[EagleUSA]

Open borders and unaccountable corporations that hire illegals ALREADY BENEFIT from the taxpayer's subsidy of illegal workers ---

So what is new Bush? Still the same old amnesty shell game...

[CasearianDaoist]

Mr. President, listen to DeLay.

[Defiant]

I have no problem with a guest program where the illegals have to go home first and apply to be allowed to come here to work legally and temporarily. If they have a job they have been doing, they can come back and continue doing it, under supervision and while paying taxes. We can then send them home in a few years.

But a guest worker program that simply legalizes all the illegals in place is unacceptable. The GOP will implode if it tries to push that on us.

[Red Badger]

Oh well, a "guest" worker is better than a "guessed" worker, I suppose........

[Kurt_D]

I still don't buy they argument of "there are jobs Americans won't do". It can be repeated 1,000,000 times and I won't believe it for a second.

Here's my solution: Reduce unemployment and welfare benefits. Then people WILL take those jobs.

[jb6]

GRAPEVINE - President Bush told a crowd of state legislators Wednesday that he will push immigration reform as beneficial for U.S. employers as well as foreigners looking for work

Thank you Mr. President. How about the benefit to the average American who is a worker not an employee? Oh that's right, he gets to watch his wages drop, opportunity decrease and continues to pay for benefits for the illegals and quasi-legals.

Gee, Mr.Bush, can you possibly work any harder to get the Democrap majority back in Congress? Pushing this plan against the wishes of the majority of your own party and the people is nothing short of giving Hitlery victory.

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

We are going to have to put up a solid front against this no matter how nasty it gets. Georgie is not going to give my country away.

[k2blader]

Just when I thought he couldn't do any worse on this issue..

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

And it's not his (country) to give away.

[jaydubya2]

It might work out well, since we're sending all our jobs across the boarder.

[glorgau]

Wow, Bush just doesn't get it. It is this kind of myopic viewpoint that will lose elections for Republicans. American law should protect ALL Americans, not just those with money.

[Cecily]

"If you are a willing employer (and) you have somebody looking for work and you can't find an American ...."

This is a cop-out, Mr. President. You know full well employers who can get away with paying illegals $2.00 an hour under the table or some such thing are going to do it. Furthermore, WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO GET SERIOUS ABOUT GAINING CONTROL OF OUR BORDERS??? Our soldiers are fighting terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan and getting killed and hurt doing it, yet those lunatics can just stroll right in here from Mexico at will if they so desire.

GWB has been so very disappointing on these issues.

[glorgau]

"If you are a willing employer (and) you have somebody looking for work and you can't find an American (for the $2/hour with no benefits that you want to pay), there ought to be a legal way for you to employ that person,(rather than ignoring the law as you do now)" he said. "We'd rather have people coming in with a card that said, 'I'm a legal worker,' than trying to sneak across the border."

[Nebr FAL owner]

Jorge Bush is reverting back to the "can't we all just get along' mindset that the country club republicans have . Just as politically tone deaf on this as his father was on taxes.

[Willie Green]

That pissant never shuts up, does he?

[cripplecreek]

The GOP had better pay attention to the American people on this issue.

[Non-Sequitur]

"If you are a willing employer (and) you have somebody looking for work and you can't find an American, there ought to be a legal way for you to employ that person,"

So what is to stop employers from using this reasoning to employ guest workers in IT, Accounting, Finance, Engineering, Medicine, any field where they can cut the salary 20 or 40 or 60 percent?

[HKMk23]

Federal and State government spending and regulatory legislation drive taxation and regulatory measures which increase the cost of goods and decrease the resources of consumers, driving consumers to seek higher wages through organized labor efforts or vertical career moves and increasing the number of consumers who cannot access income sources that keep them above the "poverty line". Punitive measures built into public assistance programs ensure that consumers taking advantage of these programs cannot access low-paying jobs without placing their benefits at risk, so those jobs must be filled by someone else, illegal aliens being first in line.

The entire problem is driven by taxation levvied to fund out-of-control spending by politicians creating programs that reward special interests for their campaign support, and regulatory legislation passed by legislators for the same reason.

If government lowers taxes and loosens regulatory requirements, the cost of goods drops, more consumers have more to spend, the income from more jobs will keep more consumers above the "poverty line" and more Americans will be able to fill more low-income jobs and still make ends meet.

Short story: Lay it all at the feet of the New Deal and the tax-and-spenders. The DNC is NOT a friend of America.

[montag813]

"If you are a willing employer (and) you have somebody looking for work and you can't find an American, there ought to be a legal way for you to employ that person,"

Obviously there are many crimes which Americans are unwilling to commit, since 30% of our prisons are populated with these wonderful, hard working "immigrants".

[Die_Hard Conservative Lady]

I'm sorry and I know it will make some people mad, but I am loosing respect for our President when all this garbage comes out of his mouth....