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.
If such a benign reform is impossible why even pretend that deportation of 10 million people is anything more than a day-dream?
If you're referring to Buchanan, I agree. Though I would refrain from the 'on the money' phrase - inasmuch as it's not worth the paper used to print it.
But hey, we have so many home grown welfare/government/New World Order money leaching monkeys on our back, we would be wrong to bemoan putting those eight million (only???) criminals and their children through all levels of education, provide medical care and support, give them the right to sue Americans, expand prisons to accommodate the Mexican criminal criminals who commit crimes of violence and theft against law abiding American Citizens, provide for no-contribution social security benefits to the sick and disabled that crawl across the border, and turn a blind eye to the terrorizing of American Citizens in our towns bordering Mexico.
It's the least we can do to underscore our place in world history as the greatest manipulator of national debt among all nations. tion
Congratulations are clearly in order to the legislative, judicial and executive branches of all levels of American government!!!
You have accomplished what no foreign power could do. You financially crippled and ultimately destroyed the only nation in the world that at one time acknowledged the Creator as superior to government in our founding documents, The Declaration of Independence and The Constitution of these united States of America.
There will be a day of justice. For having turned their back on God Almighty, His retribution will be their reward.
Bush's action reminds me of an example; it goes like this: A gang of car thieves go around steeling cars and ripping them apart and selling the parts. When the police finally found them, the consumers complained that they will lose a good source of cheap auto parts. The police decided instead to allow the gangs to continue on stealing cars on the condition that they would have to report the number of car parts, and charge sales tax. This story blows my mind. There is no way in hell any self respecting conservative should ever support such a scheme.
I guess you're so angry that you haven't been reading my posts. I said I didn't like it. I said the policy places a tremendous strain on our society. But the rest of the world will see it as I described, not as Buchanan sees it.
I've also taken great pains to try to point out what it might take to really implement the policies you want, what it will take to deport 10 million people and close our Southern borders.
I witnessed both the L.A. riots of the '60s and the '90s. The latter were much worse. I think we'd have to endure serious fighting in our cities, and drive the Latins completely out of the Northern hemisphere to do what you wish. Millions would be killed.
Are you willing to pay the price?
IMO you're pretentious winds of hope amount to nothing more than worthless self-serving political hype.
No. Of course not. I would prefer to be blackmailed by the threat of 8-10 million border intruders rioting in our cities. I would prefer that the rule of law be ignored and our borders and sovereignty become entirely meaningless. < /sarcasm >
Bush has been pushing for an amnesty since before 9/11. For obvious reasons, 9/11 put this on the back burner, but it's back now and it won't go away unless conservatives unite to kill it.
No. The problem is that people like you live in a fantasy world. Big talk...but unwilling to face reality, to pay the price.
The price is a war with Mexico and civil war at home.
Are you willing to pay it? Don't weasel out with claims that it'll never come to that. It might not...but there's a good likelihood that it would. So, are you willing to pay the price?
Call it compassionate conservatism in action.
It is going to be a higher price if we don't pay it now. Besides, the scenario you envision is way off the mark. It would not be one tenth of that.
You want to wait fifteen years and have to fight off the Atzlan "freedom fighters" in your neighborhood blowing up delis and pizza parlors? When they are 10x the force thay are now.
Or you want to wait until more radicals like Bustamante take seats on our courts and in our elected offices?
But don't count on it. The terrible losses of WWI are a stark reminder of the limits of bluff.
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