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Savage: Impeach Bush over immigration plan
WND ^ | 1-12-04 | N/A

Posted on 01/13/2004 5:54:13 AM PST by 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."


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To: arm958; chicagolady
This will interest you
981 posted on 01/13/2004 11:27:38 PM PST by JustPiper (Register Independent and Write-In Tancredo for March !!!!)
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To: txdoda
I am not letting up on this. I hate this pacifica radio crap, I hear it all over the bay area. I WILL NOT let people pass this off as being conservative.
I have never been so serious as this on here.
982 posted on 01/13/2004 11:27:51 PM PST by sfRummygirl (Tancredo in '04)
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To: sfRummygirl
I'm starting to wonder if both "Texas'" are the same.>>>>>>

Nah....probably just like two pee's in a pod.......;o)
983 posted on 01/13/2004 11:28:39 PM PST by txdoda ("Navy-brat")
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To: Texasforever
TELL ME WHAT SAVAGE SAID THAT WAS RACIST!!!!
984 posted on 01/13/2004 11:28:59 PM PST by sfRummygirl (Tancredo in '04)
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To: AbsoluteJustice
Thank you for your service AJ!
985 posted on 01/13/2004 11:29:00 PM PST by JustPiper (Register Independent and Write-In Tancredo for March !!!!)
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To: sfRummygirl
I'm not joking here, bub. You are going to have to prove this, or admit you are wrong. I'm giving you one last chance.

Now you are sticking out your tongue. What's next, breath holding?

986 posted on 01/13/2004 11:30:05 PM PST by Texasforever
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To: sfRummygirl
Could you use bigger fonts. I couldn't hear that one.
987 posted on 01/13/2004 11:30:59 PM PST by Texasforever
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To: Texasforever
You will never answer. Because you have no answer.
Notice my freeper name? k
Know why I like Rummy? Because he b@lls. you think you are being cute and funny, but you look weak and sad to me.
goodbye.

988 posted on 01/13/2004 11:33:30 PM PST by sfRummygirl (Tancredo in '04)
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To: sfRummygirl
minus the spelling errors.
989 posted on 01/13/2004 11:35:31 PM PST by sfRummygirl (Tancredo in '04)
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To: sfRummygirl
I am not letting up on this.>>>>>>>>

Cool down, they always go away.

I hear it all over the bay area.>>>>>

Hey! I spent about 10 yrs. roaming around CA (pre-invasion), still have an Aunt living in Redwood City area, she's been there about 50 yrs.
990 posted on 01/13/2004 11:36:46 PM PST by txdoda ("Navy-brat")
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To: sfRummygirl
You will never answer. Because you have no answer.

Sure I did, you were just too into your little tantrum to understand it. That's ok it is a common problem with teenagers.

991 posted on 01/13/2004 11:38:57 PM PST by Texasforever
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To: txdoda
I know there are trolls around, but I think the thing that got me here is NO ONE called him on this. i couldn't stand the fact that other freepers were going to just take his slanderous comment on fact.
I hate weak sudo conservatives. They make me sick.
Does this guy qualify as a ZOT candidate?
992 posted on 01/13/2004 11:40:20 PM PST by sfRummygirl (Tancredo in '04)
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To: Texas_Dawg
Maybe your comfortable with these stats

Current US population
added over 90 million since 1970
420 million for 2050
571 million for 2100
328 million (2050) if cut to zero-net immigration
1 million new illegals every year
1 million new legals every year
nearly 1 million new births to foreign-born every year
85% population growth due to immigration

Now if your comfortable with this, how much of a citizen can you be? BTW Dawg, are you Mexican, curious?

993 posted on 01/13/2004 11:40:53 PM PST by JustPiper (Register Independent and Write-In Tancredo for March !!!!)
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To: sfRummygirl
Don't ask him about his lobotomy scar...

Almost forgot -- write in JackelopeBreeder for Prez in 2004.
994 posted on 01/13/2004 11:41:50 PM PST by JackelopeBreeder (Proud to be a loco gringo armed vigilante terrorist cucaracha!)
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To: putupon

No Blood for Lettuce!

Click here and here for lists of crimes committed by illegal aliens.


 
"No blood for lettuce" - LOL! awsome.

995 posted on 01/13/2004 11:42:41 PM PST by tomakaze ( Todays "useful idiot" is tomorrows "useless eater")
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To: JustPiper
You had better get to breeding then don't ya think? I did my part.
996 posted on 01/13/2004 11:43:40 PM PST by Texasforever
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To: JackelopeBreeder
JackelopeBreeder? wait...I almost don't even want to ask.
997 posted on 01/13/2004 11:44:24 PM PST by sfRummygirl (Tancredo in '04)
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To: JustPiper
I think we got two trolls.
Can we get rid of the fake conservatives anymore? Wait, I'll ask a mod...
998 posted on 01/13/2004 11:45:55 PM PST by sfRummygirl (Tancredo in '04)
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To: sfRummygirl
MOMMY!. lol
999 posted on 01/13/2004 11:47:21 PM PST by Texasforever
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To: JustPiper
We made it!
1,000 posted on 01/13/2004 11:47:30 PM PST by B4Ranch (Wave your flag, don't waive your rights!)
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