Bush's Ridiculous Speech About Immigration Reform

RightWingNews ^

[Happy2BMe]

Bush's Ridiculous Speech About Immigration Reform

I just want to comment on a few of the things that jumped out at me as I read the text of Bush's speech about the horrendous new immigration legislation he is going to propose.

To begin with, this line just chaps me...

"As a nation that values immigration and depends on immigration, we should have immigration laws that work and make us proud. Yet today we do not."

No, our immigration laws don't work or make us proud. You know why? Because we don't make an effort to enforce them. It's like telling your kid to clean his room, having him watch TV instead, and then having him look you in the eye and say, "you know the system we're using to get my room cleaned up just isn't working".

Here's more from Bush...

"Many undocumented workers have walked mile after mile, through the heat of the day and the cold of the night. Some have risked their lives in dangerous desert border crossings or entrusted their lives to the brutal rings of heartless human smugglers.

BUSH: Workers who seek only to earn a living end up in the shadows of American life, fearful, often abused and exploited.

When they're victimized by crimes they're afraid to call the police or seek recourse in the legal system. They are cut off from their families far away, fearing if they leave our country to visit relatives back home they might never be able to return to their jobs."

Yes, that's pretty much what happens to criminals everywhere isn't it? I mean even though a drug dealer works hard and does dangerous work, he can't very well call the police and tell them someone stole his crack can he? Of course, if he were in an honest profession or if the illegal aliens obeyed our laws, they wouldn't have this problem would they?

Then Bush tosses off this whopper about the border...

"First, America must control its borders. Following the attacks of September the 11th, 2001, this duty of the federal government has become even more urgent, and we're fulfilling that duty."

No, the government isn't "fulfilling that duty". We still have illegals, drug dealers, and probably terrorists pouring across our border because the Bush administration even after 9/11, will not commit the necessary resources and manpower to get the job done.

Then this paragraph begs an obvious question...

"Employers must not hire undocumented aliens or temporary workers whose legal status has expired. They must report to the government the temporary workers they hire and who leave their employ so that we can keep track of people in the program and better enforce our immigration laws. There must be strong workplace enforcement with tough penalties for anyone -- for any employer violating these laws."

...and that question is, "why can't we go ahead and do that NOW"? If we did this today, most of the people who are here illegally would go home because they couldn't find jobs. So why do we have to wait until after we've made all these illegals who don't respect our laws into citizens to do this?

Then there's this...

"The citizenship line, however, is too long, and our current limits on legal immigration are too low.

My administration will work with the Congress to increase the annual number of green cards that can lead to citizenship."

Our population is growing as it is and isn't unemployment higher than we'd like as it is? So why do we want to INCREASE the number of people flooding into our country legally?

Last but not least, Bush hit this theme several times...

"Reform must begin by confronting a basic fact of life and economics: Some of the jobs being generated in America's growing economy are jobs American citizens are not filling."

As Mark Krikorian explained in yesterday's National Review, those jobs would be filled by Americans if the illegals weren't driving down wages.

Does that not make perfect sense? I mean people get all up in arms about companies going overseas to get cheap labor, but when the cheap labor COMES HERE, those same people just assume that Americans "won't do those jobs". Sure they will, just not at the same price.

I can only hope that Congress fights Bush all the way on this bill and stops it cold. Giving illegal aliens legal status is only going to cause even more of them to flood across our borders to fill up our prisons, our schools, and leech off of our social services. Our government should be doing everything in its power to stop them instead of rewarding them for breaking our laws.

[Stallone]

No one says: OPEN the floodgates.

No one says: IMPORT Slave Labor.

You folks are too much.

Start THINKING, and stop EMOTING like Socialists.

[verity]

"RightWingNews" vs "LeftWingNews"

It would be fair to say that neither would present an ojective view!

[Stallone]

How interesting!

By creating a temporary worker channel that requires self-identification and qualification, this will somehow be worse than no system at all!

Freepers, you are too much!

[Stallone]

I suspect you are not, but if you were a Liberal plant you couldn't do a better job!

[Stallone]

Silly me.

I thought the current situation was untenable.

I thought that round-up and deportation wasn't an option.

Maybe you know different?

What political naivety you have.

[Happy2BMe]

"There is no other word for this but amnesty-even though Mr. Bush brazenly said in his next sentence, "I oppose amnesty." Either he doesn't understand his own plan or he just plain lied."

Polititians don't lie - but for votes, they have been known to alter the truth.

Jobs Americans Won't Do: Voodoo Economics from the White House.

[riri]

Apparetly, we are capable of moving entire army divisions, tanks, buildings, munitions, and all else thousands of miles away but we are not capable of defending our own border against (usually) unarmed groups of people nor are we capable or rounding them up and taking them home, or at least enough of them so that the rest think twice before coming.

[douglas1]

PROBABLY MORE THAN THAT IF EACH newwwww citizen has two kids, and they bring over their mother and father and aunts and uncles ,and oh by the way two kids is a joke morelike five geez are we there yet.

[putupon]

Kool Aid PING

Catching up on old work, just reviewed the original speech.

That was probably his best shot, way above yesterday's Weekly Radio Address. I give it a 4 1/2 Kool Aids.

If the Congresscritters can be forced to act Right, Jorge could held on the defensive from here on out. I hope that's not just wishful thinking.

If you want on or off the Kool Aid PING list please Freepmail-Thanks, p

[MissAmericanPie]

Bush understands what he said, he's a Harvard man, so that means he lied.

This government guesstament of how many illegals are here is just that, a very low ball guess. I have heard the figgure of 20 million illegals and that is closer to the truth.

Here in the DFW area there are well over 2 million illegals.
At the grocery and the mall I am the minoirity. I look at the faces of my fellow countrymen when we are all trapped in line behind an illegal messing up the system somehow, and I see sullen anger.

[riri]

At the grocery and the mall I am the minoirity. I look at the faces of my fellow countrymen when we are all trapped in line behind an illegal messing up the system somehow, and I see sullen anger

Same here in Phoenix. Funny thing is, it wasn't so just six years ago when I came here. Things have changed.

I live in a new housing master planned type community. Every single worker is Mexican. Every landscaper, roofer, tile layer, dry waller, most painters, etc.

I used to get up at 6 am to go running I had to stop for the months it is dark at that time because it is just too dangerous.

[Stallone]

A new temporary worker class that requires self-identification and qualification, to replace a wide-open border with illegal immigrants.

Hmmm...which do I prefer?

Choices, choices...

[MissAmericanPie]

Same here every worker has been replaced by illegals. I had something so weird happen, I have no idea what the problem was. I was going to pick up my son at school, to get there I would take a short cut down a two lane road, and as I passed a car I noticed it stopped and began to make a U-turn.

I gave it no notice and pulled up into the horse shoe drive of the school and pulled between two cars, a mom in front of me a couple of grand parents behind me. The car that had made the U-turn was suddenly just there. Their sideview mirror almost touching mine. The two illegals in the front seat were staring eye to eye at me with some strange expressionless stare. A guilty dirty dog stare like a dog that knows he's not suppose to be in the chicken house but is going to have a meal anyway.

There were three illegals in the back seat and the one in the middle was talking his heart out, earnestly and in stress talking the two in the front seat out of doing what ever it was they were about to do. I didn't take my eyes off of them nor they me, as the one in the middle rear kept pleading.

I had read that in some illegal gangs the initiation to be a member required killing a white woman and a few women here and there had been killed. So I suspected that this is what was going on.

I slipped my 9mm out of my purse and took the safety off, laying my plans. When the passenger widow comes down take out the shotgun rider then the driver, double tap, leaves 5 bullets for the three in the back.

I don't know what the guy in the back was saying but he deserves credit for preventing a very bad scene, because finally they reluctently drove off. The grandparent in the car behind me came up to my window, he said, "My dear I am too old to help you but I will call the police and I have their liscense number if they come back". I thanked him and slipped the safety back on.

[riri]

I had read that in some illegal gangs the initiation to be a member required killing a white woman and a few women here and there had been killed. So I suspected that this is what was going on

Lord. It is worse than I thought. I need to start packing.

Ofcourse, I don't believe a word you said because these people are here only to work in the jobs the Americans won't.