Posted on 05/13/2006 4:15:58 PM PDT by LSUfan
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who has urged Washington to toughen border security, said Friday that he had misgivings about mobilizing state National Guard troops to help secure the nation's Southern boundary. "Going the direction of the National Guard, I think, is maybe not the right way to go," Schwarzenegger told reporters after a news conference on the state budget.
As part of a proposed overhaul of the nation's immigration laws, President George W. Bush is considering plans to shore up the border by using National Guard troops paid for by the federal government.
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The guy's a political weathervane. And not even an accurate one.
LOL
He really should have kept quiet until AFTER President Bush addresses the nation on Monday evening.
Am I the only person who is sick and tired of Schwarzenegger?
ABSOLUTELY NOT, he doesn't even run Kalifornia well
I am beginning to think much of this has been scripted in advance!
Schwarzenegger has said he favors a temporary-worker program but provided few details about how such a plan should work. He does not support blanket amnesty but also thinks it is impractical to consider deporting millions of illegal immigrants.
So in other words, he is both pro and anti illegal immigration.
Long term, the answer is a triple-redundant fence and better Border Patrol coverage. And a few prosecutions of employers would get people's attention.
Short term, get the Guard into the areas Border Patrol has trouble covering. Do it now, and don't make any excuses about it.
If Swarz won't do the job without whining about it, I'll be darned if I'm going to pull the lever for him. I know all about "lesser of evil" voting but Swarz is pushing my buttons a little too often.
QUESTION: President Vicente Fox is in Austria today and he will be in Sacramento in the next couple of weeks. The Senators in Washington D.C. have brokered a deal to rewrite the comprehensive immigration reform. Will you take a leading role in calling or influencing any of those decisions in Washington D.C. next week?SCHWARZENEGGER: Well, I'm not part of that decision making, but I do put always pressure on the federal government. And I've said it over and over in my op-ed pieces and also when I did interviews or when I speak about the subject, that we must push the federal government to come to a solution and to really create reform and part of the reform has to be securing our borders.
Now, there's all kinds of talk about now - should we use the National Guard and all of those kind of dialogue. I think that the key thing is that we secure our borders. Going the direction of the National Guard I think is maybe not the right way to go because I think that the Bush administration and the federal government should put up the money to create the kind of protection that the federal government is responsible to provide, not to use our National Guard, soldiers that are coming back from Iraq, for instance, and that have spent a year-and-a-half over their and now they are coming back. I think that we should let them go work, back to work again. I think that what we should do is press the federal government that it's their responsibility, not the State's responsibility. So, to provide security and to protect the people of California and of America. That is the key thing.
And then we have go and start working on what do we do with the people that are here and how do we really have a really reformed system. And I will talk to President Fox about that. And I am very happy that he is Austria because maybe he is learning a little bit about my background, that's maybe why he went there, so when he comes over here he can talk to me and maybe bring back some Schnapps from Austria. But, let me just tell you, the key thing is that we create a situation where people from here can hire people if they can't find the workforce here in California or in America they should be able to go outside the country and I think this is what this is all about.
I voted for McClintock.
I wish I had my vote back.
*crickets*
He always does this. He did the same thing right before Bush was going to the G8 summit to try to block some 'climate change' stuff. Arnold came out the week before and wrote an op-ed for a British Newspaper.
I got the impression that his main issue with them securing the border was the money. Who was going to foot the bill?
I'll bet if California, just California, withdrew all benefits being paid to illegals....medicaid, prescriptions, food stamps, housing assistance, SSI, cash, and a whole host of other programs for low income families....there would be enough money to build a DOUBLE WALL.
Arnold has learned how to be a classic politician in a short period of time. First, in order to ingratiate himself with conservatives (and a surprising number of moderates) he criticizes Bush for not supporting tough enough border security. But, now that it appears Bush is listening to his base (thank you Tony) Arnold is attempting to distance himself from the president in order to ingratiate himself with liberals and Bush haters. He has been a great disappointment to many conservatives.
LOL!
I don't like Arnold and did not vote for him but, I don't blame him for being skeptical.
Read the Goode Amendment. It makes the National Guard buddies for the Border Patrol. They will have NO authority for anything, a support role only.
That is not my idea of troops on the border.
Nope.
I'm beginning to think he's "our" Barbara Streisand - a movie star who also know about... nothing else.
While the rest of us were studying, he was in the gym.
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