Posted on 11/30/2005 6:14:28 AM PST by indcons
WASHINGTON, NOVEMBER 30: Amid opposition from his republican party to any programme that will 'regularise' millions of illegal aliens, President George W Bush has advocated his temporary guest worker programme while also favouring a hardened border with Mexico.
The President's tight ropewalk on a touchy political issue came as 75 per cent of Americans in one poll opined that the government was not doing enough to protect the borders. at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona, yesterday, Bush portrayed his proposed temporary worker programme as a way to relieve pressure on enforcement by bringing illegal immigrants "out of the shadows." according to the President's guest worker proposal, an estimated 11 million illegals in America will have the chance to register and work for up to six years. They then have to return to their countries of origin and apply for a new work permit to re-enter. But conservative republicans have portrayed this programme as a backdoor method for amnesty. "There’s a lot of opinions on this proposal. I understand that," Bush said. "The programme that I proposed would not create an automatic path to citizenship. It wouldn't provide amnesty. I opposed amnesty." the President said us has always been a "compassionate nation" that values a "newcomer" and that people should not have to choose between a welcoming society and a legal society. Bush also pledged to harden the border with increased manpower and new technology, including unmanned aerial surveillance; one of the proposals being to return illegals to hometowns in Mexico.
But with congressional elections in November 2006, the President has to walk a political tightrope between humouring the right wing that calls for tougher enforcement and the Republican Party's own strategy of courting Hispanics, the fastest growing minority in America. the US Congress has plans to take up the issue of immigration soon but there are several proposals in the Senate and the House of Representatives already and with vast differences in them.
The house, for instance, is scheduled to take up border security measures alone soon and leave the guest worker programme to a later date. The senate wants to take on a comprehensive immigration reform Bill but only in February 2006.
It is estimated that every year one million undocumented persons attempt to cross the 2000-mile US-Mexico border with Arizona alone accounting for one half of them.
Mr. President make the immigrant fit the law not the law fit the immigrant. I will pay more for my chicken sandwich. I will save in the long run on education, healthcare and prisons. We have all the "ballast" citizens we need.
Actually not as long as you stay silent about the teachers unions and trial lawyers, who are the main reasons, IMO for the messes in education and healthcare.
BTW, the teachers unions and the trial lawyers are two of the democrats biggest constituencies, how come you are silent about them.
Most likely wise one because we aren't talking about unions now we are talking about immigration. Comprendhe Amigo?
Uh then how can you talk about the health care and education messes without talking about two of the biggest components in those messes, the teachers unions and the trial lawyers. Can you comprehend that?
When I heard that Vincente Fox supported Bush's plan, that was all I needed to know. What has that corrupt, backstabbing idiot ever done to help his own country, much less the United States.
Bush is weak on this issue. He is weak on China. He is weak on Putin. And he took 4 years to get around to naming the enemy in the war on "terrorism."
He gets a lot of credit for stuff he has never done if you ask me.
Dems are for illegal immigration.
Reid and Dean came out with statements bashing the radical right wing for being racists going after illegals.
I don't understand this myth of the dems being against illegals. Dems the party of affirmative action against illegal?
Look at the dem votes in congress. All the dems voted against more border patrol and more detainee beds. Dems are against a wall on the border. The dems in california are fighting duncan hunter's wall proposal. Dems all voted for amnesty for illegals in the ag bill last year.
The dem party is in bed with illegals.
Dane do a little research for me. Find out what bi-lingual education is costing us nationally. Then find out how much just defending these indigents (at tax-payers expense) before we incarcarate them is costing us. Then find out how much per inmate it is costing us to keep them behind bars. Dane you are beating a dead horse here. Some lawyer must have screwed you over bad. I assume you are blaming the teachers union for your lack of education and inability to debate.
I'm against bi-lingual education, the teacher unions are for it though, because that gives them more money and I think even most hispanics are against bi-lingual education, as for educating children of illegals, you have to go back to SCOTUS, I beleive in 1982 they said public schools had to admit them.
The trial lawyers are causing much more of a mess within the health care system with their frivolus law suits. I am all for tort reform.
But what the hey they don't exist in your world.
Dane I would dare say that if we added up all the damage that the trial lawyers have done us it wouldn't light a candle to the economic damage we have suffered by leaving the door ajar on our southern border. Illegals cost a lot Dane! Far far more then they contribute to our society.
I have to get to work now Dane. I assume that someone else here will take over my "light work". Back in a while.
Bush will probably end up letting Ted Kennedy write a bill to deal with the issue, just as he did with education. I remain suspicious that Vicente Fox has pictures of George Bush having sex with farm animals and that gives him the final say over the border.
We don't need to write any new bills anyway. We already have laws on the books and the "Chief Executive" is charged with "executing" those laws.
After the dog and pony show, go sign up for Spanish lessons.
Shouldn't this read: Bush pushes useless extra letters at the end of wordszo
In the future Jorge (Rockefeller Republican) Arbusto will be regarded by the republicans the same way Jimmie Carter is regarded to the rats.
Save it. Nothing can dissuade the true believers, short of Bush running naked down Pennsylvania Ave. with a burning baby in each hand. And I'm not even sure about that.
I think this is terribly funny! Blacks have affirmative action and still they shutdown hiways demanding to be given jobs and contracts. Yet their schools have record drop-out rates because they 'won't be held down by The Man'.
Then here comes the mexicans fighting to get their kids in school and work their tails off to support their church and family!
I personally know of 4 friends/family members who were bushbot in the the past, that have lost faith in him now. They are still conservatives, but they now see Jorge is not one himself.
Same crap, different day.
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