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.
I can't imagine any other country would be this stupid or have so many gullible people to fall for 30 plus years of "immigration reform" yet nothing of consequence has happened, ESPECIALLY the last five years.
lol
Nothing worse than a Bushbot right? Sheesh.
the phrase "only in America" comes to mind.
I have nothing but contempt for the party-above-principle Hispandering GOP Big Tent RINOs, liberals and moderates.
That answer your question?
Yes, though I didn't require an answer.
Excellent. Shows you've been paying attention.
Yes, and now some who voted for him claim he "betrayed" them.
Incredible.
Here's some funny named Americans doing research that supports "pro-Republican" anti-drug policy. Not big on their results or their study, but these don't sound like people that came from India and China, took advantage of our universities and then went home to be anti-American leftists.
Manzar Ashtari, Ph.D., Sanjiv Kumra, M.D., Co-authors are Jinghui Wu, B.S., Kelly Cervellione, M.A., John Kane, M.D., Philip Szeszko, Ph.D., and Babak Ardekani, Ph.D.
Maybe the melting pot is still warm?
Dang, You make it sound like a chicken-little sky is falling thing.
Is that what you think?
There's just so many threads lately saying that the US is screwed up, immigration is going to turn us into France, that the Chinese and Indians are stealing all of our University scholarships and then going home and stealing our jobs.....
I just thought that the names of the researchers in this story seemed to have a classic "melting pot" story behind them that is just one little tiny counter-point to all of that gloom and doom.
And then I screwed up my post after all!
MSM is not the only place where if it "bleeds it leads" and the sky is falling. FR can be like that too.
I'm going to layoff posting today so I don't screw up again!
I hear you man.
It makes me totally sad to see where my industry is going. (Integrated Circuit Design and Manufacture).
I'm somewhat in favor of melting pots -- The Vietnamese Boat people being the brightest example I have of refugees doing what refugees should do best -- rise to the top of the heap as engineers here in America.
Some other time we'll lament the shortcomings that don't make this scenario a success story every time.
(p.s. I love coffee too...)
Don't be so hard on yourself :-) sometimes a post gone wrong can be funny and can lighten up an otherwise dreary day.
I was just confused -- when the link added the marajuana use, I was wondering if you thought I was acting loopy! And then I had a good laugh, because that is a safe bet :-)
Cheers,
saveliberty
I started in the peecee business. Then I went into semiconductors about 10 years b4 US peecee engineering jobs imploded. Now I'm thinking I should already be in EDA software! Or maybe retire into a concrete contractor supervisor job with illegal immigrants doing the work!
Maybe I should be worried, but the worst thing that could happen is that I'd have to start actually working every day!
yeah,
And what is so ridiculously sad, If those EDA software guys would just work their butts off like the Concrete contractor illegal employees do who really want their jobs...
SLEEPER CELLS.
Well, if no one gives you a "THE MOON IS A CRESCENT" phone call, because they are all dead, SLEEPER CELLS don't matter too much.
Wow. You sure are loquacious.
President Bush took over the CIA WAY before the current WILSON/PLAME spoof.
There is more going on behind the scenes than you know about.
It all takes time, and takes exposing the wolves to the public repeatedly until everyone sees it.
It is not the job of President to run the JUSTICE DEPARTMENT.
Mr. Fitzgerald is an excellent prosecutor and investigator, and he has done exactly what the DEMS and the President asked for.
It just turns out that the claim was 'hot air'.
What is interesting is that no one, especially in the media, wants to know just what BUSINESS Joe Wilson was on when he went to NIGER (Twice, each time spying for the CIA, each time - no strings attached/all costs paid.)
Find out what Joe Wilson's company does and for who.
I see.
So, you lay out a plan, with duedates, with costs, and get the Congress to pass it, and you show it to us, and I will believe the President is diligent in his duty.
The borders are more secure than they have been since WORLD WAR II, maybe more.
There are more men on duty on the border.
The bills passed in Congress limited how many men could be added over time. Are you gonna just break the law?
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