Illegal Immigration Watch: GOP House Plans 19 Immigration Hearings
A pro-immigration protestor (R) confronts a member of the border watchers group the Minutemen Project (L) at a news conference near the ground zero site of the World Trade Center in New York, July 26, 2006.
Reuters: House Republicans plan 19 immigration hearings
U.S. House Republican leaders on Thursday said they would hold 19 hearings around the country through August to build support for tough border security measures to curb illegal immigration.
U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Dennis Hastert of Illinois and Majority Leader John Boehner of Ohio said the hearings would take place in 12 states including states along the northern border with Canada.
“Almost everywhere that I travel around the country, illegal immigration’s a top concern,” said Hastert who recently visited the U.S. border with Mexico. “It’s a top concern among Americans because they want our southern and our northern borders to be secure.”
Hastert and Boehner have a “wedge” issue to use in the Fall elections. There is an undercurrent of unhappiness in America about the Bush Administration’s and Democrat’s plan for illegal alien amnesty – without tough border security first.
It is time the GOP House leadership run away from and against the President and perhaps …..
prevent a Speaker Pelosi.
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