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, because I sympathise with you and other Asperger's victims, I'll try to spell things out more clearly.
"Mind like a steel trap" = "pinhead"
"Armchair general" = "able to spout off but can't walk, let alone run"
Let me know if you need any more remediation.
Perhaps a remedial spelling lesson to go along with the English class?
You have delusions of adequacy.
Did you have an original point before you started drooling the verbal spittle?
It's a British spelling, an error I occasionally make with such words, having spent a good deal of time overseas.
Anyhow, my point has become insignificant in light of that thing on top of your head.
LOL, you are illiterate.
And after all these posts, you still have yet to make a point of any kind.
I second that motion :-)
Let's put Mayor Nagin in charge of transportation ;-)
I am getting really tired of hearing this lame excuse.
Me too.... Equally as bad is "then they will be placed at the end of the line" of legal immigrants waiting. (But the illegal will be here in the US at the 'end of the line' while the legal immigrant is in some third world country 'in front of the line'......) Go figure??????
Hee hee...
Hand that man a bailin' bucket!
Well, both the House and Senate are "Congress". I learned something on the Fox post-speech program. Rep. Pete King said that every year since '97 (could've been '99), the House has passed strong border control and the Senate killed it every time. The House has been good on this issue. But WHY AM I FINDING THIS OUT NOW? Why hasn't the GOP House told us about this for the past several years? The GOP can't communicate. They still rely on the MSM to get their message out. Idiots!
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