Posted on 03/24/2005 7:52:05 AM PST by mikemikemikecubed
Edited on 03/24/2005 5:24:25 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
WACO, Texas -- President Bush yesterday said he opposes a civilian project to monitor illegal aliens crossing the border, characterizing them as "vigilantes." He said he would pressure Congress to further loosen immigration law. More than 1,000 people -- including 30 pilots and their private planes -- have volunteered for the Minuteman Project, beginning next month along the Arizona-Mexico border. Civilians will monitor the movement of illegal aliens for the month of April and report them to the Border Patrol. Mr. Bush said after yesterday's continental summit, with Mexican President Vicente Fox and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin at Baylor University, that he finds such actions unacceptable. "I'm against vigilantes in the United States of America," Mr. Bush said at a joint press conference. "I'm for enforcing the law in a rational way." The Minuteman Project was born out of a long-held perception among many residents that more Border Patrol agents are needed to handle the flow of illegal immigrants. Mr. Bush was criticized by both Republicans and Democrats earlier this month for failing to add 2,000 agents to the Border Patrol, as set out in the intelligence overhaul legislation he signed in December. The president's 2006 budget allows enough money to add only 210 agents for the U.S. borders with Canada and Mexico. Mr. Bush said he will "continue to push for reasonable, common-sense immigration policy." He has proposed legislation to grant guest-worker status to millions of illegal aliens already in the United States. The legislation has attracted scant support in Congress, where it is widely regarded as another amnesty that will encourage even more illegal immigration.
Great "open letter to Presidente Arbusto!"
Nothing will happen until some concerned person down on the border booby traps one of the wetback trails and take out a couple.
Some of the stories I have read of people scared in their own homes seems to be pointing that way.
Of course. The New World Order is almost here. The insurmountable debt and no middle class to pay it back will quickly move US into the hands of totalitarian regimes.
Because the two status-quo choices are not good.
That would play into John Kerry and the liberals' hands. A vote for Pat Buchanan or the Constitution Party is a vote for Kerry.
S**t happens. Ask Al Gore.
George Bush clearly has a mandate in regards to his pro-immigration policies.
Votes from 12% of the US population isn't a "mandate", and it doesn't seem many "freepers" support the program.
If you don't like it, then you're a socialistic DEMOCRAP
That was just juvenile.
VIVA GEORGE BUSH!!!
At least you are geting a head start on the new national langues. Although I believe it is "Vive Jorge Bush esse".
Stu, stop being dense. That has been explained to you enough times. There is no way that any one of us could vote for Kerry. Bush was all that was left, and fact is, he is doing well in many areas and deserved the vote.
But he has totally screwed the pooch on this one. Whatever good will he may have engendered by other actions is gone now.
Not yet, I 'll get to it soon.
You have nailed it in a nutshell.
annex Mexico, nobody wants to live there anyway.
just kidding of course
Then you are vigilantes. Deal with it.
Article I Section 8 Cl 15
To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions:
Mr. President, if you had done your job and taken care of our borders these private citizens wouldn't have to be there!
Yes, allowing the country to be occupied by foreign nationals, and keeping the border incredibly insecure is very "deserving" of "conservative" votes.
And I have a purple pet monkey.
But he has totally screwed the pooch on this one. Whatever good will he may have engendered by other actions is gone now.
Yes. And "screwing the pooch" this badly pretty much negated any good that may have been done, IMHO.
You do a good deed, and then hand the country over. Is this an admirable thing?
Couldn't have said it better myself.
It's a crying shame what our government is allowing to happen to US citizens along the border. It's like a tale from the twilight zone.
What took you so long? ;-)
There were no conservatives on the 2004 ballot.
We just like to call anyone who isn't far-left a "conservative", but not being a liberal does not make one a conservative.
I'm I am not that convinced that GWB isn't a liberal.
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