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President's Immigration speech - Live thread
me | 05/15/2006 | me

Posted on 05/15/2006 4:13:02 PM PDT by devane617

Edited on 05/15/2006 4:38:26 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

I searched but did not see a thread already open for tonights speech. I think this is the most important speech the President will probably make for the remainder of his term.


Mod Note:
This could turn into a whack-a-troll thread. All immigration trolls that would like to participate should post here. It'll be interesting to see if we mods can whack the trolls faster than they can sign up new accounts.
Jim


TOPICS: Breaking News
KEYWORDS: anchorbabies; bohica; borderspeech; bush; bushspeech; criminalaliens; enforcement; govwatch; guestworker; incompetence; invasion; scamnesty; shamnesty; speech; temporaryworker; test; trojanhorse
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To: papertyger

If the lure of illegally crossing is great enough, NO BORDER SECURITY will stop them from coming. We can't afford to search every single truck, car, and train that crosses the border. We can't deploy people every 300 yards across the entire border, which we would have to do even with a super-fence, just to make sure people weren't using ladders and other devices to get over the fence.

The guest worker program removes the incentive for spending a lot of money breaking in. In exchange, we give some people jobs, but get to tag them and make sure they leave at the end.


2,641 posted on 05/15/2006 9:30:05 PM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: Vicomte13
Again..this is not the 60's the borders are closing..tell your friends.
2,642 posted on 05/15/2006 9:30:07 PM PDT by Earthdweller
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To: Iscool
How about you go back to being silent. Do the board a favor. I've only ripped Bush for months for domestic screw ups I didn't like. The border being the chief one of them. Get a grip. Calling me a Bushbot is like calling clinton a man who understands and respects the sanctity of marriage.

A guest worker program is not even close to amnesty. And even if it was, what's your brilliant proposal to try and make it where people have a structure they have to obey to work in the country? Because it's funny, I've seen a lot of self-appointed geniuses ripping Bush and what he said tonight, but those same people don't seem to have any real life practical actionable solutions of their own. I just see a bunch of Monday morning Quarterbacks ripping what Bush said, but having no real solutions of their own. When Bush is a moron, I've called him such, but when he finally starts to get something right, it doesn't make me a "Bushbot" to say he got something right.

And you know, you guys who call people "Bushbots" truly are as annoying as liberals who call Conservatives facist nazis. Just because I don't hate all things Bush all the time doesn't make me a Bushbot. This thread has really turned childish.

2,643 posted on 05/15/2006 9:30:11 PM PDT by TexasPatriot8 (Want to fix the health care and education systems overnight? Deport all illegals today.)
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To: Earthdweller
Hello..this is not he 70's...yes they are.

What makes you think that?

2,644 posted on 05/15/2006 9:30:14 PM PDT by JeffAtlanta
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To: Earthdweller

Amnesty has been attempted and done before by LBJ and Reagan.

Enforcement of the Border and not rewarding people that have broken the law is the tough job not yet explored.


2,645 posted on 05/15/2006 9:30:34 PM PDT by Soul Seeker (Self Admitted BorderBot: Be Heard: Send a Brick: http://www.send-a-brick.com/brick.htm)
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To: JeffAtlanta

Now we have VDARE. Man your slip is showing. The last thing VDARE wants is Hispanic GOP voters. You do know that links to VDARE are forbidden on this site?


2,646 posted on 05/15/2006 9:31:20 PM PDT by Texasforever (I have neither been there nor done that.)
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To: All

Election 2006 Immigration-Reform Candidates

http://www.betterimmigration.com/candidates/2006/featuredraces.html


2,647 posted on 05/15/2006 9:31:52 PM PDT by MaineVoter2002 (http://jednet207.tripod.com/PoliticalLinks.html)
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To: JeffAtlanta

If dobbs is so stinking smart why is he a journalist and not in an occupation that actually changes things? This is getting old. It seems there are some FReepers who can't be pleased any of the time, about anything at all, but they still yell how conservative they are. I'm really sick of that.


2,648 posted on 05/15/2006 9:31:57 PM PDT by TexasPatriot8 (Want to fix the health care and education systems overnight? Deport all illegals today.)
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To: CharlesWayneCT
The guest worker program removes the incentive for spending a lot of money breaking in.

How? Guest workers on the books will be much more expensive than true illegals so the demand for pure illegals will still be there.

2,649 posted on 05/15/2006 9:32:11 PM PDT by JeffAtlanta
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To: Peach
Yes it does, but I was counting only my posts since I joined.
2,650 posted on 05/15/2006 9:32:39 PM PDT by Beagle8U (Juan Williams....The DNC's "Crash test Dummy" for talking points.)
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To: Texasforever

"I didn't bail I was researching."

Phffft.


2,651 posted on 05/15/2006 9:32:44 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: STARWISE

Wonder if Congress is going to vote for this when they're screaming about the budget, deficits, Iraq???



If they know what's good for them they will.


2,652 posted on 05/15/2006 9:33:03 PM PDT by trubluolyguy (If its such a great idea, lets see how well the capital and white house do with a virtual fence.)
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To: Beagle8U

Oh. Hah!


2,653 posted on 05/15/2006 9:33:11 PM PDT by Peach (DICC's - doing the work for the DNC)
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To: Arizona Carolyn

Yes I know Gilchrist founded it, I've spoken with him. And Tancredo has dealt closely with them and has been more involved with them than any other member of Congress.


2,654 posted on 05/15/2006 9:33:23 PM PDT by TexasPatriot8 (Want to fix the health care and education systems overnight? Deport all illegals today.)
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To: TexasPatriot8
If dobbs is so stinking smart why is he a journalist and not in an occupation that actually changes things?

LOL - that is a funny post.

Anyway, who said Dobbs was "so smart"? I just pointed out that a rumor that Dobbs liked the speech was incorrect.

2,655 posted on 05/15/2006 9:33:51 PM PDT by JeffAtlanta
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To: CharlesWayneCT

Maybe we can't search every single one, but what are the chances that they always, always, always find my third bottle of Kahlua, every single time, and smash it?

From my anecdotal POV, it works.


2,656 posted on 05/15/2006 9:33:55 PM PDT by Rte66
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To: JeffAtlanta


That ugly site is not permitted here.


2,657 posted on 05/15/2006 9:33:56 PM PDT by onyx (Deport the trolls --- send them back to DU)
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To: Soul Seeker
I don't give a care if we let a few million Christians have a shot at America...Reagan did it and now we have the last generation that will get their chance.

I'm glad the borders are closing now..that's all that matters post 9/11.

2,658 posted on 05/15/2006 9:34:55 PM PDT by Earthdweller
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To: Shortstop7
I have to agree with the President. There are jobs that aren't being done by Americans.

You're right. I won't go back to carpentry that I did for twenty years. Not for the same wages they paid twenty years ago thanks to all the illegals who flooded the trades here in this little CO mountain town in the last ten years. IOWs, no sale on your "jobs Americans won't do" insult.

2,659 posted on 05/15/2006 9:35:12 PM PDT by TigersEye (Sedition and treason are getting to be a Beltway fashion.)
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To: Shortstop7

"I have to agree with the President. There are jobs that aren't being done by Americans."

Do you really believe that without illegal aliens no grass will be cut, no roofs will be shingled, all motels will close and lettuce will be unobtainable? If you do, you have bought into the garbage promoted by the MSM and Democratic party. None of these were the reality before the massive invasion of illegal aliens.


2,660 posted on 05/15/2006 9:35:24 PM PDT by Prokopton
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