Posted on 02/17/2019 8:27:11 AM PST by Hojczyk
White House senior adviser Stephen Miller on Sunday went after former President George W. Bush's record on immigration, asserting that the rise in illegal crossings during his administration represented an "astonishing betrayal."
"Fox News Sunday" anchor Chris Wallace questioned Miller on President Trump's decision to declare a national emergency to secure funding for a wall along the southern border, noting that illegal crossings were down significantly from the year 2000.
Miller responded by attacking Bush's record on immigration.
"As you know, when George Bush came into office, illegal immigration total doubled from 6 million to 12 million by the time he left office," Miller said. "That represented an astonishing betrayal of the American people. I’m not gonna sit here today and tell you that George Bush defended this country on the southern border because he did not."
Trump and his advisers frequently use Bush as a punching bag.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
It boggles the mind to think how Jeb would have performed on immigration enforcement.
My mind of man! Go Stephen!
Bush deserves being a punching bag.
He and Obama are twin traitors to the republic.
My KIND of man!
Darn iPhone keyboard...
America would be immeasurably better off had the Bushes decided to become polo players rather that politicians.
He’s stating the obvious, and it’s about time someone did - the current lawlessness on the southern border is due to deliberate decisions over the decades by both Democrats and Chamber-of-Commerce Republicans. Democrat politicians want illegal aliens because they are their future vote base. Republican politicians want them because their business lobbyists want cheap labor. We finally have a president who is trying to end it.
For the most part I do not like the sHill.
Is the article demeaning the Trump administration for using the Bush administration for a punching bag, or is the article about the ineptness of the Bush administration’s immigration policies?
Diggity Diggity bop.
Bush II kept the country safe after 9/11. But even that was not a complete win. Because we lost some freedoms in the process.
And on everything else, Bush II was a total failure. IMO, he is the worst GOP president, ever. And probably in the bottom three of all presidents. We will be paying for his errors for generations.
GHWB,WJC,GWB and obumbler were all horrible on securing our border. The GOP is about to show the country just how open borders they truly are when they go after overturning Trumps EO declaration. It will not bode well for them in 2020, and will result in calls for a new political party as both current parties do not represent the people period but special interests.
What’s sad is if they built a wall and secured the border and stopped the invasions I think both parties would be surprised how much support they would have from the American people for a guest worker program that is enforced and policed. But we have been lied to so much we no longer believe they will build a wall and control the border if we just allow a guest worker program while building the wall and securing the border.
The GOP should tread carefully fighting the EO their base is on the presidents side 100%.
Construction on the border wall should have started on Sept 12, 2001.
Clintons, Bushes, Obamas — bad, bad, bad.
Just look at the lineage, his father Herbert talked at the UN of a new world order (globalists), his son backed the GOP good guys with his blind eye to illegal immigration, jeb would have been at the border offering candy and cup cakes and telling all who would listen Im doing it out of love. Obama seeded the US with radical Somali’s air lifted in the dead of night into Midwest rural areas and also left the border open, all the rats were for a wall and put up a picket fence. What a joke on the American people
Okay. Maybe Bush deserved to be a punching bag. I get that. But I have to defend Dubya. He was great after 9/11. Iraq was a bold move. Saddam was a SOB. He had to go. Maybe we should had given power to somebody in Ba’athist Party. Iraq would be a military dictatorship similar to Egypt today. Anyway, Bush didn’t do anything radical like Obamacare or New Green Deal. We can thank him for that.
“Clintons, Bushes, Obamas — bad, bad, bad.”
I’d say, Clintons, Bushes, Obamas, — awful, inept, total idiot
I have often thought that.
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