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.
With all that enforcement we dont need the guest worker part.
Huh. How these robots going to vacum the interior and wash the inside of the windshield?
I don't know what kind of carwash you go to, the all the mexicans work on the OTHER SIDE of the machines that do the washing. There's got to be 25 mexicans at one time at the car wash near here, and not a one of them actually washes the outside of the car.
More than that, it's a really big leap to think that the new car wash isn't going to be a pile of ashes, real quick.
If you actually state what is in the proposal, you can't whip up a frenzy.
Plus it makes it harder to play on the emotional aspect as much.
Opposing improvements with unrealistic solutions only supports the status quo in my opinion.
How many times do you have to be told? If you enforce the law by fining (heavily) the employers who are knowingly hiring illegal aliens, the incentive to come here will disappear! Those who are already here will, when they have no job, deport themselves. Nobody is putting them into the Sonoran Desert as you so dramatically say. They just walk across the border at the regular points of entry.
Ah, but then you already know that. Sorry, not buying any red herring today!
They're doing it because the sad truth is that they're simply too damn lazy to mow the lawn, and too damn cheap to pay the Anglo neighbor teenager eight dollars an hour to do it.
This time Bush has gone to far. In 86 we were promised that employers would be fined, big time, for hiring illegals. Lies, lies and more lies. I have no problem with a more or less open border with Mexico as long as Employers face BIG fines for hiring illegals. And illegals can not get US socail services.
and then the new car wash is a smoldering pile of ashes...
Sure we could. What would Mexico do? Muster an army and invade? What would France do - issue a statement.
So we could enforce the law. But the political will no longer exists to do so. It no longer exists because a succession of Presidents ignored the problem. Illegals have become a key part of our economy, and the political left has been allowed to shame the American mainstream into thinking that America is so irretrievably racist that we have no moral authority to stop illegal aliens from coming here.
Bush's proposal, though I disagree with it, fits snugly into the political mainstream. The political will doesn't exist to do otherwise.
In that extreme situation less would die than died getting here packed like sardines in the back of trailers in the first place. (You must have forgotten about that part huh? ) Most likely none would die.
10-15 million people walking ANYWHERE isn't a red herring.
The first thing they'd do after they get fired is burn down their old employer.
You remember the pictures of the refugees on the roads when the Nazi's invaded poland? I'd bet there were fewer of them than you're talking about here.
We wouldn't need to send the stuka's after them. The desert heat would do the trick quite nicely in only a few hours.
What does that have to do with Bush's proposal? We have that issue now.
Snip...."Antonio Dejesus Idelfonso, 17, and Eliseo Marcelino-Quintero, 22, are charged in Tracy Owen's slaying and could face an additional charge in the killing of Owen's unborn child, detectives said.
The men told police they killed Owen because they thought they had hit her with their pickup truck and didn't want to get into trouble.
Marcelino-Quintero told police he bought the .22-caliber pistol used in the killing for $80 from a man on Thompson Place a few weeks before the shooting, detective Marvin Rivera said yesterday.
The men worked odd jobs for subcontractors and were in the country illegally, Rivera said.
The detective said he did not know how long the men had been in the country."
So why did you support him before? He promised to do something like this from the day I first heard he was running for Pres and spoke in Spanish to some crowds.
Did you miss that part? Or did you just think he really didn't mean it?
The BIGGEST reason I support Bush is because he does what he say's he's going to do. Even if I don't like what it is, at least I know where he's comming from.
I'm not a fair weather supporter of Geo. W. Bush.
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