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.
Why is he pushing this on us??? Can you explain what is the reason for it? Every single statistic that I have seen is that it is costing us Billions, but business is getting a break in cheap labor. Bush is becoming an enemy and I only put himn one step above Kerry.
That's not exactly what he said. He wasn't requiring the ones who were here illegally to go home. Nor was he telling anyone how it would be enforced, since it currently is not being enforced.
Anyway you slice it, that's amnesty. You have to learn to speak "politician".
"Revenue Enchancement" anyone?
it is another to call citizens that help monitor the border (and do not interact with the illegals) as vigilanties.
Yeah, that's *almost* as stupid as amnesty when millions cross the border each year. But not quite as stupid.
... If Stalin and Hitler were on the ballot, who would you vote for?...
We'll find out, since that'll be the ballot in 08.
Someday maybe I'll find out Fox's astonishing hold on GW Bush.
Puhlease, they are trying to say that the people monitoring the border (both citizens and government agents) are the ones that are "hunting" "migrant people".
I have gotten tired of President Bush on certain domestic items like immigration. If Kerry was not worse on every item, I would have abstained or voted for a Third Party.
No. I don't understand it at all. It has been a cause of his for awhile, and I never quite got it.
I think he may have a slight man-crush on Vicente Fox (or maybe a full on romance), but i'm not sure. He does the guy's bidding.
Every single statistic that I have seen is that it is costing us Billions, but business is getting a break in cheap labor. Bush is becoming an enemy and I only put himn one step above Kerry.
When you encourage the country to be invaded, you aren't a step above anyone, IMHO. That's worse than a BJ under the desk.
I just hope it's above the waist.
I'm beginning to wonder.
I am beginning to believe that he patterend himself after Bill Clinton's successful campaign style.
Define yourself as the savior of all the things they can't live without, and then stir in an equal measure of things they can't live with.
Sounds d*mn near satanic, doesn't it?
--Can someone please explain Bush's apparent lack of logic on border control?--
--Latin Vote, that's it and that's all.--
And, if that's the case, it's still not logical. The illegals vote for Democrats, peiod (now if that doesn't speak volumes for our situation). And a large percentage of the middle class hispanics are not in favor of having all these illegals.
Personally, I think we, as private citizens, have a constitutional right AND duty to patrol our borders
The stupid GOP is laying the seeds of their own (and our) destruction. Terri isn't the one who is brain dead in this country!
Yup. No surprises, just a consistant disappointment.
Of course, Kerry didn't just want to amnest illegals, he wanted to make 'em citizens...
Bump
It is difficult to understand the President of the United States wanting to "go easy" on illegals flooding across our borders from Mexico.
Seeing the Mexicans invading our country is bad enough but, My God, what are the consequences of this policy. Terrorists are a lot of things, but they are not stupid. They will taker advantage of this opportunity that the President is providing them to the detrement of a multitude of citizens of our country who will suffer from these wrong headed policies.
I can recognize a hit piece when I read it.
When Bush gets criticized by conservatives for making statements like these he's asking for it since he's done so little to secure the borders or enforce the laws.
I was referring to the fact that he called the minutemen, "vigilantes". That he would refer to them in that way is what I am talking about.
That has bean the plan all along...Si...I tink...
the two party cabal..
Mena Arkansas
I just got an email saying they are trying to attach the AgJobs Amnesty onto the Iraq supplemental spending bill.
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