President Bush on Monday night:
"Therefore, I support a temporary worker program that would create a legal path for foreign workers to enter our country in an orderly way, for a limited period of time. This program would match willing foreign workers with willing American employers for jobs Americans are not doing. Every worker who applies for the program would be required to pass criminal background checks. And temporary workers must return to their home country at the conclusion of their stay."
Sen Jeff Sessions on Thursday night:
"Let me just show you what the bill says. In big print up here: ``Title IV--Nonimmigrant And Immigrant Visa Reform.' All this rubric at the top in big letters: ``subtitle A, Temporary Guest Workers.' It says, ``Temporary Guest Workers' in big print--not even the normal print. It says ``temporary' and ``guest' I don't know how many times in this provision.
The President told me--and he has said publicly a half dozen times--he believes in a temporary worker bill. I
suppose his lawyers, maybe they thought it must be temporary, right? Well, it is not so. Let's take the people who will be allowed to enter our country in the future under this bill. This bill say that they can come in as a guest worker, temporary, and they can come for 3 years and then they can extend and stay another 3 years.
So that means it is temporary, right? Wrong. All you have to do is read the language of the bill, and as Senator Kyl and Senator Cornyn have pointed out, and you discover that the first day the temporary workers are here they can apply for a green card through their employer. And what is a green card? It makes them a legal, permanent resident. Permanent resident, not a temporary guest workers.
Five years after that green card is issued, they are entitled to apply for citizenship, every single one of them that enter under this so-called temporary provision. That is the truth, but it is not the message we are being told."
Alice (recently quoted by Slider) from Alice and Wonderland:
"If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?"
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