Posted on 06/01/2007 8:06:04 PM PDT by nj26
President Bush challenged lawmakers on Friday to pass an immigration bill that would legalize millions of unlawful immigrants despite the harsh criticism they're hearing from voters and interest groups on both sides of the issue.
It was Bush's second personal plea in a week for support on the initiative -- one of his top domestic priorities -- part of a multi-front effort by his administration to bolster lawmakers in both parties as the Senate resumes a searing debate on immigration.
''No matter how difficult it may seem for some politically, I strongly believe it's in this nation's interest for people here in Washington to show courage and resolve and pass a comprehensive immigration reform,'' Bush told a group of activists, lobbyists and analysts who have pushed for an overhaul.
Lawmakers, at home during a weeklong recess, are hearing from conservatives who decry the measure as overly lenient and from liberals who are clamoring for its passage even as they complain it is filled with problems.
Bush acknowledged those gripes, but he added, ''The question people have to answer is, are we going to sacrifice the good for the sake of the perfect?''
The president also took on those -- mostly in his own party -- who brand the bill as amnesty for lawbreakers.
''This bill isn't amnesty,'' Bush said. ''For those who call it amnesty, they're just trying to, in my judgment, frighten people about the bill. This bill is one that says we recognize that you're here illegally and there's a consequence for it.''
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How can the President be serious on WOT with loose borders and illegals aliens running all over the country.
Bottom line is we create 12 million new poor depended and unemployed Americans, because business will find a whole new crop of illegals to exploit with lower wages.
They need to give no reward for crime.
Enforce the border.
Fine the snot out of the employers and move on from there.
Add to that a tit-for-tat immigration scheme (where every illegal found in the US reduces by two the number of legal immigrants that Mexico can send over - lending to the Mexican government a much needed boot to the ass to do its damn side of the job) and that may just be a Grand Immigration Bargain that would simultaneously appease conservatives and not require mass deportation - the illegals would deport themselves once the jobs and entitlement benefits dry up.
You know it.
We ought to burn Washington, DC to the ground. I'm not a subject of any ROYAL class.
String'em up!!
Amnesty is when you let them return home without penalty of law.
This is not amnesty.
But we already have it. The lawful remedy for illegal entry is deportation. That's the problem, they're trying to get rid of current law instead of not bothering to enforce it.
Why, I have no obligation to an illegal. Why do you think amercan's have such an obligation?
Cut off the jobs and their stealing of tax payers money and they will self deport.
“Poor Tony Snow...how can he stand it?”
Tony Snow is probably one of those advising him to do it. He has been one of illegal immigration’s biggest proponents and been most insulting to those who think otherwise. He considers you folks “neo-nativist know-nothings”.
We've been betrayed to the NEW WORLD ORDER!!
And snatching Hitlerys Presidency hopes from the jaws of defeat to very possible victory..
ON PURPOSE........
Congress gave the president "fast-track" so that he can negotiate deals without any approval from anyone.
Check out fina-nafi.org
that's just the tip of this iceberg
whoa....that is powerful....
good work!
Check out fina-nafi.org for a wake up call.
and stopthenau.org
A government that will not enforce it's own laws is a government that should be over-thrown!!
Thompson might get elected, but every other seat that is Republican will be challenged hard from it’s own base to be defeated.
Not good stuff IMO.
You're of no consequence...you're just an American citizen. Your King has spoken, fall in line.
And snatching Hitlerys Presidency hopes from the jaws of defeat to very possible victory..ON PURPOSE........
My tin-foil hat is beginning to think that you're on to something.
A green card and we'll waive the years they would have had to wait if they'd done it legally. Meanwhile, all the people who are trying to come here legally can wait another 10-15 years.
Some punishment.
If we burn Washington DC to the ground, Bush will just exert his sweeping dictatorial powers in times of “national emergency” noted recently in the news and fill the internment camps constructed by Haliburton with enemies of The State, formerly known as “the base”. Also note the “the base” translates into Arabic as Al-Qaeda. A peculiar coincidence.
Good for Tony.
Reading the hysterical rhetoric on some of these threads certainly supports his view of the opposition.
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