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draft_mario_cuomo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-22-07 04:45 PM
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* condemns Obama-Grassley pro-employer immigration proposal
Edited on Fri Jun-22-07 04:47 PM by draft_mario_cuomo
How many points did BO just go up in the polls simply due to being "condemned" by Mr. 26%? :rofl:

Bush condemns Obama’s effort on immigration

2008 contender working with GOP senator to make bill easier on employers

Updated: 8:16 p.m. ET June 20, 2007

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration came out strongly against a bipartisan effort by Sens. Charles Grassley and Barack Obama to make the immigration bill easier on employers.

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff told senators in a letter late Tuesday that the amendment, which makes a new program to stop businesses from hiring illegal workers less burdensome, "would be a serious step backwards in our enforcement effort."

The amendment sponsored by Grassley, R-Iowa, Max Baucus, D-Mont., and Obama, D-Ill. "eliminates needed tools and allows unscrupulous businesses to continue to freely hire illegal workers," Chertoff wrote in matching letters to Sens. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., and Arlen Specter, R-Pa., two architects of the bill.==

==The proposal by Grassley, Baucus and Obama addresses the worker verification program, which is despised by both labor and business groups. Businesses fear it would wreak havoc with their ability to hire workers and impose exorbitant costs. Labor organizations worry it could result in discrimination against workers.==

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NYCGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-22-07 04:49 PM
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1. And opposing the REAL ID program might have helped, too. NT
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madrchsod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-22-07 04:50 PM
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2. poor george
when he has to attack grassley AND obama/baucus he knows he`s screwed...
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draft_mario_cuomo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-22-07 04:54 PM
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3. Yeah. How long before he drops below 20%?
:bounce:
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madrchsod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-22-07 05:40 PM
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4. i really think they won`t post anything that low.
depending on the error rate at 3% anything at 20 would mean he`s either at 20-23 or at 17%. 5% he`s at 21 now....
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