Under the House legislation. Cardinal Mahony would be a felon. Here is what Cardinal Mahony said about the bill: The whole concept of punishing people who serve immigrants is unAmerican. If you take this to its logical. ludicrous extreme. every single person who comes up to receive Holy Communion. you have to ask them to show papers. It becomes absurd and the church is not about to get into that. The church is here to serve people. Were not about to become immigration agents. It just throws more gasoline on the discussion and inflames people. I believe the Senate will move forward with good. strong immigration reform. But I also believe our work could be hijacked by House Republicans who want to turn immigrants into felons. I have fought to prevent this from happening by guaranteeing fair representation in the conference committee. The President can do even more tonight. Chairman SENSENBRENNER. the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. the man who among others pushed this felony provision. stated publicly that the measure was included at the "administrations request." If that is the case. President Bush needs to tell Chairman SENSENBRENNER to remove the provision and that it is dead. The President needs to make it clear once and for all that he will only support immigration reform that is tough and smart. He must publicly denounce the House bill. The second question for President Bush concerns security. It is fine to hear him say that he wants to send the National Guard. but what else will he do to address 4 / years of neglect? We all remember. We were celebrating the fact that one of the first things he did after becoming President was going to Mexico and saying he was going to work out the immigration problems with President Fox. It hasnt worked. This issue has been ignored for 51h years.
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