It'll be worthless but designed to generate headlines, to give the illusion of serious action. So as to give the GWBush illegal alien amnesty political cover. GW has had 6 years to show he's serious about enforcing our borders and deporting illegal aliens, most especially illegal aliens who commit crimes here. He did diddly squat. The hacks in DC think illegal immigration is a joke.
"GW has had 6 years to show he's serious about enforcing our borders..."
Our beloved "W" also had the golden opportunity of 9/11/01 to close the borders and just get hard, real hard, on the whole illegal immigration thing, he squandered that moment. Hopefully there will never be another one like it.
He's been pro-Mexico the whole time. I remember at one point saying to a friend that we had to get Al Gore back, because Bush wanted to be president of Mexico and Bill Clinton wanted to be Mayor of Harlem. That was in early 2001.
I was as pro-immigrant as a person could be. I was like the Wall Street Journal still is to this day. About 11 am on 9/11/01 the paradigm changed for me. But for Bush, et al. it aint' changed yet. So it is impossible to see this all as anything but pandering.
Why six years? Why not five? Why not ten? Why not amnesty? Why not immediate deportation? It's just a lot of BS.
Precisely. On the local news this morning (I live in Arizona, SE of Tucson, near the border) they said that Bush was coming to handle the problems of illegal immigration and to hear from Arizona residents about the problems. BULL!! He's flying in to Davis Monthan Air Force base for a very closed speech and he'll hear from Border Patrol managers (they're part of the problem) and elected officials (also part of the problem) and nothing from local citizens who are fed up with the wide open border. He's then flying up to Phoenix for a tony fundraiser for Sen. Kyl. His visit to SE Arizona to deliver a worthless speech designed to fool some people into thinking he's serious about the border problem is simply an excuse to get the taxpayers to foot the bill for his travel to Arizona to campaign for Sen. Kyl. This Arizona resident who lives on the border isn't fooled at all.