Clinton praises Bush on immigration reform

Yahoo News ^ | 07/08/06 | By ROBERT JABLON, Associated Press Writer

[garbageseeker]

LOS ANGELES - Former President Bill Clinton praised President Bush on Saturday for supporting reforms that would allow millions of illegal immigrants to seek citizenship but said the debate in Congress is being fomented by Republicans who want to divide America.

"I'm proud of him for doing it and I thanked him for doing it," he said of Bush during a "Cafe con Clinton" breakfast speech to the annual conference of the National Council of La Raza, the nation's largest Hispanic civil rights advocacy group.

Clinton said Bush's roots in Texas — which has one of the nation's largest Hispanic populations — have helped him view immigrants as people rather than statistics.

"It's hard to demonize people if you know them," he said.

But Clinton also argued that the nation's government is controlled by Republican ideological hard-liners who want to use immigration to divide Americans and distract them from issues such as the war in Iraq and the health care crisis.

Instead of equal opportunity, they support a "financial elite" because they favor "concentrated wealth and power," Clinton said.

"They believe in a government that is secret, unaccountable and that maximizes its own power," he said. "They really believe the world works better if they run it and we keep our mouths shut."

Clinton supported an immigration reform measure passed by the Senate that would provide a way for many of the estimated 12 million foreigners living in the country illegally to become citizens. A House-approved bill would make illegal immigrants felons and build 700 miles of border walls. House and Senate negotiators so far have not been able to work out a compromise.

Bush has said he wants to enforce the borders so fewer people sneak across but also provide a way for those already in the United States to become legal. He has praised Hispanic immigrants as hardworking and family oriented. Clinton used similar language in his own speech.

The message played well with La Raza, which opposes the House bill and whose current president, Janet Murguia, was an assistant in the Clinton White House.

Before Clinton's speech, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa noted a string of rallies over the immigration issue, including one in March that sent 500,000 people into the streets of Los Angeles and garnered international attention.

"You literally reshaped the political landscape of our nation ... we can still see a movement blooming before our very eyes," he said.

Both Democrats and Republicans have been looking for ways to court Hispanics, whose fast-growing population gives them the potential to become an enormous voting force. Bush's top political adviser, Karl Rove, was scheduled to address the convention on Tuesday

[AmeriBrit]

Now, now. Don't confuse him/her with the true facts....LOL

[garbageseeker]

Ok. I will be a good boy!

[river rat]

The Kiss of Death.....

Semper Fi

[markoman]

If I'm not mistaken,there was large influx of illegal aliens after the amnesty during the Reagan administration.

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[siznartuf]

"Yes, Bubba, the real Republicans want to divide America - between the legal Americans and the illegal Americans."

Right on!

[AmeriBrit]

You need to step it up a notch, your a little behind the times. The ILLEGAL entries have slowed to a trickle and in comparison the deportations are picking up speed and momentum.

[ovrtaxt]

Maybe he wants 12 to 20 million new Democrat voters? Perhaps a few little adversities makes us stronger? Beyond that I can only hold suspicions.

My answer...

[ovrtaxt]

Can we do that too?

[markoman]

It won't stay that way if Dubya gets his wish.

[ovrtaxt]

"The congress he has to work with" is a result of his own strategies.

His endorsements of Rinos in the primaries speak volumes.
Don't make excuses- there aren't any.

[Texasforever]

His endorsements of Rinos in the primaries speak volumes.

You mean like Cannon?

[ovrtaxt]

Specter and Martinez come to mind. How about his un-endorsement of Harris? sickening.

[Sharks]

I just came into our Dallas apartment and there was a couple of hispanics out there and I said hello: they smiled and said nothing...had I said Ollah...they would have replied....we manage apartments in the Dallas area...so I am biased...but these folks work.....they pay their bills....and are making the DFW area better.... For those of you who live in another part of the country....take a Mexican home before a Los Negroes....you will be safer.....=s=



15 posted on 07/08/2006 4:51:09 PM PDT by RVN Airplane Driver (Americans are so spoiled with their freedoms they have forgotten what it takes to maintain them.)



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Los Negros are good for nothing. No one is safe with los negors... Your generalization is a clear marking of ignorance. Sadly, there is alot of people like yourself ( I presume you are European decent)... crime is an equal opportunity.

[Lurker]

No. More like Spectre.

Old Mr. Scottish Law hisself.

L

[Texasforever]

Specter and Martinez come to mind. How about his un-endorsement of Harris? sickening.

Well let's see. He had a choice in PA. He could endorse an incumbent that was going to be the Judicial Committee chair if we gained the senate OR he could have endorsed the challenger who would have lost in the general. Now Specter is a snake, we all agree BUT he has gotten almost all of Bush's conservatives judicial appointments confirmed. However; being the snake he is, had Bush endorsed the challenger and Specter won the primary in spite of that he would have blocked anyone but a fellow liberal from being confirmed. As to Harris, when did he "un-endorse" her?

[newzjunkey]

If any Republican hasn't gone to "Red Alert" on Bush's Amnesty plan yet perhaps this will push them over the line.

[Jameison]

"Any time Bubba likes something - it can't be good."

Yup.
BJ Klinton is probably thinking of all those new RATS voters that amnesty is going to create, that is going to end up putting the RATS in power for decades to come.
Thanks, but no thanks.

[Lurker]

Don't you worry. There are five or six of them around here who are just fine with the Amnesty plan.

L

[ovrtaxt]

I guess your crystal ball is working better than mine. Where is it written that Toomey was a loser?

As for Harris, I live in FL. We all know what's going down. Don't talk to us like we're stupid. We don't like it when Al Gore does it, and it's no better from you.