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.
Well, cheap labor for some jobs is a
necessity. My friends operate a
horse boarding farm in southern Wisconsin.
Years ago, high school kids were willing
to earn $5/hr to muck the stalls and sweep
the aisles in the horse barn. Now no one
wants to do that kind of work. So, when
the Mexicans showed up 8 years ago with
their Green Cards, they were hired. They
do a really good job and they are paid
decent wages.., a lot more than the kids
earn at Mickey D's!
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.