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Politics : ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION THE FIGHT TO KEEP OUR DEMOCRACY

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From: Tadsamillionaire	5/18/2007 8:13:09 PM
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Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, says the immigration measure proposed by the Senate "has a good chance” of passing in the House, but he is adamantly opposed to it. King, appearing as a guest Friday on Fox News Channel, called the bill a "hand grenade” that the Senate will likely pass before the Memorial Day break and toss back to the House as the senators "run for the hills” in their home states. "We do not have a procedural way to stop it if Nancy Pelosi determines that she is going to bring that bill to the floor,” King said. "They will produce the votes they need to pass this on the Democratic side because they recognize this as cheap votes for Democrats and cheap labor for those who are employing the illegal immigrants who are here today.” King estimates that there are nearly 20 million illegal immigrants in the United States at this moment, high above the projected 12 million estimated by the U.S. government. He called a "sham” the idea of enforcing measures that would require illegals to return to their home countries then come back to apply for legal U.S. citizenship. They are not going to enforce it,” King said of the Senate proponents of the immigration measure. "They didn’t enforce the [previous immigration reforms] in 1986, they didn’t enforce them in ’96, and they are not enforcing them in 2007 or 2016. That all is a sham.” The measure, which many critics are calling "amnesty” for illegals, does not require illegal immigrants to pay back taxes for the time they have lived and earned money in the United States. "It’s a pardon to immigration law breakers and it's a reward with the objective of their crime,” King said. "It’s better for them to be here illegally and get this reward than it is to be an American citizen who has been pulling this load all this time.”

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