House Conservatives Blast Immigration Bill (Repubs say use prisoners)

[ProSense]

People really need to think about the sh** Republicans, including Tancredo, are pushing and read into the ramifications of all of it.

House Conservatives Blast Immigration Bill

By DAVID ESPO, AP Special Correspondent
48 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - House conservatives criticized President Bush, accused the Senate of fouling the air, said prisoners rather than illegal farm workers should pick America's crops and denounced the use of Mexican flags by protesters Thursday in a vehement attack on legislation to liberalize U.S. immigration laws.

"I say let the prisoners pick the fruits," said Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (news, bio, voting record) of California, one of more than a dozen Republicans who took turns condemning a Senate bill that offers an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants an opportunity for citizenship.

"Anybody that votes for an amnesty bill deserves to be branded with a scarlet letter A," said Rep. Steve King (news, bio, voting record) of Iowa, referring to a guest worker provision in the Senate measure.

Their news conference took place across the Capitol from the Senate, where supporters and critics of the legislation seemed determined to heed admonitions from both Bush and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist to conduct a dignified, civilized debate.

more...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060331/ap_on_go_co/immigration_48

[mdmc]

1. prisioners, illegals, potsmokers

it is all cheap labor to the gop...

[xray s]

2. Prisoners as slave labor

Gee...I wonder where he got that idea...

[Erika]

3. Ronald Reagan, their hero, started this mess in 1986

It seems he had as much vision as W does in Iraq.

If private business is allowed to exploit prisoners to keep their profits high, expect the GOP to pass laws to give a year in prison for jay walking. Then they'll do away with the death sentence and keep any convicted felon working the fields until natural death. Their fiscal conservativeness will burst out in full blossom.

[muntrv]

4. What nationality is Tom Tancredo?

He doesn't exactly sound Anglo-Saxon. I'm betting 100 years ago at this time, the xenophobes in Congress wanted to keep Tancredo's ancestors out of the U.S..

[Kagemusha]

5. Guess he has a plan for after he turns millions into criminals.

Why send them home when you can keep 'em here and use them to pick fruit.

[Erika]

6. Another thread which should be combined

with a current one or the other way around.