[SwinneySwitch]

A lot of people like that reform. Maybe we should get us some.

....How we gonna run reform when we're the damn incumbent?

Junior and Pappy O'Daniel in Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?

[stephenjohnbanker]

Bush is just pitching the lies a conservative president would be unwilling to pitch..............

[TexasCajun]

ABC just couldn't bring itself to mention that Laredo and Nuevo Laredo is a war zone with Mexican military and border agents working with drug & human smuggling cartels, murdering anyone that gets into their way while en route to a city near you.

[P-40]

We don't need reform...just someone to enforce the laws that we have now. I thought we had hired someone to take care of that...

[SwinneySwitch]

Reform Ping!

[mtbopfuyn]

I notice W isn't leaving the security of the airport. Apparently, E.D. Hill from FNC wouldn't even venture that close to the city. Did y'all hear her this morning ranting about Laredo and how it was a disgusting shame it was so lawless that you needed to wear Kevlar when visiting? Kudos to her!!!

[steel_resolve]

Nixon and Jacobs = traitors.

[Woodstock]

Bush, who opposes deportation of the estimated 12 million undocumented immigrants, supports a guest worker program.... is pushing for bigger fines for employers who hire illegal immigrants.

I have two questions. Does this mean that the illegals could stay here, but possibly not have jobs? (That sounds like a problem to me.)
Who is going to enforce these fines when we don't even enforce what we have now?????

[gubamyster]

ping

[Liberty Valance]

Laredo is definitely hostile territory. I do hope the President stays safe.

http://www.cityoflaredo.com/bridgesys/bridge4cam.html

[La Enchiladita]

“And he has a ranch in Texas, so he knows personally the stupidity of building a fence anywhere around Laredo,” he said. “It’s horrendously expensive to build and maintain and will do no good whatsoever.”

Call the waaahhhhmbulance!

[Mogollon]

Just heard Dubya in Nuevo Laredo bragging again about the border patrol deporting 6 million illegals in the last few years. Yet he maintains that deporting 12 million illegals is impossible.

Seems to me if they did they same thing they did to deport 6 million for twice as long they could deport 12 million. But that's just a thought from the unwashed serfdom.

[The South Texan]

“I was in the Air Force National Guard seven years,” Jacobs explained. “We use soldiers to kill people. The Guard was not trained to look for undocumented immigrants in the monte of South Texas.”

Using this idiots logic, the next hurricane that hits the coast that requires the guard to help in the recovery, they should be given orders just to shoot all of the survivors and save money.

Only in Laredo can some say that and be left unchallenged.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Dennis Nixon, International Bank of Commerce president & CEO, and Gary J. Jacobs, Laredo National Bank chairman of the board, said greater high-tech surveillance, the dispatching of National Guardsman to the border and building a wall will not stem the tide of illegal immigration.

Bush's fat cat corporate cronies....

[hosepipe]

Amnesty = 20 million (or so) brand new democrat VOTERS?..

A stealth campaign for Hillary.. no doubt..
As republicans snore.. BRILLIANT..

[Kimberly GG]

"Two bankers who have closely followed the increasingly bitter debate expressed their concerns with recent proposals from Congress. ....... ........Dennis Nixon, International Bank of Commerce president & CEO, and Gary J. Jacobs, Laredo National Bank chairman of the board, said greater high-tech surveillance, the dispatching of National Guardsman to the border and building a wall will not stem the tide of illegal immigration. ............... ...............The best way to control Mexican immigration is to allow people who come to work in the United States to come and go freely, Jacobs said." Perhaps Mr. Jacobs and Mr. Nixon are sweating R.I.C.O. bullets? I don't think there is a remedy in 2611 for their predictament. "Some large U.S. financial corporations currently accept the matricula as primary or secondary ID for the purpose of opening bank accounts in the United States for illegal aliens. An illegal alien with a U.S. bank account, in which he or she may deposit illegally acquired funds, and out of which he or she may pay local rent, local utility bills, and send money abroad, is more likely to remain illegally in the United States. In other words, he or she is encouraged to remain illegally in the United States — such encouragement being a violation of Federal law. When such a violation is done for the purpose of financial gain, as in the case of the financial corporations engaged in the practice, it is more than simply a violation of immigration law — it is racketeering . Also, those contemplating entering the United States illegally will be further encouraged to do so because of the added benefits they can obtain once they enter. Thus, it is reasonable to say that acceptance of the matricula is a violation of the INA and a predicate offense under RICO."

[La Enchiladita]

In today's news, el presidente visits the border! Wow, huh?

[ncountylee]

He also supports tougher border law enforcement and citizenship for illegal immigrants who have spent years in this country, so long as they pay back taxes and demonstrate English proficiency.

Amnesty with a very transparent disguise.

[A CA Guy]

According to a speech he gave last week at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, he is pushing for bigger fines for employers who hire illegal immigrants, as well as tamper-proof identity cards for workers.

I would love to challenge the President in seeing if I could duplicate one of his tamper proof cards.

Let him offer me a large sum, give me a copy of the card and a little time and I would make him IMO look like an @ss.

I don't counterfeit, but I know I could prove the President a liar on that card deal.

If that card has a connection to a Federal data base which has a correct picture, finger prints, DNA and all that, then I would be dead in the water.
That is why the President should create a Federal data base for employees. Get pictures, thumb prints, DNA and background checks from the foreign government they are coming from.
Make employers verify data and pay fines if caught hiring on the black market or ignoring the law. Eventually give them jail and a felony.
Do that and the illegals will dry up here and have to go home to not starve.

[Leatherneck_MT]

Here's a Guest Worker program for you Mr. President.

Close the freakin borders, DEPORT those found, Jail those who knowingly hired them and then those Illegals can come back into the country like all of the LEGAL Immigrants do.

THROUGH THE FRONT STINKING DOOR!