Posted on 04/12/2007 9:42:14 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
That witch ought to burned at the stake.
The trick is in the implementation.
Overall, what you offer doesn’t sound unreasonable.
Unfortunately, so many folks are now here that shouldn’t have been, it may be undoable or seen as such by those who care more about votes than the jobs you mentioned getting done by what is perceived as “cheap labor”..
This is only so much bullshit and political posturing, they think we are fools.
It is an imperfect world and you have to break a few eggs and a few laws to get by.
We let quite a few Nazi rocket scientists do a lot of good work for us and I'm glad we did. I imagine our CIA has murdered more than few and that is probably a good thing.
Besides, were not most of the founding fathers considered to be criminals by England ?
The implementation is what our politicians (both parties) keep getting backwards. If you don’t secure the border first, you aren’t fixing the problem.
Yeah, let's have 12 million of us just not pay our taxes. Will Bush then come out and say "it's too hard to prosecute them all, we need Comprehensive Tax Reform."
Somehow I think he can figure out a way to prosecute the laws that he wants to. His attack dog Johnnie Sutton sure finds time and money to prosecute law enforcement officers who try to enforce the border.
It’s a tough nut to crack, no matter how hard ya nail it.
One of the big Wall Street firms puts the number of illegals closer to 30 million. Since they aren’t playing politics in their calculation it’s probably a much more accurate estimate.
12 - 20 million is an awful lot of eggs. And do we really want to send the message that “we don’t respect our laws” to millions of people in this country that are here illegally? Once we’ve surrendered our borders, we’ve surrendered our soverignty. Do we really want to become “Northern Mexico”? Yes, that’s an exaggeration, but by how much?
Besides, if you look at it rationally, who suffers the most from the open borders? Mexico. If they can shuffle their poor over to us, then there is no incentive to grow or straighten out what many see as an overly corrupt government system.
The fact is that we really can’t deport them all. However, if we enforce the laws responsibly, we can discourage others from coming over and probably get many that are already here to leave on their own.
Ya, but I’m in MT skiing 7/7 ‘till the end of the season. Gnurdiness only goes so far.
Skiing? Make that doing the Gravity Research and Friction Science that other Americans won’t.
President Bush can’t say that he’s truly for the total GWOT to the best of abilities when he also continues to have porous U.S. land borders, full protections along both U.S. ocean coasts continues to be questionable, he doesn’t pardon those two border agents from jail, he doesn’t make English the official language of the U.S., and he refuses to create “full law enforcement only” legislation that truly deals with each and every illegal throughout the U.S. and U.S. territories to the best of abilities for now and for always. The U.S. needs to get rid of all of the incentives that cause all of the illegals to come into the U.S. in the first place!
One step at a time... first, they learned to use the American flag instead of the Mexico flag. Next, their signs will be red, white, and blue!
Oh, they are such good criminal invaders Americans!
“To start to wake up now seems so disingenuous. He knew the truth before. What’s changed for him?”
November 2006 happened. It wasn’t the only issue to be sure, but it sure as hell didn’t help.
If you enforce the law many will return on their own. After we passed Prop 187 in California you could see this happen for awhile, until Judge Pfaelzer colluded with Gray Davis to void it (much to the relief of the open border wing of the GOP).
If you show that you have no intention of enforcing the law, as George Bush has demonstrated, they not only won’t return they will tell their friends and family back home to come join them, that there is nothing at all to fear about breaking American immigration law because no one enforces the law, ever.
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