[babydoll22]

I have tried to understand why President Bush has had such a tin ear to this problem

This past week, everything became crystal clear.

This is about nothing more than money.

If we use the conservative figure of 11,000,000 illegals and we charge them $ 2,000 to buy their citizenship, we are looking at over $ 2,000,000,000.

This money will disappear just like the tobacco money disappeared.

Any time a problem arises, I try to give the President the benefit of the doubt, because I genuinely like him so much.Unfortunately, for me, this is the last straw.

President Bush is not a true conservative.

Bring back President Ronald Reagan.

[cb]

Bush was never a conservative, but would you really have voted for algore or kerry(vietnam?)?

I really worry that we have created our own little plo or is it mlo??? This threat I don't think I can ignore.

[maica]

Bring back 8track music, mainframe computers, banking hours, landline telephones, 3 tv networks, etc etc

...don't wish for what is past, work for the future.

[raybbr]

I have tried to understand why President Bush has had such a tin ear to this problem

He doesn't. He just sees it differently. He promised no nation building in Iraq but sees no problem building a "new America" right here.

We are now one of the largest Spanish-speaking nations in the world. We're a major source of Latin music, journalism and culture.

Just go to Miami, or San Antonio, Los Angeles, Chicago or West New York, New Jersey ... and close your eyes and listen. You could just as easily be in Santo Domingo or Santiago, or San Miguel de Allende.

For years our nation has debated this change -- some have praised it and others have resented it. By nominating me, my party has made a choice to welcome the new America.

As I speak, we are celebrating the success of democracy in Mexico.

George Bush from a campaign speech in Miami, August 2000.

You can read the speech here.

Here is an excerpt of a good critique of that speech:

In equating our intimate historic bonds to our mother country and to Canada with our ties to Mexico, W. shows a staggering ignorance of the civilizational facts of life. The reason we are so close to Britain and Canada is that we share with them a common historical culture, language, literature, and legal system, as well as similar standards of behavior, expectations of public officials, and so on. My Bush Epiphany By Lawrence Auster

[AFreeBird]

If we use the conservative figure of 11,000,000 illegals and we charge them $ 2,000 to buy their citizenship, we are looking at over $ 2,000,000,000.

$2B, is that it? Sure, to you and me, thats serious money, but to Uncle Sam; pocket change. And it won't come close to balancing out the money we've had to pay for illegal immigration; .5B for alien incarceration in CA alone.

I'd rather ship em back to mexico, build a wall, and, if they want back in,; they can knock on the front door like everyone else. If they try to scale the wall - shoot them. If they try to tunnel under it; blow them up.

I don't care - I'm fed up with it; after watching those illegals marching with their mexican flags - more than ever!

Seething.... the author of the article don't know the half of it!

[Elyse]

President Bush is not a true conservative. Bring back President Ronald Reagan.

You seem to be forgetting that Ronald Reagan offered illegals complete amnesty. I think President Bush is worried about the internal disruption/violence that this issue will bring to our country, just as Ronald Reagan was, so he is trying to find some compromise. I disagree with him, as I disagreed with Reagan, but I still have not lost respect for Bush, as I didn't lose respect for Reagan.