Posted on 05/29/2006 10:52:30 AM PDT by cornelis
As President Bush's poll numbers drop dramatically even among his base, the question most frequently asked by angry Republicans is: Why, oh why, is Bush so stubbornly rejecting the advice of his supporters even though that advice is consistent with the thunderous message from public opinion surveys?The reliable Rasmussen survey, for example, reports that by a 63 percent to 19 percent margin, voters want legislation that controls the borders before trying to change the status of illegal immigrants.
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger encapsuled the typical reaction to Bush's May 15 televised speech: "I have not heard the president say that our objective is to secure the borders no matter what it takes. That's what I want to hear."
Bush's dogmatic statement that we can't stop aliens from illegally entering our country unless legislation is packaged "together" with a guest-worker program is a non sequitur, nonsense, and untrue.
So what gives?
Here are some of the speculations grass-roots Republicans are making in regard to Bush's behavior:
(a) Bush prides himself on being a man of his word and he gave his word to Mexican President Vicente Fox that he would never stop the migration of Mexicans into the United States;
(b) Bush made a Faustian bargain with the big-money guys who raised more political money in 2000 than all other Republicans combined in order to nominate and elect him president;
(c) Bush is a globalist at heart and wants to carry out his father's oft-repeated ambition of a "new world order";
(d) Bush meant what he said, at Waco, Texas, in March 2005, when he announced his plan to convert the United States into a "Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America" by erasing our borders with Canada and Mexico.
Bush's guest-worker proposal would turn the United States into a boardinghouse for the world's poor, enable employers to import an unlimited number of "willing workers" at foreign wage levels, and wipe out what's left of the U.S. middle class. Bush lives in a house well protected by a fence and security guards and he associates with rich people who live in gated communities. Yet, for five years, he has refused to protect the property and children of ordinary Arizona citizens from trespassers and criminals.
Much attention has been paid to Bush's proposal to legalize the estimated 10 million to 20 million illegal immigrants currently living in the United States. Despite his denial of the "A" word, friends and foes alike recognize this as amnesty.
However, amnesty for 10 to 20 million is almost a drop in the bucket compared to the mammoth legalization of immigrants hiding under the deceitful words "temporary" and "guest worker." Those words are lies because the workers are not temporary and not guests.
We are indebted to the Heritage Foundation for its stunning report proving that the so-called 614-page "compromise" bill being debated in the Senate (under the Martinez-Hagel names) is a stealth open-borders bill that would import permanently and put on the path to U.S. citizenship at least 66 million people, with the actual number rising to at least twice that amount when they bring in relatives. Every category of legal immigration will be quadrupled or quintupled, and the racket called "family-chain migration" will be dramatically expanded.
The so-called temporary workers in their fourth year will get the right to remain in the United States permanently if they have learned English OR are enrolled in an English class, and after five years will get the right to become a U.S. citizen who can vote in U.S. elections. At the same time, the guest worker's spouse and children, without any numeric limits, will get legal permanent residence and citizenship.
After the so-called temporaries and their spouses become citizens, they acquire the right to bring in their parents as permanent residents on the path to citizenship. Siblings and adult children and their families will be given preference in future admissions.
In the words of the author of the Heritage report, Robert Rector, this is "the most monumental bill ever considered" and its mind-boggling costs would be the largest ever expansion of taxpayer-paid social benefits. Adding these millions to Medicaid, and adding their parents to Supplemental Security Income benefits, will become staggering entitlement costs.
The Senate bill would make 25 percent of the U.S. population foreign born within 20 years (most of them high school dropouts), and the United States as we know it would cease to exist.
It is impossible in so short a time to assimilate 100 million people whose native culture does not respect the Rule of Law, self-government, private property, or the sanctity of contracts, and where they are accustomed to an economy based on bribery and controlled by a small, rich ruling class that keeps most of the people in dire poverty.
Phyllis Schlafly is the President and Founder of the Eagle Forum.
Copyright © 2006 Copley News Service
I dont' get it--and he doesn't get it at all. Conservative Republicans don't like it and aren't going to take it anymore.
Perhaps there is a way to NOT make it automatic...thus making someone a legal resident and nothing more...
"He doesn't get it at all. Conservative Republicans don't like it and aren't going to take it anymore."
I'm beyond the point of trying to figure out why Bush is supporting amnesty and open borders.
What I do know is that I will do everything I can to oppose Bush and McCain on this issue, and prevent the House from passing an amnesty bill. And that I will vote third party or stay home before voting for any more amnesty-supporting RINOs.
We need Rational Immigration Reform. That includes:
--a cap on total immigration of 0.7 percent of total US population per annum. Right now, that's two million per year.
--secure borders, effectively limiting future illegal immigration by border-hopping to less than one per thousand legal immigrants (2,000 per annum).
--limiting the family-chain immigration racket to the spouse and minor children of a US citizen or legal immigrant.
--prohibiting the immigration of terrorists, communists, liberals, anarchists, those infected with certain horrible communicable diseases, Islamofascists, Aztlan maniacs, criminals, felons, drug users, public charges, smugglers, and other enemies of the United States.
--no path to citizenship for illegal immigrants.
--mandatory maximum processing times (90 days for family and employer sponsored and 365 days for all other immigrants) for immigrants from all countries except Muslim-dominated lands, France, and enemies of the United States. This exclusion to the 365-day limit shall not apply to Christians seeking refuge from Islamist or communist persecution.
--NO "temporary guest worker" programs: although those admitted as immigrants may return to their homelands, we should not expect foreigners who live among us for several years to leave the country.
--enforced penalties for document fraud.
Hi Phil, good graphic!
Why didn't they have their domestic help fill for them this weekend, posting the posts Americans don't want to post?
/sarc
IMHO, the answer is obviously b) Bush made a Faustian bargain with the big-money guys (big business) who raised more political money in 2000 than all other Republicans combined in order to nominate and elect him president.
Having a globalist agenda is a consequence of b). It takes money to get to where he and most of these senators have gotten and that money has come from big business. When you're at their station in the food chain, it's doubtful whether they actually have any principles. The goal of the president and certain senators is to develop a self-propogating constituency and not any policies based on deeply held personal values as they like to tell you in their campaign speeches.
In their adopted worldview, which is based purely on what their bill-paying big businsess constituents say, it's a world of business and sovereign nations only serve to restrict business operations and ultimately, profits. Who needs borders? Free trade, cheap labor, and open borders for all! Yep, most of our politicians are one world government whores sold out to their big business constituents. That's the only explanation that is consistent with their actions over the last 25 years. In truth, they've all sold the citizens of this country down the river for big business and a one world government which will benefit.... you guessed it.... big business.
The "bottom line" to all of this is found right here.
What do you see there that is so alarming to you.
I think Phyllis lost it awhile back.
The Senate CIRA bill is the *LEAST* compassionate thing you can do.
Leave aside that massive legalization-to-citizenship, aka amnesty, of 10 million or more
illegal immigrants, and the estimated (by Heritage) 60+ million legal immigrants to flow
from this legalization and expanded immigration quotas. Leave aside the negative consequences
to the rule of law of affirming illegal behavior, the incitement to further illegal immigration from
giving benefits to illegal aliens, the costs to taxpayers for additional burdens of low-wage citizenry,
and the unfairness to legal immigrants done by this act. Leave aside that, as
Ed Meese and Senator Grassley rightly point out, that this is the 1986 immigration bill
all over again, with the same erroneous thinking and the same results likely.
All that aside, we are left still with a host of tawdry, dangerous and foolish provisions in the
Senate bill, many special-interest-written:
- Going beyond mere amnesty with giveways like providing benefits for social security taxes
made on fraudulently used social security numbers
- The invitations to fraud by forbidding the use of applications in investigations, and allowing
for "difficulties encountered by aliens in obtaining evidence of employment", a signal
for wink-and-nod fraud in applications
- The loophole that forbids local law enforcement to hold people for civil immigration infractions,
making the opportunistic detention of criminal aliens harder ( a terrorist loophole)
- Provisions tampering with the immigration appeals courts, so they are less effective and more litigious
- An AgsJobs section with pitifully weak job requirements
- Allowances for self-sponsorship and for conversion of temporary guest worker visas to
permanant residency status, that make a mockery of the "temporary guest worker" label
- Over-regulation of wage and employment contracts, with Davis-Bacon rules imposed for some workers,
to the point where it risks creating complex new regulations in industries currently not covered
- An odious requirement to advise Mexico prior to building any fencing
- AgJobs has 'no immigration lawyer left behind' provisions: Provides for taxpayer-funded lawyers for
filing alien adjudication appeals, and requires lawyers to write applications
- An employment verification system that is simply unworkable; Senator Cornyn explained it in Senate debate as a
"system that is designed to fail"; it creates Federal liabilities opposed by DHS Secretary Chertoff,
requires an impossible standard of accuracy to be mandatory, and that won't be operational for years
The Senate immigration bill is a shocking mess of bad law. It out-does even "comprehensive"
Hillary-care in its sheer comprehensive awfulness. what pray tell, is compassioate about that?
"Perhaps it is because he grew up in Texas that he feels some sort of affinity with these people."
I am in Texas and I am fine with legal immigration of Hispanics, heck anyone in the world, at current levels or even higher. It's great Bush has that same affinity.
What I DONT GET IS how liking immigration translates into liking the awful, dangerous, foolish, tried-and-failed-before idea of legalizing millions of illegal immigrants.
It's a bad idea. Here is all we need to do now:
o Secure the border first
o Set up an employment verification system that works
o Streamline deportation and immigration law to reduce litigation in deportations
o Involve State and local law enforcement in immigration law enforcement
I believe it is better to attack the bill itself and its wrong-headed ideas than the man himself. This Kennedy-written bill is an awful piece of garbage, and we need to have discernment and see through the facade. The good news is that few are fooled. The MSM cant control truth and neither can some Senators or even the President.
Chirchillbuff, we've been on the other side of the Iraq war situation. But I take issues one at a time and think for myself on all matters. You might therefore appreciate the following letter to the Weekly Standard, who are cheerleading McCain-Kennedy immigration bill:
Thanks for posting the link.
If you can read Phyllis' article from a year ago, follow the link I supplied and not find anything alarming then your FR name certainly fits.
ping in case you haven't seen this yet.
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