Posted on 05/23/2006 8:45:49 PM PDT by dennisw
President George W. Bush seemed unusually heartfelt when he addressed the nation last week on immigration reform. For the president, immigration is not just a matter of politics or policy, it's personal. Bush has always been drawn to stories of Latino immigrants who came up by their bootstraps. In an interview with Hispanic Magazine in 2004, he described Paula Rendón, "who came up from Mexico to work in our house" when Bush was a boy growing up in Midland, Texas. "She loved me. She chewed me out. She tried to shape me up," said Bush. "And I have grown to love her like a second mom." Bush recalled Rendón's pride in seeing "her grandkids go to college for the first time."
Bush has another inspiring example close to home. For more than a decade, Maria Galvan, 53, has worked for Bush, looked after his daughters, befriended his wife and won the affection of the First Family for her loyalty, decency and hard work. As governor of Texas, Bush encouraged his housekeeper to become a U.S. citizen. Bush's own brother, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, married a Latino, and Jeb's eldest son, George P. Bush, is seen as a candidate to go into the family business.
"He appreciates how close Latino families are with each other," says Israel Hernandez, an early campaign aide whom Bush hired after hearing his family story. "For a long time, he's talked about how these are the qualities he thinks the party represents. He has always talked about immigration in a very compassionate way." But the president's willingness to help illegal immigrants on the path to citizenship sets him apart from many vocal conservatives in the GOP.
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Course, there's a difference between those who come here legally and those who don't, but don't tell that to the MSM.
Another report on this:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1636043/posts
Yes, illegals deserve our help. Lets set up flight schools and train them to pilot Boeing 757s....
This should be an uplifting thread :-)
Does the label ILLEGAL matter to Bush? Does it matter to Bush the HELL people got through to stay here LEGALLY and follow the RULES to become LEGAL CITIZENS?
The president has talked about a guest worker program for years now.
Being hispanic myself, I can say that we really try to stay close to family. I would think that more hispanics would vote republican since we tend to be conservative in our views.
I'm glad to see that hiring illegal aliens has worked out so well for the Bush family. /s What is this sentimental sob story anyway? STOP IT! JUST STOP IT! Thats not what we hired you for! Close the borders and end the giveaways to people breaking our laws by the battalion!
Love your tagline.
I wonder how many illegal invaders the Bush family has employed.
There are exceptions. In particular, villages in Mexico without men because they've left their families to illegally work in the U.S. And let's not forget the overcrowded prisons filled with illegals. Close family relationships don't exist when you're doing time for felonies.
Heck, they're still shirty about it. I called their main office in SF about Hagel/Martinez as a many year member, and was given the the first class snot treatment.
Unfortunately a once great organization has been reduced to ankle biters.
Bush has some issues. He shouldn't be trying to make public policy based on childhood anecdotes about his servants.
Yep, and there's also a difference between those who come here to drop anchor babies, live on the welfare state, and reclaim land - "Aztlan" - they truly believe to be theirs and those who want to live the American dream and become American patriots. The former have no intention whatsoever of learning English and assimilating, and if present in large enough numbers will eventually destroy our country. The latter I heartily welcome.
"He shouldn't be trying to make public policy based on childhood anecdotes about his servants."
Exactly. Mega-dittoes.
Today I went to my friendly gas station in a nearby community that I have been going to for over 20 years without problems. I was told by the manager that they had just caught an employee that was stealing credit card numbers and they were warning customers to go back through statements. Several customers had lots of things charged on their cards and a credit card company had opened the investigation. It seems somehow this employee had also been able to steal checks from some customers and forge them. In the course of the investigation it was learned the employee was an illegal alien. The manager told me when the employee applied for a job she had a Social Security card, and a driver's license, she also graduated from a local high school and spoke excellent English, yet was illegal all along.
That community has been allowing Mexican children to come across the border and attend schools in the US for many years- I wonder how many more there are who are illegal and there is no way to tell unless something like this happens?? Once they are educated here, there is no way to know without a thorough background check.
What ticked me off is the parent company of this gas station refused to press charges, the DA has to build a case on his own, so the crook is not in jail and odds are is already gone and may be working somewhere else stealing credit card numbers. Immigration is supposed to be doing something toward deporting the woman- but I am sure she is or will be gone when all the red tape is done to arrest her.
This whole situation is completely out of hand, I am sure if I were caught stealing credit card numbers and checks I would be arrested on the spot. Amazing how there seems to be a seperate justice system for illegals.
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