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Real Message of The Bush Amnesty
The American Conservative ^ | 1/12/2004 | PAT BUCHANAN

Posted on 01/12/2004 7:46:07 AM PST by kellynla

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: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; boocannonisanalien; illegalimmigration; immigration; notwhatinvasionmeans; patbuchanan
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Many people may not like him and I don't agree with everything he says, but he on the money with this issue.
1 posted on 01/12/2004 7:46:07 AM PST by kellynla
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To: kellynla
Posted on Friday, Real Message of The Bush Amnesty, but you should certainly add your comments to that thread as a consensus emerges.
3 posted on 01/12/2004 7:48:08 AM PST by JohnGalt (Neoconservatives: Appeasers to the Alien Invaders)
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4 posted on 01/12/2004 7:50:16 AM PST by kellynla ("C" 1/5 1st Mar. Div. U.S.M.C. Viet Nam 69&70 Semper Fi!)
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To: kellynla
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,

There is a third party challenger from the right. His name is Michael Peroutka.

5 posted on 01/12/2004 7:50:36 AM PST by The_Eaglet (Michael Peroutka for President)
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To: kellynla
4th posting...
6 posted on 01/12/2004 7:51:33 AM PST by TomServo ("Why does the most evil man in the world live in a Stuckeys?")
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To: kellynla
The 'real message' is that it's not amnesty at all.
7 posted on 01/12/2004 7:52:55 AM PST by the invisib1e hand (do not remove this tag under penalty of law.)
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To: kellynla
>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.

This is how we get 'jobs that Americans won't do,' by artifcially driving down the prevailing wage by flooding the labor market with illegals. Normally a wage will be set with some reference to the cost of living through the market forces. When you flood the labor market you drive the wages below the normal cost of living reference and you suddenly get 'jobs that lazy Americans won't do.' Moreover, the new car wash doesn't want to pay fed withholding, workers comp etc... and so specially excludes workers of a legal status (Americans etc...)

8 posted on 01/12/2004 7:57:14 AM PST by Dialup Llama
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To: the invisib1e hand
It must be an amnesty, Pat repeated the word 12 times in that short piece. Perhaps he tried to force it on the reader a little too much.
9 posted on 01/12/2004 7:57:46 AM PST by GROOVY
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10 posted on 01/12/2004 7:58:40 AM PST by sopwith (don't tread on me)
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To: the invisib1e hand
"The 'real message' is that it's not amnesty at all."

The "real message" is amnesty for the corporate felons who hire Illegaliens.

11 posted on 01/12/2004 8:00:30 AM PST by azhenfud ("He who is always looking up seldom finds others' lost change...")
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To: kellynla
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

The real message to the world will be that American is an inclusive, generous and decent society - confident enough in its strength to do this. The statue of liberty still represents this country.

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.”

20 or 30 years before Ike we deported half a million Mexicans. A reminder to those who think this is a recent problem.

I think Buchanan is right to point out that this amnesty puts a tremendous strain on our society. I don't like it. Buts he's wrong about the message it sends and about the consequences of the choices. The world is a different place than it was under Ike or Hoover. Deporting 8 or 12 million to Mexico would completely destabilize its government and society, and I doubt they would go quietly.

12 posted on 01/12/2004 8:07:29 AM PST by liberallarry
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To: kellynla
The REAL message?

"I don't give a Kerry what the Conservatives think!"
13 posted on 01/12/2004 8:11:10 AM PST by Redbob (now to find a cure for global whining...)
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To: liberallarry
If the Mexicans won't go quietly...isn't that what law enforcement is all about? ENFORCEMENT?

Frankly, Bush's message is: keep worshipping me, middle class, and I'll keep destroying you.
14 posted on 01/12/2004 8:15:45 AM PST by warchild9
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To: kellynla
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 just how are taxpayers going to subsidize all of this when there are no taxpayers. Illegals don't pay taxes, remember?

15 posted on 01/12/2004 8:15:47 AM PST by Euro-American Scum (A poverty-stricken middle class must be a disarmed middle class)
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To: kellynla
What 8 to 14 million? There is no aspect of this foolishness that will stop the flow of illegal alien criminals over the southern border. In fact, it should increase the flow as aliens all over Central and South America figure that there will have to be another amnesty somewhere down the road.

THERE IS NOTHING IN THIS FOR AMERICANS!!! The dope doesn't stop, the criminal aliens don't stop, killers aren't extradited, we don't get our water, blacks don't get jobs, Republicans don't get voters, capital doesn't stop gushing back to Mexico, and Mexican crime doesn't stop. WE GET NOTHING!!!

16 posted on 01/12/2004 8:16:03 AM PST by Tacis
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To: JohnGalt
I agree with this except for the crack about the "Israeli Lobby."

Its in America's national interest to support Israel 1000%.

17 posted on 01/12/2004 8:17:15 AM PST by sauropod (Graduate, Boortz Institute for Insensitivity Training)
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To: Redbob
The REAL message?

"I don't give a Kerry what the Conservatives think!"


That is what it is saying to me.
18 posted on 01/12/2004 8:17:49 AM PST by RiflemanSharpe (An American for a more socially and fiscally conservation America!)
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I don't think his name will appear on the ballot in Maryland. The CP has "lost standing" in the People's Republic.
19 posted on 01/12/2004 8:19:30 AM PST by sauropod (Graduate, Boortz Institute for Insensitivity Training)
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No Clark, sherlock ;-).
20 posted on 01/12/2004 8:21:17 AM PST by sauropod (Graduate, Boortz Institute for Insensitivity Training)
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