[gubamyster]

ping

[Nachum]

Bush is wrong on this one. Very.

[EagleUSA]

As it should be -- this is a VERY SERIOUS ISSUE and GWB needs to get on this issue SERIOUSLY and not ignore it for the sake of political expediency...division in the ranks of the RNC is just what the libs are waiting for...

IMHO, this is the issue that broke Tom Ridge's back -- and he resigned. It is totally counter to any sane security policy, to say nothing of all the other wrongs it creates -- the sanctioned breaking of laws, neutralizing the significance of citizenship, our borders, our demographics, all of it...the list goes on.

C'mon GWB -- now is your chance to DO THIS RIGHT!!!!

[Little Pig]

File this one under "Well, DUH!"

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

fyi

[jkl1122]

ping

[ApesForEvolution]

"We were all willing to shut up during the campaign. We were not going to attack the president. But the campaign is over with and the gloves are off on this issue," Mr. Tancredo said.

[funkywbr]

Open borders are an invitation to...

[Truth29]

Support the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR)

Go to www.fairus.org and let your representatives know how you feel.

[ApesForEvolution]

"We were all willing to shut up during the campaign. We were not going to attack the president. But the campaign is over with and the gloves are off on this issue," Mr. Tancredo said.

[JesseJane]

Sounds like a bluff to me..

Every Republican I know, and a boat load of Democrats, feel the same way on the border and illegal alien issue. The 'racist' card can not trump National Security. And it better not, or we are all toast, to the delight of the islamofacists.

[BellStar]

Any intelligence reform bill that does not include a way to secure America's borders against the breaking of U.S. immigration laws does not thus contain a prevision to fight against terrorism. It is what we want. Bush does too. He may be setting the stage foe a national ID card.
We in Texas now have to give our thumb print and that is a national ID card. Bingo

[GeekDejure]

I hereby nominate Tom Tancredo for U.S. President !!!

[Ron H.]

Mr. Bush already has made it clear he is moving forward with his guest-worker proposal ....

One way to interpret this is that Bush (the new bully on the block?) has effectively punched the Conservatives in the nose and is daring them to live up to their words on this.

[Bikers4Bush]

Bush better put his ego aside on this one and back off.

[Carry_Okie]

Here's your big chance.

[Modernman]

There are two things that can split the GOP:

(1) Immigration.

(2) The religious right's social agenda.

[absalom01]

Tancredo is right: there is no other issue that gets the activist, grassroots base more worked up that this one. The leadership has to be looking at the wrong polls -- I suspect that they're missing the depth of feeling that people have. The relatively small number of "rational" business people who want lots of low-wage, low-skill labor just won't be able to buy their way around the thousands of hotheads (like Y.T.) who are ready to burn the house down if the present situation doesn't get fixed.

[zerosix]

Majority will either be expanded or lost during 2006 on this issue that strikes into the hearts of the American people but not necessarily in the minds of their elected officials.

Every pol not in favor of tightening the borders, supporting the 1996 Welfare Reform Law, ending granting drivers' licenses to illegals and ending employers' firing long time employees in favor of cheaper help using illegals, need to be finding a new day job.

[myheroesareDeadandRegistered]

Look at Texas. I believe that whites are no longer the majority there (or soon coming). If we have millions of illegals coming in through the southern border illegally and a good portion of those voting illegally then those votes will have an impact on who gets elected in the future.

To avoid the "racist" label, the GOP will not do a thing about it. Coddling the illegals is the less painfull solution for the GOP.

The Serbian heartland, Kosovo, and our southwest region have a lot in common. If we did go the effort and expense to effectively keep them out like the Serbs tried to do in Kosovo we would not only get hammered internally, we'd have the whole world calling Bush a "Milosevic".

BTW, the Serbs were no angels, but the way I see it we were on the wrong side of the Kosovo thing.