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."
The Bush Administration professionals are on the job.
This entire administrative entity shines from the professionalism that their CEO embodies.
I'm sanguine that the Washington Times, or any other news outlet, has no scoops on this crew.
Deny Deny Deny...
Agreed and I personally find it incredible that a thread such as this can go on endlessly with so much handwringing by the moderate types who say there is no way to stop this nonsense or they're so worried over possible constitutional infringements that they don't even realize if this problem isn't solved and soon, they can kiss the whole republic and our Constitution goodbye anyway. We've already seen what a socialistic "democracy" has done to Calif. and it's easy to see why people and businesses are exiting in droves leaving easy pickings for the Aztlan crowd.
Those who call opposition to illegal immigration "racist" can just be dammed......who the hell cares what they think anyway. They're just using the Communist playbook by demonizing opposition at every opportunity and right now there's not enough people in leadership positions with the stones to tell them where to stick it.......simply disgusting we don't have men and women in leadership that truly believe in America First.
As I see it, illegal immigration is just a conditioning process for the upcoming FTAA which is being sold as another trade deal but is really the vehicle for a hemispheric union ala the EU. In Tx. we're seeing bilingual print in stores, restaurants, billboards, etc. which is nothing more than the banking & business community telling us they're going to stick this new American Union up our collective you know whats regardless of what we think and the whores in CON-gress are just being useful idiots for this whole process. if the FTAA goes through, we'll see an unprecedented attack against our Constitution and legal system that will be something to see. People better wake up and fast.
The world you fear is in between your ears.
BTTT to read later...
I'll remember that when we're burying our dead...
Business property is private property. Business papers are private papers. I (as an employee or prospective employee) am a private person. My papers are private. I can't see the federal government forcing a private employer to demand to see my private papers. Yes, I know they do it now, but that doesn't make it right, doesn't make it constitutional, and there's no way I would advocate expanding the practice, much less advocate making it a federal crime for an employer to not demand seeing my papers.
These are also some of the reasons why I oppose the socialist social security system and the income tax. According to the 4th amendment, the federal government has no business collecting this information from our employers or from ourselves.
Absolutely. Until the day 3rd world nations either rise to our level, or we lower to theirs, the libertarian open border notion is just a pipe dream. We just have to much to lose.
That is correct. And my biggest concern is that it will happen before the election and the demonrats and their media sycophants will use it to install that worthless sos kerry. Not enforcing our immigration laws is the president's achilles heel.
BTTT
Connect your statement to any border incursion.
You're just not right...
You are correct. And that's exactly what the constitution says. Private information is none of the government's business. Guess they'd better beef up the BP so they can catch the illegals in the act of crossing and or come up with some sort of economic incentive for illegals to go home.
Don't waste your time. Some people just can't comprehend blaming someone with an "R" next to their name.
Guess not...
Historical Denial MARKER BTTT
...maybe we could 'first' just build a fence around all the eco-nuts. (...I understand NEW YORK had some success with that 'recently'...)
Once THEY were corraled, maybe THEN we could get some 'protected habitat' declared in this state FOR THE PEOPLE (...OH GOSH!!! What a CONCEPT!!!) ... and THEN!!! ...gosh, who KNOWS what all we could do to address our OTHER problems...??? ...like maybe that fence YOU were mentioning earlier, which was CERTAINLY not a bad idea!!!
Well, that ends that! :>)
At some point you must disengage from suffering foolishness; folks who insist on defending the indefensible or give tacit approval by turning their back...
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