Posted on 05/08/2006 8:44:05 PM PDT by SmithL
CHATTANOOGA — Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said the United States should "lock down" its borders and create a better temporary worker program.
Frist, R-Tenn., spoke with reporters before giving a commencement speech at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga's graduation ceremony Sunday.
"The No. 1 problem we face today when it comes to immigration are the people streaming across our border and the lack of border security," Frist said, adding that the Senate will begin debating immigration reform legislation next week. "It's a national security issue, an economic issue and a humanitarian issue."
He also said that drilling for oil in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and investing in alternative energy sources like nuclear energy would help drive down the price of fuel.
"Given the fact that everyday men and women are suffering under the burden of skyrocketing gas prices, (I hope) they will allow us to drill," he said.
Mark Brown, spokesman for the Tennessee Democratic Party, said Frist's answers to the country's major problems represent little more than "piecemeal solutions."
"It's election-year posturing, and that is not what we need," Brown said.
During the commencement address to 700 graduating students, Frist encouraged them take risks in their lives and punctuated his advice with experiences from his own career as a transplant surgeon.
"When everybody else says 'no,' be that woman or man that says 'yes,'" he said. "Don't be afraid to leave the place in your life that's comfortable."
Frist also gave the commencement address Saturday at LeMoyne-Owen College in Memphis.
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Don't TALK!! DO SOMETHING!!!
Geeze, we have laws on the books to handle this part of the problem (actuall all parts of the problem).
I wish these goys would QUIT TALKING and DO SOMETHING! ENFORCE THE LAWS WE HAVE!!!
Frist must have received my letter because I .... er ... carry some weight. (sarcasm) Well this is a good sign. I think maybe our guys are getting the message.
Ping ... remember that letter campaign I mentioned earlier today?
My goodness, did Frist stop by and read some posts at FR?
As you say, enough talk, it's time to DO SOMETHING NOW! Why is it so hard to put some National Guards along the border? Are we out of tents? Did the army forget how to make base camps and patrol a border? If we are short of National Guardsmen, there are a whole bunch of people sitting on welfare with nothing to do....
Frist hasn't said squat until now. I think the e-mails, letters, and general consensus have been starting to clear away the fog. He actually used the phrase "Lock down the borders"
We HAVE to keep this mail flurry going. For all of the fluff, and typical politicking, I think we're finally getting noticed by these goons we call our "senators"
Thats progress!
Looks like the bricks are hitting home with him.
That two card monte game is so boring, Bill. Don't you have a new game to play?
I guess this gets Frist the "Well, DUH!" award for May. One wonders what new gems of brilliance are yet to be emitted.
He should give them all $100 checks if they agree to go back home.
Duh..... Welcome to Reality, Bill. (Where've you been?)
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