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Real Message of The Bush Amnesty
The American Conservative ^ | 1/9/2004 | Pat Buchanan

Posted on 01/09/2004 12:56:02 PM PST by JohnGalt

Real Message of The Bush Amnesty

by Pat Buchanan

If George Bush’s amnesty for between 8 million and 14 million illegal aliens is enacted, you can kiss the old America goodbye.

Consider what the president is saying with his amnesty. He is telling us that he cannot or will not do his constitutional duty to defend the states from invasion. He is saying that he simply cannot or will not protect our borders or enforce our immigration laws. He is saying he will no longer send illegal aliens back.

Not long ago, this would have produced calls for impeachment and cries that, “If Bush won’t enforce our laws, let’s elect a president who will.”

By offering amnesty and residency to millions who broke in line, broke our laws and broke into our country, Bush is not only rewarding wholesale criminality, he proposes to legalize it.

His amnesty will send this message to the world: the candy store is open, and the Americans cannot protect it. Now is the time to bust in.

As there must be billions of people willing to come and work for a fraction of our minimum wage—and exploit our social safety net—the number who could come under the Bush guest-worker program is almost infinite.

Imagine a car wash that employs 40 African-American, Latino, and white working-class folks at $8 an hour each. A new car wash down the street opens up, offering 40 new jobs at $5.15 an hour. No Americans apply. Under Bush’s proposal, that employer would be free to go to Asia, Africa, and Latin America, round up workers, and bring them in.

The new car wash with its foreign workers then drives the old car wash with its American workers out of business. Taxpayers are then forced to subsidize the newly unemployed—and pay for the medical care, food stamps, rent supplements, welfare, and schooling of all the new immigrants and their families, provide legal services when they get in trouble and pay for more cops to police their neighborhoods.

And every child born of a guest worker would, under our 14th Amendment, become an American citizen, automatically entitled to all the benefits of citizenship. Meanwhile, Bush’s amnesty will do nothing to halt the illegal invasion that continues to this hour. If you would know what America’s social, cultural, and fiscal future will look like, take a ride through Los Angeles, capital of Mexifornia.

But why did President Bush pick now to propose as explosive an idea as amnesty, when it seemed he was holding a winning hand on the issues of taxes, national security, the economy, and gay marriages?

One sees here the cynical ploy of “Boy Genius” Karl Rove. With the filing deadlines for the Republican primaries having passed and no GOP opponent, with no Third Party challenger from the Right, and with Dean the likely Democratic nominee, Rove knows conservatives are boxed in. In the old cliché, “The conservatives have nowhere else to go.”

So Rove is executing an “apertura a sinistra,” an opening to the Left, pandering to Hispanics and Mexican President Vicente Fox, to whom Bush is to pay a visit.

But Rove may be too clever for the president’s good. For there is no hard evidence that Hispanics, other than those militants who detest Republicans, are demanding amnesty. And with Bush’s spending on foreign aid soaring, his deficits rising, and the White House refusing to veto a single spending bill, Rove & Co. may have stretched conservative loyalty to the breaking point.

For some conservatives, this amnesty will snap it. They may just get on their hind legs and fight, for huge majorities have repeatedly registered opposition to any amnesty for illegal aliens. How is the president helped by a bloody battle with his political base in an election year?

Half a century ago, Dwight Eisenhower, informed there were a million illegals in the United States, most of them from Mexico, ordered them sent back. The project was called “Operation Wetback.”

Ike was a strong president. But in George W. Bush, we have a leader unwilling to pay the political price of doing his duty and enforcing the immigration laws of his country because he fears the reaction from the media elite and Mexican-Americans.

When it comes to standing up to truly powerful ethnic lobbies—the Hispanic Lobby, the Cuban-American Lobby, the Israeli Lobby—Bush wilts and folds every time. Nor is it a healthy sign for the future of our republic when its president offers an amnesty to law-breakers, rather than doing his painful duty to protect his country from what has now become an unstoppable foreign invasion.

The real threats to America’s survival do not come from the Sunni Triangle. They come from within, and unfortunately we have a president who either does not understand them or will not look them in the face.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial
KEYWORDS: aliens; crimepays; culturewar; illegalaliens; illegals; immigration; lawlessness; linecutters; nationalsuicide; notwhatinvasionmeans; patbuchanan; patisabeaner; rewardingcriminals
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To: narby
And white men never break the law.

If these illegals had been kept out of our country, there'd be one more American alive today.

We've got enough whites and blacks committing senseless crimes as it is. We damn sure don't need a whole population of illegals here doing the same thing.

221 posted on 01/09/2004 6:36:52 PM PST by oldvike
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To: narby
Making mexicans "legal" would actually be taking away an advantage they have in hiring. They would thereafter be subject to all minimum wage laws and open for unionization. At that point, why would an employer bother hiring someone with limited communications skills, when he could hire someone with the same wage expections without that problem?

That's true --- making them illegal and making their employer pay them minimum wage and benefits does take away their advantage ---- so what's to stop the employers from just finding some old-fashioned illegals just like they have for the last 20 years and for the very same reasons? Why would you pay a blue card holder what you'd pay an American? There will be pleny more illegals coming in to take their old slots.

222 posted on 01/09/2004 7:16:41 PM PST by FITZ
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To: narby
Come on. Going after someone who wants to pick beets has nothing in comon with going after someone who wants to commit mass murder.

Hunting down each and every illegal isn't really necessary --- it's not "deport every last one of them" or "legalize every last one". You would never have to arrest the beet picker --- but slap a big fine on his employer and make sure he pays any hospital bills his illegals forgot to pay.

223 posted on 01/09/2004 7:22:03 PM PST by FITZ
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To: jeremiah
Watch it now Jeremiah, those who don't drink the popular non-carbonated flavored republican refreshment will be automatically called a racist, homophobe, nazi, cracker, and many other slurs. These Freepers are starting to sound more like the dem political advisors. Personally I think it would be great for english to be the second language, elections to be determined by those who can't read and all personal property to belong to the state.
224 posted on 01/09/2004 7:22:40 PM PST by strongbow
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To: superloser
Don't tell anyone that Eisenhower rounded up and shipped south over a million Mexicans in the 1950s. It was called "Operation Wetback"

Even Cesar Chavez who is considered to be a great hispanic leader insisted that the border be controlled and that wetbacks ---- as he called them --- be sent back home.

225 posted on 01/09/2004 7:31:19 PM PST by FITZ
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To: narby
So how many people do you think would die if we dumped 10-15 million people just across the border in the Sonoran desert with no place for them to live?

Actually Mexicans sometimes do get deported --- that involves taking them to some border town in Mexico and releasing them. They never are deported into the desert --- the INS has holding stations in the border towns, when they are processed they get taken by the INS buses and are let go. The illegals choosing voluntary departure don't get a trial --- they just wait until they get enough of them, take them to this gate in the fence, open the gate, and the Mexicans walk into the Mexican town. Pretty much the same thing happens to Americans found illegally in Mexico I think --- maybe after some big fines and mordidas, you'd simply be allowed to walk back over to your own country at a border town---- obviously once you're back in your own country, you can hire a taxi or catch a bus --- so the amount of walking amounts to a few steps.

226 posted on 01/09/2004 7:39:30 PM PST by FITZ
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To: JohnGalt
John,

You are one of the 'hate Bush' crowd. That's OK with me. Go and do whatever you want to do. I live with a whole bunch of Latinos around me. Whatever legislation comes out of D.C. doesn't matter. Apparently you don't know many folks who speak Spanish; Castillian or South American. Low crime here. I live in the middle of the San Fernando Valley. Gang members get their ass handed to them by real men! They stay away.

227 posted on 01/09/2004 7:40:22 PM PST by BobS
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To: FITZ
Even Cesar Chavez who is considered to be a great hispanic leader insisted that the border be controlled and that wetbacks ---- as he called them --- be sent back home.

Amazing how many people forget that!

Presently, India plans to round up and deport 20 *million* illegal Bangladeshis -- no global outcry.

Mexico uses its MILITARY on its southern border -- no global outcry.

Spain is using its NAVY in the Mediterranean as is Italy -- no global outcry.

I don't get it. Why are people here in America afraid of enforcing the law?

228 posted on 01/09/2004 7:40:44 PM PST by superloser
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To: narby; JohnGalt
Arrest and fine heavily all Americans who employ illegals. Cripple these Americans capacity to hire illegals-bloody cripple these traitors. Aye traitors and bloody slavers these Americans be.

I would cheer them to the stockades. In the meantime seal the border. The illegals who do not find work will pack up and go home one by one and there will be no new illegals to take their place.

Only those seeking to silence those that want to enforce immigration control throw out the holocaust images in an attempt to silence us.

229 posted on 01/09/2004 7:42:12 PM PST by Destro (Know your enemy! Help fight Islamic terrorism by visiting www.johnathangaltfilms.com)
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To: superloser
Greece mines its border with Turkey. No outcry.
230 posted on 01/09/2004 7:42:58 PM PST by Destro (Know your enemy! Help fight Islamic terrorism by visiting www.johnathangaltfilms.com)
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To: FITZ
Hunting down each and every illegal isn't really necessary --- it's not "deport every last one of them" or "legalize every last one". You would never have to arrest the beet picker --- but slap a big fine on his employer and make sure he pays any hospital bills his illegals forgot to pay.

See #229

231 posted on 01/09/2004 7:44:35 PM PST by Destro (Know your enemy! Help fight Islamic terrorism by visiting www.johnathangaltfilms.com)
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To: SerpentDove
Well said.
232 posted on 01/09/2004 9:20:10 PM PST by Pelham
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To: BobS
No, that is only what you have been led to believe. Perhaps in your parlance I 'hate' the DC-tax regime, but I don't hate Bush. I think he is a good man running a decript declining and discredited tax regime, and the best us serfs can hope for is a good man in the Executive Office.
233 posted on 01/10/2004 6:56:06 AM PST by JohnGalt (Neoconservatives: Appeasers to the Alien Invaders)
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To: Pan_Yans Wife; FITZ
Pans: I don't know how to go about it. My main point about the feasibility of deporting all or just most illegals is that we always hear that it 'can't be done'; that its 'impossible'; yet we haven't even tried. How do we know it can't be done? Eisenhower was able to successfully remove about one million illegals during the 1950s, so large-scale deportation is possible. The truth is that there is no political will to even try. That doesn't mean its impossible if the will existed.

FITZ: You are right that there were problems with the last great wave, but I would argue that institutionalized welfare, multiculturalism, and racial preferences pose a greater challenge today.

And again, that last wave was halted by Congress. I ask the question again; does anyone doubt that played an important part in the successful assimilation of all the Irish, Italians, Germans, etc..?
234 posted on 01/10/2004 9:36:12 AM PST by Aetius
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To: Aetius
They can be deported and they already do get deported --- and we likely won't get every last one --- but that wouldn't matter. Start at the employer level --- but of course if an illegal was committing felony document fraud so that an employer might be innocent because they didn't know --- then in that case go after the illegal who committed a felony crime.

Deportation really isn't a big deal --- it's just taking the illegals up to a gate in the fence inside a border town, they open the gate, the illegal walks back over the bridge -- or catches a bus or taxi. They're home. They know that language, they know the cultures and customs there --- much more than they know ours.
235 posted on 01/10/2004 9:45:07 AM PST by FITZ
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To: jeremiah
Thanks, that is a very astute assesmement of what is going to happen to Americans who have worked like dogs all our lives, paid taxes up the wazoo, and hope to live a few good years with the medical care and pension we have earned. Bush and the other politicians don't care if we are thrown on the dung heap. They are too obsessed with overrunning this country with illegals to worry about us.

See if I vote for any of them ever again.

236 posted on 01/10/2004 3:31:05 PM PST by swampfox98
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To: narby
We attacked, defeated, and destroyed the last country to send away a few million people of another race on rail cars. And if the US did the same, we'd deserve the same fate.

This is one of the most idiotic arguments I've ever read on this board.

237 posted on 01/12/2004 7:54:28 AM PST by StatesEnemy
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To: JohnGalt
The "amnesty" is for those corporate felons who hire Illegaliens.
238 posted on 01/12/2004 8:09:26 AM PST by azhenfud ("He who is always looking up seldom finds others' lost change...")
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To: StatesEnemy
I disagree. The Trotskycons used the argument to effectively silence debate on the Iraq War, why not roll it out again? ;)

Yours in liberty,
239 posted on 01/12/2004 8:12:21 AM PST by JohnGalt (Neoconservatives: Appeasers to the Alien Invaders)
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To: JohnGalt
I am beginning to believe that both "parties" are really in cahoots to play both sides against the middle...

When something like NAFTA is to be forced upon us, it is "Liberal" who does it...

And now we have a "conservative" pimping this treason.

240 posted on 01/12/2004 8:16:55 AM PST by StatesEnemy
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