Posted on 12/19/2004 10:40:02 PM PST by The Loan Arranger
It remains to be seen whether intelligence reform legislation will produce substantive improvements in our national security. Republicans and Democrats alike certainly hope so, as do we all. But Congress and the White House failed to approve other reforms passed by the House of Representatives that would have ensured heightened border security and the ability to control immigrant documentation and identification, which the 9/11 commission recommended.
The debate over intelligence legislation, thanks to Reps. Jim Sensenbrenner and Duncan Hunter, did succeed in raising the level of a critical political and public dialogue on the importance of securing our borders and our ports and the need for our government to control the flow of immigration into this country.
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a Dobbs bump. I wonder if Hitlery or other Dims will get on this train as well, hoping to carve off a few Red states in '08.
Ping.
It's a dirty job, but someone has to do it. Bush hasn't.
The President is a big thinker. I sometimes wonder if he's overlooked the obvious in this policy area...
FTAA will be shoved down our throats. I don't think he's overlooked anything. He is playing out his globalist agenda, and what we want doesn't count.
I listened to all of Pres. Bush's remarks. He truly believes what he says....Americans won't do these jobs. He also is idiologically "stuck" with his compassion thing. But he's not the one who has to deal with the realities of his compassion, we do. His compassion needs to be tempered with some facts of life....10,000 illegals entering this country per day. We are NOT creating enough jobs to give them, PERIOD. We are importing organized crime, with help from groups like MALDEF. I don't think he sees that and what the public in the trenches out here in "fly over country" see. More people have been killed by illegals than were killed on 911. He does not have to live with the problems they create. He promises to work with congressmen. We have no idea what that means.
This is a wonderful forum for progress, "rooting out corruption", and it's a shame that these threads on immigration/illegals are continually taken over by disruptors to the point that all that is accomplished is a series of "he said/she said" having nothing to do with the subject. I can use my time and efforts in better venues and will continue to do so, but the disruptors are not going to be stopped it is apparent, so I have come to the conclusion these "discussions" are an exercise in futility. This forum is a microcasm of our society. The rules do not appear to apply to all concerned.
No one wins on an unlevel playing field.
Merry Christmas Everyone!!
Regards,
JAS
I have the same sentiment about GW. He seems sincere in his desire to do something about illegal immigration. Unfortunately, who ever it is that is advising him on this issue does not understand what it going on.
Wonder if Bush realises how many people are half way up the clock tower.
My compassion ran out when 187 passed.
Arizona took a bit longer, but their compassion ran out when 200 passed.
Yes, we feel sorry for what they must endure. But they must fix it or endure it. It's not my damn fault. I'm tired of paying for it.
Compassion doesn't trump Reality.
bttt
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