Clark On Immigration Reform: "Too Little, Too Late"

[robbedvoter]

Dec 2003 Nov 2003 Oct 2003 Sep 2003
For Immediate Release
Date: January 7, 2004
http://clark04.com/press/release/157/
Clark On Immigration Reform: "Too Little, Too Late"

"During the last election, President Bush promised to work with President Vicente Fox and our allies to meaningfully reform our immigration system. That's one of many promises he hasn't kept. Once again, the White House is talking about immigration reform, but they're not doing enough about it. The Bush proposal is too little, too late. It shouldn't take an election to get President Bush to focus on immigration reform.

"Today, the Bush White House proposed an immigration reform program that fails to help the immigrants who contribute to their communities every day, that fails to fix backlogs in the current system, and that fails to focus law enforcement resources on improving border security. It is wrong to leave foreign workers trapped in a temporary worker program.

"Real reform must be based on the core principles of economic security, access to legalization, family reunification, and homeland security. We should allow hard-working, law-abiding, undocumented workers to eventually earn their citizenship.

"We need leadership in the White House that recognizes the important contributions that immigrants make to this country."

[TacticalPeek]

1. We need leadership in the White House

period.

[CalebHayes]

2. I agree!

[ElsewheresDaughter]

3. he is absolutely right for the immigrants but for bush it may be just.....

enough to get a few latino votes and save his ass ....so he thinks :puke:

[Rowdyboy]

4. This does nothing but keep these people stuck in low-wage

farm labor jobs. Cheap employees, afraid to complain, for his buddies.

[Jerseycoa]

5. Go Wes!

[pinto]

6. Bush proposal would establish a vehicle for the big ag congloms in CA

to maintain a seasonal worker base, low paid, without benefits, while denying permanent status to those who have families here and want to get green cards or become citizens...the increase in the number of green cards is a sleight of rhetoric (do the math, 8 million foreign workers here, 150,000 cards issued per year)...Bush knows any significant increase won't get through the Congress.

disclosure: I am still uncommitted on Dem candidate.