Posted on 02/01/2006 7:38:50 AM PST by 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.
"Bush is the first President since who knows when to at least address the issue"
100% correct.
Oh-oh...You've stirred up the neo-nazi wing of the Donner Party!
>>>>Tancredo is a liar and an idiot.
Congressmen Tancredo, Pence, Hefley, Hyde, Sensenbrenner, Shadegg and 75 other members of the House Immigration Reform Caucus speak the truth. You've been hoodwinked by Bush and the open borders crowd. Bush&Company have done nothing to address the illegal immigration problem in the last five years and I seriously doubt they wil do anything in the next three years that will begin to solve the problems of this national security issue.
So if we get guest workers,will the unions be able to organize them to demand more pay and benefits? If so, it kinds of defeats the purpose for cheap labor.
Many people watch too much TV, imho and they act as if they can just snap their fingers and poof magically accomplish something like sealing our borders. This is reality, folks, not some interactive video game. You can't just push a button and seal the borders then push another button and vanish 10 million people. Yet many act as if that is what they expect.
What part of the "guest worker program is by definition amnesty" do YOU not comprehend??
Bush is still full speed amnesty. He should just step down, or be impeached. What an incredible fool he is!!
"Dreamers Dream, Talkers Talk -- While 40 Million Mexicans Prepare to Walk.
When you think about it, President Bush is in a real jam over immigration -- a bona fide Catch-22, in fact -- one that's not completely of his own making, yet one he's nevertheless stuck with, unless he can Band-Aid the problem until the next poor schmuck arrives in the Oval Office (that's probably his plan). Here it is:
If he does what the vast majority of Americans want him to -- namely, build a fence and start deporting or imprisoning illegals -- he cuts the Mexican economy off at the knees, depriving it of 20% or more of its GDP (the $200 billion or so I mentioned earlier). And although that might ultimately be what's best for Mexico, since it would force the nation to somehow take meaningful steps toward self-development and a more forward-looking economic policy, in the short run, it would likely breed utter bedlam. Such a move might trigger a true mass invasion of desperate northern-bound migrants with nothing to lose.
As ill-equipped as we are to manage the current illegal immigration situation, that kind of human tsunami might well and truly sink us economically. Here's what I mean:"
Read the rest at this link:
http://www.howestreet.com/articles/index.php?article_id=1987
You may find that story interesting, I never mentioned it once. Not important. For all I know, you may have even created it.
Bottom line:
After five years with Bush as President, the borders are still wide open. Well over a million illegal aliens attempt to cross into the US every year. Employers still hire illegals to work for them, in direct violation of US law. The Feds still offer welfare/medical help to illegals and the infrastructure along the border has been overwhelmed by the illegal invasion.
What has Bush done to stop illegal immigration? NOTHING! What has Bush done to secure the borders? NOTHING! What has Bush done to punish employers who violate US law? NOTHING!
luckily the quisling brigade is here to make lame comments that only they think are clever!
But he is telling the truth. It won't be an amnesty but rather a shamnesty. But other than the different label there is no difference between the two. His contempt for our intelligence is breathtaking.
With respect to immigration, the thing that pissed me off the most about the President's speech last night was when he played the race card against his own conservative base.
“We hear claims that immigrants are somehow bad for the economy — even though this economy could not function without them.”
That line was right out of the Leftist Play Book. He deliberately blurred the line between illegal and legal immigrants. He implied that rather than being upset about ILLEGAL immigration we were just a bunch of anti-immigrant xenophobes.
Liberal race baiting is a tactic beneath contempt and leaves me with no reason to trust the President on this issue.
Not to worry. Since the President has absolutely no intent of enforcing either the border or the interior, the guest workers will quickly find themselves competing with a fresh batch of illegals.
Deport the bastid's!
"I think realistic is the key word."
So only a guest worker amnesty is realistic? Worst. Argument. Ever.
I caught that line too and before I realized it the word ba*tard came out of my mouth. Face it George W. cares more about foreigners than he does U.S. citizens.
When he speaks of "liberating" people in other countries I always think...why not "liberate" us first, from politicians who don't give a dam about us, oppressive taxation to pay for all the foreign bs, etc., etc.
George W. is just another politician......sadly.
Besides, we tried the amnesty thing in 1986 and it doesn't work.
"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." -Albert Einstein
Got plenty of mezcans in my neck of the woods. Yep, deport them all.
Actually, we do.
Workplace enforcement.
Big fines for employers.
Jail time for employers.
Having the IRS/INS pursue those whose employee's names/SSNs don't match.
Make the online document check MANDATORY>>>
Build the wall.
I could go on.
Don't try to BS with the no solutions argument. That one is dead in the water.
"“We hear claims that immigrants are somehow bad for the economy — even though this economy could not function without them.”"
That line really made me want to break the television set. Is Bush really trying to pull the wool over the American peoples' eyes by pretending that all immigrants are legal? He knows the debate isn't about a good level of legal immigration in all sane corners. The emperor has no clothes!
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