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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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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.”
1 posted on 01/09/2004 12:56:02 PM PST by JohnGalt
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2 posted on 01/09/2004 12:56:55 PM PST by Support Free Republic (I'd rather be sleeping. Let's get this over with so I can go back to sleep!)
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To: JohnGalt
you can kiss the old America goodbye

Oh no Pat says were all doomed. Doooommmed!(/sarcasm)

I think that Pat is the only person Dr. Norman Vincent Peale(writer of the book "The Power of Positive Thinking) would say is doomed to terminal negativity.

3 posted on 01/09/2004 1:00:51 PM PST by Dane
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To: JohnGalt
If George Bush’s amnesty for between 8 million and 14 million illegal aliens is enacted, you can kiss the old America goodbye.

Just had to stop right there. Anyone who thinks we can withstand the international outrage if we deported 10 or 15 million people out into the Sonoran desert is an idiot.

Oh, yes, this was written by Buchanon. Should have known.

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.

4 posted on 01/09/2004 1:01:41 PM PST by narby (McGovern lost in 72 - and launched the left's takover of the Dem party)
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To: JohnGalt
Ahhhhh......Finally! A voice of reason in all this insanity. I knew Pitchfork Pat would come to the nation's rescue.
5 posted on 01/09/2004 1:03:45 PM PST by Cyber Liberty (© 2003, Ravin' Lunatic since 4/98)
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To: Dane
Dane wrote: I think that Pat is the only person Dr. Norman Vincent Peale(writer of the book "The Power of Positive Thinking) would say is doomed to terminal negativity.

Will Rogers never met Pat Buchanan.

6 posted on 01/09/2004 1:04:16 PM PST by quidnunc (Omnis Gaul delenda est)
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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.

I just liked the way you said it, so I repeated it. Just how the heck are we supposed to move millions of men, women and children in a matter of months? Cattle-cars?

7 posted on 01/09/2004 1:05:28 PM PST by Cyber Liberty (© 2003, Ravin' Lunatic since 4/98)
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To: narby; All
Hear that, all?

According to 'narby', if you support expelling illegal aliens you are no better than the Nazis.

8 posted on 01/09/2004 1:06:43 PM PST by JohnGalt (Neoconservatives: Appeasers to the Alien Invaders)
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To: JohnGalt
He passed on protecting the first ammendment (CFR)
Promised to sign any law that came to him violating the second (AWB)
Why would an invasion of illegal aliens be a big deal?
9 posted on 01/09/2004 1:07:06 PM PST by joesnuffy (Moderate Islam Is For Dilettantes)
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To: narby
Anyone who thinks we can withstand the international outrage if we deported 10 or 15 million people out into the Sonoran desert is an idiot.

Funny, lots of people would say that about our unilateral invasion of Iraq. Do you agree with them?

Can international outrage get any worse than it is now?

10 posted on 01/09/2004 1:08:22 PM PST by The Old Hoosier (Right makes might.)
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To: JohnGalt
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.

11 posted on 01/09/2004 1:08:53 PM PST by KantianBurke (Don't Tread on Me)
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To: The Old Hoosier
Funny, lots of people would say that about our unilateral invasion of Iraq. Do you agree with them?

Sometimes I think Pat is outraged that Churchill and FDR ousted hitler.

12 posted on 01/09/2004 1:10:05 PM PST by Dane
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To: Cyber Liberty
Millions would go home on their own if we suddenly became serious about enforcement, punishment, and deportation. In fact, if we announced massive sting efforts well in advance, millions would leave in advance.
13 posted on 01/09/2004 1:10:19 PM PST by The Old Hoosier (Right makes might.)
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To: JohnGalt
I'm not so sure we'd be 'kissing America goodbye', we'll probably go through a Canadian one-nation, two cultures type of Balkanization phase before we implode.
14 posted on 01/09/2004 1:11:33 PM PST by SolutionsOnly
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To: JohnGalt
“If Bush won’t enforce our laws, let’s elect a president who will.”


I'm in.

AMERICANS FIRST
15 posted on 01/09/2004 1:11:35 PM PST by WhiteGuy (Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press...)
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To: Dane
Well, if you're wrong, ad hominem works.
16 posted on 01/09/2004 1:11:51 PM PST by The Old Hoosier (Right makes might.)
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To: JohnGalt
The real threats to America’s survival do not come from the Sunni Triangle. They come from within

yeah, yeah, Pat. From jealous, bitter people like you! I don't believe your BS, and I don't like you. Compared to George Bush, you're a nit.

17 posted on 01/09/2004 1:13:52 PM PST by auboy (I'm out here on the front lines, sleep in peace tonight–American Soldier–Toby Keith, Chuck Cannon)
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To: JohnGalt
Remember the outrage when Clinton had mass swearing in at a stadium.

One test is what would the reaction have been if Clinton had made this speech.

Too bad this essentially devalues citizenship. slaps legal and would be legal immigrants with a steel bat.

At least be honest and call it a damn AMNESTY.

Enough Clintonian semantic hair splitting.

No wonder Dick Morris loves this triangulation BS.

18 posted on 01/09/2004 1:15:41 PM PST by swarthyguy
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To: KantianBurke
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.

Pretty big leap there saying no Americans would apply. From that starting point your whole chicken little scenario falls apart.

19 posted on 01/09/2004 1:18:08 PM PST by Dane
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To: The Old Hoosier
Negative. Not fast enough. Would take years, and we want "them" outta here yesterday.
20 posted on 01/09/2004 1:18:38 PM PST by Cyber Liberty (© 2003, Ravin' Lunatic since 4/98)
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