The cross analogy is odd. Why do you keep bringing that up? This issue is not going to touch me by the way. But it will touch my children and their children and that's what I'm concerned about. I'm saying as I have for many years that we should not allow millions and millions of Mexicans to enter the US illegally. I'm being honest about the fact that we have millions of people in this country that should not be here and that the president supports legislation that would allow 10's of millions more in. Some estimates are that we could see as many as 200 million more in the coming years. In the past "W" never ever said that he supported allowing such huge numbers of "immigrants" in to this country. He never indicated as he did in his speech this past week that as a leader he could not keep our borders secure:
The fact that people are willing to take those risks puts enormous pressure on our border, so much pressure that walls and patrols aren't going to stop it. In other words, you've got people saying, "I'll do anything to come and work, just give me a chance." And we can put up -- you know, we can have a lot of patrols and a lot of walls, and it's not going to stop that flow; it will put a dent in it. But if the job is to secure this border, it seems like to me that we got to stop the number of people who are trying to sneak across in the first place. And the best way to do that is to make a temporary worker program a part of immigration reform -- a program would create a legal path for foreign workers to enter this country in an orderly way for a limited period of time.
I'm obviously not alone in my concerns about this mattter. In fact, I have numerous friends that are second and third generation from Mexico whos views on illegal immigration make mine look tame.
As a conservative I believe that it's not in the best interest of my family for the state of Texas or this part of the US to become an extension of Mexico. I've seen first hand what this has done to our schools, our hospitals, our prisons, our cities and the quality of life we have come to expect. We have an emergency and it needs to be addressed.
A sizable portion of those who are currently here illegally came here "legally" under the terribly flawed temporary worker program - GWB is saying this program must be addressed - He is correct (and this has been his stance since 2000).
Regarding those here illegally now GWB has never changed his opinion on what should be done with them since 2000. That is the reality. That you are mad now about his position is not him turning his back on you....it is you simply being mad about how he believes the situation should be remedy (that is completely different then your intellectually dishonest attack that he has turned his back on you and the GOP base).
As a conservative I believe that it's not in the best interest of my family for the state of Texas or this part of the US to become an extension of Mexico.
Nor does GWB - He is simply stating the reality that a terribly flawed temporary worker program has allowed millions to become illegal aliens within our borders - That system must stop -
While at the same time that is a whole separate issue from what to do with those 12 million illegals who are currently here (and have come here over the past 20 years).
We can share a bottle of whine isthisnickcool. Cheers!