Bring em out-of-the-shadows, but don't give em drivers licenses
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Posted by Mike Scott on January 11, 2008 at 20:28:03
Glendora, CA 91741
January 11, 2008Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton
United States Senate
Fax 202-228-0282Dear Senator Clinton: Re: Bringing them out-of-the-shadows
CNN reported your comments during today’s visit to Las Vegas, to paraphrase, - ”No woman or man is illegal. And I want to have comprehensive immigration reform that will help people”. Finally, - “We've got to do more to help the people who are here, 12 million people here and I think they should have the chance to come out of the shadows”. Las Vegas Review-Journal.
Quite a, knavish flip-flop from Charles Hunt’s attached Washington Times article of December 27, 2004; when you said, "I am, you know, adamantly against illegal immigrants." Couple this with your bungee pirouettes over driver’s licenses for illegals, where you stated that indocumentados shouldn’t have such licenses, but refused to tell anyone “why”? So what does all this mean? Do you want to “bring them out-of-the-shadows”, but deny them driver’s licenses?
Let me answer the above question. I think you’ll do almost anything, or say almost anything to get elected, hoping your déjà voodoo will memorize the electorate into believing you’re some kind of latter-day Jeanne d'Arc.
According to a July 2007 Census report, there are 54,277,000 Americans ages 16 to 64 who aren’t in the labor force. This includes 23 million “less-educated” adults who, for a variety of reasons, don’t have a job. Narrowing this down further, there are 14 million people actively seeking employment who can’t find a full-time job in today’s economy, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Advocating that these millions of unemployed Americans must compete with millions of employed illegal immigrants is malfeasant & disloyal, - especially since there’s no such need for massive numbers of unskilled foreign labor. How can any legitimate student of American immigration honestly believe that in a technology driven, leading-edge information economy, the U.S. needs hundreds of thousands of unskilled workers with 6th grade educations, -----annually? Yet via your S-1639 vote last summer, you stated that we need these workers.
Six years after 9-11, we still don't know who is entering the country. If millions of penniless illegal immigrants can walk across our borders annually, why can’t well-trained & financed terrorists do the same? Yet, you opted to neuter the border fence funding via your vote on the recent Omnibus legislation. This bill contained 3,500 pages of inscrutable mice type, presented to the Senate just 12 hours before their vote, - a vote that would have required Senators to read over two pages a minute for 24 hours with no breaks of any kind.
It’s clear to me that you’re content to roll the dice with American security & the welfare of our nation, and don’t seem bothered to wipe your feet on the faces of unskilled American workers. Anything to get elected. Enough of this madness where priority for the facts and dedication to the nation’s welfare becomes subservient to jackbooted ideological obedience & political opportunism. .
How scary, the possibility of George W. Bush, arguably the worst president in our history, being succeeded by another loose cannon in just 375 days.
Sincerely,
Michael Scott“Hypocrisy is the homage the vice pays to virtue”.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld 1678Hillary goes conservative on immigration
By Charles Hurt
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
December 27, 2004
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is staking out a position on illegal immigration that is more conservative than President Bush, a strategy that supporters and detractors alike see as a way for the New York Democrat to shake the "liberal" label and appeal to traditionally Republican states.
Mrs. Clinton — who is tagged as a liberal because of her plan for nationalized health care and various remarks during her husband's presidency — is taking an increasingly vocal and hard-line stance on an issue that ranks among the highest concerns for voters, particularly Republicans."Bush has done everything he can to leave the doors wide open," said Robert Kunst, president of HillaryNow.com, a group dedicated to drafting Mrs. Clinton to run for president. "Hillary is the only one taking a position on immigration. She will win that issue hands down."
In an interview last month on Fox News, Mrs. Clinton said she does not "think that we have protected our borders or our ports or provided our first responders with the resources they need, so we can do more and we can do better."
In an interview on WABC radio, she said: "I am, you know, adamantly against illegal immigrants."
"Clearly, we have to make some tough decisions as a country, and one of them ought to be coming up with a much better entry-and-exit system so that if we're going to let people in for the work that otherwise would not be done, let's have a system that keeps track of them," she said.Unlike many pro-business Republicans, Mrs. Clinton also has castigated Americans for hiring illegal aliens.
"People have to stop employing illegal immigrants," she said. "I mean, come up to Westchester, go to Suffolk and Nassau counties, stand on the street corners in Brooklyn or the Bronx. You're going to see loads of people waiting to get picked up to go do yard work and construction work and domestic work."