[GeekDejure]

Dubya has some arogant words for all legal Amerian citizens...

"Hey there, all you lucky legals... EACH IT !!!

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[BeerSwillr]

How can social security taxes, that illegal immigrants supposedly payed, be protected? Are these funds not credited to accounts that legally belong to someone? I'm sure that a large portion are. So what is the government going to do? I guess we'll get a glimpse later this week.

I dread this announcment. Nothing good can come of it.

[mtbopfuyn]

Spit, spit. Where's my relief from illegal aliens?

[american spirit]

Jr. Bush is showing more and more that political suicide is a family tradition.

[AD from SpringBay]

This is where he may lose my vote.

[BlkConserv]

[Syncro]

Undocumented workers now pay billions of dollars annually into Social Security but do not collect benefits because they give their employers fraudulent Social Security numbers.

Well, they are criminals and shouldn't get any of the money.

And if they pay BILLIONS into SS and don't take any out, why isn't SS solvent?

The truth is they send BILLIONS of untaxed dollars to Mexico every year.

[DustyMoment]

I took it heavily on the chin a week or two back from the Bush-bots for suggesting that Bush was a RINO. Seems I have some company, now.

Here's the bottom line, folks: Venting our outrage here at FR may make us feel better, but it doesn't accomplish anything. We need to start writing letters and making phone calls to the WH AND our elected reps to express our displeasure. It can't be a timid "I'm really, really upset about this" kind of communication, it's got to be "If Bush wants a second term, he's got to go through me . . . and, if this immigration thing goes through, he's gone!" Tell the Congresscritter that his/her job will go with Bush if they vote to support it.

If losing your free speech rights under CFR didn't stir you up, make THIS the issue that you fall on your sword over. America is OUR country and we either stand up and take it back now, or plan on learning Spanish so we can communicate with our new masters. Bush, his daddy and the Dept. of Homeland Security (what a joke) Secretary Tom Ridge are NOTORIOUSLY soft on illegal immigration and they need to hear an earthshattering roar of outrage from American citizens before they back down on this issue.

I already sent Bush my letter and the following is only a portion of what I wrote him:

"Next month you will meet with President Vicente Fox to renew immigration talks. Here are the results I would like to see from those talks:

1) The U.S. would demand that Mexico begin enforcing the sovereign borders that divide the US and Mexico,
2) The U.S. would demand that Mexico impose punitive measures on repeat illegal immigrants,
3) The U.S. would demand that Mexico stop encouraging Mexicans to immigrate illegally to the US,
4) Mexico and the U.S. would come to a substantive agreement on a guest worker program that would benefit both Mexico and the US and, when it was over, ensure that those guest workers return home,
5) Mexico would begin investing some of the profits from its oil revenues from Pemex into developing new industries that would keep potential illegal immigrants at home,
6) The U.S. and Mexico would develop a joint task force that would penetrate the Hispanic communities in the US to arrest and deport illegal immigrants,
7) Establish meaningful and substantive fines for those employers who hire illegal immigrants.

I fully expect none of that to occur. Given yours and Secretary Ridge’s historically soft stance on illegal immigration, I expect that more Americans will be displaced from their jobs by illegal aliens. In recent years, the caliber of illegal aliens coming to this country from Mexico are better educated and have taken professional, white collar jobs from American citizens of equal or better education. Rather than the stereotypical peons living in squalor to eke out enough of an income to support family in Mexico, many of these recent “immigrants” have college educations, live in up-scale neighborhoods and drive SUVs."

If the future of this country isn't important to you, just waste your bandwidth complaining here and do nothing. If it means something to you, pull out your Olivetti and start typing; withhold campaign contributions to ANY politician from ANY political party that wants to support this idiocy. Above all, let the pols know how angry you are.

Comprende, amigo?

[Bikers4Bush]

He'll lose my vote.

[William Terrell]

Undocumented workers now pay billions of dollars annually into Social Security but do not collect benefits because they give their employers fraudulent Social Security numbers.

How would this work, exactly? The account numbers they are using must belong to someone. If I deposit $100 into someone else's bank account, shall I whine if I can't draw it out?

[Weimdog]

"The total the state (California) spends on illegal immigrants is no more than $4.6 billion a year, with CalWorks being a judgment call. This is a substantial amount, but clearly not enough to account for all of the state's budget gap, which is running $8 billion to $12 billion annually."

http://www.latimes.com/business/columnists/la-fi-golden22dec22,1,3576106,print.column?coll=la-home-utilities

President Bush is off the deep end on this issue.

We recalled a Governor in California for doing this kind of thing!