Posted on 05/15/2006 5:48:16 AM PDT by areafiftyone
May 15, 2006 -- WASHINGTON - In his live, nationally televised address tonight, President Bush will tell Americans that it's impossible to deport the estimated 11 million illegal aliens living here.
"We must reject amnesty, but recognize that it is not realistic to round up millions of people and send them home," said White House spokeswoman Maria Tamburri in a preview of Bush's speech.
She said Bush plans to spell out his vision for sealing the border, enforcing the law, and "creating a rational system for workers to come into our country and to do jobs Americans won't do." Bush plans to visit the U.S.-Mexican border this week, and will dispatch his Cabinet to help sell the immigration plan.
The Senate plans to return to the contentious issue this week now that Republicans and Democrats have a deal to plow through controversial amendments. But the House and Senate are far apart on whether to put illegals on a path to citizenship.
Tamburri said Bush would call for "better equipment, increased funding, and advanced technology" to secure the border.
She didn't confirm press reports that Bush wants to expand deployments of National Guard Troops to step up border enforcement. Some Guard troops are already deployed in Arizona and New Mexico, but Bush is considering a big increase.
White House National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley said that enforcement was the Border Patrol's job - but then asked whether they needed help from the Guard on an "interim basis."
"This is not about militarizing the border," he said. The president is looking to do everything he can to secure the border. It's what the American people want."
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
OK let's boot Bush!
And put who in office??? Most Republicans and Democrats are NOT for booting 11 Million illegals. I don't know if there is one out there for it.
He'd better end his silence on the Senate's insidious "path toward citizenship."
How long will that slur keep bouncing around?
Know what that is? That's me, beating my head against the freakin' wall..
In other words, he'll put NG in clerking jobs to more Border Patrols can be along the border, to try and slow the big flood that will come as soon as he announces his Amnesty plan. We're about to be kicked aside... again.
I meant Republcan and Democrat politicians not American people.
How about 10M then?
And elect....?
I have a better idea, lets boot Bush, the Congress and the 11m Illegals, one at a time if necessary.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43275
Jackpot baby or the anchor around the necks of Americans!
The jobs for his favorite people are drying up so what do you think will happen with the groups of angry, illegals LOITERING on our streets will do when they are bored and angry? Figure it out cheerleaders! (not directed at you)
" The little-noticed provisions are part of legislation co-sponsored by Republican Sens. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska and Mel Martinez of Florida, which overcame some early stumbles and now has bipartisan support in the Senate. The bill also has been praised by President Bush, and he is expected to endorse it as a starting point for negotiations in his prime-time address to the nation tonight
All told, the Hagel-Martinez bill would increase the annual flow of legal immigrants into the U.S. to more than 2 million from roughly 1 million today, scholars and analysts say."
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20060515-122825-2467r.htm
We are the Borg, resistence is futile.
This speach, if it in any way suggests "WE CAN'T ENFORCE OUR OWN LAWS, AND PROTECT OUR OWN BORDERS" will be an absolute FLOP.. Bush's approval ratings will hit the teens if he tries to sell those lies to the Public.
I think most people would find his January 7th, 2004 proposal to be acceptable and realistic.
Tonight we'll see whether he actually will defend that proposal to the letter, or will he let the Senate introduce it's "path toward citizenship", which is unacceptable to the American people.
Don't need to round them all up. Enforce the law. Make it too darn expensive for the employers to employ them. Make it next to impossible for them to receive public assistance. The majority of illegals will self-deport.
Ummm...Mexico did.
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