AP: Split policy considered on immigrants

[Eugene]

Saturday, August 27, 2005 · Last updated 9:56 a.m. PT

Split policy considered on immigrants

By RON FOURNIER
AP POLITICAL WRITER

PHOENIX -- Struggling to pacify his party's warring wings, President
Bush is moving toward allowing illegal immigrants who came to the U.S.
before February 2004 to qualify for guest-worker visas. People
smuggled in after then would be deported.

State leaders in Arizona and New Mexico have stepped up pressure on
the Bush administration and the Republican-led Congress to better
police U.S. borders and deal with an estimated 10 million people who
are living illegally in this country.

"They're trying to split the baby," Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said of
the White House plan, "and I don't think they can do that."

Bush and his advisers are caught between their supporters in the
business sector, who believe the economy needs those workers, and
conservatives whose priority is to clamp down on illegal immigration.
The White House hopes to have a detailed proposal to Congress in late
September or early October.

More: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apwashington_story.asp?category=1151&slug=Immigration%20Divides

[sam sarrha]

1. they ARE NOT MIGRANTS... they are not flying back in the Fall.

[flaminbats]

2. how many times can nothing be divided?

Wow, an immigration policy?!? But our nation has a theme park approach to immigration, GET YOUR FIVE YEAR PASS..no taxes required, low-wage employment guaranteed!!!!!!! :sarcasm:

A real immigration policy would be based on population growth. No new guest-work visas, make all guest workers earn permanent citizenship or leave. Once all illegals either leave or become citizens, only allow enough new immigrants to makeup for any population loss..ie none!!

oh shit..am I only dreaming again? :crazy: