Posted on 09/27/2004 11:40:43 PM PDT by Robert Lomax
The U.S. has no plans to deploy troops along the Mexican border to stanch the deluge of illegal aliens currently pouring into the country at the rate of 3 million per year, President Bush said in an interview broadcast on Monday.
"As the governor of Texas, I was very aware of this issue," Bush told Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly.
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"There is a long border, that makes it hard to control. We have beefed up places along the border to try to stop" the flow, he said. When told that his policy didn't seem to be working, Bush insisted, "It’s working a little better.
"They're doing a pretty good job down in Arizona, which is the main border crossing. ... I think there's a thousand more border patrol agents along the border. We’re modernizing border techniques, we’re using better surveillance methods to stop this crossing at the border."
The president contended, however, that illegal immigration was driven primarily by the economic realities of the region.
"If you can make 50 cents in the interior of Mexico and five bucks in the interior of the United States, you're coming for the five bucks," he explained.
"I happen to believe the best way to enhance the border is to have temporary-worker cards available for people," he said. "I think the long-term solution for this issue on our border is for Mexico to grow a middle class. That's why I believe in NAFTA."
When warned that "a lot of people are not going to like that answer," Bush told O'Reilly, "Well it’s a, a truthful answer."
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Yes, Bush is right on with RKBA (so far), elimination of the IRS/IRC for a non-enslaving tax and his overseas prosecution of the war to push back the Muhammadan invaders...
You are welcome FRiend!
I don't believe your numbers. Prove it.
Commence frenzied searching through your American Patrol e-mails.
1. Wall
2. Devastating fines for employers who hire Illegals
Switzerland is unique among nations. Small, defensible, neutral in world wars, a collector of dictators' gold. So let's name some nations that aren't tiny gold-swollen neutral tax havens, which are successful long-term bilingual bicultural nations. It should be easy.
Very depressing. We're going to get our "one-world utopia" shoved down our throats, like it or not.
Some Freepers, while sincere, either don't think issues like this through, or are just too extreme to be effective or desirable as any kind of policy makers.
"Put the military on the border" satisfies an authoritarian instinct, and speaks to a legit issue: the border, as it stands now, is a mess. Clearly we need to change things.
But the military on the border types are whacked out, plain and simple. They haven't thought it through, and appear unwilling to think it through.
I for one am glad that they are in a hopeless minority in our movement, and that they tend to marginalize themselves. I always wonder about weak, ineffective types who want other men to go out with guns blazing - there must be some odd pshyco-sexual thing going on.
In any case, anyone who thinks we should gun down smiling folks making a break to the USA for a better life, and maybe snipe their cute little family, has no place in conservative or Republican ranks.
They should just play wargames on their PCs to satisfy their immature instincts, or maybe go play paintball wargames some weekends.
Oh, BELGIUM. Great! America will be the great success that BELGIUM is, a haven for pedophiles in government, where they smash trains into one another because they can't understand each other from one end of that tiny duchy to the other!
Any country that can produce the FN FAL or FN P90 can't be ALL bad (c8
rofl, don't be too sure, they don't practice birth control.
You asked for a country that fit your criteria. It does not follow that we would become like them in all other respects, though building strawmen was the point of this exercise, wasn't it?
And Albania is going to be Serbia's neighbor for a long time.
Look at what open borders for cheap wage costs got them in the formerly Serbian province of Kosovo.
True enough, though I must point out that the 'trains run on time' thing was Mussolini. German trains ALWAYS ran on time.
Depends on the definition of "culture".
The unique wonder of America is our cultural understanding of our God-given inalienable rights. It goes from God to we individuals to government.
That's our "culture". We've built and been blessed by empowering institutions that are unique in human history.
Our culture is pervasive. World wide. It's the culture of individualism and freedom. That's why we're hated by the elites.
The guy coming across the border (unless he's a jihadi) wants a piece of our dream.
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