LA Times: Bush's Immigration Plan Poses Major Challenges, Experts Say

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Bush's Immigration Plan Poses Major Challenges, Experts Say

WASHINGTON — Taking millions of currently undocumented immigrants and routing them into bureaucratic channels to make their status legal — as President Bush is proposing — could be like trying to divert a wild river into a leaky municipal aqueduct.

And former immigration officials in Democratic and Republican administrations say the task could overwhelm the Homeland Security Department, even if Congress allocates enough money to hire and train additional immigration officers, add hundreds of new computers and bring in private contractors to help process requests.

Some experts have also expressed concern that the new program would be susceptible to fraud and ultimately not succeed in fixing the problems in the current system.

"The scale of this is such that it could swamp any real chance of building an effective immigration system," said University of Virginia law professor David Martin, who served as general counsel with the Immigration and Naturalization Service for three years during the Clinton administration.

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Bush's Immigration Plan Poses Major Challenges, Experts Say

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[dbt]

1. If there were any Justice,

bu$h would actually have to follow through on his brilliant ideas!

:evilgrin:
dbt

[izzie]

2. Sounds like cat herding.

Really does not sound like a good thing for us to do. I do believe people should come into the country but not like this.Has to be good for his rich backers. This is a real corp. run term and may be this will get some more votes for Bush. I really do not seem where but every thing seems to be for his base and big business. Like the Christians group that have gone to Iraq. They seem to have dropped off the news.

[Malva Zebrina]

3. I suppose that the employment and jobs numbers will then go up

more jobs have been lost under Bush than under any other President since the Great Depression--3.2 millions jobs have vaporized into the air or have been beamed up and out to foreign countries

According to a Heritage Foundation press release, the genius boy 's "economic growth plan" would create on average, more than 914,000 jobs annually across the country. They also say the
"stimulus package" would produce results "almost immediately, " supposedly generating 997,000 new jobs "next year" :eyes: :crazy:

This is dated March 18, 2003

Well it certainly did not look good for December, did it, George? http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20040110/RUSJOBS/TPBusiness/International

No wonder you are trying to import poor workers to take the piss poor jobs--make them numbers go up eh? Looks like your "economic growth plan" has a growth hormone problem--I think it may have caught it from you.

http://www.heritage.org/Press/NewsReleases/nr031903.cfm