Rohrabacher nails Bush.
Better learn Spanish. (!Aprende espanol para no se lo arrepentiras, gringo!).
Where was the suggestion to end the 'anchor baby' policy? (and please don't bring up the Amendment- that's clearly based on a misapplied interpretation by a liberal SC.)
Where was the threat of jailtime for employers who hire illegals?
Where is welfare reform- as in shutting off benefits to border violators?
Where is the proposal to remove illegals from public education?
What's with expanding the path to citizenship? We can't even properly implement the one we have now!
And we're going to SPEND MORE MONEY! yay! Go big government!
This whole speech was a huge disappointment. But, at least we'll get a 'virtual wall', and a national ID card. Such a deal.
Meanwhile, Mexico continues to be a cesspool of poverty and corruption- the REAL reason that all these folks want to come here.
Absolutely nothing about holding that band of racist crooks in Mexico City accountable.
Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin, an Illinois Democrat:
"We know where the House Republicans stand. They want to criminalize undocumented immigrants and the nurses, volunteers and people of faith who help them. The president told us tonight that he is for comprehensive reform: Now he must lead. The president has the power to call up the National Guard, but now he must summon the power to lead his own Republican forces in Congress to support a bipartisan, comprehensive immigration reform."
Last night someone on CNN, maybe Wolf Blitzer, came out and said twenty million illegal aliens were in the US. He didn't call them 'aliens', they were 'immigrants'.
Vicente Foz can rest easy.
Bush's speech was nothing more than the same old, same old. 6,000 NG troops on the border is a bone he is tossing to his critics (us) in order to pave the wqay for his guest worker/amnesty plan. IMO, either of those are deal breakers.
I won't be bought off with 6,000 NG troops who (it was revealed this morning) will have absolutely NOTHING to do with stopping the illegal invasion.
As I suspected, it's all smoke and mirrors.
Rohrabacher is my Rep, so I don't have to leave the GOP in order to vote conservative.
F&F this morning said that the number of NG's was 10,000 on Sunday, but went down to 6,000 AFTER Vincente's call to GW.
Let's be honest: it is, and should be, an option to be discussed and voted on.
Support Rohrabacher and the rest of the House members who oppose the Senate's and the President's plan to allow 200 MILLION immigrants into the US in the next 20 years. Now is the time to stand up for America, because this legislation would be the death of our country.
No, Rep. Rohrabacher, you're the one playing word games. Just because no one in Congress is advocating mass deportation doesn't mean no one is advocating it. There is a world outside the isolated, perfumed princes in Washington, D.C. Some of those real people are advocating just that.
I just returned from a vacation in Canada. Why don't they have the problem of Illegal Mexicans flooding across their borders? They don't have walls, and fences, or thousands of troops stationed on the border. It's a beautiful country, why don't the Mexicans move right across the U.S. and into Canada? Answer: Because they have rules for hiring non citizens and they are enforced. We have the same rules but they are ignored and there was nothing in the speech last night that gave me any comfort that our laws will now be enforced.
Too little, too late. What a waste of valuable air-time. President Bush, you're on a fast track to becoming irrelevant.
Kennedy, Durban, Reid, and the rest of the pro-criminal OBL loved the swill Bush spewed last night. Hopefully, the conservatives in the House can hold the fort until we can get some pro-American Senators to help fight the OBL.
A 'Wall' ASAP.
A 'Wall' ASAP.
Yes, his Amnesty program is BS. Yes, his language last night still leave too much capitulation to the invaders possible.
But he's talking a bit tougher than he was a month ago. He is at least getting some extra, although weak tea that it is, help for the Border Patrol.
I'm a lot more hopeful today that we are gaining traction on this issue. I didn't think we were, and it could be smoke and mirrors, but we need to keep up the pressure and not let them settle for half measures and worthless compromises.
No obb-laub ess-ban-yo.