Posted on 11/29/2005 5:52:10 AM PST by Tolik
Send it to Congress!!!
W is about five years late.
"Since immigration policy can profoundly shape a country, it should be set by deliberate actions, not by accident or acquiescence, with careful consideration to ensure that it does not adversely affect the quality of life of American citizens and their communities."
This SHOULD be the meat of our debate. Illegal immigration should be a cut-and-dried approach of closing the border, building an Israeli-type security fence, and deporting the illegals. But the sleeper issue that few are talking about is the need to drastically change our LEGAL immigration: we should only be letting in very limited numbers of highly educated, well-trained people from countries that don't breed jihadists. This pool of immigrants would assure that they aren't coming here to go on welfare (whether from the beginning or after their entry-level menial work runs out), commit crime, or cut our throats.
We must END ILLEGAL immigration and drastically REFORM LEGAL immigration.
Plus, I see a big difference between the Left shouting "Bush is an Idiot!", "No Blood for Oil!", "Halliburton!", "Bush Lied" and other such garbage - and Gaffney listing specific points how we can improve our security. First is just noise, second is a constructive criticism, a feedback. There is no successful company or organization in the world, none at all, that does not need a feedback.
"W is about five years late."
And he wants to reward law breakers.
Actions speak louder than words. The actions have been clear. It's "full speed ahead" for illegal immigration! Meanwhile, our country awash with illegals and is swirling down the toilet.
I think he's also afraid of a confrontation at the border when we try to return busloads of illegals which Vicente Fox doesn't wany - any more than any of the various muslim nations want the "palestinians". I believe the Mexican government will order their troops to fire on those buses and, if we don't have the courage to persist, we'll end up with some kind of permanent "resettlement camps" along the border.
President Bush is also afraid of the "heads I win - tails you lose" response from Democrats who will announce that whatever solution he utilizes to solve this very real problem is "wrong-headed, immoral and lacking 'nuance' of the gray areas". Add to that the heart-wrenching stories you'll see on TV about Jose and Maria who were once "living the American dream" only to be snatched up to be used as "political pawns" in some evil right wing border war and you've got a witches' brew which, I'm afraid, America doesn't have the will to resist.
I am fully in favor of the government deporting every illegal it happens to encounter. But I do not advocate mass sweeps, roundups and deportations and neither do most others who have given this problem serious thought. For all the reasons you stated, that solution will never fly. And why should Americans should be taxed for that cost which Chertoff has correctly estimated to be billions of dollars?
Instead, we need rigorous workplace enforcement and we need to cutoff all access of illegals to social services (except emergency medical care). When the jobs and the benefits dry-up, they will slowly self-deport the same way they came: on their own two feet and at their own expense. It took years for the problem to get this bad and it will take years to solve it. The key is to reverse the flow.
I agree with the approach of cutting off both access to the jobs and to the various social services. That will work fine until the courts issue some order that it's "unconstitutional". Hell, it'd be progress for me not have to tell my bank's ATM machine that I want instructions in English. Banks are federally-regulated so let's start there.
" He is seeking to reinvigorate his leadership and rehabilitate his public standing "
Well, so much for THAT~!
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Co-Presidente Fox will not be happy about this and will let his little buddy (George Arbusto) know about it.
Someone here at FR gave me a great idea regarding getting the message across to those who are assigned to doing our bidding in D.C.
Whenever I receive requests for money via mailers from the GOP, Senate or Congress members; instead of sending it to the junk mail pile.....I take the enclosed self-addressed and stamped envelope and write in marker across the letter that "No contributions will be made until our borders are closed, and the illegal situation is addressed", and send it back without a contribution. I probably send back about 4 or more of these per week. We have given from our business as well as personally. I would hope that if the bigger donors and businesses started closing their checkbooks unless this situation is addressed maybe those in charge would really get the message.
Yep....I'll second that. Also, when calling on a business having to press "1" to get info. in English!! What utter non-sense...the trickle of multi-culturism has slowly turned into a raging river. As always, it is the middle-class working Americans who are getting screwed.
Hitting them in the campaign pocketbooks might be the only thing which works for most of them who are left on the wrong side. Letters, faxes, phone calls and opinion polls certainly don't seem to be making much of a dent.
Protect our borders and coastlines from all foreign invaders!
Support our Minutemen Patriots!
Be Ever Vigilant ~ Bump!
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