakers and law breaking in the United States? I mean, these folks have broken our laws, broken into our country, broken in line ahead of others, and Senator Kerry is saying if you’ve hid out for five years and worked at a job, kept your nose clean, you’re on a fast track to citizenship.

KERRY: Now wait a minute. Wait a minute, Patrick. Your friends in the Republican Party hire and exploit workers and what I’m proposing is that what we ought to have is a program of earned legalization. People who are paying their taxes in America, people who have contributed to the life of our country, whose kids are in school, who are holding good jobs, which a lot of people want them to hold, are contributing to America and I think it makes sense to transition them, but let me finish-but at the same time we should be doing what President Bush promised to do and another promise broken is having immigration reform completed with President Fox of Mexico, border control reform so that people aren’t dying in the deserts of the United States trying to come in here to find jobs. I think you can do both at the same time and I want to do what’s humane and what makes sense for the economy of our country.

[phillybri]

1. Buchanan will always be a xenophobic puke...

Don't let his opposition to Bush's War fool you....

[blm]

2. Kerry has a GREAT position on this.

Definitely the most clarity.

[sandnsea]

3. Same old, same old

Pat and his immigrant problem. I have no idea why this is such a huge deal with him. And if he wants them to stop coming, he ought to harp on the people who hire them in the first place. Another day, another ignorant commentary from Buchanan.