Bush to Say Border Not Fully Under Control

AP ^ | 05/15/2006 | NEDRA PICKLER

[Charles Martel]

...part of a $1.9 billion drive to tighten security and win conservative backing in Congress for a broad election-year overhaul of the nation's tattered immigration laws.

There's nothing wrong with our immigration laws... it's the ENFORCEMENT POLICIES that are in tatters.

I hope that was just a journalistic turn of phrase - but I doubt it.

[jveritas]

Your ilks that hate the President so much.

[goalinestan]

Inexcusable, I agree.

And it's a ready made excuse for those to weak to just say, "Illegal immigration is flat wrong"...

He could just say, "After September 11th, we absolutely cannot allow our borders to be porous...America's future depends on it."

Who can argue that?

[taxed2death]

"The word "automatic" hits an off note with me."


Eeeggggggaaaccctttlllyyyyyyy.....

Bend ova......................

Here comes "Earned citizenship"....rammed in where the sun don't shine.

:)

[Nachum]

What, do I have to spell this out to you? Fine.

The president has done everything in his power to give amnesty to illegals. The only reason he is giving this speech, is because of the immense pressure that is being put on him by his own base.

His administration is falling apart, and he must show he has done something, hence the proposal for troops on the border. The only thing is, that before he even made the speech and the proposal, he was telling Vicente Fox that it was temporary.

It is just more of the same. The illegals, especially from Mexico, have been shoved down our throats, and will continue to be shoved down our throats. Aren't you tired of paying for it? Aren't you tired of being told that nothing can be done about it?

[Scribbz]

BOHICA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[TheBigB]

Bush to Say Border Not Fully Under Control

[jdm]

"Bush to Say Border Not Fully Under Control"

[mutley]

I'm not going to be offensive or vulgar, but I do find myself these days, asking... Why did I like this guy in the first place?

I fear...truly fear...that I have been so terribly stupid with my support. Tonight's speech will reveal if I have been so mistaken of Dubya. Am I alone in this perspective? I no longer feel like he can help, in the battles that matter for this country.

[Nachum]

Hate the president?

I don't hate the president. I hate what has happened to Southern California. I also hate being lied to. Bush alone isn't responsable, but unfortunately, when I had to look at a parade of hundreds of thousands of illegals carrying Mexican flags having a rally a mile away from where I live, it makes me a "little" upset.

[tet68]

Bush's plan to use National Guard troops at the border ran into criticism from Democrats and Republicans alike.

"The National Guard already is stretched to the limit by repeated tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as from providing disaster assistance in their own states," said Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (news, bio, voting record), D-Mass., though he commended Bush for "courage and leadership" in weighing in on the immigration debate.

Duh, funny there doesn't seem to be a Republican quote,
wonder why???

[airborne]

Now, that post was articulate and reasonable.

I do not object to your opinion, only how you were expressing it.

This isn't DU.

[Nachum]

I'm not going to be offensive or vulgar, but I do find myself these days, asking... Why did I like this guy in the first place?

Exactly.

[capt. norm]

You have lowered the level of discussion here to the lowest loevels I've seen in a while. The question is, why?

[JHBowden]

Is this DU? To many people are suffering from conservative battle fatigue and can't see the big picture. Mahmoud's nuke program is a MUCH more important issue than illegal immigration, along with conservative judges, to take two clear examples. (What's the point of passing law if liberal judges will simply overturn it?) We can pressure Bush into doing something about immigration or judges. We will not be able to do so with people like Hillary running the show.

[drellberg]

Nothing would satisfy the folks here. Immigration wasn't even a burning issue on this site or any other conservative blog two years ago. Now it is the issue du jour, and the only issue that anyone is allowed to discuss.

None of this is meant to discount the importance of the issue. But this is a significant step forward, and you folks can't grant that. You criticize the president at every juncture, and yet there is no one, I repeat no one, on the horizon who would be more conservative. Giuliani? McCain? Romney? Who?????? You all let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

Way to go, Mr. President! Thank you! Don't listen to these guys.

[dc-zoo]

Your mind and mouth are in the toilet. You belong on DU.

[taxed2death]

Thank God he didn't say..."doing the jobs that Americans won't do"... I'm thinking Tony Snow had a sit down with him regarding that offensive statement.

[Nachum]

You have lowered the level of discussion here to the lowest loevels I've seen in a while. The question is, why?

I guess that when I think of Los Angeles school system, hospitals, prisons, freeways, crime scene, language and culture turning into the toilet that it has, it makes me little "perturbed".

[tennmountainman]

I don't want to hear what he says...I want to SEE WHAT HE DOES in a serious way to control the open wide borders.