Posted on 06/02/2007 7:36:56 AM PDT by GFritsch
Were you aware that if you oppose amnesty for illegal aliens, you “don’t want to do what’s right for America”? President Bush said exactly that about those in opposition to the “immigration reform” bill that he and Teddy Kennedy wish to cram down our throats.
Bush made his remarks in a speech to students and instructors at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Glynco, Ga. In the ultimate act of chutzpah, Bush championed the secretly negotiated bill that rewards millions of lawbreakers, in front of those who have chosen law enforcement as a career. Hardly the example I would want or expect from a U.S. president.
President Bush has repeated, mantra-like, that the “guest worker” program he favors isn’t amnesty. He can say it until he’s blue in the face, but any program that enables illegals to obtain a probationary card right away, in order to live and work in the U.S. is amnesty, regardless of what Mr. Bush wishes to call it.
The president is fond of claiming that the bill will “secure our border”. Does anyone really believe that our congress critters (or the president) are serious about securing the border? Remember last year, when Congress approved with much fanfare the building of a 700-mile fence along our southern border? They then quietly never appropriated the money for it. The new bill ( Senate Bill 1348), calls for only 370 miles of fence along the southern border. If they keep adjusting downward, they can probably just borrow the fence from Bush’s ranch in Crawford. Actually, Bush can probably just leave it where it is and announce, “mission accomplished” – at least he would have “border security” against the illegals, even if the rest of us don’t.
Bush also said in his remarks that the bill would “uphold the great immigrant tradition of the United States of America.” What tradition is that Mr. President? The tradition I remember is one in which immigrants came to this nation legally – not by breaking our laws. They came here to learn our language (that would be English, Mr. Bush). They came to learn our culture, our traditions and our history. They came to assimilate, and become proud Americans. They waited their turn, and they played by the rules. This bill rewards those who have no desire to do any of that, and is an insult to all those who have. Our immigrant tradition was one of a “melting pot”. This bill doesn’t simply throw out the pot – it breaks it in the process.
“Don’t want to do what’s right for America” also begs the question, “which America”? I suspect Bush means a North America with no borders. Author and columnist Jerome Corsi has written of documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, concerning the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America. According to Corsi, the Bush Administration is “secretly on the path to create a North American Union, a new currency – the amero – along the same stealth path that was used in Europe, keeping everything below the radar, by administrative decree, making it too late to stop before the American people finally realize what’s going on.”
Whether or not you buy into a coming “North American Union”, there can be little doubt that this president is a globalist. His stance on immigration (both legal, and illegal), coupled with plans for a “NAFTA Superhighway” are the reflections of someone who is not concerned with such “petty” issues as border control or our national sovereignty. Mr. Bush seems to believe that the more immigrants, the better. Why? Cheap labor, of course. And of course there’s the notion that the illegals “do the jobs Americans won’t do”. The president should know the basic dishonesty of this myth – it isn’t that Americans won’t do those jobs, it’s that they won’t do them that cheaply. As I heard a local radio talkshow host say recently, “If you want a salad with your dinner, pony up the extra nickel so that an American citizen will pick your damn lettuce!”
That’s what this whole thing really comes down to – money. The reason the illegals come here is for money, and U.S. services (which cost us money). The drain on our resources is staggering. Hospitals in border towns have closed due to losses from treating illegal aliens with no insurance. All manner of services including welfare, food stamps and the like have been consumed due to the “anchor baby” provision in our current law. Robert Rector of the Heritage Foundation has just released a comprehensive report on the costs of illegal aliens. It is far too lengthy to cover in a short column, but its conclusions are astounding. From purely a taxes-to-benefits paid ratio, low-income immigrant households are receiving about three dollars in benefits and services for every dollar they pay in taxes. In business, that would be a negative cash flow problem of epic proportions.
Senate Bill 1348 must be stopped, but it will take continued grass roots action to do so.
You can stick a fork in the president – he’s done. True conservatives and those who wish to preserve the American culture know which side he is on. Call your congressmen and urge them to stop this destruction of our nation. Especially call those up for re-election in 2008.
The way to solve our crisis is not with lofty sounding “immigration reform” bills, nor “pathways to citizenship” – no, the answer lies in cutting off the source. Make the penalties so severe against employers knowingly hiring illegal aliens, that it becomes no longer worth the risk. Also cut out the “goodies” – reverse the law granting instant citizenship to babies born to illegal aliens while in the country (anchor babies). If the lure of jobs and “free” services dries up, so will the number of those would try to sneak over our border. That would be doing what is right for America.
Few in Washington care what the rest of thinks. There will, however, be a day of reconing for our central government.
Bush and his country club buddies need to come live in the REAL America for a few days before they push through this amnesty bill!
Me thinks that was the final blow in his political suicide.
Interesting that we Americans seem to forget a couple of things when talking about immigration—primarily that we are all descendants of the huddles masses yearning to be free. And that during the day of Ellis Island, all you had to do was get here, with or without “papers”. And, that, if, during WWII if we had let some of those ships in to the US, fewer Jewish people would have been exterminated like bugs by the Nazis. It’s the same as saying “Well, I passed the bar exam, now let’s tighten up the rules and make it harder for the rest”.
My true concern is this: Once the primarily Mexican population is here, can our mushy education system teach them what they need to know to maintain a democracy? A true democracy cannot be maintained with uneducated, easily manipulated people that cannot think critically and that is the larger problem the way I see it. Also, we need to require assimilation, mainitain strict limits on social programs so that people are self sufficient.
Note to "Conservatives". Screaming bile and hysteria, just like Leftist lunatics do, MAY make you feel all macho and cool but it does NOTHING to convince people to support your political position. In fact, it makes people dismiss you as rabid fanatics. More reason, less hysteric ranting. These sorts of screaming hate piece hurt the cause far more then then they help
BTW, PB is asking for us to “lock and Load”, Noonan says “revolt”, Savage spent the week telling listeners that the President is going to put us into camps, good grief.
Drama sells I guess.
-you wish, I predict next he embraces global warming....
Wonderful, jorge calling conservatives UNAMERICAN.
Are we to have a republic with laws founded upon a MOTTO or a CONSTITUTION? I think not, your royal hindna$$
Glad to finally see some passion from the conservatives here. Standing firm against illegals and rebuking liberals from NY is good stuff. No?
Do you agree with and support the immigration bill?
Not "all". Granny was there on the shore looking out on John Smith with his ships. During the Ellis Island years and WWII, there was a legal process. What we're not happy with is ILLEGAL immigration.
Is it indeed fanaticism that makes one love the nation we enjoyed as children and wish our decendents to do likewise?
Being nice while putting up with political correctness bullcrap and saying "Please don't sell us and this nation down the river," did no freaking good.
You speak of basic Constitutional pricipals" then call others who criticize 'stupid.' I suggest, sir or madam, that you are a hate-monger of the the first order. Your rhetoric is bombastic and utterly unappealing.
Not true.
That tag should read “Shoot low, they are crawling” - my stupid.
This, in case you haven't noticed, is a different kind of immigration. It is one that carries with it lice, leprosy, tuberculosis, and all other diseases that we thought had been eradicated from the United States.
They steal, they rape and kill. In fact they have murdered (the illegal aliens, that is) more Americans than died in Afghanistan, Iraq and 9/11 combined.
Now, I ask you, is that the kind of immigration you had in mind?
Hysteria sells. An is it NOT interesting that the same drama queens in the "Conservative" media who could not be bothered to get off their butts any time in the last 7 years and fight the Democrats on anything have NOW suddenly gone into overdrive when they can shoot their own in the back?
On Judges alone Bush has done far more good for the future of the Conservative Movement then all the pseudo Conservative Radio ranters and newspaper scribblers have, or ever will, do for it.
I guess it just another example of moral cowards in action. The Democrat media machine fight back, and fights back nasty. It so much easier for the pseudo "Conservatives" in the US Junk Media to shoot their allies in the back since THEY never return fire!
These gutless wonders deserve the butt kicking they are going to get from Mrs Bill Clinton and the Democrat Socialists machine in 2008.
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