Hello?
The president has supported building a wall for over a year now, so if you have problems with the fact that a wall hasn't been built, take it up with Congress. He supported Sensenbrenner's suggestion to build a 700 mile wall, but Congress rejected it. Bush even signed legislation which funded the wall.
http://www.colum.edu/students/reservoir/studentlife/february2006/week1/borderfence0206.htm
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/5/3/115432.shtml
As an aside, although there are complaints that under this administration, employer fines have decreased for hiring illegal immigration, what seems to have gone unnoticed by the border hysterics is that it's because what was once a fine is now a CRIME.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/15/AR2006041501049_pf.html
Some of the Governors don't want a fence. Why don't you attack them?
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=48017
And it is within the power of each Governor to call up the National Guard to defend the borders. But some Governors are opposed to that idea too.
And for those who are saying the war in Iraq is making it impossible for our National Guard to protect the country here, there are over 300,000 National Guardsmen and only 30,000 are in Iraq or Afghanistan.
Are you maintaining that President Bush's record in protecting our border and enforcing immigration laws is laudatory? Bush himself as much as admitted otherwise in his speech Monday in which he described in lamentable detail the chaos that exists on the border and in the interior.
Bush may have put some lipstick on the amnesty pig with a little border enforcement here and there. But the issue is that damn pig. Try to reassure us on Bush's amnesty intentions. Good luck.
"The president has supported building a wall for over a year now, so if you have problems with the fact that a wall hasn't been built, take it up with Congress. He supported Sensenbrenner's suggestion to build a 700 mile wall, but Congress rejected it. Bush even signed legislation which funded the wall.
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Peach, he's NEVER supported a wall until his butt started getting burned. I don't know what your agenda is in attempting to cover up for Bush but you're on the losing side legally, intellectually and morally. Bush has supported the illegal invasion for years by his inaction. Eventually he's either going to have to live up to his oath of office or turn the country over to hordes of illegal alien invaders. You're a flat out traitor to this country and it's lawful, legal citizens.
"The president has supported building a wall for over a year now, so if you have problems with the fact that a wall hasn't been built, take it up with Congress. He supported Sensenbrenner's suggestion to build a 700 mile wall, but Congress rejected it. Bush even signed legislation which funded the wall."
Then why isnt it built? Then why does the President insist on 'comprehensive' reform with amnesty, instead of standing upand saying "We can do the border security this year and comprehensive reform next year, HR 4437 is acceptable, that will work too..." He didnt say it in his speech and it was very wrong of him not to.
It would work too, if the President had more seriousness about this issue.
Also, I'm sure the Bush critics are going to reel out the stats on Bush's non-enforcement at ICE and his budget that underfunded BorderPatrol, or the internal memos in the BP about how coyotes and drug smugglers are not getting prosecuted and about how the bed needed to end catch-and-release are 10X the number of beds they are applying it to, etc etc ...
"As an aside, although there are complaints that under this administration, employer fines have decreased for hiring illegal immigration, what seems to have gone unnoticed by the border hysterics is that it's because what was once a fine is now a CRIME."
There are 10 million illegal immigrants in this country. Outside of the border area arrests, how many deportations occured in the last year? So what is the likelihood of deportation?