"GOP to finesse immigration issue"

From the WashTimes:

The Republican Party's platform will oppose amnesty for illegal aliens, predicts Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, the platform committee chairman.

"I believe it likely there will be a strong statement against amnesty," the Tennessee Republican said in an interview with The Washington Times...

Sounds good! Coincidentally enough, I biked up 2000' a couple days ago, and I'm suddenly feeling like I did just before I started the downhill run:

The problem for Mr. Frist, he acknowledged, is that, in order to avoid a possible convention floor fight, the platform's immigration plank has to be written in such a way as to reconcile, or at least appear to reconcile, the irreconcilable. That is, it has to oppose amnesty, but not oppose the president's plan, which includes a temporary amnesty that also, as some critics claim, can lead to citizenship for those granted amnesty.

"The document," Mr. Frist acknowledged, "has to reflect the president's principles and at same time the party's principles and policies."

So, you want one company to be fined for immigration violations in the first five months of the year, but, at the same time, you're opposed to illegal immigration and amnesty? I can't wait to see that wording.

Immigration2004 · Mon, 08/23/2004 - 14:57 · · Importance: 1