Posted on 11/29/2005 5:25:04 AM PST by conservativecorner
Yesterday, George W. Bush strode to a podium in Tucson, Arizona (I love Tucson!) and against a backdrop of law enforcement officers, announced his latest plan to crack down on illegal aliens. There was nothing in his speech we haven't heard before, and his new immigration policy is just as contradictory as the old one. Among the initiatives announced:
We should build more jail cells to hold illegal aliens. Good idea. The speeding up of deportations, a crackdown on fraudulent identity papers, and a hardening of the border with more surveillance. So far, so good. Then the nonsense started to flow. The president urged Congress to pass his guest-worker amnesty program and repeated the nonsense that the illegal aliens are here "to fill jobs that Americans will not do."
Same old, same old. It is impossible to stand there and say you're going to crack down on illegal immigration while at the same time say that you are going to reward people who broke our immigration laws. The president says it's not amnesty. Ok, now we've finally caught the president in a lie. OF COURSE it's amnesty! When you tell someone who has broken the law that you are not only going to ignore their illegal conduct, but you are actually going to reward them for it, then you have more than plain old garden variety amnesty, you have amnesty with perks!
As for the oft-repeated line that the illegal aliens fill jobs Americans won't, that's also a load. Companies may not be able to fill those jobs with Americans at the same low wages they pay Mexicans, but there are plenty of people in this country that would do the work at the right price. OK .. so the price of headless chickens, landscaping and construction might go up, but at least the people receiving those paychecks would be law-abiding residents of this country, most of whom would be citizens. There is something wrong with the idea of celebrating lower home prices when those lower prices are brought with disrespect for the laws of our country. It gets worse than that. We are threatening our very security by singing the praises of illegal aliens in our workforce. Just two weeks ago we were interviewing a Texas congressman who was telling us that U.S. intelligence agencies have knowledge that Al Qaeda terrorists have moved to Mexico, adopted Hispanic identities, learned the Spanish language, and then moved right into the United States across our porous borders.
George Bush failed to address the problem appropriately yesterday, but this isn't strictly a George Bush issue. There is absolutely no willingness on the part of either political party to crack down on illegal immigration. There are simply too many votes to be had in the Hispanic community. So as a result, our security as a nation is threatened and our cities and states are overrun with illegal aliens.
I'm sure representatives of Al-Qaeda are preparing to apply for their guest-worker permits as we speak.
Drive on down to Jacumba, California...one of the areas that human beings and drugs flows through like a river.
There you can gaze upon a fenced lot FULL of Border Patrol four wheel drive vehicles. Hundreds of them.
The problem?
No personnel to put behind the wheel.
And meanwhile, our elected 'leaders' pay lip service and nothing more.
HAHA, politically irrevelant huh? If Republican cheerleaders keep applauding Bush for pushing a failed amnesty scheme, let's just see who becomes politically irrevelant in the future.
You missed my point. I'm not arguing right or wrong but practicality. Things don't just happen because they are the right thing to do. What is obvious to you is not obvious to grandma, soccer moms, college students, and all the others who only get their news from local stations and late night comedy shows. That doesn't mean we still can't get where you want to go, but such things take time and those people have to be educated because they do vote and unfortunately they usually vote to increase benefits to "the huddled masses yearning to be free" (which is how they see it).
They have good drugs they prescribe these days for those kinds of delusions.
I'm sorry, but I simply don't see it. Domestically he has been a RAT of the 1st order. Afghanistan was certainly a success. Iraq still is playing out. The Middle East will never be peaceful. Who knows?
As said by Neville Chamberlain, complaining about Winston Chruchill's warnings about appeasing Nazi Germany.
Quit your whining.
I'm glad that you do. I had another idea yesterday that would allow Bush to have his precious guest workers. For every 1,000,000 illegal aliens he verifies have been deported or who have deported themselves under his policies, he can add another 100,000 guest workers to the quota. Of course, those guest workers must submit to everything I mentioned before: return to home country to apply, submit to mandatory background checks and health screenings, provide voucher for financial responsibility or a U.S. sponsor, and submit to mandatory interior tracking during the entirety of their temporary stay here.
You have a great mind! Too bad the GOP and GWB don't and will allow any nonsense so long as they can continue to hispander.
The problem with "simply making it not welcome for them to be here illegally" is that it would devastate our economy to remove all these people from the workforce. Plus the US would gain a horrible reputation in the world as the media plays up all the stories about the children who died of the flu because America wouldn't give them health care and the immigrant children who are malnourished because America won't give them food stamps. Some of those stories would actually be true too. The cost of making all these people unwelcome would far exceed any benefits to our country. But it is time to tighten border security and check out everyone who comes here to work. I like Hannity's plan for immigration.
I have a strong intuitive sense and logical rationale that some of the damage that GWB does to this country will not be fully realized for decades and that most of it will be irreversible.
KMA punk.
I have a strong intuitive sense and logical rationale that GWB will go down in history as one of our five greatest Presidents. But it will take 30 years after he leaves office for historians to reach that conclusion.
Well right now he is somewhere between Carter and Clinton in the list of worst Presidents....The only historians that will rach your conclusions are Dems who rewrite history...
I just don't see it working on a huge macro scale but hey, why not. Where's the politician who would champion that? I haven't heard of one yet. There's some that talk tough but the details get muddy. I do have to laugh, these threads attract all the frustrated Bush-bashers who like to make threats toward Republicans. Yeah, there's a plan, put the Democrats in office to teach those lazy Republicans a lesson. I've never seen that plan work either.
I don't know of any such pharmaceutical CURES for the condition...but there are certainly a number of drug-induced CAUSES for the condition!
If there are any such cures, we need to put Bush,his Old Man, and the rest of the Cabinet that has gone along with this nonsense on those meds right away...
You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. Throw away your bong permanently man.
OMG! I NEVER heard this!
OK, I suggest that this be done again...this time have is filmed by sympathetic media types, and I don't mean Hannity...he might tip off the Admin.
I suggest the set off fireworks and flares as the simulated WMDs! And do have the bullhorns blaring, and have pics of Al Qaeda types, the pic I have on my homepage of La Raza meeting Arafag in 1990, Ted Kennedy, John McStain, Kolbe,Reid, Dean, Pelosi, Boxer, and GWB there to show just WHO is responsible for this! Hell, bring the Minutemen in to say had there been PROPER border watching, this wouldn't have happened! Then they can publicly castigate GWB for his "Vigilante" comments, and publicly DEMAND apologies!
If I weren't crippled and in NH, I'd do this myself!
KMA punk.
Did they teach you that in MBA school or did you pick it up on the links with O.J.?
Do not misunderstand me I am for control of the borders and enforcement of our laws.
I just don't believe that illegal immigration is the root of all evil.
People are talking like this is the most important issue in the upcoming election. I say it's about forth or fifth.
"Plus the US would gain a horrible reputation in the world as the media plays up all the stories about the children who died of the flu because America wouldn't give them health care and the immigrant children who are alnourished because America won't give them food stamps"
We already have a horrible rep. So who cares what anyone else thinks? I am sick and tired of going everywhere and English being a 2nd language at best and feeling like I am in some other turd world country because El Presidente Jorge feels it is the right thing for this country. He is not a king. He is a hack politician no different than Kerry or Kennedy save for a few issues. Otherwise, he is a bum and globalist like the rest.
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