When George W. Bush was 13, his family acquired a nanny:
“She was standing on the doorstep, alone in the rain. She looked tired and scared. A few days earlier, Paula Rendon had said goodbye to her family in Mexico and boarded a bus bound for Houston. She arrived with no money and no friends. All she had was an address, 5525 Briar Drive, and the names of her new employers, George and Barbara Bush.”[Decision Points, By George W. Bush]
Dubya goes on:
“I was thirteen years old when I opened the door that evening in 1959. Before long, Paula became like a second mother to my younger brothers and sister and me. She worked hard, taking care of our family in Texas and her own in Mexico. Eventually she bought a home and moved her family to Houston.”
Columba Bush (Mrs. Jeb Bush)
Bush was born as Columba Garnica Gallo in León, Guanajuato, Mexico, where she grew up and attended high school. Her parents were Jose Maria Garnica, a migrant worker, and Josefina (or Josephina) Gallo.
She met Jeb Bush in 1971 in León, where he was teaching English as part of a foreign exchange program. They were married on February 23, 1974, in Austin, Texas. The couple have three children: George P. Bush, Noelle Bush, and Jeb Bush, Jr..
She made headlines in June 1999 when she misled U.S. Customs officials about $19,000 (US) in new clothing and jewelry she brought into the country because she did not want her husband to know how much she had spent on a five-day Paris shopping trip.
Let me be absolutely clear. I am all for legal immigration. I welcome it, and I embrace those who come to these shores trying to make a better life for themselves and their families.
I am for the expansion of legal immigration, including the expansion of guest worker programs.
What I will never tolerate is providing a path to citizenship, the ultimate prize, to those who either are smuggled into this country by their parents, pay to have themselves smuggled in, or come into this country under the pretext of a tourist or student visa and then disappear into the shadows.
Those people knowingly flaunt our laws, our sovereignty, and are not the sort of citizens we need to move our country forward.
Being a realist, I understand that we cannot round up and mass deport the millions who are here illegally. We can through programs such as as eVerify dry up the incentives to stay in this country causing self-deportation. We can also stop providing government assistance and government documentation to these law breakers. Applying to a university without proof of citizenship or lawful permission to be in this country should result in arrest and deportation, not the granting of in-state tuition rates.
Failing that, I will reluctantly accept an amnesty program that grants permanent residency to those here illegally who have committed no crimes other than their immigration status, but I will never support ANY PATH TO CITIZENSHIP for these people.
Nice. They hire some unknown illegal to care for their “precious” children because they were too cheap to pay good wages.