Posted on 08/21/2004 9:04:20 PM PDT by ETERNAL WARMING
(08-21) 15:55 PDT MEXICO CITY (AP) --
President Bush's nephew, campaigning for overseas votes in Mexico on Saturday, called the federal policy of arming U.S. Border Patrol agents with plastic pellet guns "reprehensible."
Speaking in a mix of English and sometimes-halting Spanish, George P. Bush said his uncle was not to blame for the gun policy, which has angered Mexicans. He instead blamed it on "some local INS (Immigration and Naturalization Service) guy who's trying to be tough, act macho."
"If there has been American approval for this policy, that is reprehensible," Bush said of the guns, essentially paintball projectiles filled with chile powder. "It's kind of barbarous."
The pellet guns, which were approved at the federal level, have been used on a trial basis since 2001 in California and Arizona. The U.S. Border Patrol fired the pepper-balls in 81 instances in 2002-03 and reported no deaths or severe injuries.
President Bush's Hispanic nephew -- he's the grandson of migrant worker Jose Maria Garnica -- is in Mexico on a week-long visit to drum up support for his uncle among the estimated 1 million Americans living there.
The younger Bush, whose father is Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and mother, Columba, is originally from Mexico, acknowledged at a news conference that the war in Iraq is not popular in Mexico but defended the military action, saying "we're almost done with it."
He also acknowledged that "there are some people in our (Republican) party who don't see the benefits of immigration," but promised that President Bush was a proponent of immigration reform.
He called Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez "a dictator" and cast doubt on his victory last week in a recall referendum, saying Chavez had "a long history of fraud." Outside observers, including former President Jimmy Carter, have endorsed the Venezuelan vote counts.
Christopher Fussner, global chairman of Republicans Abroad, which funded Bush's trip, called Mexico "the most important country" for getting overseas votes.
Fussner said Republicans are advertising in overseas English-language newspapers around the world in hopes of capturing expatriate votes.
Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry's campaign also has enlisted family members to woo voters in Mexico. His sister, Diana Kerry, chairwoman of Americans Overseas for Kerry, visited Mexico City in July.
Kerry supporters also held a voter-registration and ballot-request drive in Guadalajara on Thursday.
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Drumming up the "Outside" Mexican Voting Machine - ping.
What a remarkably ignorant statement!
What custom Ouija Board allowed you to make such a flat assertion? I would be curious to be further educated by the "straw man" wise one.
Hey, an anti-semitic troll!
Re-ally.
This is only part of the reality of what has come on America because of open borders. Our elections have become tainted with illegals voting, while American citizens are being demonized, if we try to warn America. Meanwhile, both Democrats and Republicans are sucking up to Mexicans, in what will probably be one of the most tainted elections in the history of America.
The truth about massive illegal immigration and how it will change America forever will never be hushed up. For the very evidence of this horror is clear for each American to witness in his own community day by day.
Many are fools in America, but many are knowledgeable and know that our days as a free nation are numbered because of open borders.
Not so. I'm not a Buchananite yet I'm for closing the borders, deporting illegal aliens on sight, and prosecuting people who hire them, and give them government funded services without proper proof of citizenship.
Is this racist? NO. I don't care what color or creed they are, if they didn't come in through the INS, then they should be booted out.
This has nothing to do with anti-Bush attitudes. I like Bush. I just think he's pandering to the burgeoning Latino vote because it's bigger than the iceberg that sank the Titanic already.
How did it get that way? Illegal immigration. Do we want a country populated by the spawn of illegal immigrants? I don't think so. We have enough trouble encouraging recent immigrants to think they're real Americans. Most of them have bought into the idea that they're citizens of the world or some nonsense like that.
This is the last generation before America tilts under the waves, people. Wake up.
I take it we won't see any of your patented JimRob quotes on Keyes threads, eh? :-)
Nobody needs to post anybody's quotes except for Alan Keyes; he's doing a pretty good job of destroying himself.
OK then... would you support letting Mexicans travel and work here as freely as we can do the same there? There would be zero illegal immigration if you allowed that. So are you for it? Or are you just using "illegal" as a red herring?
It's pathetic how you guys in the liberal wing of the GOP are now no better than Jesse Jackson.
I think you're the one who's using it as a red herring. What does Mexico do to its Americans who break the law, immigrate illegally and are caught, or otherwise pour over the borders in the middle of the night?
So remove INS restrictions on Mexican immigration (you're not for massive federal government totalitarianism like the Democrats are you?) and you will have zero illegal immigration. Problem solved, right?
I just think he's pandering to the burgeoning Latino vote because it's bigger than the iceberg that sank the Titanic already.
He's also "pandering" to small business owners, American consumers, people who oppose massive and ridiculously inefficient federal government bureaucracies, etc. You know... those anti-American Communist types. (Sigh...)
This is the last generation before America tilts under the waves, people. Wake up.
We're all doomed.
So would you support removing all restrictions on Mexicans coming here? It would end all illegal immigration as you claim to want. Yes or no?
What does Mexico do
Exactly. I don't want to do what the Mexican government does. It sucks. Why do you want to copy them?
Caution: "Illegal" red herring in used by people opposed to all immigration on this thread.
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No. I don't want free immigration from Mexico. I don't want it from anywhere. Your argument falls on its face.
How many immigrants from Mexico do you think should be allowed to come here each year?
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President Bush's Hispanic nephew -- he's the grandson of migrant worker Jose Maria Garnica -- is in Mexico on a week-long visit to drum up support for his uncle among the estimated 1 million Americans living there.
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That's a lot of Americans. They deserve some campaigning there.
How about the same as what we get from France.
I find the nephews whining reprehensible
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