Can Tancredo Stop the Three Stooges From Arizona?

Date: Friday, August 22, 2003 8:08 PM

JOB DESTRUCTION NEWSLETTER

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Tancredo says that he can block the guest-worker amnesty bill from the
Three Stooges from Arizona. Check out this humorous look of the
Stooges:
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Creel, the Mexican interior secretary said that the Stooges bill is a
"blessing" so you can count on his boss, Vicente Fox, to contact Bush
soon. Speaking of Bush, go to the humor page to see him as the
Terminator of 3 million jobs.

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/0819initiative19.html

GOP legislators are pushing state audit of illegal voting

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Elvia D?az
The Arizona Republic
Aug. 19, 2003 12:00 AM

Arizona Republican lawmakers want the state to do an audit to find out
whether undocumented immigrants are voting illegally, as backers of a
proposed 2004 ballot measure suggest.

Seventeen House Republican legislators said Monday the measure, Protect
Arizona Now, would do little to combat illegal immigration and
alleviate the state's financial problems. They are among an increasing
number of prominent politicians opposing the measure, which is being
pushed by two Republican state legislators.

Part of the solution, the Republican lawmakers said Monday, is to
approve a federal guest-worker program that would let millions of
foreigners work in the United States on temporary visas.

"As Republicans, we feel there is a place for everybody at the table,"
said Rep. Tom O'Halleran, R-Sedona, during a news conference at the
state Capitol.

Meanwhile, the Colorado congressman who is leading immigration-reform
efforts in Washington, D.C., told a Phoenix audience that the
guest-worker program is a bad idea and a way to let people who are in
the United States illegally to remain.

Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., predicted that he will have enough votes to
block the bill, which is backed by members of Arizona's delegation.

The Protect Arizona Now initiative seeks to cut off social services to
undocumented immigrants that aren't federally funded. It also would
require residents to show proof of citizenship when registering to vote
and present identification when casting a ballot at the polls.

But O'Halleran and five colleagues gathered at the Capitol said that
there is no proof of widespread voter fraud; thus the need for an audit
to determine the extent of the perceived problem.

Republican legislators, including Reps. Carole Hubbs of Sun City West,
Bill Konopnicki of Safford and Clancy Jayne of Phoenix, said that they
will introduce legislation next year ordering the audit. They didn't
estimate costs. The idea would be to check votes randomly in the
state's 15 counties, they said.

Rep. Randy Graf, R-Green Valley, said he isn't worried about the
group's ability to collect the 122,612 signatures to place the Arizona
measure on the ballot despite growing opposition from high-profile
Republicans.

"It's not meant to be a divisive issue," said Graf, who supports the
U.S. guest-worker program as well.

The federal bill, sponsored by Sen. John McCain and Arizona Reps. Jim
Kolbe and Jeff Flake, would allow workers to apply for visas from their
countries and hold jobs for three years before they can seek legal
permanent residency.

http://www.azstarnet.com/border/30730KOBE2fGUESTWORKER.html

Wednesday, July 30, 2003

Uproar expected over work visas

If you go

* Guest-worker legislation will be discussed today at a town hall
meeting co-sponsored by the Tucson Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce.
* Rep. Jim Kolbe will discuss the bill he recently introduced at the
forum, which begins at
4 p.m. at the Radisson Hotel City Center, 181 W. Broadway. It is
scheduled to last one hour.

Kolbe bill would allow millions of foreigners in U.S.
By C.J. Karamargin
ARIZONA DAILY STAR

U.S. Rep. Jim Kolbe predicts fierce opposition to a recently unveiled
plan to allow millions of foreigners to live and work in the United
States.

Only days after introducing a bill to grant foreign workers temporary
visas, Kolbe said it is uncertain if the measure will even get a
congressional hearing.

More likely, it will become entangled in a broad debate about
immigration reform.

"There are few issues that I see today in this country that are as
polarized as this one," the 10-term Tucson Republican told the Arizona
Daily Star's editorial board Tuesday.

"Somehow we've got to find something in the center, and that's what
we're trying to do with this legislation," he said.

The bill is aimed in part at stemming the mounting death toll in
Arizona's deserts, which each summer are transformed into killing
fields as illegal entrants brave blistering temperatures trying to
enter the United States.

That humanitarian concern, Kolbe said, was one of the bill's primary
objectives. Another is border security.

By "regularizing the flow" of workers across the border, Kolbe said,
agencies like the Border Patrol can focus their limited resources on
drug smugglers and terrorists.

The bill creates two new categories of visas for foreigners seeking to
work in the United States and those already here who entered illegally.
Called the Border Security and Immigration Improvement Act, it was
introduced last Friday by Kolbe, Rep. Jeff Flake of Mesa and Sen. John
McCain.

The obstacles in Congress begin with the House Judiciary Committee, the
panel that oversees most immigration issues. Although Flake is a
committee member, it is uncertain how much sway the two-term Republican
will have.

"That's going to be tough," Kolbe said. "We have a Judiciary Committee
in the House that is unalterably opposed to any kind of immigration
reform."

To administer the program, Kolbe said, three federal departments would
need to work together: the State Department, at whose embassies and
consulates foreign workers will apply for the visas; the Department of
Homeland Security, which would maintain a database of all visa holders;
and the Department of Labor, which would maintain a list of the jobs
foreign workers could fill.

"It will be expensive," Kolbe said, "but not nearly as expensive as the
cost of administering the program we've got now in law enforcement."

Kolbe said he expected "a huge number" of foreigners to apply for the
visas, though the exact number would be determined by market
conditions. He said the visas would be open to workers from all
countries, not just Mexico.

The United States and Mexico were inching toward a temporary worker
agreement in the summer of 2001. The Bush administration halted the
negotiations after Sept. 11.

"This is far more specific than anything the administration has ever
talked about or thought of," Kolbe said.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2003/07/28/international2017EDT6122.DTL

Mexican sees migration proposal as blessing

Monday, July 28, 2003
)2003 Associated Press

URL:
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nternational2017EDT6122.DTL

(07-28) 17:17 PDT MEXICO CITY (AP) --

Mexico has welcomed as a "blessing" a proposal by three U.S. lawmakers
to create a legal structure for guest workers to enter and work in the
United States, the Mexican interior secretary said Monday.

Three members of Arizona's congressional delegation, all Republicans,
unveiled Friday the proposal to dramatically reform U.S. immigration
law, shifting the focus from border enforcement to creating a
regulated, market-driven flow of immigrant workers.

"It is something that Mexico had come asking for and finally a light is
opening at the end of the tunnel with this initiative by the Republican
legislators," Mexican Interior Secretary Santiago Creel said Monday.

U.S. Sen. John McCain, Rep. Jim Kolbe and Rep. Jeff Flake are
sponsoring the measure.

Creel said the Mexican government will attempt this week to contact the
legislators to reiterate its interest in a proposal that could affect,
by Mexico's estimate, about 4 million undocumented Mexicans currently
living in the United States.

Creel said his government wants Mexicans in the United States to be
able to work "legally, with documents that provide respect for human
rights, their rights as workers and their civil rights."

According to the migratory proposal, undocumented foreign workers in
the United States would have to pay a US$1,500 fine and obtain a
restricted visa for three years, then a normal guest worker visa for
three years. At the end of that time, they could apply for legal
permanent residency.

President Vicente Fox made the search for a migration accord with the
United States a top priority when he took office more than two years
ago. But negotiations on an agreement have been stalled since the Sept.
11 attacks.

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