Posted on 03/17/2005 7:51:37 PM PST by Conservative Firster
Q: Thank you. Scott, I have a question on a possible solution. Mexico's President, Vicente Fox, is demanding that the walls now along the U.S.-Mexican border be torn down, saying that they're discriminatory and against freedom. At his meeting with Fox next week, will the President agree to tear down the walls, or will he insist they be kept?
MR. McCLELLAN: Well, the focus of next week's meeting is on strengthening our security and expanding our prosperity in the hemisphere. It's a trilateral meeting with Canada and with President Fox. They're going to have lunch after the morning meetings, but the focus of this meeting is on our initiative to move forward on strengthening security and making sure that we are all doing what we can to protect our borders, while also allowing for the free flow of goods and services and easing the flow of people among our borders, and then, also making sure that we are taking -- well, on the prosperity side, I've talked about the free flow of goods and services. Prosperity and security go hand-in-hand. And all our nations have been working to take steps to make sure we have a common approach on security and a common approach on expanding prosperity.
Now, in terms of the issue you bring up, the larger issue here is really making sure that we have a safe, orderly, and humane migration system. And this is something the President has worked on for many years, going back to his days as governor. He's talked about it with President Fox at length, and he's also put forward some proposals for achieving those objectives.
We've taken a number of steps to strengthen our border security, and we've also put forward a proposal that shows our compassion and addresses an important economic need, and that is the temporary worker program that the President proposed, because we have, I think, some 8 million illegal immigrants who have been coming to this country seeking to work, and it's a problem. And the President believes the plan that he put forward addresses that problem, addresses an economic need, and we will make sure that people who are coming here illegally are treated in a more humane way, because they'll now become part of a temporary program and be here legally.
So that's the way the President is looking at addressing these issues, and it addresses the larger issue, so that we do accomplish that shared goal.
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None of which have done a damn thing to even slow the tide of the incoming one iota...
What is really tragic for America is WASHINGTON'S UNWILLINGNESS TO FIGHT THIS ISSUE, STAND UP AGAINST THIS STRANGE FORM OF EXTORTION from Fox. Why is Bush cowering on this issue??? Is he just worried about 2008 ??
Washington certainly is not worried about our borders, what is coming across them, the legal and national significance of thier criminal neglect of the issue, and certainly not worried about what it is costing the taxpayers in this country......
What in the hell is going on ???
" Is he just worried about 2008 ?? "
If he was worried about '08 he would be doing something about the open borders. What GWB is worried about is keeping the flow of money coming in from those that benefit from hiring illegals...those being his corporate buddies. Bush is disgusting.
What GWB is worried about is keeping the flow of money coming in from those that benefit from hiring illegals...those being his corporate buddies...
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With as many as there are with that opinion, I just cannot accept it. What little money (relatively speaking) that is being saved, is NOTHING COMPARED TO WHAT IT IS COSTING THE U.S. TAXPAYER, THE OUTFLOW OF U.S. CURRENCY TO MEXICAN BANKS, AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST, THE SECURITY ISSUES WITH OUR LITERALLY WIDE OPEN BORDERS, THE IMPACT TO OUR COUNTRY'S LEGAL SYSTEM, ETC, ETC....no it does not equate, not at all in my mind.
So from reading this nonresponse, it appears Bush is once again going to placate his good friend Fox.
I smell a New World Odor and it stinks.
"I smell a New World Odor and it stinks."
Naw....you just smellin' the results of that big order of refried beans Fox has sold Bush.
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