By Antonio D. French
Filed Wednesday, April 5 at 10:04 PM
Neither of Missouri's U.S. senators are pleased with Pres. George W. Bush's proposed guest worker program.
Rich Chrismer, a spokesman for Sen. Jim Talent, recently told the Neosho Daily News the senator does not support the legislation because "It amounts to amnesty."
"Sen. Talent believes border security is our first priority," said Chrismer.
According to the article, Talent has sponsored his own immigration legislation -- "a no nonsense bill strengthening protection of the U.S. border by, simply put, increasing funding, increasing personnel and increasing penalties."
Sen. Kit Bond also opposes Bush's plan.
"We need legislation that both strengthens our border security and does not reward illegal behavior with citizenship free of consequences," Bond said in a prepared statement. "America is a country of laws and those laws need to be respected and enforced."
The Daily News said Bond did admit, however, Congress needs to develop a plan to deal with the "reality" of immigrant workers performing hard-to-fill jobs.
1 Comments:
I'm starting to think the timing of this whole immigration debate is to create headlines like this ("Bond and Talent disagree with Bush") to give cover to incumber rethugs facing mid-term re-election battles.
7:56 AM, April 07, 2006
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