If that is the case, then they have sadly miscalculated. 
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."
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It probably isn't reasonable to round up and deport 11-12 million people and we don't want to live in a police state, but we should at least determine the citizenship of everybody who runs afoul of the law.
I also got ask what we do with the percentage of the 11-12 million who don't qualify for legal status?
What does the worthless and ignored 1992 Rio Earth Summit have to do with illegal immigration?
That summit was Gore's bag, not Bush's.
Why bring up emvironmentalist wacko stuff on an illegal immigration thread? You are asking for trouble from the illegal immigration posters. They have been admonished for posting illegal immigration rants on other threads; they won't take kindly to posting 1992 Earth Summit crap on their illegal immigration thread.
First build the border wall, locate the illegals, using a non-duplicatable national ID card, then take them out slowly until all are back in Mexico, Central and South America, Korea and other illegal worker supplier nations. Fine all employers of illegals and jail those that persist. Is that so difficult? Only for political idiots, America haters and all leftists.
No doubt FRiend.
"Hand strip paint off of a whole house."
You're not American, by your own logic.
Yes, and another purge from FR will ensue. Many conservatives have been banned or suspended.
You are right about the need for extra mods. No matter what he says he will have critics who are SURE that he is not saying the right thing.
Wake up! They have already broken the law by coming here illegally and many others are in our jails for even worse crimes. Have you been asleep for the past ten years?
I just hope that the anti-enforcement Republicans that have aligned themselves with ANSWER will finally see the error of their ways before they end up causing the destruction of the GOP.
If that is the case, then they have sadly miscalculated.
"Most Republicans and Democrats are NOT for booting 11 Million illegals. I don't know if there is one out there for it."
Then we find some who are.
Miss M, President Bush could put a stop to this division tonight by removing his call for a guest worker program until at least next year. The Dems don't need to use this to divide the party - Bush is doing the work for them.
Border concerns are obviously not a new issue, given the passage of the two acts in California and Arizona. But those were passed during the Clinton Administration, and where were all of the complainers back then? I heard some muttering about the courts, but nothing much else. Of course, people had SO MUCH to fault Clinton for, but one would have thought that the Minutemen would have surfaced a few years earlier.
No, my major concern is why the HISPANICS suddenly took to the streets...not the concern from Americans. Aren't you curious about why they suddenly felt the urge to demonstrate in all of the major cities? I think I know, and it is because the Hispanics are being used to divide the Republicans right before an election. Without those demonstrations, we would be discussing this but not at such a fever pitch.
No jobs, no invaders.
Punishing Big Business is a democrat set piece. If the existing labor laws are enforced in even a small percentage of cases, employers will stop hiring illegal alien invaders.
Dry up the well, and the thirsty will go elsewhere...
No..but it seems clear enough the majority of Illegals crossing our common border are Latino..right?
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Dane: Nope, I am not OK with the taxpayers paying it.
There you have it Freepers! Dane is all broken up over employers sticking taxpayers with the cost of illegals.
(Funny, neither Dane nor the rest of the FROBL every seem all that distraught about the taxpayers subsidizing illegal employers. Go figure!)
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