We're matching all visa applicants against an expanded screening list to identify terrorists and criminals and immigration violators.
This month we have become using advanced technology to better record and track aliens who enter our country and to make sure they leave as scheduled.
BUSH: We have deployed new gamma and X-ray systems to scan cargo and containers and shipments at ports of entry to America.
We have significantly expanded the Border Patrol with more than 1,000 new agents on the borders and 40 percent greater funding over the last two years. We're working closely with the Canadian and Mexican governments to increase border security.
America is acting on a basic belief: Our borders should be open to legal travel and honest trade; our borders should be shut and barred tight to criminals, to drug traders, drug traffickers and to criminals and to terrorists.
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Third, we should not give unfair rewards to illegal immigrants in the citizenship process or disadvantage those who came here lawfully or hope to do so.
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..There must be strong workplace enforcement with tough penalties for anyone -- for any employer violating these laws
It's simply a carrot and a stick, it's up to Congress to provide both the carrot and the stick.
Bush's proposal is prudent, and politically feasible solution. It may not be 100% bullet proof, but it certainly will not increase the illegals. And it certainly doesn't desirve the hysterical screams of "Treason" coming from some conservatives.
It sure the hell ain't giving away the farm.
I agree. I can swallow the other if they would address tge border problems to keep this from just creating another influx.