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."
Agreed.
Ok...
If you fine every hospital that treats an illegal $1 million per patient per incident.
If you fine every school that educates an illegal or illegal kid $1 million per student per year.
If you fine every employer that hires an illegal $1 million per worker per year.
If you punish every landlord that rents to an illegal by the confiscation of their property.
The illegal immigration problem will solve itself illegal immigrants will deport themselves. This will not require militarizing the border. All this will require is backbone from a President who - on this issue - completely lacks one.
Probably. I pity anyone living within his immediate range: the guy is a rageaholic.
No, it's a long-standing cultural problem with Mexico. It’s a culture of intractable corruption which renders their legal system of “payoffs and bribes” wholly incapable of supporting a safe environment for business investment, and free enterprise. And cultural problems don't just suddenly go away; it takes a few generations to change it.
Really? Prove it. Beyond a reasonable doubt. In a court of law.
Then try to get a law passed that crossing a border without authorization is a capital crime.
Tonight marks the Harvest Moon in our old haunts in the Far East. Think of the fun we're missing.
You suspect wrong. I voted for him in 2000, but never again, he lost me along with many other of his former supporters.
Rest assured, 'rad', when & if the buildings blow, and it if can be attributed to lax border policies, political heads will roll.
That's the american way. We don't chop heads on maybe's & if's.
Yes, let's make it government policy to intentionally blast unarmed civilians to Kingdom Come.
Riiiiight.
Keep in mind that the lower 48 States have a perimeter of approximately 18,500 miles. You want to set up a DMZ along all 18,500 miles of America's frontier? You go and pay for the million full-time federal employees that will take. (740,000 actual guards, 260,000 support).
Be glad HTML doesn't have a "smell" tag.
At any given moment there are hundreds of similar sites all over Cochise County. Our government does nothing; the mess gets cleaned up by volunteers. Our local public health officials are insisting on full hazmat procedures.
>Kerry will hold his nose and announce major immigration
>initiatives that will catch Bush flatfooted.
I can't possibly imagine that Kerry would do such a thing. If he were to do it, however, I think your 5%-7% predicted swing would be a mere shadow of the voters who would switch away from Bush to Kerry.
Given the supermajority of voters who say that they are seriously disturbed by this issue, it would be a winning strategy for Kerry.
Uh, right. Call John Edwards - I believe you've found an even faster way to destroy American health care than he's come up with!
In a fevered fantasy ER, not too far in the future...
Gasp... pant... "Help me, I've got shooting pains in my left arm and jaw, and there's an elephant on my chest..."
"Papers please!"
"Ah, your papers are not in order. We will not treat you. The police have been summoned."
I've smelled worse.
And this is different from any holler in Kentucky, exactly how? Oh, yeah, that's right - you get to blame Mexicans for it!
Is your next lecture on how we owe it to 'the children'?
>In a fevered fantasy ER, not too far in the future...
>Gasp... pant... "Help me, I've got shooting pains in my left
>arm and jaw, and there's an elephant on my chest..."
>"Papers please!"
>"Ah, your papers are not in order. We will not treat you. The
>police have been summoned."
That's fine with me. You want to pay for the guy's bypass? You go right ahead.
Obviously, there will be one doctor and one hospital who will choose, for misguided reasons such as yours, not to comply. After the first such incident and fine the hospital adminsitrator will take steps to come into compliance.
People will not come to a land where they are assured of unemployment, homelessness, no education, and no medical care.
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