Posted on 05/13/2006 12:56:02 PM PDT by forty_years
President Bush plans to address the nation on Monday night at 8 PM to con the American public into buying into his ludicrous immigration policies. His approval ratings are at an all-time low, with only 31% of Americans approving of his job performance, while "68% believe the United States is worse off today than it was before Mr. Bush became president." Bush's immigration policies would open the floodgates to illegals, and Americans do not approve -- and it looks like the Senate agrees. Another poll shows support for the House's tough and very sensible immigration legislation, HR 4437:
...69 percent said it was a good or very good idea when told it tries to make illegals go home by fortifying the border, forcing employer verification, and encouraging greater cooperation with local law enforcement while not increasing legal immigration; 27 percent said it was a bad or very bad idea.
In an attempt to assuage American concerns about the unfettered illegal immigration tidal wave, Bush has proposed using the National Guard to patrol our borders:
President Bush, trying to build momentum for an overhaul of the nation's immigration laws, is considering plans to shore up the Mexican border with National Guard troops paid for by the federal government, according to senior administration officials.One defense official said military leaders believe the number of troops required could range from 3,500 to 10,000, depending on the final plan.
That's a great idea, except that Bush wants to provide amnesty to the millions of illegals already present in the U.S., and he wants to allow 400,000 "guest workers" to enter the U.S. every year. This is a recipe for disaster.
There are at least 12 million illegal immigrants in the U.S., and 10,000 pouring into our nation every day. One study predicts there will be 5 million more Latin American immigrants in the U.S. by 2015, while another prognosticates that illegals will push the American population to 1/2 billion people by 2050. Since the U.S. government is failing dismally at stemming this unfettered tidal wave, a group of concerned citizens, the Minuteman, has tried to prevent illegal immigration, but it appears that Bush has betrayed them.
And it looks like the Republican-controlled Senate is on the verge of betraying the American people by planning to push through legislation which will implement Bush's disastrous proposals. If the Republicans are looking to retain the Senate in the 2006 elections, they may just be shooting themselves in their collective feet.
The problem with Bush and many Republicans is that they are looking at immigration solely in 2 modalities: 1) trying to court the Latino vote, and 2) looking at immigration solely in near-term economic terms.
President Bush and Mexico's President Fox are colluding in an unholy alliance. Bush wants cheap Mexican labor -- forget the problems illegals pose to American society. Fox, an arrogant racist, wants to dump his economic problems on the U.S. instead of enacting much-needed reforms in his own corrupt society. It looks like Senate Republicans have joined the alliance.
It is time for the U.S. to criminalize illegal immigration as a felony offense. We need to build a wall along the Mexico border and provide enough personnel to patrol that border. We need to make it very painful for employers who hire illegals.
Are we to sit by idly while illegal immigrants openly march through our streets, trying to intimidate our policy makers, defame our flag, and rewrite our national anthem? Complacency will lead to the end of our prosperity and democracy.
Perhaps most importantly, it is time for the Third World to start dealing with its own problems (like corruption and overpopulation), and stop trying to dump those problems on the U.S.
Take action: Support LEGAL immigration.
http://netwmd.com/blog/2006/05/13/596
There has been a lot of Bush bashing lately, justified to some degree, Ill agree. But attacking other posters (not you) has increased as well. We are all on the same team. Now, we can have a thread on Quantum Physics or some other issue completely unrelated to immigration and someone will show up calling Bush Jorge, or saying he supports Mexico more than the US, or some other moronic statement. No, I wont produce the threads, you can search them if you want to, but I think it sucks what the forum has devolved to over the issue. I got a freepmail where someone called me cardinale (I guess thats spanish for cardinal)when I stated we need to stem the tide first and work on a strict assimilation program afterwards..
or will Americans be the only ones required to give away their sovereignty?
"I see that lately the biggest companies that appear to be hiring and doing it right out in the open are CONSTRUCTION companies!"
A painting contractor I know told me illegal immirants have cost working class AMERICAN construction workers 250,000 jobs just in California and Arizona.
Here in MO, as well. They dont even try and hide it, the 7-11 in Bridgeton is still a pick up spot for drywallers and landscapers. The Police station and city hall are right up the street..
This is really tragic. Working class Americans are the first ones to go to war when we need them. Then we allow
invaders to steal their livelihoods.
It also got the result you didn't want, so therefore you call it a flawed poll.
Prosecute the employers/Build the wall.
Have you people not learned. Facts and common sense are the only alien things sinkspur spurns.
Pure paranoic crap. I'd rather have Moby running the country than this group of clowns. It'd be a tough choice, but yeah, I'm leaning Moby.
You don't get a vote in the matter.
"Have you people not learned. Facts and common sense are the only alien things sinkspur spurns."
We don't talk behind people's backs around here.
Show me the police report.
LOL!! That's why he was elected governor of Texas, twice, both times in landslides.
You a yankee?
In English?
In the business, the CIS poll is known as an "outlier."
That means that no other poll comes up with the same results or numbers.
Yes. In English. He should have filed a complaint with his local police department. Unless he's in Mexico, too.
In English? What are you, a racist?
Ditto.
ANY police report will do.
Stolen Cars Stream South of Borderby Pam Easton
Posted Feb 20, 2004Houston - Former Houston Oilers football player Alonzo Highsmith has wondered for years what happened to his fully-loaded Ford F-250 diesel truck after it was stolen from a Houston restaurant parking lot.
"Sometimes I look up at the sky and the stars and wonder where that truck is," said Highsmith, who financed the $30,000 truck just weeks before its 1995 theft.
Almost a decade later, the truck was located in Guatemala by Houston police, who found more than 3,200 stolen vehicles--most from Texas, California and Florida--by tracing vehicle identification numbers through a Guatemalan database.
"I was hoping that it would be found, but as the weeks and months went by I thought, 'Well, that is the end of this truck.' I was like a grieving parent," said Highsmith, now a scout for the Green Bay Packers. He learned of his truck's whereabouts from The Associated Press. Guatemalan authorities are now trying to recover it by locating the person who registered it there.
Through database work, Houston police want to stem the flow of an estimated 200,000 vehicles that vanish south of the border each year.
Quick, what does your talking points sheet have to say about that?
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