"Family values don't stop at the Rio Grande"
from his 2000 campaign.
True, I mean I can understand people disagreeing with Bush but it boggles my mind that people can't see that these are heartfelt views of his.
What is Mexico's abortion rate anyway?
There. Think of this as a controlled burn to act as a firebreak for all the other flames on this thread.
Now if only I could work Darwinism and Outsourcing into this... :-)
Cheers! Full Disclosure: Sounded like Amnesty Lite to me, long on rhetoric, comparatively short on substance:
6,000 new Border Patrol over three years.
National Guand in "behind the scenes" roles.
Biometric card only for aliens: OK, how about those who still sneak across and claim to be citizens by right of an anchor baby, so they don't need a card. How will you verify that?
At least they didn't want the dreaded National ID card!
Virtual fence and unmanned aerial vehicles won't do squat without the warm bodies to round up the aliens.
Good speech on "catch and release" but only "asking Congress for the money" is as good as admitting it is only window dressing.
I earnestly applauded his realization the assimilation is the key, but what of those who ONLY WANT TO GET A JOB...???
And, of course, to bastardize the 60's slogan, "You can't legislate assimilation"--how will they help it along, and how will you keep Dems from sabotaging the program or using it to conduct indoctrination like liberals NEA-types do in high school and college?
Cheers!
What he has actually been working to achieve is "Mexican values shall not end at the border", particularly Mexican wage values.
Try here to start:
http://www.heritage.org/Research/Immigration/wm1076.cfm