Posted on 04/17/2021 11:00:37 AM PDT by conservative98
Former President George W. Bush on Friday made a call for what he described as a "gradual" path to legal residency and eventually citizenship for millions of illegal immigrants -- while at the same time claiming that "amnesty" would be "fundamentally unfair."
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"The help and respect historically accorded to new arrivals is one reason so many people still aspire and wait to become Americans. So how is it that in a country more generous to new arrivals than any other, immigration policy is the source of so much rancor and ill will?" he asks.
Bush lists a number of steps that can be taken, beginning with permanent legal status to illegal immigrants who came to the country as children and were protected under the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
As for border security, nods to the present crisis at the southern border without mentioning it directly. He calls for "a secure and efficient border...we should apply all the necessary resources -- manpower, physical barriers, advanced technology, streamlined and efficient ports of entry, and a robust legal immigration system -- to assure it."
As for illegal immigrants already in the country, Bush begins by saying that "a grant of amnesty would be fundamentally unfair to those who came legally or are still waiting their turn to become citizens."
However, he then immediately calls for those here illegally to be "brought out of the shadows through a gradual process in which legal residency and citizenship must be earned, as for anyone else applying for the privilege."
"Requirements should include proof of work history, payment of a fine and back taxes, English proficiency and knowledge of U.S. history and civics, and a clean background check," he says.
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“payment of a fine”
Exactly how much? Or haven’t you thought deeply about it?
Have you even thought about a 10% of annual income for a lifetime penalty?
The ignorant ass. Does a burglar get a slow pathway to become a family member? Lunacy.
“Out of Many, One”
Slow Joe sees diversity. And so do I.
I lost all respect for him when he started dancing with a big happy smile at the funeral of 5 dead cops. Even Michelle Obama looked at him like he was an idiot.
gradual citizenship = “a little bit pregnant”
No
Ted Kennedy & George Bush can burn in hell for all I care!
One started the cancerous migrant disease, the other accelerated the cancerous migrant disease...
Now the nation is at Stage 4 and terminal with 45-50 million of the vermin already inside the gates and unlimited-millions more being granted entry by our new ruling communists...
Jr Bush and his country club republican peers need to have their taxes raised. I thought cutting taxes of the wealthy and the corporate types would be a big blow to socialism. It has just done the reverse.
People like the Bushes consider all Americans to be the equivalent of illegal immigrants unless they’re clinking glasses with them at the country club. We’re all just here to do the hard work of actually running this country for them so they can spend their time vacationing in Aspen or wherever.
Maybe he really was as dumb as he looked...
All of a sudden 43 wants to weigh in on Government issues, now I know why when the Klintons left the White House they took all the W’s off of the computers.
Shut up George.
Well said.
When he started this amnesty garbage in 2007 while he was still president is the moment I turned against him and the rest of the Bushes.
They already have a path to citizenship. Come here legally.
I feel a little vindicated by having voted for Keyes in the 2000 primary.
"Here is your ticket in line to become a US citizen", as the Homeland Security official handed a gold-edged ticket to the pendejo and shoved him back into Mexico. "You are number 18,000,001. See you in fifty years."
George W. Bush should get a job as guest lecturer at the University of Baghdad. He could go back to work introducing Jeffersonian democracy to the Middle East and leave the United States alone.
Got shoe?
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