Bush Doesn't Get It on Immigration

Human Events ^ | Febuary.1, 2006 | Congressman Tom Tancredo

[Reagan Man]

Sadly, the President missed yet another great opportunity to correct his course on immigration reform tonight. The President should have clarified his plan and joined the forces in Congress holding the line against amnesty. Instead, Americans will have to wait and wonder where the President stands on securing our borders, while he pushes for guest workers.

The President must enforce our immigration laws before we consider any guest worker proposal. Until we bring law and order to our border anarchy, importing more workers into the equation is out of the question.

In 1986, Congress passed a blanket amnesty on the promise that border security would come later. We all remember the ’86 bait-and-switch, and we won’t be fooled again. There is no way to determine if we need guest workers, and there is no way to gain control of this broken system until we seal our borders and control our country’s interior.

A Gallup poll released this week showed that a mere 25 percent of Americans approve of President Bush’s handling of immigration—his worst approval rating of all major issue areas that were surveyed.

The House’s get-tough immigration bill is in the Senate’s hands, where it is in jeopardy of being dropped or – worse yet – turned into a blanket amnesty. From his bully pulpit, President Bush could have broken the Washington stalemate and secured the most significant immigration reform in a decade. But tonight we got more of the same—more stalling, more roadblocks, more lax enforcement with no action in sight.

Border security is not an issue from which President Bush should run away. An overwhelming majority of Americans demand that their government secure the border now, and if we restore law and order, Republicans will be the political winners. As the President does in so many other areas, he must not retreat but lead.

[NapkinUser]

Bush says "no amnesty" and then talks of a "guest worker plan" which is really nothing but an amnesty. Bush gets a big fat F on borders and his refusal to defend them or persue employers who hire illegals.

[untrained skeptic]

PresBush supports open borders. Bush wants to assure that there is a continued flow of cheap labor into the US from Mexico. Pandering for the Hispanic vote is another reason to ignore the illegal immgration problem. For five years the President has been running away from this critical national security issue. Makes no sense whatsoever.

Bull crap.

Bush's actions show he supports closed borders with legal immigration to provide for a needed work force.

Bush's actions on border security were slow in coming, but that have been coming.

He's been using the powers the executive branch has to expedite deportations. He's been fighting the bureaucracy to allow the border patrol to do their jobs. However the bureaucracy has been built up over decades. Our court system has become stymied with asylum efforts and appeals processes that make it very difficult for illegal aliens to be deported.

It is also nearly impossible to punish illegal aliens to discourage them from returning because our prisons are full.

The States have fought attempts at reform by making it easy for illegal aliens to acquire identification and making it harder to find and prosecute them.

The President's powers to address this are extremely limited. It takes legislation to address these problems.

Bush has proposed legislation to build more prisons, increase the number of federal judges hearing immigration cases, streamline the deportation process, and increase the size of the border patrol.

Tancredo is a liar and an idiot. He espouses impractical "solutions" that cannot be implemented and attacks anyone who doesn't support them with lies.

If his solutions were merely impractical or not implementable, I could respect him for trying to address this extremely important issue. However, since he lies and attacks other people trying to address the issue, I have zero respect for the moron.

[TheBrotherhood]

>The Bush guest worker proposal is nothing but backdoor amnesty. You and your buds in the open border crowd have enjoyed the five years of inaction from this POTUS.

Bush's guest worker or "entry and exit" programs that he and his neocon masters are proposing are all entry and no exit. Once the undesirables invaders come in, no one will be able to make them go back, nor would they want to go back.

>Three more years of inaction and you'll be overjoyed.

Three more years of inaction and Dale and his ilk will be out of a job. LOL!

[dennisw]

Good morning to you too you open borders loon/ You don't advocate for Americans. You push for those who invade America.

[DarthVader]

Great idea and it has potentially good benefit. But at what cost? Time for construction? Mussolini did this in Libya to prevent supplies from going to Omar Muhktar in the 1930s.
Maybe we should also have a moat filled with alligators. 8-)

[joesnuffy]

To ALL politicians 'talk' is their capital...and stock in trade.

To ALL leaders actions speak louder than words....

The action on illegal aliens in the last 5 yrs says it all....

We must wait to see what the next four will bring....real change or simply stalling tactics (empty promises) and more of the same...

imo

[dennisw]

He's been using the powers the executive branch has to expedite deportations. He's been fighting the bureaucracy to allow the border patrol to do their jobs. However the bureaucracy has been built up over decades. Our court system has become stymied with asylum efforts and appeals processes that make it very difficult for illegal aliens to be deported.

Hasn't happened. You are buying into a myth

[TXBSAFH]

Dane,

Bush is wrong on this issue, come on admit it.

[Reagan Man]

>>>>Whew you all get mad when reality is presented to you.

When you start presenting reality, I'll listen. Fact is, you've always been a Bush sycophant and a Tancredo hater. Nothing new.

[TXBSAFH]

have started to call him "El Dano"

[toddlintown]

"You've got to be a troll.

Where did Bush say anything about supporting illegal immigration"

He was spouting this same crap last night. Troll or not, he's to be ignored.

[NapkinUser]

"The majority of the people that do not support Bush have absolutely no realistic way of dealing with the problem"

It passed the house in December of 2005, but will most likely get killed in the senate when a guest worker amnesty is attached, thus forcing the more conservative house of representatives to vote in down when the bill comes back to vote on the senate changes.

[SealSeven]

have started to call him "El Dano"

Actually, I believe its "la dana".

[TXBSAFH]

I stand corrected.

[NapkinUser]

"Bush's actions show he supports closed borders...."

Gee....that's only contrary to everything Bush has ever said on this subject.

[A.Hun]

I think realistic is the key word.

[dennisw]

"Day of the Dead" ..'Nuff said. The Mexican culture is into death too much for my sensibilities

[Dane]

When you start presenting reality, I'll listen. Fact is, you've always been a Bush sycophant and a Tancredo hater

Please, I ain't the one who passes on the urban myth of Karl Rove saying to tancredo" don't darken the White House ever again", while tancredo gladly goes and hobnobs at White House Christmas parties.

[TheBrotherhood]

>Our President is giving our beautiful America away.

Arbusto is a traitor to its people and the rest of America. He and his open border crackpot neocons are changing the country our forefathers build from the wilderness for their progeny into a third world country between a Brazil and a Haiti.

Be prepared! Be ready! Lock and load!

[Itzlzha]

Ah, what would a day be without a little OBL/(R) rah-rah from lickspittle Dane!

"tancredo, IMO, does not want a solution. That would hamper funds coming into his and bay buchanan's PAC."

what color is the sky acid in your world?

Someone needs to hit Dane in the head...the record's stuck!

Hey, Dane...when someone is right, they are right. Unlike you...you are never right! If I ever find myself agreeing with something you say, I need to re-evaluate my reasoning...it MUST be wrong!

Oh, and if you think the the current 11+MILLION Illegals here will somehow comply with Jorge Arbusto's "Shamnesty" plan that is currently being pushed as Kyl/Cornyn, and leave after 3/6 years to apply for "citizenship"...I have some news for you...

"Ahead Sell-Out Factor 10, Mr. Chertoff!"