Governor Owens (CO) Ping!
Doesn't look like the Governor fared too well on Lou Dobbs's show...
Posted on 04/14/2006 10:58:20 PM PDT by CowboyJay
Coming up next, Colorado has the fastest growing population of illegal aliens in the country. I will be talking with Colorado's governor, Bill Owens about border security, illegal immigration. Stay with us.
DOBBS: Well, when you say they're changing the character and the culture of your state, what do you mean?
OWENS: You know, we have school districts in Colorado, which now have a majority of illegal youngsters or kids out of illegal parents. We have two out of every three new people moving to Colorado in the last five years are coming from other countries. There is a way to fix this problem. I am aware and very much concerned with the impact on social services and all of the other impacts of this new wave of immigration.
DOBBS: Right.
OWENS: And it's not easy. And I guess the approach that I think we need to do is build that security barrier where it's needed, build a wall to start to protect that border. But we also -- and this is where I differ with you -- we also do need to have a program to match willing workers to the jobs that simply aren't being filled by Coloradans or Americans.
DOBBS: Yes, I'm not -- you know, if you and I can agree on the fact that -- and if you can convince your party's leader, President Bush, that we need to secure our borders four and a half years after September 11 with three million illegal aliens crossing every year and secure our ports before anyone wants to get too excited about amnesty then we've got something to talk about, is that what you're saying?
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"We have two out of every three new people moving to Colorado in the last five years are coming from other countries."
Call me a racist, a xenophobe, or whatever you want: this is bad. Talk about completely rewriting the cultural landscape of a place.
I'm personally of the opinion that multiculturalism is rarely, if ever, a good thing. Slow assimilation is fine. The complete mixing of cultures just causes conflict and unhealthy competition and resentment. It's not good for a community.
If it was illegal French Canadian's would La Raza back them? Race over Country is Racism
I live in Colorado. I have voted for him twice. Owens has become such a wimp!
Not surprising. Now that he is a lame duck, his true colors have shown over and over. He's no conservative.
"Owens has landed in the guest-voter camp."
When hasn't Owens been in that camp?
//This cultural invasion is grotesque. Pouring uninvited strangers all over our country, strangers who have shown a very high degree of violent criminal propensity//
bump
Solid anti-illegal stances? You obviously have forgotten about his advocating the granting of in state tuition for, illegal alien, Jesus Apodaca and stating that he didn't want illegal aliens, including the entire Apodaca family, deported.
Next time don't forget the sarcasm tag.
Owens has had the backbone of a wet noddle. It's a wonder he can even stand up to walk.
Doesn't look like the Governor fared too well on Lou Dobbs's show...
Why o' why do people keep promoting this red herring?
Illegal aliens are not going to cheerfully line up, hand over their personal data, and see a third of their income (at a lower pay rate) get confiscated for taxes.
GUEST WORKER PROGRAM IS A SCAM!
it is a fraud on the American people.
There is no money allocated for the registration of 11 million people, no money for the following of 11 million people. No mechanism for the registration or tracking of the "guest workers ".There is no money for the wall that is needed to keep there from being another 11 million in 10 years, no money for the "high tech " we keep hearing about, no money for increased security , no money to enforce the current law that is supposed to fine the tit that the politicians suck from ( corps and small businesses).
In short this is a fraud perpetrated by the political class for their own benefit. Remember when the communists used to say that capitalists would sell you the rope that you need to hang them? This is it guys !
The highlight:
DOBBS: Yes, I'm not -- you know, if you and I can agree on the fact that -- and if you can convince your party's leader, President Bush, that we need to secure our borders four and a half years after September 11 with three million illegal aliens crossing every year and secure our ports before anyone wants to get too excited about amnesty then we've got something to talk about, is that what you're saying?
You and I both know the answer to that question.
Anybody else living in Colorado feel like they've been deported without due process?
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