Posted on 02/02/2005 11:06:49 PM PST by DoughtyOne
Applause!!! Well said. If only the President did get this one issue.(sigh)
"It's an interesting dynamic, and a program I wish I could participate in."
Me too, doughty. I can't afford to take the time off, but it's one place I'd like to be. I believe in what they're doing.
The folks at wakeupamericafoundation.com are doing some exciting things. Again, I'm limited because of work and my husbands health or I'd be in there with everything I've got.
But they're planning an Illegal Invasion Summit in Vegas for May, also a March on Washington for later on. All members across the nation will be toting cameras to snap photos of those picking up day laborers and will be exposing them nationally and locally. Plans to turn their licenses and logos into the IRS, etc. We hope to expose them on a local basis as well...pictures of their residences, well out of the problems they impose on the rest of us.
We have to go after the employers or nothing will be done.
Some will be headed to the schools to film the absence of students for Cinco de Mayo Day. If Americans see how many students they're forced to pay for, they'll get an idea how bad the situation really is.
In the words of President Bush himself,
"This is not a question of authority.
It is a question of will."
Very well said. Thanks for the effort. I hope that "Dubya"'s not going to sell us out south of border but it doesn't look good.
placemark for later reading
Sounds like a great idea to me but then you get the same (supposedly) Christian crowd (with words and deeds that sound more like a Pharisee) complaining that our jobs are being moved offshore.
The sad truth is that while illegal immigrants do use up some of our federal resources, many Americans are much more the drain on these resources and in far greater scope than the illegal immigrant could ever be.
Excellent points, especially this one! And the president want more people like this who identify themselves to our government so that they may become guest workers.
But I guess it's only "love your neighbor" only so long as he has the same pigmented skin as you do and he truly lives next door.
Anyone notice that the entire Congress, except Tancredo, gave the President a standing ovation on the guest worker program? We are truly headed there.
Oh good, another race baiter. You and the fraud are going to get along great. Blackbird.
There's no other way to put it! The president is proposing that we find out who the immigrants are, collect information on them, and then make allow them to become guest workers if they choose...if they choose not to, then presumably we deport them. Many of you FReepers on this very thread complain that immigrants (not just the illegal ones) drive down our wages and take our jobs but then you simultaneously bitch when business OWNERS take their capital and move it into another country, creating jobs there. It appears on the surface that the outcry against this is motivated by selfishness, anger, and a whole lot of xenophobia - none of which are feelings that a Christian in a state of grace should have. Yet, many of you who express these things are the most vocal about your Christianity. My suggestion is that you should pray more for the intangible things such as wisdom and less for the tangible things (emphasis should be placed on giving thanks to Him for what you do have too).
I suppose now that I'll be accused of faith baiting next?!
Click here and read Governor Huckelbee's RINO-like comments
I believe that there is plenty of blame to go around though I think President Bush sets the tone on this subject but at least he never said the things that the present Governor of Arkansas said.
If a Zell Miller type of Democrat would run for governor of Arkansas against the Huckelee, I believe he'd win and deservedly so.
BTW, Bayourod. Any input on what Huckleberry said about this bill to cut off state aid to illegals?
BTTT
I believe it is time that Americans call the President on this despicable slander against the character and integrity of the American people. I am really tired of hearing him accuse us of lacking sufficient integrity and self-respect to work to support ourselves and our families. Why do we allow him to get away with these outrageous statements without paying a political price? If he really feels this way about American citizens then he can't beleive we deserve or are capable of self-government. Perhaps he should go to Mexico and enter politics there since he thinks so highly of the Mexicans' work ethic! With this attitude he really should resign the Presidency and let someone else who really believes in the American people and our project of self-government be our leader in these dangerous times. If I could speak directly to President Bush about his comment and his entire immigration policy this is what I would say.
There you go again. Mr. President, denigrating all the middle and working class citizens of your own country who are unfortunate enough to have to compete with millions of illegal workers that you are enabling to come here against our wishes and in violation of our democratically enacted laws. Exactly which Americans are you referring to as too lazy and too deficient in moral character to take a job to feed their family? Stop hiding behind the broad accusation of jobs "Americans" won't do. Who are these Americans who won't work? These are the same people you are sending to die in Iraq to win "democracy" for Iraquis for heaven's sake. If you feel this way about your own fellow citizens then how in the world do think we are capable of self-government? I guess you don't and that is why you believe you have the right to ignore what the majority of Americans have repeatedly expressed as their demands on this issue for decades -- enforce our immigration laws! If the Iraquis deserve democracy why don't we?
And while we are talking about "jobs American's won't do" how about the job you promised us you would do? How about doing your job of enforcing our immigration laws? By your refusal to obey your oath of office to faithfully execute the laws you are putting this country and every individual citizen at tremendous risk of terrorist attack as well as undercutting the ability of millions of Americans to earn a living and become self-reliant. We have already seen the results. Our prisons are full of illegal immigrants who have victimized American citizens and we are finding it harder and harder to achieve and sustain a middle class lifestyle because of the competition of illegal third world labor.
What do you say, Mr. President, to the families of the people killed by the Washington DC sniper? This man was an illegal immigrant who was caught by federal officials before his killing spree but who was released because of your administration's policy of non-enforcement of our immigration laws. You and your family have secret service protection, payed for by us lazy taxpayers, but the rest of us peasants have to fend for ourselves. The audacity of demanding that we put up with the rising crime rate from illegal immigrants and the risk of terrorism while you and the other political elites surround yourselves with layers of protection at our expese and all the while repeatedly accusing us of being too lazy and deficient in moral character to work is astounding.
Yes and they all learned English and did not expect companies and schools to teach Spanish to accommodate them the Illegals are not here to become citizens such as those who came before them they come here to get as much as they can to support their families in Mexico.
Do you really believe that someone who breaks are laws to get here is not?
it is primarily one nation that is flooding ours with it's citizens
and that nation is wholly owned by a corrupt government. Proud to be a xenophobe and bigot by opposing Mexicorruption's "Mexican diaspora" (nation beyond borders) and their sponge mob.
Thanks for your thoughts, Doughty.
I agree with you all the way.
APD, your analysis is the only thing which really makes sense. I can see no other explanation.
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