Posted on 05/15/2006 7:45:36 PM PDT by bobsunshine
Thank you for posting that, I keep trying to make the point to those who don't live on the border that they just can't know what is really going on here unless they live here. I try my darndest to make reasoned posts and keep my temper, but I totally understand where all the anger and frustration comes from. I feel the same anger and frustration, I just may have more self control than some. I do have many of the same feelings though. Much of the anger is caused by those who don't live here thinking they know more about the situation than we do. I get angry when I read posts by a real know it all type and then go to their home page and find out they are miles and miles from the border. I had one the other day tell me she knew exactly what was going on- she said she is a days drive from the border. I am 7 miles away and yet she thinks she knows more than I do- tends to tick me off.
I do not live in one of the hot spots and yet I have all the same stories you do. The same things are happening all along the border, the only diffence is in the hot spots it happens more often. I talk to relatives away from the border and most of them have never been personally touched by crime, even those that live in a large city; yet on the border it is rare if someone hasn't been a victim of crime committed by illegals.
I don't understand why many of those who don't live on the border will not try to understand what we are telling them. Why they can't understand why we think, and feel the way we do. This border is a war zone and it will take drastic action to fix.
I liked parts of the speech last night- but I am very much against rewarding those who came here illegally in any way. I think it is a bad idea.
President Bush's speech left me with more questions than answers. I hope to hear some detail about the plan in the coming days, maybe my questions and concerns will be addressed.
I don't follow you here? (I said we should not completely ignore the current 12 million illegals here - Meaning as GWB said last night, these people need to be put in a process in which they either willingly become U.S. citizens, via a number of requirements, after criminal back ground checks etc....or they need to leave).
Additionally GWB is not proposing amnesty at all in the sense of how R. Reagan did. In 1985 one minute you were illegal and the next minute you were legal (with no requirements, back ground checks, etc, whatsoever). That is not at all what GWB is suggesting.
It does, however, keep it from getting much larger - which is exactly what will happen if we have any guest worker or amnesty legislation before border security is drastically improved. And that is the entire point.
I simply don't see why you are suggesting you can't have one with the other - The both most certainly can be accomplished within the same process ...and we most certainly do need an updated temporary workers program (with ID cards for all non-U.S. citizens....never for U.S. citizens mind you).
Your train of thought runs exactly with how DEMs constantly try and suggest we can't afford tax cuts. Because we can't do both at the same time (tax cuts and reduce the deficits...when we most certainly can do both).
Free Republic Opinion Poll: If the White House and GOP controlled congress does not act immediately to seal the borders, penalize employers who hire illegals and deport illegals when caught, how will it affect your vote in November?
Composite Opinion | |||
---|---|---|---|
I will continue to vote GOP | 40.3% | 4,795 | |
I will vote third party | 31.8% | 3,783 | |
I will stay home | 21.3% | 2,534 | |
I will vote for the Democrat | 6.5% | 775 | |
99.9% | 11,887 | ||
Member Opinion | |||
I will continue to vote GOP | 45.9% | 2,019 | |
I will vote third party | 31.3% | 1,380 | |
I will stay home | 20.1% | 885 | |
I will vote for the Democrat | 2.7% | 119 | |
100.0% | 4,403 | ||
Non-Member Opinion | |||
I will continue to vote GOP | 37.1% | 2,776 | |
I will vote third party | 32.1% | 2,403 | |
I will stay home | 22.0% | 1,649 | |
I will vote for the Democrat | 8.8% | 656 | |
100.0% | 7,484 | ||
This is the newer poll I was speaking of -
http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/poll?poll=147;results=1
Furthermore (if silly polls seem to matter so much to some) a new CNN poll from last night shows a whopping 67% viewing the President speech as positive and the right direction (a poll with 2 to 1 margin of GOP'ers to boot).
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/05/16/immigration/index.html
Enforce the laws, force employers to obey the laws by actually enforcing the laws and punishing law-breaking employers as prescribed in the law, and you will see most employers realize that the risks of employing illegal labor are not worth it. The jobs will dry up and the illegal aliens will have no choice but to return home after a few more street marches, temper tantrums, and a riot or two. No, we won't get all 12 million to deport themselves, but we can take a huge bite out of that number. Then we can deal with the rest through raids and stings and various investigations.
The FedGov has been delinquent in getting the instant employment check system in place. It is years late. Already, by law, an employer must review documents from employees which prove that they are legal citizens who can be employed. The trouble is that those documents can be easily forged and employers the victims of fraud or intentionally obtaining false documents just so that they can employ the cheap, exploitable labor. The instant check system will allow employers to check the immigration status of all employees quickly and will nearly eliminate the document fraud problems. A biometric, tamper proof card for foreign laborers is also a good idea. I do not support a National ID card as I want to avoid that if we can. But, given the massive problems and even deaths caused by illegal aliens in this country, we may have to eventually go to that to help eliminate the problem. We already have a defacto national ID system which is managed through the Social Security Administration so it won't be a huge leap. But it isn't a leap that I am anxious to make.
Sad to say it.
I agree with that. But it isn't as if they want to abandon the party. They feel that the party has abandoned them along with all reason, logic, a principle. This is a symptom of the fact that the Republican Party unfortunately has come unmoored and is adrift at the moment. If it had stuck to its core principles at a national level, we wouldn't be having this problem right now. Don't blame the disenfranchised - they are more distressed than you are over their abandonment by the party. And it isn't just the immigration issue that has done this. I've been working my tail off for years to keep the party on its principles and to elect party leadership that will stick to those principles. But, at a national level, it isn't working. We need a sea change within the party leadership and this may be it as it becomes evident that their direction has been the wrong one and is destroying the party.
Well said. I'm not only going to vote for a Republican for Congress in my district, but I'm helping his campaign as a volunteer in substantial ways that I'm not going to discuss here. In fact, I'm upset by what President Bush is doing because it may hurt my candidate's chances as so many conservatives may stay home out of sheer frustration.
I hardly think that arresting and deporting illegals is quite the same as the image produced by "mass roundups and deportations". You differ.
But you do me a disservice by saying I am dishonest about that. You may not understand the reasoning or agree with it, but the ad hominem is uncalled for. After all, I was courteous to you and never thought, implied, or said that I thought you were dishonest in your use of language. I just thought the words were imprecisely chosen.
And then there are the penguins, who follow their leaders off the edge of a cliff.
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