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Bill Clinton: Immigration Crackdown Hurting U.S.
NewsMax.com ^ | Nov. 8, 2005 | Carl Limbacher

Posted on 11/08/2005 7:14:36 AM PST by Carl/NewsMax

Ex-president Bill Clinton is arguing that tighter immigration laws are hurting America, saying the new restrictions aren't worth it even if they stop the "one out of a zillion [foreigners] who might have a bomb."

"I'm very worried that one of the consequences of our tightness on immigration and visas as a result of 9/11 and terror, has led to a drop in many places of the number of foreign students coming to the United States to study and be graduate students," Clinton told an audience at the University of Minnesota on Saturday.

He said the U.S. needed foreign students because "we are nowhere near graduating enough scientists and engineers to maintain, given the size of our economy, a leadership role in the global economy."

Clinton said the terror trade-off wasn't worth it.

"When we got real tough on visas - because one out of a zillion of them might have a bomb - we lost a lot of brains. We might have dodged a bomb but we lost a lot of brains."

On another subject, the former president also praised actress Geena Davis, star of the new ABC Show "Commander in Chief."

"I did see one episode of 'Commander in Chief'," Clinton told the crowd. "Geena Davis is good for two reasons. She looked tough but not macho. She didn't look lion-tough. And she spoke Spanish. So I thought those two things were good."


TOPICS: Front Page News
KEYWORDS: ahabjezebel; aliens; bomb; immigrantlist; immigration; oneinazillion
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To: GOPJ

"Clinton needs to take a good hard look at France."

The Veteran Sink Soldier is more worried about foreign brains being important than safety at home? Does he realize what a bomb does to a brain? Has he ever been able to piece one of those brains back together?

And what about nuclear proliferation in China? What would a nuke due to the brains of a US city? He may be smart in some ways, but when it comes to defense, Bubba Man is an idiot.


221 posted on 11/10/2005 7:25:30 AM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March ("We might have dodged a bomb but we lost a lot of brains." Bill Clinton [Veteran Sink Soldier])
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To: Blurblogger

Clinton justifies his outrageous remark with this tripe:

' He said the U.S. needed foreign students because "we are nowhere near graduating enough scientists and engineers to maintain, given the size of our economy, a leadership role in the global economy." '

Duh! It's all the leftist regulation on construction, and all the taxing on US businesses. THAT's what's discouraging students from taking up engineering. As for science, it's been hijacked by leftist dogma. How can we compete when US 'scientists' spend so much time learning about everything but chemistry? Our colleges are too agenda-driven to compete. Not to mention, their need for quotas also hurts the end product: skilled graduates.

So we have to import foreign scientists and engineers.


222 posted on 11/10/2005 7:35:20 AM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March ("We might have dodged a bomb but we lost a lot of brains." Bill Clinton [Veteran Sink Soldier])
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To: taxed2death; Dane
I'm curious too. Who on this forum is backing the Wicked Witch of NY?
 
"crickets chirping"

223 posted on 11/10/2005 7:59:37 AM PST by Allosaurs_r_us (I can't use the cell phone in the car. I have to keep my hands free for making obscene gestures)
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To: Allosaurs_r_us
Uh see replies #190 thru 196.

Maybe you should read all the posts before sticking your claw in your mouth.

224 posted on 11/10/2005 8:02:01 AM PST by Dane ( anyone who believes hillary would do something to stop illegal immigration is believing gibberish)
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To: Dane

Maybe you should read all the posts before sticking your claw in your mouth.

Ya know what buddy? I don't have time to read every single post on this forum. What I do have time for, is to view replies when someone calls you out.

Why is it you did not reply to taxed2death when you and he were in dialogue? If you had courtesy to answer him we wouldn't be having this conversation. Seems to me, since he was the one to call you on it, he deserved this reply not me. I am merely an interested bystander.


225 posted on 11/10/2005 8:16:44 AM PST by Allosaurs_r_us (I can't use the cell phone in the car. I have to keep my hands free for making obscene gestures)
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To: Allosaurs_r_us
Ya know what buddy? I don't have time to read every single post on this forum. What I do have time for, is to view replies when someone calls you out

Nuff said, t-rex wannabe.

226 posted on 11/10/2005 8:32:12 AM PST by Dane ( anyone who believes hillary would do something to stop illegal immigration is believing gibberish)
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To: ecomcon

My guess is this is a head fake. Hillary will be for finally securing our borders and win with an overwhelming landslide because the Rebuplicans have done nothing but say it is impossible.


227 posted on 11/10/2005 8:36:53 AM PST by beatnick
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To: Dane; Baynative; wagglebee; occutegirl; 1_Inch_Group
"Ruh roh, what are those on FR, who for a year were touting hillary as the savior on immigration going to say now."

Not a problem. Remember where Jesus said,

"Let not your Left Hand know what your LEFTIST hand is doing"

...um, it was something like that, that's not the exact quote....
228 posted on 11/10/2005 9:26:18 AM PST by The Spirit Of Allegiance (SAVE THE BRAINFOREST! Boycott the RED Dead Tree Media & NUKE the DNC Class Action Temper Tantrum!)
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To: Blurblogger

Come on now. Everyone knows that if you close the borders, you also cut off the stream of new exotic females to the underground sex industry. The Bent One is getting older and he needs more variety to get it going.


229 posted on 11/10/2005 9:38:38 AM PST by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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To: Dane
Nuff said, t-rex wannabe.

I'm no wanna be! Allosaurs were on earth way before t-rex got started. Wouldn't have been a "rex" without Allosaurus.

Take a look at my backyard on my home page. I still hunt in order to keep my skills honed. 

230 posted on 11/10/2005 9:44:26 AM PST by Allosaurs_r_us (I can't use the cell phone in the car. I have to keep my hands free for making obscene gestures)
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To: wagglebee

...unghhhhh.

Jesus also said "if your hand offends you, cut it off..."


231 posted on 11/10/2005 9:44:59 AM PST by The Spirit Of Allegiance (SAVE THE BRAINFOREST! Boycott the RED Dead Tree Media & NUKE the DNC Class Action Temper Tantrum!)
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To: Carl/NewsMax
We might have dodged a bomb but we lost a lot of brains."

I think Bubba lost his brains a long time ago.

How I hate that man.

232 posted on 11/10/2005 9:49:00 AM PST by proud American in Canada
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To: Carl/NewsMax

Bill the big thinker. What a guy.


233 posted on 11/10/2005 9:50:09 AM PST by hershey
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To: Williams

As long as it doesn't blow up his house, Clinton the sociopath could care less.


234 posted on 11/10/2005 9:51:02 AM PST by hershey
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To: hershey

Apparently the supply of Democrats from South of the Border is being choked off. Tough, Bill.


235 posted on 11/10/2005 9:52:32 AM PST by MilleniumBug
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To: Allosaurs_r_us; Dane; sauropod; Victoria Delsoul; NYer; little jeremiah; trussell; Salvation; ...

"Allosaurs were on earth way before t-rex got started"

Well.. this is more of a bash-Clinton thread, not a CREVO one--but check out www.AnswersInGenesis.org

All-osaurs. Nun-osaurs (some Sisters are fossils but some are cute, like the Flying Nunosaur). Sauropods. Ipods. Podcasts. Flycasting. My beeber is SO stuned....


236 posted on 11/10/2005 9:53:25 AM PST by The Spirit Of Allegiance (SAVE THE BRAINFOREST! Boycott the RED Dead Tree Media & NUKE the DNC Class Action Temper Tantrum!)
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To: beef

All good ideas.


237 posted on 11/10/2005 9:57:35 AM PST by hershey
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To: hershey

I suggest that all "Google" map requests begin with maps to the Clinton's residences. Wouldn't want any "immigrants" getting lost!


238 posted on 11/10/2005 10:03:28 AM PST by MCPO Airdale
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To: lawnguy

Bill, STFU! Just sit down and wait for death, maybe you'll learn something. Start thinking about your future, because everything you've done you'll pay for, one way or another.

Guaranteed, it's not going to be pretty.


239 posted on 11/10/2005 10:19:53 AM PST by little jeremiah
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To: Das Outsider

Well I wasn't even refering to real libertarians or real "confused liberals." I was refering to people from the Moonbat nether regions, who come here portraying themselves as "libertarians" touting incredibly extreme anti sovereignty positions, hoping to get a rise out of the far Right, and wanting to sow infighting.


240 posted on 11/10/2005 12:26:18 PM PST by GOP_1900AD (Stomping on "PC," destroying the Left, and smoking out faux "conservatives" - Take Back The GOP!)
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