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BUSH'S IMMIGRATION PET PHRASES
michellemalkin.com ^ | 12/20/2004 | Michelle Malkin

Posted on 12/20/2004 12:21:42 PM PST by nanak

After the White House news conference this morning, Bill Kristol on Fox News praised President Bush's remarks about "immigration reform" as "eloquent." Beg to differ. The president's open-borders statements were empty, garish platitudes strung together sloppily like cheap Christmas lights:

Illegal aliens "do the job Americans won't do." President Bush used that dog-tired phrase about a half-dozen times during today's press conference as he defended his impending illegal alien amnesty plan. Mark Krikorian effectively puts this mindless rhetoric to rest here.

"Family values don't stop at the Rio Grande." Uh huh. Well, terrorists and gang members and drunken murderers and cop-killers don't stop there either. And based on past and recent experience, granting amnesty to 13 million law-breakers will only result in more illegal immigration, not less.

We need immigration reform that "recognizes reality." Rank-and-file immigration enforcement officials give a real reality check on the amnesty debacle here, here, and here.

As immigration enforcement veteran/former U.S. prosecutor Peter Nunez put it:

[W]e need to stop the talk of a coming amnesty, or of a guest worker program, both of which, by themselves, serve to encourage additional illegal immigration. What kind of message are we sending when we dangle that possibility before people desperate enough to put their lives at risk? Doesn’t this kind of talk also indicate that we really don’t care much about law breaking, that we don’t really care that much about the rule of law, that these immigration laws exist only as a token objection to the violation of our sovereignty? Now, that is eloquent.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; bush; imigration; immigrantlist
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To: Nick Danger

You're a fraud.


321 posted on 12/21/2004 8:00:23 PM PST by Joe Hadenuf ( I called the White House to complain, I got "Press one for English".)
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To: Echo Talon
I don't think he has had anyone pursuade him to do anytinhg about the border, yet...

Dubya is out there making speeches and supporting legislation even though he obviously hasn't even thought about immigration nor been advised of the facts. He's so stupid.

If that's not what you meant to say you should re-examine your words. That is how you sound.

322 posted on 12/21/2004 8:00:32 PM PST by Once-Ler (My name is Once-Ler, King of Kings. Look on my works, ye Mighty, and dispair!)
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To: Joe Hadenuf

Merry Christmas to you too, Joe.


323 posted on 12/21/2004 8:06:01 PM PST by Nick Danger (Want some wood?)
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To: dagnabbit
Seriously, could we have been worse off with Kerry?

another keeper. dagnabbit laments the Kerry loss.

324 posted on 12/21/2004 8:09:30 PM PST by Once-Ler (My name is Once-Ler, King of Kings. Look on my works, ye Mighty, and dispair!)
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To: Once-Ler

Thanks for the bump!

Again - don't just vent on FR, call congress and encourage others to do the same. I called today and was told they're getting calls on this.

House switchboard 202-225-3131
Senate switchboard 202-224-3121
Or directory assistance for the district office number.

Tell them your schools, safety, hospitals, language, culture and right to live work under American conditions are more important than George Bush's bizarre need to pander to the Mexican government and others.

Congress has defeated Bush's previous underhanded attempts to sneak through amnesty. Help 'em defeat this one too.


325 posted on 12/21/2004 8:11:38 PM PST by dagnabbit (Defeat George Bush's Dishonest Amnesty Scheme. No Mexico Merger. No Global Labor Market.)
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To: StoneColdGOP
SO sick of hearing that.

Family values don't stop at the Rio Grande.

326 posted on 12/21/2004 8:11:38 PM PST by Once-Ler (My name is Once-Ler, King of Kings. Look on my works, ye Mighty, and dispair!)
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To: Once-Ler
Dubya is out there making speeches and supporting legislation even though he obviously hasn't even thought about immigration nor been advised of the facts. He's so stupid. If that's not what you meant to say you should re-examine your words. That is how you sound.

Yes his advisers are failing him, and we are failing him by NOT persuading him to tighten the borders...

327 posted on 12/21/2004 9:41:43 PM PST by Echo Talon
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To: dagnabbit
Again - don't just vent on FR, call congress and encourage others to do the same. I called today and was told they're getting calls on this.

House switchboard 202-225-3131
Senate switchboard 202-224-3121
Or just use the same list you used a weeks ago when you failed to stop The National Intelligence Reform Act of 2004. Or the same numbers that failed to stop Specter from the Judiciary Chair. This message brought to you by Sprint!

Tell them you are a kook. Talk about conspiracies against the purity of national identity. Say King George. Swear and quote the Bible a lot. We need your help.

328 posted on 12/21/2004 10:30:17 PM PST by Once-Ler (My name is Once-Ler, King of Kings. Look on my works, ye Mighty, and dispair!)
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To: Once-Ler

Thank you for supporting the effort to protect our borders and to enforce immigration law! Keep up the good work!

Again: To help stop the Bush Amnesty scheme

House switchboard 202-225-3131
Senate switchboard 202-224-3121


329 posted on 12/21/2004 10:33:22 PM PST by dagnabbit (Defeat George Bush's Dishonest Amnesty Scheme. No Mexico Merger. No Global Labor Market.)
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