Republicans for Open Borders

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REPUBLICANS FOR OPEN BORDERS

By Michelle Malkin   ·   October 22, 2004 07:44 AM

^&*$%#@$%^#!

Sorry for the spleen-venting so early in the morning, but read this from the AP, headlined "Bush wants intelligence bill free of immigration provisions:"

The White House yesterday asked Congress to reject an attempt in the House to place illegal-immigration measures in an intelligence reform bill.

The Bush administration wants "an effective bill that both Houses can pass and the president can sign into law as soon as possible to meet the nation's security needs," national security adviser Condoleezza Rice and budget director Joshua Bolten said in a letter to congressional leaders.

Bush earlier called for lawmakers to hurry and finish their negotiations. "These reforms are necessary to stay ahead of the threats," the president said in a campaign speech Monday. "I urge Congress to act quickly so I can sign them into law."

The letter came as congressional negotiators prepared for their first public meeting today to negotiate a compromise on legislation to reform the intelligence community based on the recommendations of the Sept. 11 commission. While behind-the-scenes staff meetings have occurred, no resolution has been reached on illegal immigration measures that Republican House leaders want and that the Senate refused to consider.

The House bill would expand the number of illegal immigrants subject to quick deportation by increasing the amount of time they would have to be in the United States to be exempted from speedy deportation.

It also would force asylum seekers accused by their home countries of being involved in terrorist or guerrilla activities to prove that their race, religion, nationality or political opinion would be a "central reason" for their persecution if deported.

"The administration strongly opposes the overbroad expansion of expedited removal authorities, and has concerns about the provision addressing asylum; these sections should be modified or dropped altogether," the letter from Rice and Bolten said.

The White House provided a copy of the letter to The Associated Press yesterday...

It's stupid White House stunts like this that make it very tempting to just stay home on Election Day.

As I reported on Oct. 6:

In an even more shameful betrayal, the White House is now reportedly pressuring stalwart House Republicans into scrapping important immigration enforcement provisions of the House Intelligence Bill that speed up the deportation process and bar illegal aliens from obtaining valuable driver's licenses or using easy-to-fake foreign consular ID cards. Why? Because they are politically unpopular with ethnic constituencies.

This race is not just about who is better able to hunt down and destroy our enemies abroad. It's about who is more willing to hunt them down right here, jail them, kick them out and keep them out of our home. President Bush has shown he can stand up to the international Axis of Weasels. He must show the same resolve against La Raza, the immigration lawyers and Teddy Kennedy.

When I wrote that column, I was criticized by Bush supporters for my "bad timing" and for not being a "team player." You're right, some readers commented, but why don't you just keep quiet until after the election?

My bad timing? NO, I WILL NOT KEEP QUIET.

At a time when President Bush is trying to convince undecided voters that he is the better choice to protect this country, the last thing the White House should be doing is flaunting its open borders agenda. The immigration enforcement provisions in the House version of the bill, H.R. 10, are supported by House Republican leaders and are the very measures suggested by the 9/11 commission report.

See here and here for detailed legislative analysis.

As I have noted many, many, many, many times, deportation and asylum reform are keys to effective immigration enforcement. You could put 30,000 paramilitary troops along the border, and it still wouldn't be enough unless you stopped the catch-and-release games being played inside our borders.

And as Dan Stein of FAIR points out:

"The 9/11 Commission did not limit the scope of its investigation to intelligence failures, and passing a reform bill that address only intelligence failures is tantamount to fixing the hole in sail while ignoring the crack in the keel. 9/11 was a multifaceted failure of intelligence, bureaucratic turf wars, immigration policy and enforcement, and common sense that led to catastrophic consequences.

For Congress to cave-in to special interest pressure and remove the immigration reform provisions of the bill and claim that the problem has been fixed would be an act of unprecedented irresponsibility. To deny that immigration reforms were even called for is simply an insult to the intelligence of anyone who has read the report.

I couldn't put it any better than one of my readers did this in an e-mail to me this morning:

Kerry doesn't need an "October surprise," the Republicans are doing it to themselves!

$%^#@!!

The White House comment line is 202-456-1111.

The Senate conferees are:

* Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) - 202-224-2523
* Sen. George Voinovich (R-OH) - 202-224-3353
* Sen. Norm Coleman (R-MN) - 202-224-5641
* Sen. John Sununu (R-NH) - 202-224-2841
* Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS) - 202-224-4774
* Sen. Mike DeWine (R-OH) - 202-224-2315
* Sen. Trent Lott (R-MS) - 202-224-6253
* Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) - 202-224-4041
* Sen. Carl Levin(D-MI) - 202-224-6221
* Sen. Richard Durbin (D-IL) - 202-224-2152
* Sen. John Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) - 202-224-6472
* Sen. Bob Graham (D-FL) - 202-224-3041
* Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) - 202-224-3224

[FITZ]

But that doesn't mean you'll get everything you want. It's time to be president, not El Presidente. You may be infatuated with Fox, but we aren't.

It's difficult to see that infatuation with Vicente Fox --- his party did very poorly in the July elections this year so it's not like he's a good leader, he had accomplished nothing --- evidenced by the even more desperate immigration in recent months and the skyrocketing violent crime rates --- and Vicente Fox has done nothing to support Bush --- not in Iraq, not in any way. He's nothing but a back-stabbing extortioner.

[Mamzelle]

What happens if he loses? I wondering if that might not help the situation.

[FITZ]

I don't see how it could help the situation because for one --- Kerry is at least as bad and Kerry knows full well that most of those coming from Mexico and especially those coming for the handouts will vote for democrats. Bush is better on other issues --- health care for example --- we're screwed on health care if Kerry wins. Abortion is another issue.

[Mamzelle]

LOL--I meant, if Fox loses. Am I wrong, but isn't he in political trouble.

[FITZ]

Also --- imagine what Kerry would do to the Supreme Court --- would we rather have Supreme Court Justice Scalia or Thomas --- or something like Supreme Court Justice Hillary? I think our hopes are with the Republican Congress --- and here in Texas Congressmen Reyes and another democrat are working on border control. There are some who realize the seriousness of this issue.

[FITZ]

LOL!! If Fox's party loses --- no big deal --- it's done nothing to fix the mess anyhow. Fox can't run again anyhow --- I think his wife of 3 years decided not to run after all --- Lopez Obrador right now is the front runner --- and he's from the PRD party.

[FITZ]

We're supposed to think Lopez Obrador is a Chavez-style Communist --- but he did attempt to do something about crime in the Capital --- he's the one who hired Guilliani. He couldn't be worse than Fox at any rate --- Fox had his chance early on to do something but he chose instead to come up with stupid demands like demanding "the Whole Enchilada" and devised an economic plan called "sending your citizens out of their homeland" economics. A complete disaster. Now that one out of five is out ---- he can only demand many many more be taken in by us.

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[RnMomof7]

I saw a news piece on a town in Georgia .

They stood in a neighbor hood of formerly very nice middle class homes that is now almost all boarding houses for the illegals.

The man they interviewed used to live there until there were men using his lawn as a public toilet and garbage dump.
He said we are turning into a 3rd world nation .
They showed pictures of Mexican men standing on a corner waiting for some one to come to hire day labor .

When a car pulls up there is shoving and pushing to get in.

This used to be a nice neighborhood of newer 150,00 homes or so... no more it is now little Mexico . This is Georgia, not New Mexico .

But I guess the men in Washington do not worry about things like this (especially with their new 3oK raise)

Just a little more

"Let them eat cake"

[winker]

What he is likely to get with this nonsense is a "INTELLIGENCE FREE BILL" that plays directly into the enemies hand and continues to destroy the voters confidence!

[B4Ranch]

I'm not concerned with Kerry taking Nevada.

The other day I read "we can get 50 beautiful women to run for Miss America, but we can only get two mediocre politicians as runners for the position President of the United States". How true and how truly disgusting!

You are damn right we need to make changes. Forty years ago President Bush would have been viewed as a far left wing Democrat. If Kennedy had tried to keep the borders open there would have be a civil war.

I don't have a bleeding heart for poor foreigners and their children like President Bush does. The ideas of open borders and no child left behind sounds like something that Kofi Annan or Ted Kennedy would say. Instead it came out of the mouth of a man who says he's a Republican!

A Republican would never have pushed for the law of the Seas Treaty. He's whining about some decent immigration restrictions that we want on HR 10. Rockefeller is doing it also. Who's more Republican?

Kerry, to me is less than mediocre, where I see the President as mediocre because he is allowing an invasion of foreigners to walk across our borders in excess of 1000 every 24 hours.I cannot hold my nose and vote for him.

I have had it up to here with these people who join the Republican Party and say they are Republicans. Thankfully, my state rep, Jim Gibbons still remembers what a Republican is. He's got my entire family vote because when I call his office I get a response and he'll even listen to his supporters. If my kids had the time they would volunteer for him. Neither one of them can stand the President. That opinion came without any encouragement from me.

Having an R after your name is no guarantee that you are not a (R)INO. I will not vote the Party line until we make some large changes. Literally humongous changes.

[unspun]

After looking through your post, I would simply ask you not to shirk your responsibility to vote for the candidate of the two who is willing to fight for our national sovereignty.

Compare what the two of them said about illegal immigration in their third debate and you will see a real difference. It may not be the difference you want, but that does not change the fact of the moral requirement to vote for George W. Bush.

[Joe Hadenuf]

We watched that news segment from the west coast. We started seeing that type of activity 20 years ago. Now the east coast, and all points in between are experiencing this. It'll get much worse there. Trust me brother.

[Joe Hadenuf]

Bump that.

[CWOJackson]

Good advice but the scorched earth crowd doesn't believe in a rationale approach to politics; it's far more fun to be vocal and irrelevant.

[B4Ranch]

>>vote for the candidate of the two who is willing to fight for our national sovereignty.<<

Who might this be? The man who wants to sign sovereignty surrendering treaties with the United Nations and leaves our borders open to an invasion of foreigners?

Are you kidding me or don't you understand what is happening in Washington today?

Do you comprehend what the words 'protect and serve' of his Oath of Office means?

They do not mean leaving our borders open nor signing sovereignty surrendering treaties with the United Nations!

[Veritas et equitas ad Votum]

I guess you haven't checked out this endorsement by the American Conservative endorsing Kerry. The truth of the matter is that a message has to be sent to the GOP neocon leaders that we don't want their big government, global policemen, enormous deficits, medicare/public education expansion, invisible border security anymore.

I've had enough of the RINOs, there are 2 real Republicans that I can think of right now, Tancredo and Ron Paul. The rest are sell outs to everyone but me and you. I'm going to vote for Bush, but I'm telling you right now that there will be an enormous civil war in the GOP for the next 3 years. The closet socialists will favor Jeb/Giuliani while the real conservatives will try to get someone like Tancredo/Moore (Roy). Our country is in such great peril, only a dramatic and unabashed shift back to nationalism and public faith in God can save us. The Bush family will not save this republic. Karl Rove and Rumsfeld will not save this republic. Bill Frist, Trent Lott, Susan Collins, and Ted Stevens will not save this republic.

We must pull together, as Buchanan suggests in his endorsement, and vote against Kerry. But we must begin having real debates immediately about the failure of the Bush administration to reduce government, the mistakes being made in Iraq, the huge deficit problem, and the pathetic attempts at border security.