Savage: Impeach Bush over immigration plan

WND ^ | 1-12-04 | N/A

[JustPiper]

Conservative talk-radio star, author says amnesty is betrayal of country

In the latest indication President Bush is having problems with his conservative core political constituency, Michael Savage, one of talk radio's biggest stars, tonight called for the impeachment of President Bush over his plans to legalize millions of illegal aliens.

"This is the worst betrayal of our country in my lifetime," said Savage, whose program is heard on more than 350 stations with an audience reaching some 6 million. His book, "The Savage Nation," last year was No. 1 on the New York Times best-seller's list for five weeks. His follow-up, "The Enemy Within," out just one week, is already No. 8 on the list. Both were published by WND Books.

President Bush

Tonight Savage called Bush a liberal and described him as part of the "enemy within" that is destroying the nation.

Savage created the phrase "compassionate conservative" in 1994, a term picked up by Bush during his presidential campaign – a campaign supported by Savage.

"This is much more serious than dropping your pants for an intern," said Savage. "This is a policy that represents a danger to national security."

Savage is hardly alone in his strong feelings of opposition to Bush's proposal to offer legal status to illegal immigrants. A new ABC News poll finds 52 percent of the nation opposes an amnesty program for illegal immigrants from Mexico, while 57 percent oppose one for illegal immigrants from other countries. Both results are roughly the same as when the administration floated the idea two-and-a-half years ago.

But today in Monterrey, Mexico, Bush reaffirmed his support of the proposal, despite its unpopularity at home. He said it could help illegal immigrants "leave the shadows and have an identity."

At a joint press conference with Mexican President Vicente Fox, Bush warned that his government will not allow the existence in the United States of an underclass of illegal immigrants, but claimed again his proposal is not an amnesty. Amnesty, he said, would only promote the violation of the law and perpetuate illegal immigration.

Bush said his immigration proposal would benefit both the United States and Mexico as it recognizes the contribution of thousands of honest Mexicans who work in the United States.

For his part, Fox embraced Bush's proposal.

"What else can we wish?" Fox said at the news conference with the president.

In the U.S., the latest poll on the controversy shows at least twice as many Americans "strongly" oppose the proposal as strongly support it.

Opposition peaks in Bush's own party: Fifty-eight percent of Republicans oppose his immigration proposal for Mexicans, compared with 50 percent of Democrats. For illegal immigrants other than Mexicans, 63 percent of Republicans are opposed.

Bush reportedly will disclose more details of the plan in his State of the Union address Jan. 20.

Meanwhile, the National Border Patrol Council, which represents all 9,000 of the Border Patrol's non-supervisory agents, has told its members to challenge President Bush´s proposed guest-worker program, calling it a "slap in the face to anyone who has ever tried to enforce the immigration laws of the United States," the Washington Times reported today.

The agents were told in a letter from Vice President John Frecker that the proposal offered last week during a White House press conference "implies that the country really wasn't serious about" immigration enforcement in the first place.

"Hey, you know all those illegal aliens you risked 'life and limb' to apprehend? FAH-GED-ABOWD-IT," said Frecker, a veteran Border Patrol agent. "President Bush has solved the problem. Don't be confused and call this an 'amnesty,' even though those who are here illegally will suddenly become legal and will be allowed to stay here. The president assures us that it's not an amnesty," he said.

Last week Bush proposed the sweeping immigration changes that would allow the 8 million to 12 million illegal aliens thought to be in the United States to remain in the country if they have a job and apply for a guest-worker card. The immigrants could stay for renewable three-year periods, after which they could apply for permanent legal residence.

Savage cited a new report published in the City Journal by the Manhattan Institute suggesting there is a major crime wave in the U.S. caused by illegal immigration.

"Some of the most violent criminals at large today are illegal aliens," the report charges. "Yet in cities where the crime these aliens commit is highest, the police cannot use the most obvious tool to apprehend them: their immigration status. In Los Angeles, for example, dozens of members of a ruthless Salvadoran prison gang have sneaked back into town after having been deported for such crimes as murder, assault with a deadly weapon, and drug trafficking. Police officers know who they are and know that their mere presence in the country is a felony. Yet should a cop arrest an illegal gang-banger for felonious reentry, it is he who will be treated as a criminal, for violating the LAPD’s rule against enforcing immigration law."

The situation is similar, the report says in New York, Chicago, San Diego, Austin and Houston. These "sanctuary policies" generally prohibit city employees, including the cops, from reporting immigration violations to federal authorities, says the report.

"These people are destroying America," said Savage. "That's all I have to say on the subject. But you can talk about it. Talk about it while you can – while America is still a free country, because it's not going to last."

[The_Eaglet]

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[e_engineer]

do a google on "Operation Wetback." My understanding is it was an Eisenhower administration deportation.

Wow! Thanks for posting this.

[JustPiper]

Thats the fact Jack!

[american spirit]

Pls. add me to your list...it's time to take on both parites which are full of leeches, parasites, fags, NWO-ites, marxists and a few gray haired old ladies who don't know any better. They're all begging for a good butt kickin'

[JustPiper]

I have a link here on my homepage to Sabertooth's wonderful plan, please read it

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1053318/posts

[JustPiper]

Wait a minute. I had to backtrack here realising nu-uh. Bubba was alot more than just an intern. You need to read Alamo Girl's Study in everything crooked about Clinton

[JustPiper]

Congress will stop it, wonder if Bush will veto? But we are not liberals, we will not forget what he wants to do.

[Darlin']

"Seek and ye shall find."

Why so coy ? Why not just answer the woman's question ? Its unfortunate you can find sufficient wherewithal to criticize President Bush for his courage in addressing this emotional issue but come up noticably short when it comes to stating your intention.

[Zipporah]

..."Tonight Savage called Bush a liberal ".. well I disagree..Bush is a dyed in the wool NEOCON.

[hedgetrimmer]

How the Supreme Court Has Invoked the Declaration

For nearly two centuries the Supreme Court has invoked the Declaration of Independence. Much of that time, it has used the Declaration to define the meaning of racial equality.

When the slave ship Amistad ran aground near New York in 1837, antislavery activists seized the opportunity and tried to incorporate their understanding that "all men" included slaves who should be free unless they lived in slave states. The Court rejected the federal government's argument that the slaves should be returned to their owners, by asking rhetorical questions such as this:

Did the people of the United States, whose government is based on the great principles of the revolution, proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence, confer upon the federal, executive or judicial tribunals, the power of making our nation accessories to such atrocious violations of human rights?

As the conflict over slavery grew in the 1840s and 1850s, Chief Justice Taney decided to de-rail the antislavery forces by declaring that the founders had never included slaves as anything but property. They were never part of "the people" he asserted in the Dred Scott Case.

When the Declaration was written, Taney argued, all European nations had conceived Africans as "beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with the white race either in social or political relations." This opinion was, of course, so divisive, and offensive to many Americans, that Lincoln and other Republicans received an enormous boost in their campaigns to end slavery.

Jefferson's words have appeared frequently in more recent judgments of the Supreme Court. When the Little Rock School Board integrated Central High School in 1957, white opponents of desegregation asked the Supreme Court to declare their riot legitimate protest.

The Court rejected the argument, implying that the Declaration of Independence had ushered in a government of laws that had no place for unlawful rebellions. The Court commended the board for trying to comply with its order to desegregate with "all deliberate speed."

In recent years Justice Stevens has used the principles of "equality" and "liberty" in the Declaration to argue, in Fullilove v. Klutznick, that cities cannot constitutionally create set-aside programs for minority-owned businesses because the government would be reverting to the kind of business patronage that the Revolution ended.

He also cited the Declaration in arguing that the state should not stop the family of a woman in a coma from turning off life support because, in Nancy Cruzan's case, life and liberty were not synonymous. Jefferson's words still sway the high court.

[hedgetrimmer]

Attributed to IAN MYLCHREEST

[Zipporah]

Hey I agree.. but if the US took border security seriously, which they do not, and then prosecuted employers and cut off social services to illegals (ENFORCE THE LAW) the illegals would repatriate themselves.

[JustPiper]

I do that too with many attacks here ;)

[Darlin']

"Voting is not betting. I am not trying to pick the guy I think will win. I will be telling the government that a particular candidate is the one who best represents how I want the government run. If my guy does not win, so be it. If the Democrat wins, then that's just how the electorate crumbles, so to speak. But, the country will come to ruin no matter whether led by a Democrat or a Republican. When that happens, at least I will be able to say "I voted my conscience"

Good Grief. If you truly believe that, if all you see is despair, then why put yourself through an election ? Don't even try to hold on to vote your conscience in November if only hopelessness reigns. Why not just step out in front of a mack truck today ? .... oh, wait.... then you wouldn't be able to hang out here whining santimoniously about your moral superiority, voting your conscience, etc. What a loss that would be.

[Zipporah]

"So is he going to impeach the congress too?".. not a bad idea.. but the President is the head of the party.. and he sets policy. A Republican congress will follow his lead. They all are traitors.. the whole lot of them.. with of course a few exceptions..

WRITE IN TANCREDO IN 2004

[Poohbah]

Doesn't feed the bulldog. Which part of the US Code makes the Declaration of Independence "organic law?"

[Zipporah]

"Well, Clinton's sale of hi-tech weaponry to China, who also plans to destroy us, is the worst".. Actually, Bush's immigration proposal is worse.. it IS absolutely the end of our nation. Giving a pass to revolutionaries and paying them to be here is much worse. At least with China we'd be able to protect ourselves. I'm not giving Clinton a pass for SURE.. the man was a blight. But I have lost all respect for Bush.

[JustPiper]

Checkoout Rino Cornyn's Stupidity!

Legalization will make Illegals go home)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1057090/posts?page=2#2

[Dane]

Didn't Ron Paul vote against taking out Saddam Hussein?

Yep, Paul co-sponsored a bill with a liberal from Oregon.

[exmarine]

Thank you - I did not think about court cases, but these are definitely LAW.