Posted on 06/02/2006 3:46:47 PM PDT by kellynla
President Bush yesterday rejected House Republicans' stance that illegal aliens must return home, calling it "wrong and unrealistic" and saying many will have to be allowed to stay.
Speaking to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a block from the White House, Mr. Bush also directly challenged businesses to hire only legal workers, and said those that don't should be prepared to face increased fines. In addition, he said both the House and Senate will have to compromise, but said voters expect a bill and he said that bill should tackle both enforcement and a pathway to citizenship for illegal aliens.
"The difficulty of this task is no excuse for avoiding it," he said.
Mr. Bush was making his first in-depth comments since the Senate passed its broad immigration bill last week, setting up a showdown over immigration policy with the House, which passed an enforcement bill in December.
Last Friday, and again on Sunday, Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner Jr., Wisconsin Republican and chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said he cannot accept any approach that allows illegal aliens to stay in the country with the government's approval.
"The words 'path to citizenship' is a buzzword for amnesty. We ought to be honest -- it is amnesty," Mr. Sensenbrenner, a key House negotiator, said on NBC's "Meet the Press" program. He contends that more enforcement against employers would make it hard for illegal aliens to get jobs, encouraging them to go home. But Mr. Bush dismissed that argument.
"Listen, I appreciate the members are acting on deeply felt principles. I understand that. Yet I also believe that the approach they suggest is wrong and unrealistic," he said.
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SIGH!!!! :-(
G.W. is shunning the Republican House approach on criminal aliens and I'm shunning the donation of dollars to the party untill they are sent home.
These are Not American citizens and they have No right to be sucking off of the Safety-net like parasites.Nor do they have the right to go to American Universities at prices that are lower than what American citizen are required to pay.
The problem is with SSI and all the benefits available to poor people, they'll end up taking more out of the government han they contribute.
The people do not want a half assed solution just for the sake of having 'something' done. Seal the border and stop the onslaugght/invasion.
No, Bush gets it-- you don't.
Bush never promised you the expulsion of aliens. You and others have made it an issue. He has offered compromise positions you don't like.
There is nothing preventing you from fielding candidates of your preference.
For me, I am happy to agree with Bush and be against the Borderbots.
It's not the RATS who convinced him. It's the big business donors who make billions off illegal slave labor and hand the American people the bill for taking care of them.
He knows which side his bread is buttered.
It's deeper than that -- try New World Order.......
I agree. Tell that to a politician. If I was Bush, I'd give them all amnesty, make them citizens and then try and jail every one of them for using stolen identities to gain employment and being in possession of forged government documents.
Enjoy it out there in the wilderness?
He gets it alright. He knows exactly what he is doing, I'm sorry to say.
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God Bless the Minutemen!
"Your" wrong or my wrong? How about "you're" wrong. And it's AMIGO.
I like W too... but he's 'gonna eat this idiocy.
It doesn't matter what law is passed, Bush will do nothing to stop the illegals, nor will he ever try to send them back. He admits that he does not think it is realistic.
After all, he ha snot uysed all money allocated by Congress to hire border guards. That tells me that he wants open borders with Mexico and Canada to equalize the pay in the labor markets for Mexico and Canada. That means are wages are to be reduced while Mexico's wages will increase until there is some kind of equalibrium.
And in return for reducing our standard our standard of living, we get nothing.
The Senate bill even gives money to Mexico to protect its southern border!
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I favor people becoming Americans. I know full well this is a nation of immigrants. I also know that a high percentage of our soldiers in Iraq are non-citizen hispanics.
This nation has endured far higher waves of immigration. The real question is whether we are up to the task of assimilation.
I have grown up most of my life in Texas so I think I understand how difficult these questions are but I do not agree with the wall builders and anti-amnesty crowd.
" Mr. Bush drew praise yesterday from Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, a key Democrat on the issue. He said Mr. Bush was "right on the mark" in telling Congress to get a broad bill done.
But Howard Dean, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, demanded the president do more to distance himself from the House bill."
Aren't you glad we have a Republican President who is so concerned about appeasing liberal Democrats?
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